The Vast Right-Wing  Media Manipulation Scam

Bush himself is part of the propaganda. His so-called "town meetings" only allow in folks who sign loyalty pledges, and audience plants commonly ask softball questions. Oct 2005, he held an "unrehearsed" video Q&A session with soldiers stationed in Iraq. But the live satellite feed sent out the rehearsal ahead of time. The questions & answers were completely, hilariously choreographed.

Conservative commentators and other liars

Just think, James: if you were a conservative, you could beat your wife

Mary Matalin, a typical knee-jerk conservative, is married (somehow) to Democratic adviser James Carville. He must sleep in the part of the house without the gas leak. He needs to give her a sound spanking. November 2007, on Joe Scarborough's morning show, she proved that she doesn't read newspapers. Joe was asking her about the surge. First off, she said there would be no "flag-waving on a ship" to signify "a victory day." Too late, Bush did that with the infamous flight suit landing on the aircraft carrier with the "Mission Accomplished" banner that the White House later claimed they hadn't supplied and which somebody later admitted they DID. 
       Then Mary disputed Joe's assertion (in which he merely quoted many, many, many military minds) that more troops early on, as Colin Powell wanted, would have made the Iraq invasion a success. She replied that it wasn't the number of troops, but the kinds of things they were doing that was making the surge "successful." Really? Then WHY did we send all those troops?
        The funny thing is, Mary rendered this opinion shortly after stating that she was only a plitical communications adviser, not a military mind. Maybe this is the problem with Bush's entire administration. People who aren't qualified to run shit, but then they do it anyway.
       Mary then went on to say how much she liked Fred Thompson, and how informed and sharp he was. Holy shit, has she seen this guy mumble his way through non-committal answers on just about everything? Maybe Fred reads as little as Mary does.
 
 

Rush Limbaugh only knows one thing: his side is always right. No matter what ridiculous carp they say, they're always right, and the other side is always wrong. He also ran afoul of schoolchildren with a bizarre rant against multicultural education. He was seen as a racist for his bizarre comments about Eagles QB Donovan McNabb.

April 2007: This empty-headed bucket of lard said that the VA Tech shooter must have been "a liberal." Holy shit!

March 2007: Limbaugh says "conservatism is the best way to serve the people. Raising the minimum wage is not improving people's lives."  Typical bullshit from this arrogant, rich, pill-popping, doctor-shopping asshole.

October 2006: Limbaugh says just about the dumbest thing ever!!!!! Actor Michael J. Fox taped a pro-stem cell research campaign ad for a candidate in Missouri. As he often does, he was quite shaky in front of the camera. Limbaugh says he's never seen Fox show Parkinson's symptoms before, so Fox either hadn't taken his medication or was faking it. WHAT A PIG!!!!  Limbaugh is SO self-important, he figures if HE hasn't seen Fox like that before, he must be faking. But having seen Fox on TV many times since he became ill, I've seen him even worse, as have millions of others. 

He's a single-minded, close-minded fat bozo. His partner in intellectual crime is Sean Hannity, who once had as a guest on his show one Jeff Guckert, the gay hooker who somehow got White House press passes so he could toss softball questions at the president and his staff.

Amusingly enough, in April 2005 Rush lost his appeal to keep his medical records private, in an attempt to fight charges that, while a pill-popper, he shopped for doctors who would gie him whatever drugs he wanted. Even more amusing is that the ability to dive into people's private info is exactly the approach embraced by his favorite president and favorite attorney general. April 2006, he was finally arrested for fraud, for copping prescription drugs he'd gotten his fat ass addicted to. Yeah, this is somebody we all ought to listen to.

Limbaugh has long ripped on drug addicts, but then was discovered to BE one. He shopped for doctors who would give him copious amounts of medication. While on probation, he got caught with a bottle of Viagra that was in somebody else's name.

When the whole mideast went to hell in July 2006, after Israel went after Hezbollah, Limbaugh tried echoing what Bush was pushing, that this was a wonderful period of opportunity. He said there was a "new paradigm going on." Uh, no, just death and destruction. The reason Bush was pushing that notion is because he has no influence, no ability to affect a damn thing, no ideas on how to fix the situation. And Limbaugh's just a huge ass-kisser. And whaddaya know, nothing good came out of the whole mess. 

This Washington Post nitwit seems to fall for everything the administration says. He blindly reflects what neocons want the people to think, while the American public seems to not fall for it any longer. After the disastrous midterms and an equally disastrous State of the Union address, Broder wrote in February 2007 that Bush "is demonstrating political smarts that even his critics have to acknowledge."  Hmmm, funny how even fellow Republicans were saying that his Union address was a wreck, and that Bush was heavily damaged, his polls were sinking, and nobody was buying the notion of a surge. In fact, Broder intimated that Bush had "put Democrats on the defensive" with his opposition to their funding bill that calls for withdrawal. Actually, Dave, the majority of U.S. citizens support that withdrawal.

He wrote that Hurricane Katrina would give Bush a chance to "regain his standing with the public." Oops. In fact, it only heightened Bush's lack of attention span (turn on the lights, give a speech, then disappear again, taking the lights with him), indifference to the poor, and just plain opportunism (letting oil companies blame hurricane damage for rising gas prices, letting GOP-connected contractors build unaffordable housing in formerly poor areas). 

Way back when, even as true conservatives were teeing off on Reagan for his spending and governmental growth, Broder regularly trashed them as "liberals." Many bloggers piled on in early 2007 as Broder predicted a "political bounce" for Bush that never happened. 

Broder has compared Bush to FDR, calling him a "doubt-free exponent of his own beliefs." This fails to note that by being doubt-free, Bush has kept people like Rumsfeld, Miers, Gonzalez, Rove, and Rice well beyond the point where they'd done serious damage to him.

Broder comes right out and tells people in print how much he likes Karl Rove, the evil suck who will not be looked upon kindly by historians. This should tell you EVERYTHING.

Bill "phone sex"  O'Reilly, of that GOP propaganda wing known as "Fox News," got caught talking dirty to a subordinate and had to settle for millions of dollars, to keep it out of an embarrassing court case that pretty much would have destroyed his career. Meantime, he spouts ridiculous right-wing propaganda, with an arrogance that belies his lack of grasp of the facts. After San Francisco schools voted to keep military recruiters off campus, O'Reilly essentially wished on the air for terrorists to strike the city, even mentioning a specific building. Instead of doing the RIGHT thing by admitting he screwed up, he went on the attack. An American wished for foreign terrorists to strike an American city.  The moral of this story: O'Reilly is no guardian of either morals OR patriotism. He's just a scumbag. THEN this flaming hypocrite has the nerve to suggest that news media running stories on CIA planes landing in allied countries invites terrorists to strike those countries, after HE invited terrorists to strike his OWN country.

January 2007: O'Reilly now claims that his opponents' BODY LANGUAGE reveals how liberal they are. He has started nightly body language alerts. At this point, he's completely f___d in the head.

Bulletin .... O'Reilly is on the Al Qaeda "death list"   !!!!!!!     At least according to him. O'Reilly claims (Sept 2006) that the FBI visited Fox studios to tell the lying vermin there that they were on a "death list." But other members of the Fox coven say there was no such visit, and there was no such warning. This clown has no idea how damn dumb he sounds, apparently. He may not be on Al Qaeda's death list, but he's on the official Whizbang Brain-death list.
 

September 2006: O'Reilly laughs off a woman who has spoken with various intelligence officials who admit that data gathered under torture is often useless. O'Reilly says he knows better, because he's spoken to Guantanamo interrogators. What a f****g fool!  Of COURSE the interrogators aren't going to say that what they do is for nothing.

June 2006: O'Reilly says the left-wingers are responsible for the torture-deaths of two US soldiers. He says the New York Times and others are keeping George Bush from fighting the war properly. Wants more troops, wants the USA to "take the gloves off," wants the Iraqis to impose "martial law."  HUH? They kinda have martial law already, but if t hey wanna do more, they need more of an Iraqi army. It's the Bushies who dissolved the Iraqi army inthe first place, remember that, Bill? And it was Bush disciples Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz who railroaded General Shinseki when he said before the invasion that more troops would be needed. Instead of the LEFT wing being to blame, I'd say it was the RIGHT wing.

May 2005: On the ridiculously-named Fox News, O’Reilly blathers on about some irrelevant fundraising thing involving Hillary Clinton, something nobody else has picked up on, in their futile attempt to distract the rest of the world from Tom DeLay’s endless ethical lapses.  The next day, they’re interviewing some guy who’s written a book ripping on Alan Greenspan. Why? Because Greenspan doesn’t agree with Bush’s Social Security ideas, or gigantic deficits.

O'Reilly has also sucked up to the utter scumbags at USA Next, in their war against old people.

O'Reilly got his panties in a knot over France not backing up the USA in the Iraq war. He called for a boycott of France. In fact, American imports from France went up. O'Reilly claimed on the air that the boycott (which nobody seemed to notice) was working, saying that France had lost "billions of dollars," according to the "Paris Business Review." This Review of which he spoke doesn't exist. Of course, O'Reilly has long made up statistics, or cited erroneous data, and when he's been called on it, he attacks the people who've done their homework. He claimed that his show reached 5 million viewers nightly. The Wall Street Journal reported Nielsen estimates that state the number is less than half what O'Reilly claimed. He attacked the Journal, calling their article "a lie." Well, no, it was actually on the money, Billy-boy.

O'Reilly went on the Letterman show in January '06, and got spanked. In a ridiculous example of SPIN (that thing he claims not to do), he printed in his online column a partial transcript of the appearance. In this transcript, it appears that he got all the laughs and the applause. In fact, it was the exact opposite. Un-fricking-believable.

February 2006, O'Reilly accuses NBC News of cheap shots at Fox. In the various next statement, he makes fun of their ratings, and hints at other things that are wrong with the place. Apparently he doesn't recognize his OWN cheap shots. He constantly talks about ratings, and who's got them, and who doesn't, and he drops all kinds of nasty labels on the competition.

Of course, O'Reilly is a scumbag for more than just phone sex. After schools in San Francisco opted not to let military recruiters on campus, O'Reilly went nuts on the town, actually inviting terrorists to blow up the city, even citing a particular target, the Coit Tower. God help this dumb asshole if somebody ever does hit that particualr building, because the citizens of San Fran will be lining up to kick his ass. How unAmerican can you get than to suggest terrorists strike your fellow citizens because of their political views. Of course, Glenn Beck does the same thing.

O'Reilly and the rest of the nitwits at Fox "News" claim there's a cultural war going on against Christmas. Like Bush, he conveniently forgets that little thing in the Constitution about separation of Church and State. But what really bugs him is the stores that use the word "holiday" over the word "Christmas." Well, if I go to the store to buy Christmas presents, I don't really give a rat's ass if they're labeled Holiday stuff. I'll call it whatever I want, once I get home. If the store calls it something else, oh gee whiz. O'Reilly really is very thin-skinned. But here's irony at its best: O'Reilly sells his own line of merchandise online, and on the Fox News site they were selling O'Reilly HOLIDAY ornaments. Not CHRISTMAS ornaments. Oops.

Arrogantly enough, O'Reilly compares every slight he faces in the media (and he gets plenty, because he's full of shit and himself, which are the same thing) with a slap in the face to America itself. Considering he's an enemy of free speech, he's on the opposite end of what America truly stands for. Also arrogantly enough, O'Reilly takes credit for lowering gas prices. He says he personally scared the oil company execs. 

December 2005: O'Reilly comments on the story of a Catholic pre-school teacher who lost her job when she got pregnant while unmarried. The Tampa Tribune (whose editors O'Reilly viciously attacked in a very personal diatribe) pointed out that Jesus' own mother found herself pregnant and unmarried. O'Reilly, who apparently skipped both Sunday school AND biology class, said that the Tampa Trib twisted Christian theology to make their point, since Jesus was the result of immaculate conception. See here, phone-sex-boy, conception, whether immaculate or the old-fashioned kind, results in PREGNANCY. 

EVERYBODY who says anything in the media that disagrees with the Fox mentality is instantly labeled "far left" by O'Reilly. Phone-Sex-Boy even said that Howard Dean works "hand in hand with far-left bomb throwers," and that he "releases their propaganda under the DNC banner." Never mind that O'Reilly and his cohorts release the White House's propaganda under the Fox "News" banner.

O'Reilly says that new press sec Tony Snow will "confront irresponsibility on the part of the White House press corps." But what about irresponsibility on the part of the press sec? Why was Jeff Guckert/Gannon allowed into the briefing room under a false name, to toss softball questions at McLellan?

Right wing apologist Charles Krauthammer, says that the Democrats have “lured Bush out onto a far limb on Social Security” and “have begun sawing.” In other words, he’s blaming the Democrats for Bush tripping over himself with his absurd notions on reforming Social Security. With Krauthammer, it’s always somebody else’s fault, never anybody on the Right. When Sandra Day O'Connor announced her impending retirement, everyone universally starting praising her service, including George W. Bush. Krauthammer, naturally, ripped on her, because she wasn't a kneejerk conservative. 

July 2006, Novak finally admitted he coughed up his sources to the feds. He aided in a political assassination attempt by outing a secret agent, destroyed her ability to do her job, endangered her contacts, cost the government millions of dollars, screwed up the administration he shills for, and then pussied out about it.

November 2007: Novak engages in one of the oldest, sleaziest tactics known in public discourse. he says that he has it on very good authority form within the Hillary Clinton camp that they've got scandalous material on Barack Obama, but are holding off on using it. He doesn't identify what it is, or who's telling him what. "I know something dirty, here's a hint of it, and I can't back up any of it." What a f____g dirtbag. If you don't know, then don't allude to it, you shithead.

Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, arguably the dumbest guy ever to fill that slot, so Kristol's stint there doesn't say much. Naturally, he contributes to Fox News. For some insane reason, Time gives him space, and nobody attracts more negative letters there than does he. He's one of the neocon assholes who helped propel the USA into Iraq. He regularly calls for attacks on Iran. Just what we need, another frigging war we can't afford in money OR troops. Jon Stewart made him look like the dummy he is, although Kristol does a good job of that every time he appears on any kind of TV show. He LOVES being on TV. He's a media suck-up. 

He wrote that the pardon of Scooter Libby would somehow "remove the cloud" over the White House, when in fact it did just the opposite. When Congressman Mark Foley was exposed as hitting on underage pages, Kristol actually blamed Florida voters. After Bush gave a speech about Iraq, Kristol complained that Bush should have talked "a little more about winning the war and a little less about helping the Iraqis." 

For some bizarre reason, righwingers consider this tinhead an intellectual, while he continually spouts things that make no sense. 
 

She used to be one of the loons in residence on Bill Maher's old ABC show. She said the dippiest things, coming off like just a blond bimbo (which in fact she is). Then she would complain that the others wouldn't let her talk. What she really is IS a media whore. She says nothing realistic, nothing that even Bush would want to repeat. She spews outrageous nonsense so that she can get on TV, and she truly is a moron. Don't give me that crap that she used to be a lawyer. Starr Jones of The View used to be a lawyer too, and it didn't keep HER from sounding like a nitwit.

State College in Pennsylvania dropped Coulter's column because all she supplied was "uninformed hate." 

October 2007: On a cable interview show, Coulter actually had the stupidity to say that not only should everyone be Christian, but that Jews need to be "perfected," because Christians all consider themselves "perfected Jews." This skanky piece of underfed shit actually said that. She actually said that. And what do you wanna bet the shitholes at Fox "News" have her back on ANYWAY?

Shortly thereafter, Coulter blamed a lot of the country's problems on the Nineteenth Amendment. "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream. It's a personal fantasy of mine." WHY does Coulter want to take away the vote from her own gender? Because she's hiding a great big DICK.

May 2007: Coulter, daffy as always, says that polls indicating Obama beating any of the GOP field is "Newsweek doing more push-polling for al-Qaida." She doesn't bother explaining how Obama being ahead helps al-Qaida. She goes on to say that Newsweek makes up its numbers, even though the poll was conducted by a well-known, reputable company. She also invented this little nugget: "In polls where people are actually allowed to vote, Republicans do a lot better."  HUH?

March 2007: At a forum for GOP candidates, she called Democrat John Edwards a "faggot." Based on what? Even her rightwing audience was startled. She has removed herself long ago from serious debate. Several newspapers and corporate sponsors have dropped her ass over her lame attempt to be funny.

June 2006: Her new book came out in which she picks on, of all people, the widows of some 9/11 victims, saying she's "never seen anyone enjoy their husbands deaths" as much as these women. She says they like the attention. Holy shit!!!!!

Here's a few choice bits from her website and her sewer of a head:

• "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."
• She says that global warming ia "a crock" and that fighting it would hurt the "productive sector of fossil fuels." 
• "They're [Democrats] always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I"m not a big fan of the First Amendment."
• She once blathered that Canada had sent troops to Viet Nam. 
• She insisted on Bill Maher's show that "poverty does not cause crime."
• "Anyone who's against US foreign policy is the enemy."
• "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."
• "It would be a much better country if women did not vote."
• “If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

January 2006, and Coulter has done her worst yet. She says that somebody should "poison" one of the Supreme Courty justices. She's trying to be funny, but instead, she's just plain sick. She's a totally f____d-up piece of shit, is what she is. So here's MY suggestion: somebody needs to poison Ann Coulter. Today.

Malkin, who used to be a regular on Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly's Fox show, is a strange candidate for hateful xenophobe. A Filipino-American, she wrote a book saying that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was justified. Brainwashed by her husband, she loves racial profiling. She cheerleads for the Iraqi invasion, and was quick to jump on the bandwagon for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a salacious rightwing smear organization formed only to attack John Kerry's legit war record. She got al tangled up on Chris Matthews' show after repeating the BULLSHIT that Kerry might have shot himself in the leg.

This rightwing wordslut went after the father of a terrorist victim. She loves wiretapping. She foamed at the mouth when a travel article included a section about the vacation homes of Rumsfeld and Cheney, insinuating that this was a backdoor attempt to make these office-holders targets for assassins. She went nuts about a "bomb" that was left in a Starbucks, presumably by leftwing nuts. Turns out to have ben a flashlight left behind by a homeless guy. When a deranged guy blew himself up outside an OU football game, she immediately made terrorist connections, which she later denied when it turned out to be more paranoid bullshit. She tried promoting the musical career of a Marine who performed a song (in full uniform) about shooting unarmed Iraqi civilians. 

I could go on and on about this wackjob's qualifications for a leather collar or a coat with no sleeves. But check out MichelleMalkinIsAnIdiot.COM for more info.

SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH & USA Next: The Swiftboat bunch was misnamed for two reasons. First, a bunch of GOP backers started and named it, and found a couple of Viet vets to slam Kerry. So it wasn't a vets' group, it was a GOP attack group. Second, there was no truth to anything they said. BTW, Benjamin L. Ginsberg, the head lawyer for Bush's campaign, was an adviser to these lying scumbags.

Now that they don't need some lying old vets to front for them any longer, this sleazy organization now leads the charge against the AARP, which is seen as the enemy in Bush's fight to destroy Social Security. It's now called USA Next, and its president, a GOP nutcase named Charles Jarvis ( deputy secretary for the interior in the Reagan and first Bush administrations) explained his attacks on old folks this way:

"They [AARP] are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts. We will be the dynamite that removes them."

He says he wants to "dynamite" an old folks' group.  These are the kinds of people that the far right uses to do their dirty work. And note well that he said "personal savings accounts" and not "Social Security reform." Because to Bush, reform is nothing without personal accounts. Why? Because big business wants those personal accounts. This is yet another giveaway to business by an administration that cares nothing for taxpayers or the middle class. Check out the truth behind their sleaze at http://aarp.typepad.com/socialsecurity/2005/02/attacking_aarp.html.

Another sleazy thing Jarvis and his cohorts did: they took out an ad in which they claim AARP is the most liberal group in the world, and that old people support gay marriage but don't support U.S. troops. They used, without permission, a picture of a gay couple at their wedding. At first, they lied and said they'd purchased the picture. The couple sued them and got a temporary restraining order. USA Next subsequently admitted they'd made a mistake, but added, "Nobody would know about this if they hadn't made a big deal about it." AH, yes. "If we hadn't lied and violated somebody's right to privacy, nobody would have known." Good reply. When they first replied to the couple's lawyer, saying they'd purchased the photo, they were actually AT THAT TIME trying to purchase the photo. So they lied again. SCUMBAGS.

In early 2005, USA Next was fined $500,000 for deceptive mailings to seniors, mailings which were supposed to look like official correspndence from the Social Security Administration.

Jarvis admitted in an article in the New York Times that he didn't believe the AARP was pro-gay, anti-military, but that such a message helped him spread his agenda.

Paying for opinion$

Trying to get African-Americans to buy into the underfunded joke that is No Child Left Behind, the Bush administration paid black commentator Armstrong Williams $240,000 to promote the law on his syndicated TV show. He was also required by the deal to comment on it regularly during broadcasts, and to interview Rod Paige, Bush's idiot Education Secretary, on TV and radio. Williams said he sees why some found the deal unethical, but that "I wanted to do it because it's something I believe in." Fine, if you believe in it, then you don't need to take taxpayers' money to push it, you hypocritical goofball. Williams' newspaper syndicate, Tribune Media Services, canceled his column, and other outlets dropped his programs asw well.

Maggie Gallagher, a syndicated columnist, was paid to promote Bush's marriage initiative. Michael McManus, another columnist syndicated in fifty newspapers nationwide, was paid $10,000 to do the same. Neither Gallagher not McManus bothered telling their readers that Bush and company were paying them. Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Wade F. Horn heads up the staff that actually made the payment to McManus. In 1996, McManus founded a group called Marriage Savers. Horn is a former board member of the group, and in addition to the cash they gave McManus, the administration also gave Marriage Savers another $49,000. That is all taxpayers' money.

Inventing interest

Remember when the war was going badly, the jobs reports were awful, the economy was (as it still is) limping, and suddenly Bush wanted to go to Mars? That's right, a manned expedition to Mars. He got that stupid story plastered on magazine covers, he got simple-minded rubes legitimately interested in the wacky notion that we were going to send, for no good reason whatsoever, astronauts to Mars.

What's wrong with going to Mars? Here is the correct assessment:

• There's a myth that we developed great scientific breakthroughs because of the missions to the moon. It's just that, a myth. Going to Mars would produce the same breakthroughs, as in none.
• We can't frigging AFFORD to go to Mars. Bush and his idiot Congress have spent all our dough and THEN some.
• He didn't MEAN it ANYWAY. He just wanted to interrupt all the attention being given to his Iraq debacle, his jobs debacle, his economic debacle, and every other debacle he's created.

Hey, now it's BIRD FLU. Why is Bush squawking about bird flu? Because after the week from hell, during which we hit the milestone of 2000 dead soldiers in Iraq, Scooter Libby getting indicted, and Harriet Miers getting knocked off the Supreme Court block, Bush needed to look presidential. So this bird disease, which has killed a few dozen people in third world countries, gives Bush a chance to look like he's on top of a situation FOR A CHANGE. He's creating an enemy, so he can look like he's fighting it.

And WHY does he do these things? To get people's minds off the war, off jobs, off the economy. And it partially works. It's a cynical, ridiculous, dishonest effort at redirecting people's attention from the things that really matter. Magicians call it MISDIRECTION. 
 

The (phony) war on Christmas

November 2005: Fox "News" is all over the "story" that organizations and stores are trying to "outlaw" Christmas. In other words, there are groups, who rightly believe in separation of church and state, that don't want public schools to provide religious events. One Fox nutjob got all over a woman from a group called "Freedom From Religion" by asking "What's wrong with wanting to sing Silent Night in school?" Apparently he doesn't get this "separation of church and state" concept at all.

At the same time, John Gibson, a virulently conservative Fox mouthpiece (and racist scumbag who said that white people in the USA needed to have more babies in order to combat minorities), is also on the "enemies of Christmas" kick. Fox has declared itself the guardian of Christmas. Hey, dickheads, nobody's going to outlaw Christmas. Nobody else covers this thing. You've created a Goliath just so you can look like David. It's all phony baloney.

Bill "Phone Sex Boy" O'Reilly, who has the nerve to make himself the defender of America's Christian values after having to settle a case out of court involving him talking smutty on the phone, keeps blathering on and on about secular attacks on Christmas. He also seems to have forgotten that little bit about separation of church and state. Yeah, calling your public events "Christmas parades" and "Christmas trees" and so on isn't really awful, but it shouldn't be officially sanctioned. That's called the Constitution. The last guy who should bbe ragging on and on about a non-existent attack on the holiday should be a guy who got caught breathing heavy on the phone.

This is how far O’Reilly’s perspective has fallen: he complained that Macy’s had taken mentions of Christmas out of their advertising, in favor of a more neutral marketing message. Then, as evidence that they had caved in, he showed one of their Christmas commercials, in which they do indeed use the word “Christmas.” But there’s no Baby Jesus, no “Judeo-Christian” (one of his favorite adjectives) message. It’s long-legged chicks, dancing around and showing their belly-buttons. But hey, it mentions Christmas. So apparently he only cares about the thinnest veneer of Christmas. Slinky broads showing off their bodies (but using the word “Christmas”) is a success? So what the hell is he complaining about again?
 

 

Fake reporters Part II  ( the gay hooker at the White House )

This one's TOO funny. As far back as early 2004, reporters in the White House briefing room were noticing a goofball named Jeff Gannon tossing softball questions at Bush press secretary Scott McLellan. Whenever McLellan was getting beat up over some new stupid thing his boss had done, he'd nod at Gannon for an easy one, and that's just what he'd get. On January 26, 2005, Gannon finally went too far when he was about to lob a soft one at Bush himself. First he mentioned Democrats who opposed Bush's Social Security ideas, then asked, "How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"
 

That was apparently the last straw for most of the legit reporters in the room, and Gannon, ostensibly the Washington bureau chief for a phony news organization called Talon News (really just a cover for conservative group GOPUSA), was quickly exposed as Jeff Guckert, former gay hooker. Guckert had previously operated a gay "military" escort service, in which he advertised his services in graphic terms.  Guckert was somehow able to get White House press passes under his phony name. After being exposed, his radio show and Talon News bio and other online info suddenly evaporated. Noted Far Right mouthpiece Sean Hannity even interviewed Jeff Guckert on his own show. Rush Limbaugh did as well. Guckert on one occasion asked McLellan a question that was based on a toss-off joke Limbaugh had made on the air and which Guckert had taken seriously. This is one serious dumbass.

You want softball questions, or just soft balls?

Guckert accused members of the press of "working off of the talking points" provided by Democrats. But Guckert himself regularly used, verbatim, text lifted directly from documents issued by the Bush administration and the GOP national Committee, as part of his columns. In two of his articles, more than fifty percent of the text came from administration documents.

Guckert had previously written material that was anti-gay. But in defending himself he said, "Why would they be looking into a person's sexual history? Is that what we're going to do to reporters now? Is there some kind of litmus test for reporters? Is it right to hold someone's sexuality against them?" Gay organizations blasted him for looking for their protection, after ripping on them in the past.

Guckert later said he used a pseudonym because his real last name was hard to spell and pronounce. I dunno, seems pretty easy to me. Here, let's try it: Jeff Guckert, gay hooker. See, that was easy.

The funky thing is, there's no way the White House would have issued him a press pass, had they known of his past. And no, the press isn't going after his sexuality, they're going after his credibility. And gay or not, he was a hooker. If that's in dispute, check out these pictures from his old escort site.
 
  Jeff Guckert, former gay hooker and White House reporter.

Your money at work ..... for Bush's public relations

In 2004 alone, the Bush administration paid $88 million (in taxpayers' money) to public relations firms. Forty percent of that money was paid out without competitive bidding. In four years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has spent nearly $100 million to promote Bush's policies.

The Bush administration also paid for many fake news broadcasts. The General Accounting Office has really taken them to task for the huge amounts of money they've spent on these broadcasts. Their intent was to push Bush's new Medicare prescroption drug benefit, the one that turned out to be faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more expensive than they said it would be (in fact, one staff member who pointed this out in advance was fired for doing so). The pieces are supposed to be news, but they're in fact advertising. The Department of Health and Human Services produced the material, although the spots don't indicate this at all. Two of the videos end with a woman signing off this way: "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan, reporting." As in, she's supposed to be a reporter. But she's not.

In another, the voiceover says, "There have been a lot of questions about how the law will help older Americans and people with disabilities. Reporter Karen Ryan helps sort through the details."  Then this "reporter" pushes the new law's benefits.

The "reporter" then explains the benefits of the new law.

These spots have been broadcast as legitimate journalism pieces by many stations in several states. Broadcast, as news, even though they're advertising spots paid for the Bush administration. By the way, federal law prohibits the use of federal money for "publicity or propaganda purposes."  But that's just what they did. Bush and his cronies broke the law. 

The GAO later ruled that the administration had in fact broken the law with the way they spent money on PR.

SINCLAIR  MEDIA:

This highly biased, right-wing leaning corporation goes out of its way to push its agenda on its viewers, and abuses its position as a so-called news outlet accordingly.

This media conglomerate tried to force its stations to pre-empt their programming, just days before the presidential election, in order to show Stolen Honor, and anti–John Kerry documentary. Sinclair also refused to broadcast a Nightline episode, “The Fallen,” in which Ted Koppel read the names of American soldiers killed in Iraq as their pictures were shown. They dishonored those fallen soldiers because it didn't go well with their political leanings.

Tens of thousands of complaints nailed Sinclair on the issue of Stolen Honor.

Remember what I said about the Far Right attracting dummies as well as greedy buggers? Here's the greedy bugger part. 

According to insiders, in April 2001, a Sinclair affiliate sent a helicopter and crew to a sight 160 miles from their base, where the locals were out of range of that affiliate's broadcast, to cover cleanup efforts of a stretch of the Potomac. Why? Because an exec from Sinclair and his mother both own property on that piece of the river, and they want it cleaned up. Further according to insiders, Sinclair execs regularly use news coverage to help themselves personally, financially, or politically. An insider said,  “They don’t care about news. They care about moving their agenda, whether it’s clearing up their property in western Maryland or moving their political candidates to the forefront.”

One place to keep an eye on these sleazy folks is at   http://www.sinclairwatch.net/
 
 

Fox (and say this next word with a straight face) NEWS

The hilarious thing is Fox's tagline Fair and Balanced. There is nothing to either of those adjectives when it comes to Fox "News." It's nothing more than a propaganda machine for the Bush administration. And while true conservatives hate the kinds of massive runaway spending that Bush and his GOP cronies indulge in, all you'll ever hear on Fox is cheerleading.

Fox News commentators like to say that the "other guys" engage in personal attacks. But normal news organizations specifically avoid this, while Fox pundits engage in personal attacks on a regular basis. Anyone who disagrees with Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly is instantly labeled "far left." Neil Cavuto likes the word "pinheads." And so on.

One study found that regular viewers of Fox News were less informed on vital subjects that just about anybody else. Such viewers believed:

• Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda worked together (they did not)
• the USA got widespread support from other countries in attacking Hussein (the opposite is true)
• weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (uh, not a chance)

Their commentary is all slanted sharply to the right. Rupert Murdoch, who conveniently looks the other way as China represses its own people because Murdoch wants to do business over there, hired Roger Ailes, who guided Reagan and Bush Sr. in their media relations, to run his news organization. He regularly sends out memos telling his staff HOW to slant the news. His commentators are registered Republicans, all of them rightwing nutjobs.

February 2007, Murdoch actually admitted in a foreign interview that his organization "tried" to influence White House policies, including with regard to the Iraq invasion. He admitted it.

If there's a victory by the apes who champion Intelligent Design, it's a big deal on their web site. If there's a problem with the abortion drug, or, insignificantly enough, if the movie about gay cowboys drops off a bit at the box office, they're all over it.

Fox was keeping a propaganda piece masquerading as news, on their web site, all about WMD. They had it for a long time. But once WMD turned out to be a myth, they pulled it. 

January 2006: Two very telling items, from the web and the tube. On Fox's site, on a day when several different polls have come out with very bad numbers for Bush (a majority of Americans are more likely to vote for a candidate in November's congressional elections who opposes President Bush, and 58 percent consider his second term a failure), Fox instead posts a poll number of their own: Bush's approval rating, according to their own poll of "registered voters" (wanna bet they're all registered as Republicans?), holds steady at 41%. So Bush's numbers are going further in the toilet, but Fox has managed to spin that completely around. The other item is from a teaser, just before commercial on their cable station. "Is Congress worth the money we pour into it?" they ask, and as they do, they show three Democrats: Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. Not too subtle in the messaging there, either.
 

The head scumbag at Fox "News"

The man most responsible for Fox being a right-wing propaganda tool is Roger Ailes, who used to toil for the GOP officially, before he started doing it unofficially in his capacity as Fox's news chief.

September 2006, after Bill Clinton gave it right back to Fox news-monkey Chris Wallace (another guy who's sold his soul and his credibility to Fox), Ailes offered this hack defense: "[ Clinton's ] hatred for journalists is showing." No, he just got tired of idiots like you and your ilk, Roger, laying blame for 9/11 on him, instead of on the Bush administration, which ignored all the warnings. He's tired of the so-called media, including Disney, trying to paint him with Bush's crimes.

Steve Rendell, with the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, said, "I would dismiss Roger Ailes' complaint as simply whining in an attempt to make Fox News appear the victim in this fight."
 

Here's a great article on why Fox is a zombie in the service of the GOP.

Here's another article about Murdoch and his GOP ties.

Fox also gave plenty of air time to the scumbags from USA Next, a foul, lying GOP front group that attacked the AARP and old folks in general, when the AARP disagreed with Bush's ridiculous Social Security scheme. Their rabid mouthpiece Bill "Phone Pervert" O'Reilly also fronted for them in his own comments on Fox.

Fox also quotes cartoon strips masquerading as news. They actually reran an article, disguised as news, from the New York Post, in which the Post called a lady astronaut who assaulted another woman "a crazed moonbat." They also like to quote the Washington Times, which is merely a GOP mouthpiece.

Fox typically seizes on emotional issues and says, "Here we are, protecting you against the boogeyman." A judge hands down too light a sentence to a child molester in Vermont, and suddenly the entire state of Vermont is full of, as Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly says, "VILLAINS."  Dirty-Mouth O'Reilly even called for a boycott of Vermont. That's right, the whole damn state.
 
 

You think Fox "News" isn't biased? 

There are so many examples of how this dumb-ass right-wing propaganda outlet is really only trying to pass itself off as a news org while doing the bidding of the GOP, that I gave Fox its own bias page, right here.

Random right-wing "news" orgs
 

There are loads of "news" outlets that are actually just rightwing bullhorns. One obvious example is CNSNews.com, the "Cybercast News Service." Here's just a sampling of their headlines:

• Judge Says 13-Year-Old Has Right to Abortion, Over Guardian's Objections
• Hillary Clinton, John Kerry Using Legislation to Boost Profiles

Another one is Newsmax.com. They even shill for right-wing loon Ann Coulter. Their stories are largely stacked. It's just a conservative blog, essentially, claiming to be news.
 

The New York Post is pretty much a piece of shit. When the Baker-Hamilton group suggested a change in tactics in Iraq, the Post immediately mocked them as "Surrender Monkeys." When Bill O'Reilly got nailed for flinging unwanted phone sex at an employee, the Post pretty much made up a story about her, to discredit her. They're blindly conservative to the point of ignoring THE TRUTH. After the Baker-Hamilton group presented its report, commissioned by the president, explaining that Iraq was a freaking disaster, the Post called Baker and Hamilton "surrender monkeys" and even hacked up some pictures showing these highly respected men (including Baker, who helped steal Florida for Bush in 2000) as monkeys. February 2007, after a lady astronaut went nuts and tried to kill another woman, the Post published a so-called news story calling her a "crazed moonbat."
 

A search on presidential candidates got me www.renewamerica.us, a bizarro right-wing site. On the day I found them, the very top of the first page quoted the Bible as the start of an op-ed piece. Well-known conservative wacko and carpet-bagging Senate candidate Alan Keyes contributes (in a very large way, in fact), which immediately tells you they're screwed in the head. A picture of Uncle Sam comes with the caption "I want YOU to help build a border fence."  They also advertise books about Terri Schiavo, and promote the hopelessly loony notion of privatizing Social Security.
 

Hypocrites with hard-ons

Da wife got me a free copy of The Washington Times. Whadda they got? Bill O'Reilly as a columnist. Another Limbaugh. A very bad political cartoonist named Garner, who can't spell the word "Lebanese" and who likes to spell out exactly what a cartoon is about, thus rendering his cartoons pointless. They present Pat Buchanan's ramblings as news. The Washington Times also calls itself "America's Newspaper," which should instantly raise suspicions. Ultra-rightwingers have appropriated all red, white, and blue terms as their own. The Patriot Act, for example. "Look at us, we wave the flag higher and harder. If you don't agree, you're not patriotic." May 2007, and Washington Times columnist Harlan Ullman admits he hired women from the so-called "DC madam" for sex. Previously, the lying hypocrite had called such allegations "beneath the dignity of contempt." Well, I guess not. This guy, who used to pal around with Rumsfeld, was a frequent customer, and was remembered by "the girls" as "an unpleasant person." Wow. When hookers complain about you, you really must be a prick. July 2007, the madam releases her phone records. In advance, Republican Senator David Vitter from Louisiana says he was a customer. This "God-fearing" guy with a wife and four kids and a stated commitment to "mainstream conservative principles" came clean because, hey, the media was gonna eat him up anyway. Previously, he's had to deny a lengthy relationship with a different hooker in New Orleans. Also on those phone records was Randall Tobias, a deputy secretary of state. He claimed he only used the madam's services for massages. A day later, he resigned. 
 

Newsbusters.Org ("Exposing and combating Liberal Media Bias") recently complained thusly: "Mario Cuomo's son was recently appointed to a high position at ABC. Why aren't conservatives being given these jobs?"  Hmm.  Colin Powell's ultra-conservative kid, who loves the free-speech-killing consolidation of media companies, was running the FCC. Conservatives have a whole news "network" known as Fox "News." So what are you dipsticks bitching about again?
 
 
 

CyberCast even went after a decorated war veteran, Congressman John Murtha, who called for the US to withdraw from Iraq. Having been already attacked by Ohio nitwit Jean Schmidt, Murtha's decorations were questioned by the ever-sleazy CyberCast.
 

World Net Daily is nothing more than a right wing nutjob outlet. Their stories are all far far far right off the charts. "Why Christians are Losing America," a screed by Roy Moore (the goofy ass judge who put up the Ten Commandments at his court house and was dinged by even conservative judges), the completely devalued abortion-breast cancer garbage, and other stuff that, as gay hooker Jeff Guckert (Scott McLellan's best bud) would say, "has no basis in reality."

The folks at NewsMax.com, a just-about-invisible right-wing outlet, like to quote Michael Reagan in their advertising when he says, "The liberal media moguls hate NewsMax." Actually, Mikey-boy, the liberal media moguls, if they existed, would probably never have HEARD of NewsMax.

Right Wing Media Terms

The Far Right further manipulates public opinion by always slapping labels on things, to make it simpler for their pea-brained followers to follow their twisted logic. Here's a partial list of such terms:
 

• Liberal. Oooooooh, this was the nasty one for a while. If you were a liberal, you wanted to spend all our money and give jobs to poor folks. Well, instead, the GOP spent all our money until we had none left, then they borrowed and spent a whole lot more, and still haven't generated enough jobs to make up for the ones they lost. So the liberal thing doesn't look so bad any momre, does it?

 
• Activist.  now if you're a judge who doesn't rule the way the Christian Right likes, even if you were only following the Constitution AND are a Republican-nominated judge to begin with, you are now officially an activist judge. And if you write an editorial in your paper pointing out the many foibles of the GOP-controlled Congress or the oil-controlled administration, you are an activist journalist. Of course, when the Supreme Court (which has been called by various radical so-called Christians an activist Supreme Court) stuck its nose into the Florida recounts to hand the presidency to the Dummy, being activist was an okay thing.

 
• The Constitutional option. When the threat to permanently shut down the minority option of filibustering was first put forth, it was called the nuclear option by the GOP's own Trent Lott. But now that it's come close to reality, and newspapers are shitting on it, they're calling it the Constitutional option, so that it sounds more palatable. Just like when they implemented certain ethics rules a few years back to nail Democrats, but changed those rules when they threatened to nail their own majority leader.

 
• Moral values. There's nothing moral about a president who's in the pocket of Big Business, a Congress that spends billions on pork while Americans are losing jobs, and an administration that condones torture. Like there's anything moral about Bill O'Reilly talking dirty to underlings and having to settle for millions of dollars. Like there's anything moral about Rush Limbaugh shopping for pills and then claiming privacy while supporting an administration that doesn't value anybody else's privacy. Like there's anything moral about all the crud that Tom DeLay pulls.

 
• The enemy. Donal Rumsfeld no longer wants to call insurgents "insurgents." He thinks that gives them too much credibility. He wants them known as "enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government." 

 
• The war on terror. This is Bush's euphemism (a word he's probably never used) for the war in Iraq. In this way, he attempts to rationalize the cost in lives and money of maintaining troops in Iraq. This is utter bullshit, as any terrorists who would come after the United States on its own territory will not bother shooting it out with U.S. soldiers in the streets of Baghdad. They are more sophisticated than that. In the summer of 2005, Rumsfeld tried to reclassify the "war on terror" as the "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism," or GSAVE. Even the low-brow Bush saw the stupidity in that, and quashed it.

The White House buggers the facts
 

Bush is always right

The whole world already knew that the gummint has been monitoring banking transactions. Hell, they announced their intentions back in 2001. So when the New York Times went public with a story on how the gummint's been doing this, the president and his GOP Congressional cronies got all wadded up about it anyway. There was no oversight over the program whatsoever. Bush only briefed members of Congress on the program AFTER they knew it was coming out in the media. Congress hustled through a resolution claiming the program was totally legal (an issue that is still unresolved) and condemning the news media. See, everybody else is always to blame, even when Bush and company break the law.

So what Congress is doing with their condemnation of the media is shitting on the people who have been doing the job that Congress is supposed to do: oversee the administration. While Bush has been continually skirting the law, they've said nothing.

Oct 2005, Bush held a video Q&A session with a bunch of soldiers set up in chairs over in Iraq. It was billed as "spontaneous" and "unrehearsed." But the live satellite feed gave away the less-than-spontaneous rehearsal, with a stand-in taking the part of the president as the soldiers tried out their questions. OUCH. This was a good practice session for FEMA's fake press conference in October 2007, following the California wildfires. These idiots actually staged a press event, using FEMA employees to ask questions. "Are you happy with your response to the fires?"  "Yes, we're very happy."  Blah blah blah. Real reporters were invited to this thing at the last minute, but could only listen, not pose questions. Mike Chertoff wisely shit on the whole thing, calling it "stupid" and "inappropriate."
 
 

The Real Story of the Newsweek Mess

Spring 2005: Newsweek printed a story saying that interrogators at Guantanamo stomped, ripped up, and and even flushed copies of the Koran in order to rattle Muslim prisoners. Then, under intense White House pressure, they sort of recanted the story, saying their usually reliable source got stupid on them. Rioting in the Muslim nations because of the story claimed ltos of lives, and Newsweek caught lotsa crap from Scott McLellan, Donald Rumsfeld, and Bush, among others. But guess what? The Red Cross has been telling these stories about the Koran since 2002. More stories about this surfaced again in 2003. The Red Cross complained about it to the feds way back when. Even if this particular instance didn't happen, it's certainly happened in the recent past. Scott McLellan got roasted in the White House briefing room over the whole thing. I think Bush and co. were just looking for a scapegoat, since they're probably tired of getting their asses beat over their own stupidity on a regular basis.
 

Cheney shoots himself in the foot

February 2006: The always secretive Vice-President screwed up and shot a hunting partner. He left it to the lady who witnessed the accident to tell the local newspaper. Supposedly he thought this was the way to handle it. So let's get this straight: the second most powerful guy in the world shoots somebody, and he effectively keeps a lid on it. All he managed to do was reinforce his reputation as a guy who tells nobody anything, just like with his super-secret oil policy. So he turned something newsworthy into another reason for the public, which already largely distrusts the administration, to doubt them even more.

The brass has their head up their ass

The military leadership of the USA is shameless in how it follows the Bush model of saying whatever it has to in order to achieve its goals.

Abu Ghraib: Despite the memos that were sent out, despite Rumsfeld okaying the use of torture, despite our future Attorney General launching a memo okaying torture, the brass managed to save their own asses in handing out the blame for rampant prisoner abuse in Iraq. Sure, the folks who got nailed deserved to get nailed. But their superiors got off scott free.
 

Utter bullshit disguised as propaganda: The family of former pro football player Pat Tillman say the Army showed utter disrespect to his memory by lying about how he died, making up details in order to paint him falsely as a hero and hide the fact that he died because of friendly fire.

Speaking with the Washington Post, Tillman's parents said they believe the military and the government made up a heroic story about Pat's death in order to foster patriotism and a positive spin on the "War on Terror."

"Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did," Mary Tillman told the Post. "The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting."
 

Fake banter: October 2005, Bush holds a "spontaneous" Q&A session with a bunch of soldiers in Iraq. Problem is, the live satellite feed also carries, in advance and quite by accident, the prep session in which Bush's PR lady rehearses all the soldiers on the questions that will be exchanged, and who will answer them. It's so f____g embarrassing, even SNL does a skit about it.

Planting stories: November 2005, it's reported that the military has been providing stories in Arabic for Iraqi newspapers. An organization called the Lincoln Group, out of D.C., has been preparing the material that gets inserted into the papers. One Pentagon official complained, "Here we are trying to create the principles of democracy in Iraq. Every speech we give in that country is about democracy. And we're breaking all the first principles of democracy when we're doing it."  The military guys in Iraq who were aware of the practice say that the planted stories didn't do any good anyway. And at one point, one of the fake stories appeared in a Baghdad newspaper in English, giving away the American origins of the "information."
 

In yet another attempt to create a ridiculous promotional event, the military brought a number of Marines to a building they’d visited on a regular basis, specifically for promotional activity. After some filming, the Marines left the building, and one of them promptly stepped on an explosive device, setting it off and killing himself and nine other Marines. 
 

For other crimes the military has committed against citizens of the USA and the rest of the world under Bush, check here.

The Gummint Goes Online

Used to be, if you went to Google, typed in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and hit the button labeled I'm Feeling Lucky, you got a very funny page, http://www.agri0013926.agriplus.net/error/ . But now you get a page at the Treasury Department. I guess they got tired of being ridiculed for not finding any WMD in Iraq. But why the Treasury Department?

The facts get the Mickey Mouse treatment

Disney, which never misses a chance to use its ABC proxy to sell theme park tickets, put on a made-for-ABC movie, "The Path to 9/11," which was vetted by right-wing propaganda goofballs. It essentially beatified George Bush and blamed 9/11 on Bill Clinton. Even the movie's star, Harvey Keitel, questioned its truthfulness. How the hell did THIS happen?

No shit, while at the mall with da wife, I specifically refused her request to hit the Disney store. We took the kids to Disneyworld a couple of years back, but never again will I willingly part with money for these assholes.

Insight magazine, owned by the same company that owns the wackjob Washington Times, printed an article saying that Barack Obama was schooled as a six-year-old in a madrassa, i.e. a Muslim hate school. Well, no. He went to a public school overseas. This idiotic article was quoted over and over by Fox News, the bozo-like Glenn Beck, The New York Post, and other rightwing goofball outlets.

If Glenn Beck wasn't such a complete moron, it might be acceptable for CNN to allow the presence of a biased righwing goofball. But he IS a complete moron. He keeps predicting apocalyptic horrors, such as picking a particular date on which he thought the president of Iran was going to spring some horrible nuclear holocaust. 

The public has come to expect this kind of government propaganda stupidity from Fox News, but not CNN. It's sad that an otherwise reputable organization makes time for a shithead like this.

October 2007: I can't believe what this asshole said tonight. Beck considers west coasters enemies of America, because people there don't always go along with the Far Right. So he actually babbled, that there are "people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." In other words, he's saying that somehow Divine Providence is punishing folks for heir political views by burning down their houses. Holy shit, this guy is a freaking asshole. He talks about these folks as hating America, but I can't think of anything MORE unAmerican than wishing ill will on fellow Americans for their political beliefs.

Beck had a dead-end radio show in Seattle, but luckily for him, he had a connection with a big VP at Clear Channel. Of course, this hasn't stopped his radio numbers from falling. He's a recovering alkie and a converted Mormon. Holy shit, what a combo. Because so many right-wingers are inherently racists, Beck fits right in. He called hurricane survivors who stayed in New Orleans "scum bags." For some reason, he had it in for those poor folks, even going so far as to say, "I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9/11 victims."

While interviewing the first ever Muslim Congressman, Beck actually said to the guy, "Prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." WOW. Racist, elitist, and logically ridiculous. Number One, dipshit, nobody has to prove a damn thing to YOU. Who the f__k are YOU? Second, dumbass, how about YOU prove that he IS working with our enemies?

Beck also put out an embarrassingly low-rated special "debunking" global warming, called "Climate of Fear." It was filled with pseudo-science, and the usual suspects who line up with the oil companies, bypassing real science in favor of partisan ignorance.

Beck's not that amazingly intelligent, his comments are sophomoric, he actually comes off pretty ditzy. He makes his money by race-baiting and going for the lowest common denominator. Luckily for him and the entire GOP, there's an awful lotta dumbasses out there. Just ask Rush Limbaugh.