Throughout the film's first hour, McKay plants the seeds for conservatism’s rise. Cheney meets Roger Ailes as a young congressional staffer; Antonin Scalia before he became a Supreme Court justice; and even a drunken George W. Bush (a hilarious Sam Rockwell) crashing a Christmas ...read more
While the money is no doubt good at Fox News, it must be a rather humiliating affair going on air day in, day out, knowing that you work for the least trusted cable news network in America. During a segment on Sunday on Media Buzz, Fox News host Howard Kurtz and pollster Frank ...read more
American corporate news culture is so boringly predictable that it never ceases to amaze me. To run the same repetitive schtick day in, day out, all year, is a testament to the industry's limitless capacity for inanity. The financial pay off is obviously worth it though, and ...read more
Over the weekend, the founder of Moms With Guns Demand Action gave the world a subtle hint about what kind of action they're demanding when she shared a Fox & Friends First Facebook photo of President Obama with a caption that "joked" about assassination. Fox viewer and gun ...read more
By Ben Cohen: There's a very creepy book called 'The Game' that every woman should read in order to protect herself from sleazy, desperate guys. Written by Neil Strauss, the book details the authors infiltration of a network of 'pickup artists' in Los Angeles who have ...read more
Bob Cesca on the alternate universe created by the Republican Party: Their ability to shape their own reality -- to blame the president for the entire recession while simultaneously rigging the game against the recovery is unprecedented in American political history. It's ...read more
