Draining The Murdoch Swamp: A Shakespearean Tragedy

Rupey’s nah ah bad boy, he’s jist been a littol undah the weathah.” If you want to smell the swamp, you must click it. While standard evolutionary theory has it that humans descended from warm blooded mammals, the predatory acts of the world’s most powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, suggests that somewhere along the way a mutant strain of humanity …

Murdoch’s Minions

Admiral Rupert and his would be successors, son James and head wench, Rebekah Brooks The ongoing ship wreck of Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire, News Corporation, dipped its bow farther into the icy waters of the Atlantic yesterday. A year after the company announced its $12 billion offer to buy the 61% of England’s largest satellite tv company, British Sky Broadcasting …

Bachmann: Truth In Advertising

Following the release of today’s dismal employment numbers, former IRS tax attorney and tea party darling Michele Bachmann took heart in America’s continuing unemployment crisis. CARL QUINTANILLA (CNBC): Does it strike you that as the unemployment rate goes up that your chances of winning office also go up? MICHELE BACHMANN: Well, that could be. Again, I hope so. ‘Nuff said.

The Michele Bachmann History Channel

Team Coco in an historical reenactment of the world according to Bachmann Seems that GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has a problem with Johns. First she confused actor John Wayne with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. And yesterday she confused Founding Father John Adams with his son John Quincy Adams. The latter gaffe arose from her historical re-write of the …

Stewart v. Wallace; Fair v. Unbalanced

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Jon Stewart enters the Fux News snake pit Last Sunday, Jon Stewart was interviewed by Mike Wallace on the Fox News Sunday Show. In the show’s intro (not shown in the clip above), Wallace promised to “grill the bad boy of political comedy about liberal media bias.” You know, that old canard. But it …

Rethugs Demand Dems Undergo Empathobotomy

Even before the GOP regained control of the House, they’d successfully cowed Democrats into accepting their terms on legislation ranging from health insurance reform to the extension of the Bush tax cuts. Since then, they have upped their game by extorting large cuts in the social safety net in exchange for extending unemployment insurance to the millions of workers laid off …

Is Sarah Palin The Human Incarnation Of Schrodinger’s Cat? (Update)

Fux News anchor Chris Wallace laughs at Sarah Palin’s self parody I should have seen this coming: Last Friday Sarah Palin mistakenly stated that Paul Revere went to warn the British on his famous “midnight ride.” Yesterday Palin “doubled down” on her claim, saying that she was not mistaken when she was again asked about Revere on Fox News Sunday. …