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August 25th, 2024 - 5:31 pm § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

Tomi Lahren hasn’t improved over time

Tomi Lahren (photo, left) obtained a journalism degree, then sought work in political commentary, but she’s neither a journalist nor a political commentator. She’s a pretty face with helium between her ears who, these days, gets paid big bucks by Fox to parrot Republican talking points o[...]

June 21st, 2024 - 2:50 pm § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

Fox is already inciting election violence

Fox’s talking heads are already inciting election violence. They must want another Jan. 6, 2021. “Twice last week,” MSNBC reported here, Greg Gutfeld (photo, left) told Fox audiences “the public will only believe the 2024 results are legitimate if President Joe Biden loses.” Also las[...]

June 9th, 2024 - 9:02 pm § in Biden, Republicans

When the first thing Republicans think of is poop

Don’t say Republicans lack imagination. They have very vivid imaginations. You may want to hold your nose at what they imagine, though. A Politico fact-check begins, “President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France …. Not long after h[...]

June 8th, 2023 - 1:19 am § in Christianity, News Media, Politics, Republicans

Fox hosts haven’t stopped lying

Harris Faulkner (bio here), one of the Fox personalities filling in for Tucker Carlson after he was fired, claimed on the air that Christians are under attack. It’s classic rightwing victimhood. To bolster her storyline, she asserted she was kicked out of a restaurant for saying grace. She tol[...]

May 27th, 2023 - 9:26 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

How to rumor monger like an expert

Rep. James Comer (R-KY; photo, left), who chairs the House committee tasked with smearing President Biden, has no informants, no evidence, and no facts. He is fishing for an FBI document called an FD-1023 that is basically an agent writing down what someone told him or her. Comer went on Fox News an[...]

May 5th, 2023 - 9:35 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics

The amazing power of artificial intelligence

It can transform a draft dodger who never spent a day in military uniform into this. (To find out who Brigitte Gabriel is, go here; to watch Ana Kasparian call her a “clown,” go here. For a real picture of U.S. soldiers, go here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

February 27th, 2023 - 8:24 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, News Media, Politics

Murdoch faces new legal difficulties, but so what?

Dominion Voting Systems has the Fox network dead-to-rights: They lied about the company, knew they were lying, but put the lies on the air to make money. Fox is going to pay Dominion a lot of money (but can afford to). But now Fox is in another kind of hot water. Biden’s campaign ran ads [&hel[...]

February 13th, 2023 - 1:59 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

Are conservatives as crazy as they sound?

Charlie Kirk (photo, left), a community college dropout, is the founder and leader of Turning Point USA, a controversial rightwing campus-activism group sometimes called a “cult” (read details here). Although Kirk lacks academic or other credentials, it would be hard to conclude he’[...]

February 8th, 2023 - 1:34 am § in Politics, Republicans, Schools & Colleges

Normal or crazy? You decide

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, Trump’s former White House press secretary. was chosen (for complex reasons) to deliver the GOP rebuttal to Biden’s state of the union speech on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Here’s part of what she said (courtesy of Raw Story here): “In the radical [...]

February 6th, 2023 - 11:50 am § in Business, News Media, Politics

Tucker Carlson’s war on M&Ms

“I bet you didn’t think M&M’s were pushing intolerance, but they were!” Tucker Carlson ranted when Mars Inc. changed Green M&M’s boots. He also called Purple M&M “obese.” “M&M’s will not be satisfied until every last cartoon chara[...]