It wouldn't be Easter without a massive right wing freakout, and today's rage meme is directed at Google because their front page "Doodle" is currently celebrating the birthday of Latino American civil rights hero Cesar Chavez. As someone who organized immigrant farm workers, Chavez is a natural target for the right wing. He neatly encapsulates everything they hate: poor people, … Read More
The World’s Worst Columnist Strikes Again
Nobody can makes sense of Megan McArdle’s latest screed, mostly because it contains gems like this: In some sense, the sexual revolution is over . . . and the forces of bourgeois repression have won. That’s right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality. Once gays can marry, they’ll be expected to marry. … Read More
What Happens When Tea Baggers Boycott Fox News
First of all, some irate Tea Party activists have decided to boycott Fox News because, well, because grumble grumble grnarf gnarf. No, actually, it is because Fox News hasn't been covering the Benghazi scandal, largely because there is no scandal to cover, as even Fox News has found out. So, irate teabaggers are boycotting Fox News for going "soft". The … Read More
A Peak Inside The Right Wing Press
Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense have been held up because of, among other things, rumors that he once gave a speech to a controversial group called "Friends of Hamas". It seems that there is no such group called "Friends of Hamas", but that didn't stop Breitbart.com from pimping the story as if it was true. Here is a fascinating … Read More
Glenn Beck Will Redefine the 4th of July by Talking to the Man in the Moon
No, this is not The Onion. This is real: I like it when he says that it's not going to be "his point of view", but the moon's. By the way, can you imagine the outcry from the conservative wingnuts if Obama had uttered the words "we would like to change the 4th of July celebration"…..?? [Aside: sorry for the … Read More
Fox Says Bye To Dick
And I love Erik Wemple's editorial on it: No more Fox News contributor Dick Morris. His contract to spout republic-damaging nonsense on Fox airwaves has expired, and the network isn’t renewing it. Taken together with the news that Sarah Palin will no longer be contributing, the Morris development is strong evidence that Fox News has glimpsed the underside of allowing charlatans to … Read More
Palin And Fox Break Up
Palin's contract with Fox News is up, and the news today is that Fox is not renewing. Palin, who was paid a reported $1 million per year as a contributor to FOX since mid-January 2010 when FOX announced her signing, may not have made quite the splash her employers had hoped during this three-year period, and would, on occasion go … Read More
The Infinitely Recursive Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy
So… I guess you know about the Sandy Hook school shooting conspiracy theories — the ones that opine that the government was behind the shootings and that the shoortings were staged by actors. Glenn Beck wants you to know that those conspiracy theories are bunk. AND he wants you to know who is BEHIND those conspiracy theories: the government. That's … Read More
Not Feeding The Trolls
I wanted to badly to do an extensive take-down of this latest screed from The World's Dumbest Blogger™, but I'm mindful of Rachel's admonition about feeding the trolls. So my take-down will be less extensive. Basically, Aaron Walker Worthing, tackles Godwin's Law, which states that anyone who invokes Hitler in an online argument loses that argument merely by showing desparation. … Read More
Daily Show: No Investigative Journalism Anymore
A great Daily Show segment from last night, when John Oliver learns that CNN has closed down its investigative journalism department. Where does one of its investigative journalists go? To HBO's The Newsroom. Will McAvoy makes an appearance. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Investigating Investigative Journalism www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political … Read More
How Crazy Is The Gun-Crazy Right?
Pretty crazy. After all, how fringe do you have to be to criticize Justice Scalia's views on gun control? Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to assume that the government had the right to place limits on the Second Amendment. "He was not speaking from a constitutional perspective," Pratt … Read More
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
So then Fox put up this chyron: Apparently, the brainiacs at Fox think that a nickel coin actually contains a five cents worth of the element nickel. Maybe they also think that a $20 bill is 20 times bigger than a $1 bill. Idiots.
Don’t Let The Door Hit Your Ass On The Way Out
Gay-hater and founder and former head of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher, having found one outlet to publish her stupid columns, is packing it in, so that no outlet will publish her stupid columns. On the way out, she leaves us with these gems: Every life is precious. It is better to care for your children than to kill them. I can't … Read More