Oh, Roger, What Ailes You?
Roger Ailes did apologize for the 'nazi' remarks about NPR. Was it because he was really sorry, or was it because of the public's reaction?
Roger Ailes did apologize for the 'nazi' remarks about NPR. Was it because he was really sorry, or was it because of the public's reaction?
Joe Brewer | Posted 05.25.2011
Fear is a natural response to threats; it is part of our biological legacy to have a "fight or flight" system. Emotional systems are targeted by political marketers seeking to manipulate voting behavior.
Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
The people of South Carolina seem to be tired of hearing about this kind of thing. They might well consider adultery too juvenile to be a political issue.
Morgan Warners | Posted 05.25.2011
A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to attempt to name Obama as the man who guided Hasan to his murderous rampage yesterday, the answer -- naturally! -- is Jerome Corsi.
Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011
Fox News is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties in a football game.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
On this morning's Fox And Friends, hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were all a-whip with Salem Witch Trial panic over the thought that Nidal ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011
It was Lenin, after all, who almost 100 years ago stated what has become the mantra of the angry Right and the deluded media nearly a century later: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Media Matters has documented the way various media figures and partisan critics, confronted by the White House's attempts to do the things they were v...
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
No group in America would have more trouble adjusting to an Obama presidency than the Bush Liberals. Yes, there really is such a thing as a Bush Liberal. Let me explain.
Robert Kubey | Posted 05.25.2011
The critical point is that it is easier to scare undecideds than uplift and inspire these same voters. The psychobiological study of fear demonstrates this.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans are shooting from their helicopters at any Obama target in sight. And Bloomberg is another candidate who uses that helicopter of his to shoot down dissident voters.
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
Khalidi is a big-time professor. Which is to say that, until quite recently, he was someone most of us had never heard of. But then John McCain picked Professor Khalidi's new Halloween costume.
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
Like the Chinese, Obama is a Communist. So you know what that means, right? Obama not only shared his toys, but he, like the Chinese, first tainted them with lead paint.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011
Before we arrive at the end of the Bush dark ride, let's make sure the Palin dark ride comes to a complete stop on Tuesday.
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
While he's at it, Obama should stop using the word "constitution" because a few people might think he means "prostitution" or "constipation."
Chuck Lasker | Posted 05.25.2011
After receiving an email smear, one Indiana voter wrote: "I am outraged that the Republican Party sent this kind of smut to my home ... There is no place in this election [for] this garbage. It will not work; not this time."
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
In the new era of web-driven politics, nothing stays below the radar for long, which can pose a bigger problem for hypocritical and deceitful candidates.
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
GOP operatives don't foresee a massive infusion of money for ads against Obama. Photo: AP For the GOP, the cavalry apparently isn't coming. Republic...
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011
"Great-great-grandma Frances will set you straight. By the time I'm done with you, you'll vote for who you want to vote for. You won't let anybody scare you out of it. That's the lesson of Al Smith."
Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011
The cynical Democracidal maniacs who call themselves Republicans are waging the warfare of the cornered, the exposed, the desperate. And that means the most dangerous.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of erupting in outrage and secretly dreading that a smear campaign will undo Barack Obama's lead in the polls, I return to the basics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
During this long election season, one of the things that the candidates have had to confront are smear merchants, peddling the most vicious and hatefu...
Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011
The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger said this week that she'd welcome Sarah Palin into her group if the Republican ticket fails in November.
James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011
The suggestion that any ethnic group is treacherous and Anti-American is unacceptable, dangerous, and unbecoming of such a great nation.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011