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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Tag Archives: FOX News
The Union Civil War Hat Makes This Perfect
This Yankee knows how to aim under pressure. I don’t know who he is, but I believe the 1st Alabama Cavalry would’ve issued this man a Sharps carbine without hesitation. An awesome performance under pressure:
Morning Awful: FOX Thuggery
The FOX Noise formula is to project their own abuses of truth and language onto ideological enemies. There was another example of that yesterday when FOX doctored video of a Labor Day speech by Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. to … Continue reading
Morning Awful: FOX Projection
Angelo Carusone, better known as @StopBeck, tweeted this the other day. It’s a sign that Murdoch’s empire is desperate to change the subject from their hacking scandal in the UK. It’s also a massive exercise in psychological projection, as every … Continue reading
Niceness Up 40%
Borrowed from Left in Alabama, featuring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry satirizing It’s A Wonderful Life, here’s a BBC sketch from 1995 that imagines the world without Rupert Murdoch.
Resist The Noise Machine: FOX News Affiliate in Trouble
This is delicious: The Federal Communications Commission is investigating claims made by a state media watchdog that Fox, licensee of Secaucus-based WWOR-TV, misrepresented both its staffing levels in New Jersey and the quantity and quality of its New Jersey-centric programming. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: FOX & Friends
Thank goodness for Media Matters. They watch FOX & Friends so you don’t have to, and better yet they make highlight (lowlight?) reels so we can catch up on a full year of wingnutty awfulness in less than four minutes.
CNN Reports What Glenn Beck Decides To Ignore
If Glenn Beck wanted to find some actual, real, non-imaginary communist tyranny, he’d need look no farther than his boss’s best friends. The Chinese communist party has activated its massive cyber-suppression system to try and blank out news of a … Continue reading
Morning Awful: FAUX Noise Polling Spin
The right-wing’s main channel is offering very weak spin these days.
