After last night's ten minute waste of time masquerading as an Oval Office address, news sites put out fact check after fact check. Considering that Trump delivered his usual stump speech filled with the usual lies, this wasn't that hard to do. And yet, the Associated Press ...read more
There have probably been thousands of articles and parodies written about Donald Trump since he secured the Republican nomination and rode a wave of white nationalism and racism into the Oval Office, but nothing can ever come close to matching the dick-swinging insanity that ...read more
Here's what you should be reading this morning. Why? Why the hell not? Beats starting at the clock waiting for the weekend to begin. 1. Up Yours Alec Baldwin officially has a show on MSNBC. It's called "Up Late" -- not to be confused with "Up," "All In" or any of the other ...read more
By Beverly Bandler Appropriate questions should be asked and answered about the controversies over the IRS screening of 501-c-4 applications, the subpoenas for AP phone calls, and the Benghazi attack. Abuse of power should be checked with vigor, but hysteria should be avoided. ...read more
A hall of mirrors. (Photo credit: ŠJů) By Robert Parry The modern American news media operates like a giant right-wing funhouse mirror reflecting back some large things as small and some small things as large. The Right gets to decide which items will be misshapen in which ...read more
Call me a hopeless dreamer, but there ought to be a rule in politics banning anyone who caused a crisis from later bitching about the crisis. For the last four years, we've witnessed the Republicans, who voted for every Bush-era spending bill and irresponsible tax cut, crapping ...read more
The Obama Administration has found itself in yet another scandal this week after it was revealed that law enforcement officials had obtained records for the telephone lines of journalists at the Associated Press. From the NYTimes: The A.P. said that the Justice Department ...read more
They say two wrongs don't make a right, but ignoring one of those wrongs while vilifying the other is intellectually dishonest and violently hypocritical, among other things. And certainly that's the case surrounding news that the IRS targeted tea party groups as a means of ...read more
CNN is planning to challenge the AP with their own news wire service. Isn't that a lot like, on the day the first Model T hit the streets, a businessman turns to the other and says "I'm going to make a better horse drawn carriage and I'll beat that automobile!" The news media ...read more
The biggest obstacle to a national conversation in the election this fall will be the way in which the mainstream media will run interference for John McCain. They are his base in a way in which the conservative movement never has nor will be. In this instance, one of the ...read more