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Elena Kagan is a Radical?

Hannity backs up Whelan, contradicts Ken Starr, Charles Fried, and Jack Goldsmith to claim she is The “obstruct at all costs” script continued with Sean Hannity’s obvious lies (video after the jump) about SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan, the former Harvard Law School dean who took over the Solicitor General post last year at the time of [...] [...]

It’s true! Rush really IS a big fat idiot!

Okay, just for fun, let’s take a break from Glenn Beck and tackle Rush Limbaugh’s Thursday show. It pretty much goes without saying how loony his theory that “environmental whackos blew up this oil rig” is of course, so much so that it really doesn’t even bear debunking. But what might not be [...] [...]

Some wealth-redistribution lies

Once again, I think it’s prudent to point out that the concern I have about US politics is not one of a difference of opinion, but one related to untruth. It’s not that I dismiss rational, logical Conservative political opinion out of hand, but that the Right in the US seems to start so [...] [...]

The Fair and Balanced Doctrine

The new “fact-checking” feature of several Sunday morning talk shows, wherein a roughly equal number of statements from folks on the Left and on the Right are checked in order to provide the illusion of “balance,” seems a bit problematic to me, given that there IS no balance, and folks on the Left tend [...] [...]

Fox News is not a news agency, but a campaign arm

A few weeks ago, I called for folks to stop pretending that the Tea Party was made up of folks that it obviously isn’t. While it’d be nice, and effective for that group’s agenda, to suggest that their supporters are a good cross-section of the American public, they just aren’t, and while I believe [...] [...]