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Ugly America

In 2011, ABC News, American Values, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Campaign 2012, CBS News, CNN, Current TV, Democrats, Elections, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Herman Cain, Ideologies, Joe Wilson, John Boehner, Karl Rove, Keith Olbermann, Liberals, Media, Media News & Criticism, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NBC News, Neo Conservatives, Partisan News, Patriotism, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Race, Rachel Maddow, Racism, Radio News, Religious Right, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party, Television News, Years on November 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Ugly America: How the Far Right uses Fear, Hate, and Faux-Franchised Patriotism to Sell the Message of the 1% to 23%

That we have the kind of crass, horrific incivility in our polarized politics, and our Right-intimidated media, is not surprising.  What is sad, shocking, and somber, is the conduct of thousands, perhaps millions of Americans who do the bidding of the 1% even when it contradicts their own self-interest and their personal moral compass.

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Don’t like the Message? Shoot the Messenger

In 2011, Bureaucracy, CNN, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Government, Ideologies, Keith Olbermann, Liberals, Media, MSNBC, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on August 8, 2011 at 4:25 am

Shooting the messenger is not merely a literary metaphor for punishing the bearer of bad news.  Lately it seems to be the way that those in power, whether it be in public or private organizations, literally eliminate anyone with the temerity to expose wrongs.

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Eric Cantor’s Shorts and Other Ethical Tales of GOP “Shameless Craven Unprincipled Partisan Hackery”

In 2011, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Corporatocracy, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Federal Government, Fox News, Ideologies, Keith Olbermann, Koch Brothers, Mitch McConnell, Neo Conservatives, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Roger Ailes, Tea Party, Television News, The Congress, The House, The Senate, Years on July 1, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Eric Cantor’s shorts were exposed earlier this week.  No, the Republican Congressman from the 7th District of Virginia isn’t having a Weiner moment.  He’s doing something far worse: Betting against the Treasury Bond prices that he, as the GOP’s chief debt ceiling negotiator, influences.  Yet another in the long line of incidents where Republicans put self-interest, party, and their partisan backers ahead of country.

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Keith Olbermann Announces His Return to TV

In 2011, Corporatocracy, Current TV, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Media, Media News & Criticism, MSNBC, NBC, Political Punditry, Rachel Maddow, Television News, Years on April 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm

He's baaack. Keith Olbermann announces his return to TV

Olbermann has not lost one sardonic step. His FOK News Channel (Friends of Keith) made the announcement yesterday, including the show’s new name and when it will air. All that I can say is: I feel bad for Lawrence O’Donnell.

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Barack Obama & The Nine-Headed Serpent of D.C.

In 2010, ABC News, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Three Auto Makers, Bill O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, CBS News, CNN, Corporate-controlled Media, Corporatocracy, D.C., Democrats, Federal Government, Fox News, Glenn Beck, GOP, Health Care Reform, Keith Olbermann, Legislation, Lobbyists, MSNBC, NBC News, Partisan News, PBS, Political Punditry, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Radio News, Republicans, Right Wing Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Sirius/XM POTUS, Television News, The Congress, The Federal Reserve, The House, The Public, The Senate, The Supreme Court, The White House, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street, Washington Press Corps on January 11, 2010 at 11:40 am

Barack Obama and the Nine Headed Serpent of D.C.

President Obama’s stab at changing government is a lot like Heracles’ famed battle with the Hydra of Lerna, a nine-headed serpent with poisonous breath. Every time Mr. Obama proposes cutting off one head of a foe of change, two more grow back. The worst part is that many of the heads are found in his own government.

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Is the First Amendment Safe When the Message Owns the Media?

In 2009, ABC News, Baseball, Boston Globe, CBS News, Constitution, Corporatocracy, ESPN, First Amendment, Football, Fox News, Fox Sports, Keith Olbermann, Media, Media News & Criticism, MLB, NBC News, Newspapers, NFL, Political Punditry, Yankees on August 15, 2009 at 11:08 am

Is there a First Amendment right to cover sports news?

American sports do not seem like the place for a show-down on the freedom of the press, but that is exactly why the unraveling of the First Amendment began there. Media purists from the “real” news side did not see the slippery slope sliding, just as they missed the impact of the Internet.

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