What To Do About White House Gatecrashers?
Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?
Should the Salahis be boiled, flogged, or has the media made it much more than it really was?
American television news is returning to its roots as an information wasteland. Pretty faces with largely empty heads read teleprompters and mug for t...
So what was Glenn Beck's big, massive, history-altering announcement? Is he running for office? Founding a PAC? Setting up a third party? No, no, and...
Obviously, unless sometime between now and 2012 there occurs a rip in the space-time continuum and the country slips into an alternate reality, Sar...
Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.
There's a loud group of people out there who think screaming equals majority, obstruction equals fighting for something, and blind hatred equals patriotism.
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 book tour are larger than they are.
The idealistic notion that the United States is not in perpetual conflict with Arabs and Islam, argued by President Obama in Cairo but belied by history, has been dealt a serious setback by Fort Hood.
Dear Bill, You lost the bet. Time to pay up! Sincerely yours, J. Richard Cohen
Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.
Democrats have to respond to "Gingrich speak" by calling it for what it truly is -- propaganda, lies, and an attempt to deliberately mislead the American people.
President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.
Brit Hume of FOX News once compared Iraq's murder rate to California's to downplay the level of American casualties because the two places are similar...
Thanks to Murdoch's recent laundry list of public falsehoods, we now know that Fox News' misinformation culture starts at the very top, inside the corner office of Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp.
When I was working at NBC and FOX News and ABC, we had helicopters, satellite uplinks, and video crews all over the world. Yet today, there are journalists doing much more with a whole lot less.
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
Whether or not Harry Reid ever gets his act together, the achievement of Nancy Pelosi getting healthcare reform legislation should stand on its own as an admirable political achievement.
The best word to describe bejoweled Lou Dobbs? "Droneologist." It's more elegant than "preening, pompous windbag." As a longtime TV and radio new...
While the concerns of many white, middle-class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals, it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for who they are.
In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies and interpret human beings with cultures and religions separate from our own.
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."