By focusing on the large sum of money the Volcano erupting in Iceland has cost the airline industry, Big Media has missed the real story: Stranded passengers’ discovery that airports are an unlikely vacation paradise.
Fox news analyst (wink), Sarah Palin, has decided again to push her podium-preaching of how and when it is appropriate for anyone to use the word “retarded” To make matters worse, her critique on the first amendment has been directed towards Seth MacFarlane and his cartoon, “The Family Guy”. Before I continue, a personal note to Mrs. [...]
Dana Perino cashed in on her stint as White House press secretary in the Bush administration in the usual way: by signing on with a Washington PR firm (resulting in the occasional disclosure problem). She also got a common perk for ex-employees of Republican administrations — she joined the Republican administration in exile at Fox News. If Perino [...]
Rachel Tabachnick has written an excellent overview article at the Talk to Action website called “Biblical Capitalism—The Sacralizing of Political and Economic Issues.” In my article, “Tea Party Nation’s Convention: The Merging of God, Guns, and Wall Street,” I cited several Talk to Action articles. Tabachnick’s comprehensive article examines the historical development of the “Religious [...]
Jon Stewart sat down with Bill O’Reilly and served up a dish of delicious truth about the Fox “News” organization. It was fair and balanced critisizm, and worth spending the time to watch the full, uneditited interview between the most trusted man in news (Stewart) and the most watched man in news (O’Reilly) Click here [...]
Liberals and progressives should not miss the opportunity to frame the Tea Party movement using the words of their convention’s speakers and their enthusiastic responses for what it unmistakably is: a Christian theocratic, homophobic, and anti-immigrant movement totally aligned with the Republican Party and a front group for Wall Street. Christian nationalism and white nationalism [...]
It is highly doubtful that the unknown producers of America Rising voted for Obama. Curiously, there is no information as to who exactly are coming after the Democrats in 2010 to “take back our country.” “America Rising” makes you want to believe that the right-wing voted for Obama in 2008. The mood music is intended [...]
In an attempt to explain why the Republican Party should not compromise, modernize or sympathize, Steele proved his point by disgracing Native Americans with a demeaning slur, and has yet to apologize for it.
Simon Maloy For Media Matters: President Obama never had a chance … It didn’t matter what decision he came to regarding troop levels in Afghanistan, or what he said about the ongoing conflict there, because Fox News and the rest of the conservative media had already reached two conclusions. First, he took too long. Second, [...]
In typical, dependable, Colbert style, Sarah Palin’s new book is reviewed by The Colbert Report. Stephen begins with great lines such as “I have peeked at this book, and I am convinced she is the leader this country deserves” and “If you really don’t think about, nothing is ever America’s fault.” On his review of ‘Going [...]
