Category Archives: Glenn Beck

Tea Baggers with guns: The Dick Armey edition

You know that Dick Armey got $8 million from the Tea Baggers to leave Freedom Works, the lobbying organization that he and others formed under the pretense that it was a grass roots organization. Few people seem to point out … Continue reading

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An 11-year-old, packing heat

I hate to link to anything that comes from a Fox News source or affiliate, but: KEARNS, Utah – A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday. The 11-year-old boy allegedly told other students … Continue reading

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Hey, is Glenn Beck still alive?

What’s America’s favorite crazy uncle up to these days? From Wonkette: The media giant is reacting to controversy over a painting of President Obama resembling Jesus Christ on a crucifix by putting a bobblehead doll of President Obama into a … Continue reading

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And the mourners are all sanguine? Don’t think so.

I’m guessing that now that the election is over, a lot of people are thinking that the divisiveness between red and blue, conservative and liberal, majority and minority will come to an end. Now we can work together to improve … Continue reading

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Inspiring a psychopath

The psychopath in Norway who bombed an Oslo government building then went on to an island where he shot to death a bunch of kids attending a youth rally wrote a 1,500-page manifesto. Here, in Anders Behring Breivik’s own words, … Continue reading

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The soul of Fox News

A couple of significant magazine pieces have been published in the past month about Roger Ailes and Fox News. New York Magazine‘s profile featured gems like this: Last year, tensions between Palin’s camp and Fox erupted over a prime-time special … Continue reading

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In other news: The sun will come up tomorrow

Media Matters states the obvious. Although it does have this information from an insider: Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of … Continue reading

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The myth of the liberal media

Keith Olbermann is out at MSNBC. Of course, we’re not going to be told the real reason why this happened. We can only guess that the network denials are the real reason. So when you see this written … Spokesman … Continue reading

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Conservative pundits and tax cuts

Outgoing Democratic congressman Alan Grayson of Florida is taking a few shots at Fox News,  Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing pundits before he leaves the Capitol. These folks are indeed rich, so it’s in their interest to be against any … Continue reading

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Dangerous liaisons in Texas

We’ve seen this coming for a while. A teabagger Republican congressional candidate in Texas says he sees no problem with a violent overthrow of the government if the midterm elections don’t produce a change in leadership. The candidate, Stephen Broden … Continue reading

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