Earlier today, Fox New's Happening Now cut away from President Obama's signing of the health care reconciliation bill (the one that fixed a couple gaps in the big one passed last week) in order to cover…. wait for it… a plane crash that never happened. Fox News was (it claims) told that the airplane had flap problems, so they cut … Read More
Fox News Will Believe And Report Anything
The Fox Nation headline yesterday: Global Warming Activist Freezes to Death in Antarctica. This caused much chortling among Fox News fans, who left comments like this: I'm sorry but this is about the funniest thing I've ever read!! Talk about what comes around goes around!!!!!!!!!! Ya get what you ask for – this has it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you FOX I … Read More
How Much You Want To Bet Glenn Beck Cries On TV Today?
Just asking…. UPDATE: Perhaps a better question would be: "Will Rush Limbaugh now move to Costa Rica?" UPDATE #2: Digby has the pushback for the whiny wingers: The teabaggers are all upset that the Democrats passed a bill without any Republican votes. Evidently, this makes it illegitimate and unconstitutional. I'm not surprised they think this. They get their constitutional instruction … Read More
From The Anti-Health Care Rally In D.C. Earlier This Week
I know I'm throwing out a lot of video today, but this one is particularly good. It's another on-the-street interview with anti-health care protesters in D.C., conducted by New Left Media (which actually is two undergrad journalism students, who produce good stuff). On the one hand, it's about what you would expect. These people really hate health care reform. What … Read More
Did You Know….?
Fox News chose to not broadcast the Hope for Haiti Now benefit concert (both CNN and MSNBC did). Instead, Bill O’Reilly aired a segment about Sarah and Bristol Palin’s “body language” during their Oprah interview and Sean Hannity conducted an interview with Karl Rove on the Obama administration’s approval ratings and health care reform.
Quote Of The Day
Sarah Palin on Glenn Beck's show, explaining why George Washington is her favorite founding father: “That is who you need to find to serve in government, in a bureaucracy,” Palin said. “Those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for … Read More
Nancy Pelosi: Is She Crazy… Or a Kook?
Sarah Palin made her first appearance as a contributor to Fox News on Bill O'Reilly's show. The whole transcript is here, and it is as you might expect. But one particular section jumped out at me for some reason: O'REILLY: Do you know Nancy Pelosi? Have you ever met her? PALIN: I met her once in the Capitol building, yes. … Read More
Sarah Palin To Contribute To Fox News
Like she doesn't already? Details: Ms. Palin will not have her own regular program, one person with knowledge of the deal said, though she will host a series that will run on the network from time to time. This person would not elaborate, but the network does have a precedent for such a series. Host a series. Presumably, with a … Read More
When Tiger Woods Needs Brit Hume’s Advice…
The Tiger Woods story, as I've often said, isn't a news story. It certainly doesn't warrent a panel discussion on a Sunday morning "news" channel. And it certainly doesn't require commentary like that offered by Brit Hume, who said this weekend that Tiger Woods isn't going to be made whole until he rejects his religion and accepts the correct religion … Read More
Speaking Too Much
Sometimes, even in innocuous posts, the writers at National Review Online reveal their true nature. Take for example this seemingly harmless excerpt from a post by Mike Potemra at National Review Online: Coincidentally, I have over the past couple of months been watching DVDs of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show I missed completely in its run of 1987 to … Read More
More Fox Flubs
This still hasn't been fixed as I write this, so if you click, you still might catch it. Anyway, read this poll from the Fox News website, and see if it makes sense to you: They've got their biased leading answers backwards, no?
Our National Discourse
You know the state of political journalism is in sorry shape when you read things like this: This morning, Gore appeared on MSNBC, where Andrea Mitchell read from Sarah Palin's Facebook page to ask the former vice president questions about climate change. I'm getting a lot of use out of this graphic:
More Fox Flubs
Isn't it funny how the "mistakes" that Fox makes always seem to err against Obama or liberals? Here's a clip from yesterday in which Obama announces that the TARP bailout cost U.S. taxpayers $200 billion less than we originally thought. That's good news, right? The bailout's addition to the deficit is $200 billion lower? Still, Fox can't get it right. … Read More