What a surprise. Fox New’s The Half Hour Comedy Hour, which was intended to be the rightwing answer to The Daily Show, has been "shelved": In a memo to senior producers this afternoon, FNC’s SVP of programming, Bill Shine announced the network "will not continue the Half Hour News Hour beyond its current 15 episode run." Shine did leave the … Read More
Marie Jon Apostrophe Thinks It Is Stupid To Focus On Hillary Clinton’s Cleavage; It’s Better To Focus On Her Ass
Poor Marie. She so badly wants to write an article with insightful political analysis about Hillary Clinton, the current Democratic frontrunner for President ’08. But she just can’t. Or can she? Just say no to socialized Hillary Care Ah, well, that’s a good start. A thought-provoking critique of Hillary’s plan for improved health care. Let’s see how far Marie can … Read More
The Education of Edward Daley
Rightwing columnist Edward Daley penned a column this weekend entitled "A Few Questions For Liberals". No doubt these questions will be as loaded as "When did you stop beating your wife?", but having nothing better to do, I am happy to answer Mr. Daley, and maybe he will learn something. 1) The modern American "peace movement" is responsible for the … Read More
Bancrofts Take Murdoch Deal
Looks like the Bancroft family is going to sell their controlling interest in the Dow Jones Company to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch. This means that Murdoch will control News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal. Which means…
Bumfuzzled
I want so badly to make fun of Kaye Grogan’s latest screed, "Smoking mirrors . . . or a real firestorm?", but I seriously have no clue as to what she is talking about. Apparently, though something serious is happening. Classic Kaye Gorgan metaphor-mashing though. Check out this paragraph toward the end: We are rapidly moving toward the greatest firestorm … Read More
Saving Private Beauchamp
The blogosphere is abuzz over Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s Iraq blogging. Mr. Beauchamp blogged some controversial posts about his military unit for The New Republic, under the pseudonym of Scott Thomas. The posts were deeply disturbing. In one, an Iraqi boy who calls himself James Bond has his tongue cut out for talking to Americans; in the other, dogs feast on … Read More
Journalism News
Weekly World News ending publication While it isn’t strictly a genre publication, and it does bill itself as “The World’s Only Reliable Newspaper,” the editor has decided that this announcement does fall within SFScope’s purview: American Media has decided to suspend publication of Weekly World News, both the print publication and the web site. No reason was given at press … Read More
Sex Education For Kindergarteners
Our national media is so bad. I mean, it is atrociously bad. Check out this ABC News headline: Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama The story begins: ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the … Read More
Marie Jon Apostrophe – Fact Fabricator
Marie Jon’: Terrorism is not spawned from Christianity or Judaism. There is no upheaval emulating from Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, Mormons, Catholics, Church of Christ, Presbyterians, or Orthodox, Conservative or Reform Judaism. Oh, Marie. Don’t you read my blog? Three Burleson men who belong to a "radical Christian activist group" were in the Johnson County Jail on Friday … Read More
I, For One, Welcome Our New Lesbian Overloards
Seriously, this is loony tunes, even for Bill O’Reilly: A "national underground network" of pink pistol-packing lesbians is terrorizing America. "All across the country," they are raping young girls, attacking heterosexual males at random, and forcibly indoctrinating children as young as 10 into the homosexual lifestyle, according to a shocking June 21 segment on the popular Fox News Channel program, … Read More
The Washcloths Of Lower Manhattan
I’m not going to make fun of Marie Jon Apostrophe’s latest editorial, because she’s being all patriotic and stuff by reminding her readers that this is a great Christian nation which tolerates atheists. Far be it for me to hurl snarky comments at my benefactor who allows me to live here. I will, however, laugh loudly at this sentence: As … Read More
Ann Coulter Should Be Sodomized With A Cactus
Yeah, I know that’s harsh, but the woman is vile, even by right-wing pundit standards. Her personal attacks on people are simply the basest of the base. Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” She has … Read More
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Nathon Tabor
Hard to believe that this guy can’t get elected to the North Carolina legislature, considering his overwhelming mastery of crime and its solutions: If schools, courthouses, and municipal buildings don’t post the command, "Thou Shalt Not Steal," it stands to reason that children would grow up believing that stealing isn’t all that bad. To Nathan, every societal problem can be … Read More
Fisking Noonan
Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush: Yep, we conservative Christians are just a bunch of hijackers… HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right- wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division. "Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and … Read More