There have been a few polls on this, but none from a non-partisan pollster. Until yesterday. USA Today and Gallup released a new poll that found that a whopping 61 percent of Americans oppose efforts like those of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) to strip public sector unions of collective bargaining rights. The poll also found that only a third of Americans support such … Read More
Glenn Is Getting Really Paranoid
Listen to him worrying about Google:
Fox News Makes Stuff Up, Says Insider
At Media Matters: FOX NEWS INSIDER- “Stuff Is Just Made Up”. A former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have been saying for years about Murdoch’s cable channel. Namely, that Fox News is run as a purely partisan operation, virtually every news story is actively spun by the staff, its primary goal is … Read More
Fox News Having More Biblical Problems
It stated off with Bill O'Reilly, trying to explain why religion isn't a scam: "Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in." As I and many others pointed out, even schoolchildren can explain why the tide goes in and out, and you don't need to resort to the Bible. … Read More
More Evidence of Fox News Bias Emerges
About a year ago, Fox News correspondent Wendell Goler delivered a live report from Copenhagen and told viewers the truth. The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization, Goler said, had announced that that 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record." Not quite 15 minutes later, another memo was sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon. In the … Read More
How Fox Slants The News
During the heated health care debates last year, the Washington editor of Fox News sent a memo to Fox News employees instructing them not to call it the "public option", but to call it the "government option". Why? Because polls showed that people had a much more negative reaction to "government option". From: Sammon, BillSent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:23 AMTo: 054 -FNSunday; … Read More
The Sanity Effect
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann announced that he is suspending, perhaps permanently, his "Worst Person In The World" segment in an effort to reach a new tone on his show. Will such a move be made by Fox's Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck? Don't hold your breath.
Juan Williams And Bigotry
"Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I … Read More
Yes, Let’s Just Federalize Manhattan
TPMMuckraker: Newt Gingrich… said he wants the national government to step in and stop the developers from building the Islamic community center by whatever means necessary. "I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war," he said, … Read More
A Modern Day Fable
A popular guy goes to Washington D.C., where he tells 3 gazillion of his fans who have gathered there the following (and this is an exact quote): "I went to the National Archives and I held the first inaugural written in his own hand by George Washington." You know, George Washington — who could never tell a lie. Except, as … Read More
Exercises In “Fair and Balanced”
Personally, I don't care all that much that Ken Mehlman, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, is gay. I think it is relevant, considering that when Mehlman was Bush's chief campaign strategist in 2004, he was instrumental in the plan to thrust DOMA into the limelight in order to motivate the (homophobic) Republican base. So Mehlman's revelation is … Read More
Fox News = Terrorist Funder
Yesterday morning on Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dan Senor observed that The Kingdom Foundation, whose chairman is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, is a funder for the Cordoba House Initiative. “The Kingdom Foundation, so you know, is this Saudi organization, headed up by the guy that tried to give Rudy Giuliani $10 million after 9/11 that was sent back, funds radical madrassas … Read More
Truth Gets Its Boots On
The Associated Press sent out a memo today to its writers and editors advising that they should no longer use the phrase "Ground Zero mosque" to describe the controversial Islamic cultural center and former Burlington Coat Center store, located in lower Manhattan two blocks (and out of view) from Ground Zero. While I applaud the Associated Press for its stance, this would … Read More
Question Of The Day
How many days will it be before Fox News airs something on the controversy about its parent company, News Corp, who donated an unprecedented $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association?
What A Shame
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who just couldn't refrain from using the N-word eleven times on her radio show last week (in order to make, according to her, a "philosophical point") is retiring from her radio show. In tribute to "Doctor" Laura, I offer the Sorkin treatment… a classic scene from The West Wing in which the President does a drop-in at a gathering … Read More