Politics on the Couch: Hating the Haters
Voters need to overcome their fear in order not simply to hate the haters -- they need to recognize who in fact the haters are.
Voters need to overcome their fear in order not simply to hate the haters -- they need to recognize who in fact the haters are.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Rather than back McCain, right-wing pundits seem poised to turn him into a cartoon effigy of all they claim is wrong with American liberalism.
John Feffer | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
In this version of shock therapy, Scottie McClellan and David Brock and Eric Shinseki would warn kids not to listen to Rush Limbaugh or watch Bill O'Reilly or read Ann Coulter.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
How open-minded can Bill O'Reilly be if he thinks McClellan doing TV interviews is the equivalent of doing nothing while watching a friend get gang raped?
Ben Cohen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
As Jenna Jameson brought blow-jobs and plastic breasts to Howard Stern and VH1, Coulter brought brainless right wing fascism to Fox News and MSNBC.
236.com | Posted 05.17.2008 | Media
Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative pundit, a syndicated columnist, a best-selling author, a frequent television and ...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee have now both used rhetoric that was legal, but nonetheless toxic to healthy political debate.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
I don't keep a secret of the fact that Grover Norquist and his wife Samah are friends of mine -- and I just had him in to speak at the New America F...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
There must be fundamental changes made to the make-up of the FCC and new legislation passed to begin to clean up this toxic media environment. We must pursue this aggressively.
Tom Gerdy | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
Fame must be a horrible addiction because Ann Coulter will stop at nothing to keep her 15 minutes going.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
Here is my advice to CNN each week, before allowing Ann Coulter to be a pundit on the network: READ HER COLUMN.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
Coulter's column yesterday opens up a second level in the 'terrorist' frame by equating Sen. Obama with the violent tactics of the 1970s group The Weathermen.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 04.13.2008 | Home
Somewhere amid all these fireworks, we have the classic "uppity negro" archetype-- a black man who doesn't know his place, who dares to pontificate on the pathologies of white men.
Bob Franken | Posted 03.30.2008 | Media
It's hard for the desperately ambitious pundit or pundit wannabe to resist joining this rhetorical freak show. That's where the glory is and you can't be left behind.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
My phone started ringing off the hook this morning with people calling to tell me that Rush Limbaugh was attacking me over the speech I gave yesterday at the Take Back America conference. Rush didn't like my saying that Democrats need to stop giving Republican elected officials a pass when they cynically use the very real terrorist threats this country is facing for political advantage. The latest example of this reprehensible ploy came courtesy of John McCain, who recently said he was concerned al Qaeda might try to tip the 2008 election against him: "I worry about it. And I know they pay attention because of the intercepts we have of their communications." I wonder if these are the same intercepts that gave him the information that Iran is training al-Qaeda?
Steve Young | Posted 03.08.2008 | Media
The conservative radio hosts are hoping is that using "Hussein" will scare their patriotic fans into not voting for Obama. Sophomoric maybe. But no one ever accused talk radio of complex thought.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.06.2008 | Home
As Pennsylvania readies for its Democratic Primary closeup and the Republican Primaries are locked up, the right wing is gleefully dipping into progressive politics.
Daniel Radosh | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
After endorsing McCain, pastor John Hagee has come under criticism for some of his comments about Catholics, but among some fundamentalist Christians, the real problem with Hagee is comments he may have made about Jews.
Sean Carman | Posted 03.02.2008 | Media
Let's review. William Buckley was a genius because he: 1) urinated in parking garages; 2) reviewed books he hadn't read; and 3) wrote columns in... however long it takes to write a column?
Bill Curry | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Buckley loved debate. Unlike today's cowardly conservatives, he never used his opponents as props or punch lines for fixed fights. What a long sad fall from Bill Buckley to Bill O' Reilly.
Huffington Post/My Damn Channel | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media
Another one from Harry Shearer's Found Objects. First, Katie Couric spoofing Dan Rather behind the scenes — then another off-air Couric moment ...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.26.2008 | Media
In last night's #1 story on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann asked why Jon Stewart would sink to Coulter-level humor in making jokes about Barack Obama's ...
New York Post | Page Six | Posted 02.20.2008 | Media
From the New York Post's Page Six: Ann Coulter suffered a serious embarrassment over the weekend when her credit card was declined in Palm Beach. Acco...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
David Brooks has distinguished himself as the reactionary intelligentsia's Ann Coulter, and he tipped the Right's hand in its preference for Hillary Clinton this November.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
Unlike most of us, who think the two Democratic finalists are engaged in one of the most memorable and dynamic campaigns in history, Newt thinks we've descended into "a slog."
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Justin Frank | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics