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How Fox News = Fox’s views
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Get this straight: Fox News keeps news and opinion separate, right?
That's their defense against the Obama administration's charges of unfairness and imbalance at Rupert Murdoch's favorite newschannel. Right?
Seriously, I enjoy mocking the flaws of Fox News as [...]
Circular right-wing firing squad
The world has turned upside down. Democrats are doing a reasonably convincing imitation of a unified party while conservative Republicans like Newt Gingrich are taking fire from the really, really truly conservatives.Exhibit A: Sarah Palin, Dick Armey, Bill Kristol and Sean Hannity, among other conservative purists, are piling on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for [...]
A ‘rape-consent’ clause?
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It's not "balloon boy" but, as congressional matters go, the "anti-rape-consent " law is a pretty amazing story anyway.
Remember how a fake prostitute ignited angry conservatives to cut off taxpayer funding to ACORN? Funny how some of those same conservatives now rush [...]
Obama ‘raps’ health care
President Obama's run into some problems selling his health care plans. What if he rapped his message in hip-hop verse? Hmmmm…
Would a "public option" smell as sweet? Would Sen. Max Baucus roll over and sigh?
Rap star T-Pain asks and answers that question with help from his new Auto-Tune app for iPhone on Thursday night's Jimmy Kimmel Show on [...]
Enemies of Chicago
I remember a time an American city's pitch for the Olympics was viewed nationwide as a national issue of patriotic pride in America, an issue that transcended partisan politics. Now, as the videos above and below illustrate, that seems so-o-o-o last century.
UPDATE: The Tribune's Phil Hersh explains here better than anybody I've read how the politics [...]
Obama ‘raps’ health care
President Obama's run into some problems selling his health care plans. What if he rapped his message in hip-hop verse? Hmmmm…
Would a "public option" smell as sweet? Would Sen. Max Baucus roll over and sigh?
Rap star T-Pain asks and answers that question with help from his new Auto-Tune app for iPhone on Thursday night's Jimmy Kimmel Show on [...]
Lincoln’s gorilla war — and Obama’s
It is not too much to ask that Barack Obama be treated as fairly as other presidents have been. In fact, that's not much to ask at all, considering how shabbily some past presidents have been treated.
After Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, for example, cartoons like this one depicted him as some sort of an ape-like creature, handing [...]
How ACORN ’sting’ got stung
You gotta hand it to those two young right-wing pranksters who punked ACORN workers by passing themselves off as a pimp and prostitute.
They got a good "gotcha." But if you have any questions for them, you're probably out of luck. The smug twosome has remained pretty exclusive, to say the least, especially after it [...]
Obama’s heckler is sorry, but still wrong
Help me out here: does anyone recall the last time a congressman called the president a liar to his face during of a joint session of Congress?That dubious distinction currently belongs to Rep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican. He’s the face behind the off-camera shout of “You lie” after President Obama declared that his [...]
Bravo! Alberto Gonzales: the Opera
Perhaps you thought you heard something downright poetic, even musical in the way Alberto Gonzales kept repeating confidently over and over again to the Senate Judiciary Committee, "I don't recall… I don't recall…"
If so, you're not alone, maestro. The former Attorney General's slippery 2005 testimony has been turned into a libretto for a concert opera [...]