Thanks to Murdoch's recent laundry list of public falsehoods, we now know that Fox News' misinformation culture starts at the very top, inside the corner office of Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy
It's hard to mock Glenn Beck. He's sort of become a caricature of himself, leaving little room for others to inject more humor into the situation. But...
BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Fame is like alcohol. Some people can handle it and others can't.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The failure of McCain's divisive message to resonate beyond the base should have alerted Republican leaders to the resurgence of the center, but they seemed to have missed this clue.
Charles Warner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Although I have a deep-seated suspicion and dislike for most unions, the NFL Players union is doing the right thing by speaking out against the racist entertainer Rush Limbaugh.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media
In the most significant exchange on CNN, Communications Director Anita Dunn stressed that Obama now personally views Fox as a partisan opponent, rather than a journalistic organization.
Erik Sean Nelson | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy
When the Publisher's Clearing House Van pulled up to the White House, Obama was surprised by balloons, cameras, and an over-sized check for one million dollars.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
After the summer of townhalls and what's shaping up as the autumn of Glenn Beck, it is hard to see things through David Brooks' bifocals.
Roderick Spencer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.
Karen Finney | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Having seen this movie before as a staffer in the Clinton Administration, it is painful to again watch the right-wing machinery crank into overdrive; and the rhetoric spin up on all sides.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living
We arranged for the rich to get richer, the sick to get sicker, and the uneducated to stay that way.
Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
Shame these outraged citizens weren't taking it to the streets during the Iraq War. We could have used their righteous indignation when Rumsfeld threw millions of Saddam's money at militants.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
If, as expected, many House Republican officials rally behind Joe Wilson for his "you lie" moment during the House debate on Wilson today, they will b...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...
Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
...The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself. One of the most regularly cited legal scholars, the author, co-author, or editor of dozen...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than you intended.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy
DDT-loving, NBC-art-hating Glenn Beck, who has made the leap from average nutjob to leader of the deranged in the past year, has finally taken the nex...
Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded ...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Daybreak was written by first time author and progressive activist David Swanson.
Eva Paterson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
Van Jones draws a distinction between "cheap patriotism" and "deep patriotism." I highly recommend that chapter to Glenn Beck.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
There is no "we" in the protester's view, no welcome for your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of fellow Americans, much less immigrants. There is only my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my church and my ethnic group,
Richard Valeriani | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The election of the first U.S. president of African descent has challenged a lot of people's self-identity. The loud, vicious, unruly behavior is a collective expression of white trepidation.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media