Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in to talk about his recent article, "Glenn Beck and the Rise of Fox News' Militia Media."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Media Monitor Cathy Talbot tipped us off to an on-air smackdown that transpired today between Rush Limbaugh and one of his callers, who criticized the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
Like many of you, I, too occasionally wake up in the middle of the night, riddled with worry that Timothy Geithner's Plan 9 From Goldman Sachs to fix ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
As noted a few days ago, the Obama administration got through the month of March with the public still fixing the blame for the economic downturn on e...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
Apparently, the new new thing, as far as criticizing Timothy Geithner's bank bailout plan, is to darkly warn that the intervention itself constitutes ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media
Media Matters caught radio-blowhard Rush Limbaugh referring to MSNBC anchors Melissa Francis and Contessa Brewer as "info babes." Limbaugh quickly "...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media
Mere hours after the Gridiron Dinner -- an annual gathering of the political press in which everyone soberly bonds over their concern for the state of...
Media Matters | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
During the March 26 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson hosted Michael Franzese, the former caporegime of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Media Matters has documented the way various media figures and partisan critics, confronted by the White House's attempts to do the things they were v...
The Plum Line | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
Be afraid, financial journalists. Be very, very afraid. Media Matters, the well-known media watchdog, is unveiling a new site today called "Financial...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
An analysis by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters found that "since the day after President Obama's inauguration, broadcast and cable news f...
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
As a concerned citizen who wants the media to succeed, I'm getting a little concerned: Aren't they biting off more than they can chew?
Kety Esquivel | Posted 04.11.2009 | Home
Catherine Singley, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Earlier this week, our friends at the Immigration...
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
A new video depicts the extent to which various observers, pundits, and political figures have encouraged the idea that Rush represents the philosophical point of reference for the post-election GOP.
Karl Frisch | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media
Limbaugh often says that he's broadcasting "with talent on loan from God." It seems more and more that conservatives are attempting to find their way out of the political wilderness with talent on loan from Rush.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Look who's honoring Jake Tapper now! Rush Limbaugh, whose Octomom-like ubiquity is ensured some significant extension thanks to his use of the term "...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
While Rush Limbaugh has denied that he is the de facto thought leader of the Republican party, he's not doing much to distance himself from the idea. ...
Jennifer Nix | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
I hope you'll take a moment to consider why I think your move with the 10 p.m. program is so important, and why David Sirota is the best candidate for host.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Coming off of a tone-deaf cartoon that compared the author of the stimulus bill with a crazed, shot-dead chimpanzee, it seemed likely that, for the ti...
Stephanie Vaughn Hapke | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
I'm sorry, but if people have not heeded the warnings by now, they either do not watch enough TV for this to be an issue, or they just don't care.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media
The clearest warning shot fired at President Barack Obama's hopes for some sort of "post-partisan" America was the one that hit Representative Phil Gingrey.
Think Progress | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
As Media Matters has documented, during the Bush administration, the media consistently allowed conservatives to dominate their shows, booking them as...
Karl Frisch | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media
Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.
Stephanie Miller | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media