From the guy who insists Mars has no moons, therefore [his] God exists.

[via Steve Dekorte] Suffice it to say that, in all my experience, 43 years, there has been one seat change in our body politic and that I would suggest is the fact is that we no longer have a “free media” in any meaningful sense of the term. You have to really try, you have [...]

via Cynical-C Far be it from me to tell Fox News anchors how to do their jobs, but somehow the existence of a hamburger fails to capture my imagination as a harbinger of the apocalypse… Sensational reporting, in any case.

A touching send-off for a great author from a smarmy news purveyor. LiberalViewer has plenty of examples of Fox News interjecting its unique brand of vitriol and commentary into every conceivable aspect of its broadcasting. I cannot help but think that the author of Harrison Bergeron would appreciate the disregard of Rupert Murdoch’s hell-bent-for-conservatism news [...]

I often miss out on television drama because I do not own a television. Fortunately, anything that is worth seeing on television makes its way to the internet fairly quickly… Look at ‘em go! via Ad Pulp Embedded video from CNN Video The talking heads are at it again. We didn’t promote the event – [...]

via Bad Science Realistically, the politicking and partisan debate over national healthcare is far more likely to produce home-grown terrorists (the kind of terrorists who aren’t deterred in the least by the “heightened security” afforded with checks at airports and borders) than the advent of healthcare reform is to usher foreign nationals with terrorism agendas [...]

via Good.is

A strong propaganda media presence is necessary for the perpetuation of your regime political party – lest your subjects forget whom to alternately fear and worship. If your regime happens to operate within a plutocratic semblance of a republic democracy, the next best thing to broadcasting your superiority will be denigrating your opposition. Where your [...]

The pioneering idea-shapers at Fox News long ago stumbled upon a very sly phrasing which effectively allowed their commentators to interject personal opinion into dialogue, as evinced in this wittily-composed clip from the Fox News exposé OutFoxed: Invoking the same anonymous “people”, Obama has taken a lesson in persuasive rhetoric: Often he plays Aunt Sally [...]