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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Faux Noise Channel
Noise Machine Takedown
Jon Stewart skewers the Faux Noise fear factory.
The Teabagger Fail
Faux Noise minimizing the impact of Ron Paul on its party: Paulites are a big reason for the reenergizing of the conservative base. They came up with the “tea party” meme a long time ago and have essentially had it … Continue reading
Dear Glenn Beck: The Meaning of “Barack”
Okay, that’s it Glenn. You’ve gone too far: BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America — you don’t take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack … Continue reading
Obama Versus Teh Librul Media™
The New York Post caught this photo of the president getting into a Secret Service vehicle with a copy of this month’s GQ Magazine. It happens that the president’s face is on the cover. The picture showed up on Inside … Continue reading
Pinning A Win
Watching this first half of Major Garrett’s interview with Obama for Faux Noise, it’s abundantly clear that Garrett chose the “lightning round” pacing in hopes of pinning Obama to commit on issues that haven’t worked their way through Congress. It’s … Continue reading
Politeness: Last Refuge of Idiots, pt 2
The Palin camp responded to the AP fact-check of Going Rogue by playing the politeness card. Teh Librul Media™ is just discriminating against Alaskan-Americans: “Imagine that,” the post read. “11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the … Continue reading
Gibson’s Law Will Prevail
Faux Noise has shut down a progressive YouTube channel — and only a progressive YouTube channel — in a naked bid to defy Gibson’s Law. It won’t work. Clips of Faux Noise will continue to appear online no matter what … Continue reading
Shepard Smith Apologizes for Lack of Balance
Is it just me, or are cracks starting to appear in the Faux Noise Fear Factory? Shepard Smith, who suffers nothing but attacks for being the most balanced voice on Faux Noise, should leave the channel and spill the beans … Continue reading
Morning Video
From MediaMatters:
Faux Noise Apocalypse
Via HuffPo: Faux Noise pumping up apocalyptic paranoia is nothing new. Yes, they’re working in the plug for a John Cusack spectacular. But it fits Roger Ailes’s wacky zeitgeist quite well and I don’t expect this chyron to go away … Continue reading
Glenn Beck Admits He Is Not A Journalist
In making exactly the same criticism of NBC in 2008 that the Obama White House makes about Faux Noise in 2009, Glenn Beck let a dime drop: You know, it’s very interesting because I do not call myself a journalist. … Continue reading
