We should talk about pulling local radio-station licenses, plus other effective and practical measures of attacking the real problem -- the right-wing media malice machine.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The debate over health care reform has turned to politics of fear and fear-mongering, instead of focusing on facts and reality.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
It's not okay to throw the word "Nazi" around unless you're talking about actual Nazis. It's definitely not okay to use it in a health care debate.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Recall that the Reverend Wright debacle necessitated a solution that only Obama could create. It is the same thing now.
Morton Goldfein | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The public has been dumbed down for years, so when confronted with issues as complex as health care reform, economic re-structuring, and globalization, is it any surprise our countrymen are perplexed?
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
When I call Sarah Palin a patriotic traitor, I'm not equating her with Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, or Kim Philby. I have no reason to doubt that she loves the United States.
Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
This is not about the pros and cons of the health care debate. That's politics. This is about the ethics of a "debate" which has deteriorated into an Us vs. Them shouting match.
Eric E. Burns | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
No matter what progressive issue you pick, conservatives are working to turn it into nothing less than sedition, carried out by an illegal president. The conservative media is their megaphone.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
I don't care whether Karl Rove himself packs town hall protesters on a bus, provides them scripts and hands them lunch. What is of concern is when they act in a bullying and violent manner.
Ray Hanania | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics
Instead of acting like intelligent people, today's seniors, the Baby Boomers, are acting like crybabies who have set aside everything they once held sacred in order to insure that their selfish interests and their comfortable healthcare options are protected.
Progress Illinois | Posted 09.07.2009 | Chicago
[I]t turns out that Pearson didn't actually know his analysis was going to end up on Hannity's show. To the contrary, he taped the interview under th...
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Senior citizens disrupting town halls are participating in a corporate lobbyist-driven campaign to prevent the rest of us from acquiring the same affordable, reliable public health care they enjoy.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
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."
Bill Mann | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media