John Amato is a professional sax and flutist who has played with or recorded for The Goo Goo Dolls, Ringo Starr, Duran Duran, The Knack, Eddie Money, John Taylor, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagen of Velvet Revolver, Ronnie Montrose, Glen Hughes of Deep Purple and Elliot Easton of The Cars. He's also the creator of CrooksandLiars.com, one of the hottest blogs to hit the net. C&L has been featured in the NY Times, Forbes, USA Today, Washington Post and of course the Huffington Post.

CrooksandLiars was honored by TIME Magazine as being in the TOP 25 Blogs of 2009.

Blog Entries by John Amato

I Filed an FCC Complaint Against FOX News Over "Hoax" News Palin Coverage!

53 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 10:13 PM (EST)


Think Progress caught Fox News using old campaign footage of a McCain/Palin rally from 2008 to make it appear like the crowds she's drawing on her...

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World Series Game 1 Liveblog: Yankees, Phillies Face Off

5 Comments | Posted October 28, 2009 | 07:44 PM (EST)


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I know the Philly bloggers are against me, but that's OK. I'm up for betting a few bags of Cheetos with the Philly faithful. Much respect to them. Email me if you want to get it on... Because of the idiot, Bud Selig, we...

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Chris Matthews "Birthers Out" with his "Deather" Stance on Living Wills

3 Comments | Posted July 30, 2009 | 02:28 PM (EST)


John Amato: When did a living will become a bad thing and one that marks you for death? This is insanity. I've had a living will for over ten years already and I had one drawn up for legal reasons as well as medical. I remember when people were running...
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Bill O'Reilly's 'Ambush Journalism' in 87 Seconds

Posted March 31, 2009 | 06:51 PM (EST)


Bill O'Reilly's ambush tactics reached new lows when Jesse Watters, King of the Ambushing Producers, chased down blogger Amanda Terkel at Think Progress while she...

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The Complete Guide on How to Deal with Bill O'Reilly's ambush producers

Posted March 24, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


After Bill O'Reilly's despicable attack on fellow blogger Amanda Terkel, I wanted to make sure that the tools for fighting back against this abrogation of the basic rules of civility is available to everyone.

Bill O'Reilly uses typical tabloid journalism tactics to sneak up...

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"Leave Limbaugh Alone"

Posted March 7, 2009 | 02:17 PM (EST)


Those mean liberals are beating up on Rush Limbaugh! The horror! The horror!

This is, as Kos notes, the right-wing whine du jour, keyed by Karl Rove. I just wanted to beat

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Clueless Rick Santelli Doesn't Understand His Attitude Is Why America Loathes Wall St. & Bankers

Posted February 21, 2009 | 09:02 PM (EST)



Watching Rick Santelli's embarrassing diatribe at the expense of the American people made me realize that these Wall Street frat boys still don't get...

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Glenn Beck Tearily Praises 9/11 Widow's Work After He Viciously Attacked them in 2005

Posted February 14, 2009 | 05:01 PM (EST)


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Glenn Beck has really gone to Crazy Town after he joined FOX News, not that he was much saner on CNN, but he's so much more forthcoming with his insanity since Roger Ailes is now his boss. As you'll see, right wing talk show...

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Just imagine: What if McCain Had Won the Election and Obama had Shafted him During the Stimulus Debate?

Posted February 9, 2009 | 04:16 PM (EST)


...The media elites would be calling him an obstructionist, a sore loser, a man and party with no new ideas and someone who will not listen to the will of the people after they had spoken on Nov. 4th.
Instead CBS framed their story like this: "Change?...

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Obama to Speak Monday Night on Stimulus While Rep. Pete Sessions Says Republicans Are the New Taliban

Posted February 6, 2009 | 03:34 AM (EST)


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It looks like President Obama has been reading our blogs and is finally going to use his bully pulpit to go directly to the American people to explain his stimulus plan on his terms.

President Obama will significantly ramp up his salesmanship...
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Why Aren't There Hundreds of Economists on My TV Explaining the Stimulus Package?

Posted February 4, 2009 | 06:08 PM (EST)


I'm sure you've heard about the hundreds of economists that are either for or against President Obama's stimulus plan. My question to the media is: Where...

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Rush Limbaugh Says Angry Blacks Are In 30 Year Plot To Train Black Children as Militants

Posted October 15, 2008 | 10:27 PM (EST)


As we are witnessing, the conservative movement is in shambles now and the only thing they can do is spew racist hatred out into the world and hope it sticks to their audience in droves. And how is the conservative right going to make sure race is all you can...

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Bill O'Reilly Stands by His Smear of Arianna Huffington: There's No Difference Between Her and Goebbels

Posted March 1, 2008 | 11:01 PM (EST)



BillO obviously is feeling some heat over his vile words the other day when he compared Hitler and the KKK to some anonymous commenters on the Huffington Post and attacking Arianna. In his perverted defense, he says that the use of propaganda by...

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Will O'Reilly's Vile Attack on Arianna Huffington Finally Get Him Kicked Off the Air?

Posted February 29, 2008 | 02:10 PM (EST)


I know, I know. It's wishful thinking, but I can dream, can't I? This isn't the first time the cowardly BillO has attacked Arianna and obviously it won't be his last. You see, the conservative media is a bit unnerved right now and...

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Dennis "I Used to Be a Comedian and Now I'm on FOX" Miller Analyzes Chris Dodd's Factor Experience

Posted August 6, 2007 | 04:13 PM (EST)


orielly-dmiller.jpgNeed I say more? In a last ditch effort to save his dwindling career, the "former comedian" has now fallen so deep into the abyss that he's become the Conservative jokester analyst for the FOX Opinion Channel to assure himself a steady paycheck....Pathetic.

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Chris Matthews Calls Judy Miller a Hero!

Posted July 19, 2007 | 01:49 AM (EST)


judy-miller-hb.jpg Chris Matthews had on the disgraced, ex-NY Times war propagandist Judy Miller on Hardball to share with us her thoughts on our terror readiness.

(see the video here)

Matthews: Judy, you're a hero to the press. You are a woman to...

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The Falwell bombers: Liberty University Student Caught Carrying Explosives

Posted May 22, 2007 | 11:02 PM (EST)


falwellbomber.jpgThis is whacked:

A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics -- often by playing on social prejudices. And Campbell County authorities arrested...

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Brian Williams on Bloggers: "I'm Up Against a Guy Named Vinny in an Efficiency Apartment."

Posted April 12, 2007 | 10:39 PM (EST)


brianwilliams.jpgvia Sully:

"You're going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency...

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A Catholic Priest Stands Tall Against Bill Donohue

Posted April 6, 2007 | 12:23 AM (EST)


Jeff Gatlain, a Catholic priest in KY, goes public in his criticisms of Bill Donohue on Crooksandliars.com and I wanted to share it with The Huffington Post. I asked for someone in the Catholic community to speak out against his violent hate speech after his attacks of "Cavallaro" on...

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Andrea Mitchell Still "Confused" About the Libby Case

Posted March 12, 2007 | 10:14 PM (EST)


hardball-andreamitchell.jpg  After being completely humiliated by her involvement in the Plame/Libby case from the beginning as many in the media were, Silent Patriot from C&L writes:

...on Monday's Hardball, Andrea Mitchell said this about how the Bush administration may handle any...
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