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Michael Calderone has a good piece on Glenn Beck’s latest fever swamp Hitlerfest — a four-hour “documentary” titled “The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free…or Die.” Use the Holocaust to promote your TV show. Classy! Viewers tuning into MSNBC at 5 p.m. on Friday would have seen Chris Matthews riffing on ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Hitler
Here’s Sarah Palin making her debut on Fox News, admitting that during the lead-up to her 2008 vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden she “questioned” whether Iraq might have been responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. (This is the second half of her appearance on the O’Reilly show.) [Video] Interviewed ...
Sarah Palin, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Politics, Iraq, 9/11, Video
It seems almost inevitable somehow, like asteroids on a collision course; the New York Times Media Decoder blog reports: Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel. The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on ...
Here’s a welcome moment of sanity on Fox News, via Media Matters (head explodes) as commentators on the Fox Special Report show, including Charles Krauthammer, tear apart one of the latest outrageous overheated conspiracy theories — the strange tale of Executive Order 12425 and the Interpol Sovereignty Takeover That Wasn’t. ...
Right Wing, Nontroversy, Outrageous Outrage, silliness, Interpol, United Nations, Fox News
Bertha M. Lewis, CEO of the dreaded right wing boogeyman ACORN, is interviewed by Esquire’s John H. Richardson, and mentions Andrew Breitbart’s crazy accusation (that he finally retracted yesterday after leaving it hanging out there for 6 days): Acorn Group vs Fox News - Interview with Bertha Lewis of ACORN ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
It took him six days to do it, but Andrew Breitbart has finally issued a lame semi-apology for his completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: UPDATE: White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor’s Log - Big Government. Of course, ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
Loony demagogue Glenn Beck went on a tear today, ranting about all the mean things people have said about him, and I enjoyed hearing him say this quote from yours truly so much I had to save the clip to YouTube. Repeated thrice for three times the wonderfulness. Come on! ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich
Finally! A group of right wingers is calling for a telephone campaign against Glenn Beck! I’ve been waiting for this to happen … Oh, wait. They’re angry at Beck for not pushing the birth certificate issue. I should have known. Never mind. (Hat tip: Mich-again.)
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, birthers, Nirthers
Still no retraction at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog for their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched - Big Government. And no correction at Fox ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Should we start taking bets on whether Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog is going to retract their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th? It’s been four days now, and still no correction: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Glenn Beck is in trouble again, this time for his blatant shilling for the gold merchants who capitalize on misery and discontent. The weeping, ranting Beck is fleecing his flock, preaching extreme right wing apocalyptic idiocy and getting rich off the gullible: Glenn Beck’s gold-gate problem. Yet another controversy ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, Gold
If you want to know if someone’s blowing a dog whistle, ask the dogs. Beck insists his critics are imagining things, that he does not engage in racial fear-mongering, that a string of guests with ties to hate groups do not form a meaningful pattern, and that he’s not ...
Glenn Beck, End Times, kooks, Fox News, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Racism, Extremism, Stormfront, Neo-Nazis
It’s going to take him 100 years to get it all done, but Glenn Beck has a master plan. And to find out what it is, all you have to do is buy his new book. I have begun meeting with some of the best minds in the country ...
Bad Craziness, Insanity, Fox News, Extremism, Far Right, kooks, Glenn Beck
And again, Fox News shows old footage of Sarah Palin from the presidential campaign to give the impression that she’s drawing huge crowds on her book tour. [Video] The Swamp reports that heads may roll at Fox over this embarrassing incident.
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Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Insanity, Communism, South Park, Satire, Video
It’s not the most gracious apology I’ve ever seen, but Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right, and says he’s sorry for using footage of large crowds from the September 12th tea party in his coverage of Michele Bachmann’s protest last week. Hannity says it was “inadvertent,” but it’s a ...
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
If Lou Dobbs is moving to Fox News, it makes total sense: Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN.
The crossover between Fox News and the farthest reaches of the kookosphere proceeds at an accelerating pace, as frequent Glenn Beck guest host and Fox contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano has an extended chat with conspiracy monger Alex Jones about their mutual enemy, the US government: YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano ...
Conspiracy Theories, Fox News, Alex Jones, Judge Andrew Napolitano, kooks, Far Right, Paleolibertarian
Jon Stewart catches Fox News and Sean Hannity red-handed in their coverage of Michele Bachmann’s “house call” rally, slipping in footage from the September 12th tea party in Washington DC to make Bachmann’s rally look bigger: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage. [Video]
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who’s been leading the Obama administration’s charge against Fox News (and was promptly smeared as a commie sympathizer by Glenn Beck), will be stepping down at the end of the month. This move has nothing to do with the Fox News issues, however — ...
White House, Anita Dunn, Barack Obama, Fox News, Mao, Commies
You know that story that was on Fox News yesterday, claiming that Fox had been excluded from a “roundtable” interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg? And then (according to Fox News) all the other networks stood up and said, “If Fox isn’t there, we’re not going to be there! We’re ...
Following up on Glenn Beck’s latest attempt to warn the country, or to put it another way, Glenn Beck’s latest bugeyed freakout, here’s a little reminder that this diabolical commie plot to encourage volunteerism didn’t start with Barack Obama. Oh no, my friends! For the origin of this truly monstrous ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Insanity, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Communism
Glenn Beck waxes nostalgic for those long-lost days of yesteryear, when people sat around listening to cheesy Paul Anka songs and watching Coke commercials, and breaks down weeping. [Video] The hero of the right wing: a guy who breaks down in tears when he hears a Paul Anka song.
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Insanity, Paul Anka
He’s a Birther, he promotes insane conspiracy theories at World Net Daily, he appears frequently on Alex Jones’s whacked out radio show, he’s appeared more than once on the white supremacist radio show Political Cesspool — and last night he got two whole segments on Fox News’s Sean Hannity show ...
Fox News, Jerome Corsi, Bad Craziness, birthers, Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theories, White supremacism
Yes, he really did. In Beck’s latest insane rant, Obama’s Communications Director Anita Dunn plays Hitler, and other news organizations play the bystanders who let the Nazis get away with genocide. [Video]
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Hitler, Godwin's Law, Insanity