Someone at CNN needs to fix this dangling modifier: Toddler missing after flooding kills 5 I took that to mean that a toddler, who was missing after a flood, apparently went out and killed 5 people. UPDATE: Well, they changed the headline. It’s grammatically correct now, but much much worse.
Fact Checking The Fact Checkers
Right-wing columnist Andrew Ferguson wrote a hit piece on Al Gore’s new book for the Washington Post, which started this way: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason." It’s a sprawling, untidy blast of indignation, and annotating it with footnotes would be like trying to slip rubber bands around … Read More
As Basil Fawlty Might Say…
"Don’t mention the war": Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The difference was more stark during daytime news hours than in prime-time opinion shows. The Iraq war occupied 20 percent of CNN’s daytime … Read More
Kaye Saves A Slow Friday
Just when I thought there was going to be nothing interesting to comment, rave, rail, or blather about, along comes a Kaye Grogan column. Happy days. What’s on Kaye’s mind today? Give half of Congress pink slips That’s the title of her column. Note the stylistic avoidance of capital letters. Kaye’s getting all e.e. cummings on us. Unduly some things … Read More
Malkin = Fearmongerer
Excitable rightwing blogger and occasional-Bill-O’Reilly-substitute-on-Fox Michelle Malkin castigates NY Mayor Bloomberg and New Yorkers in general for being "ostriches" about the whole foiled JFK bombing plot. What set Malkin off? This quote from Bloomberg: "There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry … Read More
The “Bush-Is-A-Liberal” Meme
Two great back-to-back posts by Glenn Greenwald — here and here — about the current "great rightwing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush". His thesis? That the conservative moment, upon (finally) admitting the failures of the Bush Administration, are now trying to prop up the theme that "Bush is not a real conservative" or — amazingly — that "Bush is … Read More
It’s All About the White Christian Male Power Structure
At least O’Reilly admits it: O’REILLY: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that … Read More
Lou Dobbs Has A “Flexible Relationship With Reality”
Lou Dobbs reported in April 2005 (and repeated several times since then), that 7,000 immigrants into the U.S over the past three years have been diagnosed with leprosy. FACT: There have been only 7,000 cases of leprosy in the United States over the past thirty years, and not all of them are from immigrants. Lou Dobbs reported in November 2003 … Read More
Oh, How I LOVE Kaye Grogan!
My favorite conservative columnist has come back after a far-too-long absence. Guess what? She’s really riled about something. Who would have thought??? She’s angry about immigrants, a favorite topic of hers. Here’s how she starts: While everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off, sending "say no to amnesty" faxes to their representatives, the only way to … Read More
Supporting The Troops
Right-wing pundit Dick Morris explains it all on Fox News. It seems that we need to have our soldiers in Iraq – to be killed. Yes, if we give al Qaeda fresh young American bodies there, they won’t kill Americans here: MORRIS: I think that withdrawal from Iraq — it obviously gives al Qaeda a huge victory. Huge victory. On … Read More
Study: Bill O’Reilly Hurls An Insult Every Seven Seconds
Not making this up: A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” The study documented six months worth, or 115 episodes, of O’Reilly’s … Read More
Great Moments In Punditry
Tom Tomorrow: P.S.: Death toll for U.S troops in Iraq during April 2007: 117, the highest since January 2005.
My Bad
That terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech? My fault, it turns out. So says noted "actor" Chuck Norris: Though one can point to Cho’s own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of these academic killing … Read More
The Tillman Turnabout
It’s sad and pathetic. When pro-football player Pat Tillman left a lucrative sports career to serve his country fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was a darling of the right wing. When he lost his life, he was praised and lauded by the right as a hero, giving his life to protect our freedoms blah blah blah But when the … Read More
Shorter Townhall Pundits
Shorter Mike Gallagher: I’m not going spend an entire column capitalizing on the Virginia Tech murders. Instead, I’m going to write about me and my thoughts (about the Virginia Tech murders). Shorter Phil Harris: If fetuses had laptops and email accounts, here’s what they would say. Shorter John Hawkins: I’ve figured it out, everybody — Cho Seung-Hui was baaaad. Shorter … Read More