Berry Craig: Todd’s on the money when he said Colbert is mooning the Fourth Estate. I suspect that’s mostly what got Todd’s goat.
Hey NBC, Monday’s Debate Panelists Need to Better Represent!
January 22, 2012 By
Linda Milazzo: What’s truly needed in these debates are the images of a diverse blended America – not more monochromatic mirror images of the candidates themselves.
Santorum Loves Unions — in Iran
January 6, 2012 By
“I believe in the American worker,” says Rick Santorum, the new anti-Romney in the food fight for the GOP presidential nomination. A hero of social conservatives, Santorum claims he’s a blue collar sort of guy, too. The ex-senator and congressman from Pennsylvania promises he can make factories boom again. Santorum says he has a plan [...]
5 Right-Wing Obstacles That Must Be Overcome
January 1, 2012 By
Joseph Palermo: These powerful right-wing political obstacles that must be sidelined if progressive change can have any chance of success, whether Obama is at the helm or any number of the string of future presidents he now tells us we’ll probably need.
2011: The War on Christmas Continues
December 24, 2011 By
Rev. Irene Monroe: The intolerance of a multicultural theme for this holiday has little to do with a heightened renewal of the birth of Christ by the Christian Right.
The Eyes Have It
December 21, 2011 By
Steve Fine: Had the editors decided to use the original photograph instead, then they would have had a problem on their hands: a far too attractive image for the Occupy movement.
Are Mitt and Newt Channeling their Inner Progressives?
December 12, 2011 By
Robert Reich: Gingrich has tried to defend himself by saying Freddy paid him as a “historian,” but anyone with half a brain knows Freddy wasn’t interested in history.
Fox News, Muslim Women, and Zucchini
December 11, 2011 By
Julie Driscoll: Leave it to that bastion of “yellow journalism,” Fox “News” to plow forward with an absolutely unsourced article simply to further its anti-Muslim sentiments.
The GOP Is Occupied with Amending the Constitution
December 6, 2011 By
Tina Dupuy: English author Samuel Johnson famously said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. For Republicans, talking about amending the Constitution is the first defense against having actual policy discussions.
Sarah Palin on Herman Cain: “Boys Will Be Boys”
December 5, 2011 By
Julie Driscoll: Call me crazy, but shouldn’t the “morality and values” party believe that cheating and lying and deceit and trashing of marital vows and violations of who knows how many biblical rules and regs shouldn’t be reduced to Sarah Palin’s “boys will be boys?”
In Presidential Politics, Is Ignorance Really Bliss?
November 30, 2011 By
Michael Sigman: When Willard Romney fibbed about his first name during last week’s Republican debate, chances are his target audience of Fox fans and Tea Partiers were as blissfully ignorant of his white lie as they are about his Big Lies.
Your Local Broadcast News Is Making Us Stupid
November 29, 2011 By
Tina Dupuy: Let’s talk news. And where the majority of Americans – as in over 50 percent (by most estimates) – still get their news – from their local nightly news show. Any discussion about how unaware Americans are when it comes to news needs to have its finger pointed at the proper culprit: Your local broadcast.
Herman Cain’s Prime Time Gig
November 29, 2011 By
Andy Love: What Cain has done, thanks to the insanity of the Republican nominating process and a gullible and compliant media, is become another right wing celebrity.
First They Ignore Us…
November 28, 2011 By
Sylvia Batey Alcalá: Lazy journalism aside, the fact is, Ms. Burnett and her ilk live in an insular world. It is easy to sneer at the “whines” of the disenfranchised when one is being feted at a gala attended by the CEO of JP MorganChase.
Fox News, the No Embarrassment Zone
November 24, 2011 By
Berry Craig: A fierce anti-intellectualism fires much of the Fox faithful. They’re not troubled by the serial goofs and gaffes of GOP presidential hopefuls like Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry.
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