Stephen A. Crockett Jr. (photo, left; profile here) is an opinion writer for Huffington Post. He didn’t originate the argument below; I’ve seen conservatives use it to attack Black Lives Matter. (I’m not familiar with Crockett’s work, and don’t know what his political o[...]
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Fox personality quietly sacked for “Dr. Mengele” remark
Rightwing firebrand Lara Logan (profile here, photo below) apparently has been pushed off Fox News after her infamous November 2021 remark comparing Dr. Fauci to Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, who (among his other crimes) conducted cruel medical experiments on Jewish children (photo, right). This week,[...]
What, exactly, are they protesting?
I certainly get the feeling it wasn’t just Covid-19 mandates, but something bigger. In a column last week, Seattle Times writer Danny Westneat pointed out that even though all Washington mask mandates will end two days from now (on March 12), the protests against mask mandates go on, and on, a[...]
What’s Tucker Carlson’s LSAT score?
Tucker Carlson, who’s paid a lot of money by the Murdoch family to be a jackass on TV because that kind of entertainment is popular with people who can’t get into law school,* wants to know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. (* He’s one of them. He was kicked out of[...]
Portland police built a wall of silence around BLM mass shooting
When half a dozen people are shot all at once, it doesn’t normally take days to find out what happened and who was responsible. But a wall of police silence surrounds the act of fanatical political terrorism committed by a rightwing extremist in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 19, 2022[...]
February 20th, 2022 - 10:15 am § in Misc., News Media
Beijing Olympics meltdown recap
The 2022 Winter Olympics are over. Few people watched; NBC overpaid for the broadcast rights in corrupt bidding, and Nielsen ratings were in the toilet. Neither the World Genocide Capital setting, nor athlete performances headlined by the biggest on-ice meltdown since Tonya Harding, helped. As one v[...]
February 7th, 2022 - 3:13 pm § in News Media
Who’s telling the truth about Ottawa truck protesters?
Here’s how U.K.-based tabloid newspaper Daily Mail describes the ongoing trucker protests against Canada’s border vaccine mandate: “Since DailyMail.com arrived in Ottawa last week we have seen no indication of violence or vandalism or any extremist political agenda. In fact, the d[...]
Biden’s flacks flub Press Relations 101
In this video, veteran reporter Matt Lee asks Ned Price (profile here), a retired CIA analyst who’s now the State Department’s spokesman, for “evidence” that Russia is making a propaganda film faking a Ukraine attack against Russia in order to create a pretext for a Russian i[...]
Joe Rogan: Guilty or innocent?
Podcaster Joe Rogan (profile here), who self-identifies as a libertarian and free speech advocate, claims “I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.” A lot of people beg to differ, including “270 scientists, physi[...]
Fox airheads sound off against a black woman on SCOTUS (video)
Tomi Lahren (bio here) and Maria Bartiromo (bio here) aren’t stupid people, although you’d never know that from their arguments in this video against appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court. They’re so full of helium you wonder how they manage not to float away. Return to The[...]