No, I'm not talking about Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm talking about this: The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced today that Rush Limbaugh has been named as one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant, which will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 30 and broadcast live … Read More
Quote Of The Day
As reported in Time: "The fact that our numbers are up 30 plus in the news arena on basic cable I'd like to think is a sign that we are just putting what we believe to be the facts out on the table," said Michael Clemente, Fox's senior vice president for news, in an interview on Tuesday. Reflect on that … Read More
Beck and the “Alamo for Truth”
Earlier this week, Beck — almost crying (again) — lashed out at "the media" for digging into his past. Apparently, it had something to do with an excellent three-part Slate article (starting here) about Beck's life. In the course of his performance, Glenn Beck assured viewers that what he does, well, "it's about me and you and quite frankly, Fox News — … Read More
The White House Does A Reality Check on Glenn Beck
Read it. Here's my favorite: RHETORIC: BECK SAID VANCOUVER LOST $1 BILLION WHEN IT "HAD THE OLYMPICS." Glenn Beck said, "Vancouver lost, how much was it? they lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics." [Transcript, Glenn Beck Show, 9/29/09] REALITY: VANCOUVER'S OLYMPICS WILL NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 2010. Vancouver will host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic … Read More
Making News…. Literally
Media Matters has some interesting (and unfortunately non-embeddable) video of Fox News at the 9/12 rally. Actually, it's two videos. One is what was telecast — Glenn Beck talking to a reporter on the scene of the D.C. mall during the 9/12 rally. Beck was saying to the reporter that critics of the rally were saying it was all staged/astroturfed, etc. … Read More
What Happens When Fox Pundits Get Out-crazied and Start Getting Real?
Check out this tidbit from Bill O'Reilly's show last night: O’REILLY: The public option now is done. We discussed this, it’s not going to happen. But you say that this little marketplace that they’re going to set up, whereby the federal government would subsidize insurance for some Americans, that is, in your opinion, a public option? OWCHARENKO: Well, it has massive new … Read More
Shorter Pat Buchanan
In "Is America Coming Apart?": It's terrible how divided and divisive America is today. I blame the non-Christians and funny-speaking foreigners.
Glenn Beck Rape/Murder Controversy Growing
Recently, I drew attention to the fact that some say that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, as well as the website: glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990. That site, which only began on September 1, has had a lot of visits. And among those interested are Glenn Beck's lawyers. By September 3, lawyers for Beck's media company, Mercury Radio Arts, … Read More
The National Review Editors Were In Favor Of Rational Thinking Before They Were Against It
August 17, 2009 National Review editorial: To conclude from these possibilities to the accusation that President Obama’s favored legislation will lead to “death panels” deciding whose life has sufficient value to be saved — let alone that Obama desires this outcome — is to leap across a logical canyon. It may well be that in a society as litigious as … Read More
The Worst Sports Column Ever Written…
… was written on Monday. It appeared in Tuesday's Orange County Register. Here's how it begins: It doesn't sound as if Jaycee Dugard got to see a sports page. Box scores were not available to her from June 10, 1991 until Aug. 31 of this year. She never saw a highlight. Never got to the ballpark for Beach Towel Night. Probably … Read More
Did You Know That Glenn Beck Raped And Murdered A Young Girl In 1990?
There's evidence out there that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and most tellingly, Beck hasn't denied that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 — so therefore it must be true that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, which is something that he clearly did do. You can find it … Read More
Glenn Beck Gets All Da Vinci Code On Us
Seriously, I think this guy has gone off the deep end. I’m not kidding about that. BONUS BECK: From last week — big payoff at the end so be patient… I mean, this is waaay beyond McCarthyism. Beck is accusing the titan of American capitalism, John Rockefeller, of having been a secret communist. How does he get there? For those … Read More
Pat Buchanan Goes Full Blown Nazi-Supporting Stupid
His latest — a pro-Nazi apologia entitled "Did Hitler Want War?": But if Hitler was out to conquer the world — Britain, Africa, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, South America, India, Asia, Australia — why did he spend three years building that hugely expensive Siegfried Line to protect Germany from France? Why did he start the war with no … Read More
The Chris Wallace-Dick Cheney Interview
"Tell me, Mr. Cheney. Are you and everyone in the Bush Administration totally awesome, or just somewhat awesome?" That's the kind of interview it was. Or, as Sully quips, it was not unlike a teenage girl interfiewing the Jonas Brothers. I'm talking, of course, about the hour-long interview of Dick Cheney by Chris Wallace on (where else?) Fox News this … Read More
Obama’s Media Criticism
At a town hall forum at the DNC yesterday, Obama was asked where the lies about health care reform are coming from. After laughing and making reference to "certain" news channels (he didn't mention them by name, but we all know which ones), this is what Obama supposedly said: "…I have to say, part of the reason it spreads is … Read More