Roger Ailes Exposé in Rolling Stone

If you have 15 minutes, do yourself a favor and read the exposé of Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News in Rolling Stone.  I had heard a good deal of the information before, but the story has been well researched and documented and weaved into a full picture of the man, his mindset and [...]

A Note to the Media (and Comment Rescue)

a. price (one of our favorite commenters) points us to a link over at CBS News, where we find a journalist named Stephanie Condon who seems to be actually trolling freakin’ FACEBOOK to have something exciting to report about the Quitta from Wasilla, Sarah Palin.
Facebook, people. This is what our highly paid news media [...]

Note to the Media — The Science of Climate Change is NOT a Horserace

And I guess that I should cop to the fact that this note is to Allan Loudell who I heard do an appalling report on the tempest in a teapot that are these emails that wingnuts are insisting are some kind of catastrophe.

In this interview, Allan was speaking to a reported from the Christian Science Monitor and their entire conversation was largely organized to talk about climate change as though it is a horserace. Particularly appalling was a question I heard Allan ask ( paraphrasing) noting that there are scientists who are the gatekeepers of the journals and they don’t let the deniers publish — is there anyone who can be trusted to talk about this issue or to definitively answer the questions?

Late Night Video — Two Dudes and a Webcam, Part II

Yep, this is brilliant — the Two Dudes in their bathrobes return to dis the WaPo for their seriously cheap contest looking for a new web pundit:

Now This is How It’s Done

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has an interview with CNN where she is asked about the idiot John Bolton — and she just laughs:
When they bring up their usual go-to pundits who are peddling the usual crazy and bamboozlement — you laugh at them. Treating them seriously just gets them more airtime.
ps. Bolton [...]

This is a Smackdown

I do like Robert Gibbs.  And does anyone else find it odd that Rick Santelli is declaring that that room full of Wall St. traders is America?

More of This Please!

(I’m hoping to find more instances of the traditional media looking skeptically at the various wingnut outlets to post occasionally here.)
The LAT provides a useful summary and deconstruction of the latest in wingnut talking points disseminated since the election:
In a time when the nation calls out for cool leadership and rational discussion, Limbaugh stirs the [...]

More of This Please!

More data from Brad Delong on this subject.
Paul Krugman takes down a wingnut talking point and does it pretty decisively.   And this clip makes the case for why more liberal experts need to be on these shows, instead of the weak tea of including a few journalists on a panel who are supposed to take [...]

The Same River Twice

Friday night’s interview by Bill Moyers of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was another of those signature conversations that Moyers is rightfully so famous for. While Moyers is a skilled and erudite interviewer across a wide range of topics, he really seems at his best when discussing religion and theology. (If you haven’t seen Moyers [...]

Breaking news!!!! NY Times Betrayus Add Kills Soldier!!

H/T VonCracker
It is a great GOP smackdown.

More liberal media bias

Here is more proof that the right is right when it comes to liberal bias.  I honestly am beginning to think there really is a liberal media bias.  You just can’t argue with these facts. 
Sixty percent of the nation’s daily newspapers print more conservative syndicated columnists every week than progressive syndicated columnists. Only 20 percent [...]