Welcome to this week's Members Only column, dear Banterers, where I will regale you with a tale or two, and tease you with all of the goodies I couldn't find for you this week. In a really weird coincidence, I stumbled across photos and videos that I thought were long lost as I ...read more
Like many Americans, I get my news from the Daily Show. Ok, not really but I didn't know Governor Rick Perry was on a tour to steal businesses from other states like California, Illinois and New York until I saw the Back in Black segment the other night. If you missed it, you ...read more
This really is Jon Stewart at his best. Responding to the Right's call for the poor to pay more taxes, Stewart calculates the net worth of the 50% of Americans who pay no tax at all (they own around $1.45 trillion, or 2.5% of the nation's wealth), then asks what taking half of ...read more
Other than promoting America's foreign wars and attacking minorities, one of the most disgusting things Fox News engages in is non-stop propaganda for crony capitalism. In fact, you could argue that the entire point of the news network is to convince poor white Americans that ...read more
If it wasn't clear before that Fox News is not a news organization and acts only as a mouthpiece for the GOP and Rupert Murdoch's financial interest, after the phone hacking scandal, it really should be. Fox News's coverage of the scandal has been, to put it mildly, hilarious. ...read more
by Ari Rutenberg I'm hoping Jim Cramer lives up to his word. During last nights Jon Stewart shellacking Cramer agreed to get serious in his commentary. He is a well-known voice and has a deep insiders knowledge of the financial system. And if he actually gave us all that insight ...read more
