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The Right-Wing Media's Election Analysis Just Ain't That Good

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: MIchael Barone, ny23, Dick Morris, Newsbusters, Bob Mcdonnell, Roger Ailes, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business Network, Creigh Deeds, biggovernment.com, Mike Huckabee, Morton Kondracke, Laura Ingraham, Rupert Murdoch, John Fund, Hannity & Colmes, Voter Fraud, News Corp, Andrew Breitbart, Chris Christie, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, 2009 Elections, Brit Hume, Barack Obama, New Jersey Governor Race, Republican Governors Association, Jon Corzine, Virginia Governors Race, Sean Hannity, Media Research Center, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Fox & Friends, HBO Documentaries, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Karl Frisch

Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.

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Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But Getting Americans Back to Work is More So

Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Unemployment Rate, Dick Morris, Jobs, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Federal Budget Deficit, Stimulus Package, Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Economic Recovery, Alan Greenspan, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Reich

The optimist in me says Obama can pivot off a health-care victory and launch some new initiatives that palpably and quickly spur job growth. The realist says there aren't any such initiatives.

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Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Josh Gerstein, White House, Happening Now, Bill Shine, The Nation, Martha MacCallum, Politico, FOX Report, America’s News HQ, Dick Morris, Ruth Marcus, Cavuto, Jake Tapper, Tea Parties, Roger Ailes, Fox News Sunday, Fox Business Network, Trace Gallagher, Julie Banderas, Jon Scott, Chris Wallace, Mike Huckabee, Rupert Murdoch, The Fox Nation, Washington Post, Bernard Goldberg, Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfield, Brian Kilmeade, Bernie Goldberg, Bill Clinton, News Corp, Red Eye, Tom Rosenstiel, Greta Van Susteren, Studio B, Shepard Smith, Bill Hemmer, Mike Allen, Center for Media and Public Affairs, FoxNation.Com, Steve Doocy, The Live Desk, Barack Obama, Harris Faulkner, Special Report, Fox News Watch, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, America’s Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, ABC News, John Nichols, Robert Gibbs, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Eric E. Burns

The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.

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All Aboard! The Right's Fox News Gravy Train Rolls On

Karl Frisch | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, Greta Van Susteren, Dick Morris, 9/12 Tea Party March, Steve Doocy, Roger Ailes, Rep. Joe Wilson, Fox Business Network, Barack Obama, Republican Governors Association, Fox Business, Mike Huckabee, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, Tax Day Tea Parties, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, James Rosen, Independence Day Tea Parties, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, Fox News Channel, Republicans, Media News
Karl Frisch

Perhaps it's the rallies or the fundraising or the demonstrably false attacks that have kept Obama from appearing on Fox. Regardless, the right's gravy train rolls on undeterred, facts be damned.

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How Dick Morris Is Making Seniors Feverish About Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Video, Health Care Attack Ads, Health Care, Dick Morris, Dick Morris Attack Ads, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat stares solemnly into the camera and warns that President Obama's health care plan ...

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Axelrod Slams Dick Morris On "O'Reilly Factor": "I Don't Know What Medical School Morris Went To" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Morris, Video, Bill O'Reilly, David Axelrod, Axelrod Slams Dick Morris Video, David Axelrod Bill O'reilly Video, Politics News

Senior White House adviser David Axelrod appeared on "The O"Reilly Factor" tonight after President Obama's speech on health care to a joint session of...

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Ted Kennedy: My Little Memory of Big Guy

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: The 1992 Democratic Convention, Bill Clinton, Dick Morris, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

What I saw on a little cruise with Ted Kennedy in 1992 cannot be bought by advertising. It's the enthusiasm regular, working people feel for someone they know has their interests at heart.

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Don't Mistake Discontent for Failure

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Paul Krugman, Inside Obama's Brain, President Obama, Tea Parties, Obama Popularity, Dick Morris, Healthcare, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

That we, as a society, once again have the energy to protest and dissent, is actually a hopeful sign that after being knocked for a loop in recent years we're finding our footing anew.

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Why...

Sam Greenfield | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Dick Morris, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Fox and Friends, Health Care Sarah Palin, Nra, Politics News
Sam Greenfield

Why should I care if the guy from Montana who questioned Obama is a proud member of the NRA? Why? Is the NRA going to pay his medical bills when his gun accidentally goes off?

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More Orly Taitz!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Bernie Goldberg, Anne Coulter, Far Right, Orly Taitz, Rush Limbaugh, Geithner ABC This Week, Dick Morris, President Barack Obama, Tea Baggers, Obama's Health Care Reform, Michelle Malkin, Glen Beck, Alan Keyes, Sarah Palin, George Stephanopoulos, Frank Gaffney, Birthers, Health Care Reform, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Abc, Republican Party, Pundits, William Kristol, Birther Movement, Bill O'Reilly, Ms. Orly Taitz, Michael Savage, Taitz, Andrea Mitchell, Jerome Corsi, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Finally, we have an extreme right-wing personality making the rounds in the corporate media who tears down the facade of "legitimacy" the Far Right bestows upon its craziest enthusiasts.

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Dick Morris Doesn't Understand Birth or Health Care

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Dick Morris, Cesarean Section, Politics News
Louise Marie Roth

Morris implies that cutting back on cesareans and encouraging natural childbirth would do a disservice to the health of mothers and babies -- an implication that is patently false.

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Freedom, Speech, and Consequences: O'Reilly and Accountability

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Jim Adkisson, Knoxville Church Shootings, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Scott Roeder, Hate Speech, Ron Kuby, Knoxville Unitarians, Bill O'Reilly, Bernard Goldberg, Tiller Murder, George Tiller, Rachel Maddow, Media News
RJ Eskow

Once -- just once -- I'd like to see Bill O'Reilly or Bernard Goldberg express regret for the possibility, however remote, that they contributed to an act of violence.

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Picking on Pelosi

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell, John Boehner, Dick Morris, Rnc, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Steve King, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Mike Huckabee, Cia, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Pussy Galore, Newt Gingrich, Torture Memos, Gop, Politics News
John Wellington Ennis

For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Milton Friedman, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Michael Gallagher, George W. Bush, Conservatism, Wurzelbacher, Conservative, Jude Wanniski, David Brooks, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bloom, Leo Strauss, The Huffington Post, Republican Party, Lord Acton, Plumber, MIchael Barone, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley Jr., President Barack Obama, Stephen Moore, Wurzelbacharian Historicism, F.A. Hayek, Book Review, Sean Hannity, "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream" Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Conservatives, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Laffer, PearlGate Publishing, The Daily Kos, Plumbing, Wurzelbacherism, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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AP: Did TV News Miss Point In Covering Stimulus Plan?

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Dick Morris, Tv News Stimulus Debate, Karl Rove, Laura Ingraham, Cable News Stimulus Debate, TV News, James Carville, Cable News, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Debate Bias, Stimulus Debate, Media News

NEW YORK — There were plenty of familiar faces on-screen during TV coverage of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, people like Jame...

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O'Reilly and the R-Word Factor

Timothy P. Shriver | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Special Olympics, Retarded, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris, Politics News
Timothy P. Shriver

The mighty O'Reilly, unlike so many others, got it: stigmatizing people stinks. Words matter. People don't need to scoff at others to make a point.

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Worst Pundit In America: Dick Morris (In A Landslide)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Republican Consultant, Political Pundits, Barack Obama, Dick Morris, 2008 Presidential Election, Republican Political Consultant, Dick Morris Fox News, Worst Pundit in America, Dick Morris Predictions, Media News
Mark Nickolas

Rarely did a week go by during the general election that Morris predicted the 180-degree opposite of what would eventually transpire. It was astounding for its consistency.

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Right Hook

Neil McCarthy | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, John McCain, Obama's Inauguration, Andrea Peyser, Dick Morris, New York Post, Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News
Neil McCarthy

The ink is not yet dry on his Inaugural Address, and the sober but inspiring words breathed through the chill of a January afternoon and a collapsing ...

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Right Wing World from The Stephanie Miller Show

Stephanie Miller | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Alex Castellanos, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris, Dennis Miller, Media News
Stephanie Miller

Today's "Right Wing World" from the Stephanie Miller Show features a day without gays info, Alex Castellanos, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Morris, and comically challenged talker Dennis Miller.

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Merriam-Webster Places Dick Morris' Picture Next To The Word, "Pathetic"

Steve Young | Posted 12.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Dick Morris, Media News
Steve Young

pa·thet·ic [puh-thet-ik] 1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight. affe...

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10 Republicans Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Alan Greenspan, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, William Kristol, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Politics News
Ben Cohen

Michelle Malkin wrote a book called: In Defense of Internment. The book essentially defends the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two.

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Prediction Fiction

Michael Sigman | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Delphic Oracle, Bill Kristol, LA Weekly, Dick Morris, Politics, Obama, Pundits, Soctrates, Media News
Michael Sigman

This election season reached new heights in Oracular nonsense, kick-started by Dick Morris' 2005 volume "Condi vs. Hillary."

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Rethuglicans

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill O’Reilly, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Matt Drudge, Michelle Malkin, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Michael Medved, Michele Bachmann, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol, Laura Ingraham, Republican Turncoats, Rethuglicans, Reublicans, Politics News
Ian Gurvitz

Some Republicans praising Barack Obama's election as a wonderful milestone may actually be sincere. While others come off like the sneaky little shit who brings brass knuckles to a fistfight.

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Dick Morris and Ann Coulter: Old Charlatans Try New Tricks

David Fiderer | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Taxes, Fox News, Obama, Conservatives, Human Events, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Media News
David Fiderer

Taking his cue from Lincoln, who said "you can fool some of the people all of the time," political guru Dick Morris wants to extend his personal brand.

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McCain Fizzles as Obama Sizzles

Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nashville Debate, John McCain, Tom Brokaw, Presidential Debates, Dick Morris, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, William Ayers, Fox News, Town Hall Debate, Obama Mccain Town Hall, 2nd Debate, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Debate Reaction, 2008 Election, Nashville Town Hall, Presidential Debate Reaction, Obama Mccain Tuesday Debate, Obama Mccain Debate, Belmont Debate, Tennessee Town Hall, Obama Mccain Debate Tennessee, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

In the course of the debate, McCain was outclassed, outgunned and outrun, time and time and time again. Obama's performance was so commanding that he barely noticed a petulant McCain.

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