For almost a decade I worked in a domestic violence shelter. I sat with women who were shaking, bruised and ashamed. They were in utter shock and disbelief at the violence that had just occurred. The names of the people in each woman’s story were different but the story lines were remarkably the same.
Police [...]
HuffPo Columnist Calls For an End to Right-Wing Terrorism and an Apology to Napolitano
March 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Remember when civil disobedience was cool?
March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Media Matters is now pretending to be outraged about Rush Limbaugh talking up “noncompliance with the health care reform legislation once it’s signed into law” for “the third time.”
Here’s Rush yesterday:
But I just can’t — I can’t — just don’t believe that here we are in 2010, and in three days the United States of [...]
NPR’s government geography ‘expert’ thinks New Jersey is the same size as Texas
March 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Your tax dollars at play: National Public Radio asked Jane Ferrigno (yes, that’s her real name) of the U.S. Geological Survey about alleged “Antarctic ice loss”:
Ms. FERRIGNO: I think I’ll go back 20 years, and in the last 20 years, I would say at least 20,000 square kilometers of ice has been lost, and that’s [...]
Is Obama Trying To Bankrupt America?
March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nancy Morgan’s latest article from RightBias.com
Inquiring minds want to know: Is Obama trying to bankrupt America? One short year ago, asking this this question would have guaranteed my inclusion among the ranks of right-wing nuts and/or conspiracy theorists. Today, it is a serious question being asked by Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and many other leadng [...]
Limbaugh vs. Avlon on Hoping Obama Fails…Again
March 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So much for objectivity. Daily Beast columnist John Avlon recently took yet another shot at Rush Limbaugh for his infamous wish for Barack Obama: “I hope he fails.” In his usual defiant style, El Rushbo took it as a compliment, spurring an outraged lecture on patriotism from Avlon:
When a news organization asked a group of [...]
Obama Picks Anti-Alito Left-Winger For Ninth Circuit Court Seat
February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has said many times that elections have consequences. One of the more-far-reaching powers that sitting Presidents hold is the ability to influence the Leftward or Rightward tilt of the entire Republic by the appointments of Justices to the Federal Circuit Courts and to the Supreme Court. This Presidential legacy [...]
‘Colorful’ is right: the soft bigotry of Media Matters
February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You know who.
Kate Conway must really want to keep her job.
Conway is one of the three (count ‘em!) Media Matters staffers assigned to work the high steel listen to Rush Limbaugh every afternoon, duplicate his transcriptionist’s work, then make lame jokes about Rush’s lame jokes.
Here’s Conway’s take on a segment from Limbaugh’s show yesterday:
A dissenting [...]
Media Matters mocks Glenn Beck’s charts with chart about Glenn Beck’s charts
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Media Matters believes that this is an actual “thing”
What does George Soros get for the millions of dollars he donates to “right wing media watchdog” Media Matters?
As we’ve noted before, Soros & Co. pays three individuals to listen to Rush Limbaugh’s show every day and transcribe his jokes — even though that’s already a Limbaugh [...]
So Now We’re Dictators, Too?
February 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Daily Beast just can’t get enough of the “extremist!” meme. Today they have not one, but two articles proclaiming that this week’s suicide/plane attack on a Texas office building is a sign of growing far-right mania. Reading Joe Stack’s own manifesto and Michelle Horstman’s reaction to it should provide an antidote for that smear, [...]
Daily Beast names Jon Stewart ‘the Left’s #1 Journalist’
February 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago, in my occasional role as professional “book doctor,” I tried and failed to get my liberal New York author-client to ease off the whole “Jon Stewart is the Walter Cronkite of America’s youth” thing.
It’s so played out, I told him. Stewart’s numbers are one tenth those of Rush Limbaugh’s, making the [...]
