The Right-Wing Media's Election Analysis Just Ain't That Good
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
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.
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
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.
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
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.
Sasha Abramsky | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
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.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
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?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
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.
Louise Marie Roth | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
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.
RJ Eskow | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
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.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
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.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
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.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — There were plenty of familiar faces on-screen during TV coverage of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, people like Jame...
Timothy P. Shriver | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
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.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media
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.
Neil McCarthy | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Stephanie Miller | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
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.
Steve Young | Posted 12.28.2008 | Media
pa·thet·ic [puh-thet-ik] 1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight. affe...
Ben Cohen | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Michelle Malkin wrote a book called: In Defense of Internment. The book essentially defends the internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two.
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
This election season reached new heights in Oracular nonsense, kick-started by Dick Morris' 2005 volume "Condi vs. Hillary."
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
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.
David Fiderer | Posted 12.08.2008 | Media
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.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
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.
Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media