Death by Government? Hang the Opposition
The opponents of Obama's health care reform gave him a gift. They so overplayed their hand that now the president can show Americans how irrational, irresponsible and false their criticisms are.
The opponents of Obama's health care reform gave him a gift. They so overplayed their hand that now the president can show Americans how irrational, irresponsible and false their criticisms are.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
TV talking heads have learned to entice their listeners to listen by being as outrageous as they wish to be.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.30.2009 | Comedy
Jon Stewart went after Obama's craziest detractors last night in a new segment called "So You Think You Can Douche." He began with Sean Hannity who sa...
David Doody | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
These people -- Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly -- simply say things to make people look at them; to make people watch and listen to their shows.
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were sold to the nation as moral imperatives, not as taxpayer burdens. The health care debate has been framed as a taxpayer burden instead of a moral imperative.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Whether he likes it or not, Gates stands as America's new 21st Century Poster Child for "racial profiling."
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.24.2009 | Comedy
In a segment called "Health Care Hell-Scare - Die-agnosis: Mur-DR" Stephen Colbert picked up where Sean Hannity left off: Scaring the crap out of you ...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
These birthers represent a small but vocal minority in this country who have somehow failed to grasp that American democracy is rooted in a set of principles, not a set of demographic characteristics.
Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Obama is afraid to tell Americans that -- well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it -- but not all at the same time."
Think Progress | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Michael Steele has spent a lot of time in his short tenure as RNC Chairman railing against President Obama for what he perceives as the president's la...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Predictably, as healthcare reform grows larger in the window, the claims from the far-right are becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous, topping, in some cases, the psychotic claims of, say, the Obama birthers.
Alex Leo | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
To be totally accurate it should probably read, "despite the fact that everyone blames the Internet for the demise of newspapers it's really people like me that instill a serious distrust of the media in the American psyche."
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living
Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.
Dave Hackel | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
Taking someone's words and rearranging them to tell a completely different story is wrong. It's not journalism, reporting or even commentary. It's lying. So why isn't this front page news?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media
Seems like only yesterday I was talking about the way Sean Hannity cooks up some news, for his teevee show. It goes a little something like this: 1...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Whenever President Barack Obama goes abroad, cameras follow him, and record the things he says to people. Just as often, it seems, Fox's Sean Hannity...
Samantha Marshall | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Right-wing talk radio firebrand Mark Levin was a guest on Sean Hannity's self-titled Fox News show and unleashed a diatribe against President Obama. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, ...
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
"Good Morning America" co-anchor Diane Sawyer responded to accusations that ABC News will pander to the Obama administration in an upcoming primetime ...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics