"Wingnuts" and President Obama
A socialist? A Muslim? Anti-American? The Anti-Christ? Large minorities of Americans hold some remarkable opinions

A new book, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America by John Avlon describes the large numbers of Americans who hold extreme views of President ( Read more... )

PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels'

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 5:15 p.m.

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest.

"Death panels."

The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of ( Read more... )

Jed Lewison at DK's notes:
Greta wants to know why Fox didn’t get a question at presser
Apr 30, 2009 at 12:40 AM Pacific
During last night’s 100 day press conference, President Obama took questions from ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC - but not Fox ( Read more... )

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Mad Money
Apparently, GE's latest shareholder meeting turned uncomfortable for Jeff Immelt when some of the shareholders in attendance began complaining about the political content on MSNBC. Matt Yglesias describes the dynamic as "overclass solidarity," writing:General Electric shareholders complain that MSNBC programming is too ( Read more... )

Fox News' Chris Wallace: Is Obama even president?

11:18 AM PT, Jan 20 2009
"Well, again, we're wondering here whether or not Barack Obama in fact is the president of the United States," Chris Wallace told Fox News viewers, well over an hour after Obama had taken the oath of office today.

Fox News replayed the ( Read more... )

News Hounds:

Hannity & Colmes held another discussion last night (12/19/08) about Barack Obama's decision to use his middle name during his inauguration. Not surprisingly, unrepentant bigot Sean Hannity used the “issue” to launch some smearing and hate-mongering against our new President-elect and, of course, liberals. He could not have picked a ( Read more... )