Liz Glover Chats with GWAR's Oderus Urungus, Fox News Interplanetary Correspondent, on health care, Obama, and O'Reilly's "drunken face."
The right goes after the left's most effective groups. Because ACORN does not rely on government funds the organization will survive the orchestrated attacks against it. But if it's to restore its strength, it needs progressive support.
Has anyone noticed how Fox News has turned into a propaganda machine with a single mission of attacking Obama at every turn? It's hard to miss.
If the government decides to cut funding of organizations due to the actions of low level employees, they must apply the same rules to the GOP's favorite government-funded organizations.
Would Ben Stein hear out Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust the way Glenn Beck heard Stein out on his anti-evolution film? Fair and balanced, anyone?
It is natural for many to shirk away from defending ACORN in light of this footage. But this particular exchange is not just cherry-picked -- it was planted, nurtured, and harvested.
Obama was wrong not to appear on Fox News Sunday at the same time he appeared on every other Sunday talk program. Press bans are a slippery slope and are not healthy to our democracy.
Why not go on FOX? Obama is more than a match for any of the hacks on FOX. He's proven himself plenty of times as a charming, eloquent, and intelligent speaker.
Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace's whining and childish name-calling revealed more about the bitter and bruised host than it did the White House.
Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".
After years of skirmishing under the radar, the nexus between conservative talk radio and hip hop has come to the fore.
Even if Obama has turned things around and starts posting approval numbers between 55 and 60, don't expect the media to realize that their entire "overexposed" story has been turned on its head.
It's not insignificant that Beck chose the holiest day of the Jewish calendar to launch his "day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic."
In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.
Last year, for my dad's birthday, I trawled through his hundreds of comments on HuffPosts ranging from Sarah Palin to baseball. With that in mind, here's the sequel to "My Dad's Greatest Hits."
Depression-era symbolism resonates in California, a state with 12.2 percent unemployment. So Fox News fabricated a narrative taken from the plot of Chinatown to complement Dustbowl images from The Grapes of Wrath
My point is not that the attacks on Obama are not racist; it is pretty clear that some are. However, it is far less clear what supporters of the president gain from making this argument.
While liberals and leftists keep laughing at them, the Christian Right will be busy trying to craft a last laugh -- and their track record is nothing to sneer at.
There is no such thing as "Fox News." Every citizen with a platform -- every politician, writer, professor, every talking head in the land who still has a conscience -- should shun Fox.
The president is not going on Fox News, and the network and many Republicans are spitting mad about this.
David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.
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I take great heart at this effort by Will Bunch to respond to the broadside against ACORN.
Especially, I applaud the timeliness of the response.
For weeks the Right has tried to carpet-bomb it out of existence, hoping that America was distracted with more important agendas. They have always attacked them, but this was their familiar surge strategy, or as earlier fascists called it, blitzkrieg.
That the Right, who are usually quite expert on timing, launched this all-out attack on ACORN with such a ferocity--heated, coordinated rhetoric and outright lies and sabotage--hoping to saturate with shock and awe, is no surprise--more of a surprise, and a welcome one, is that the opposition uncharacteristically responded in a timely manner. Others like Rachel Maddow have also fired back meaningfully.
No signature blissninny turning the other cheek here.
I urge all who realize that ACORN is above all a voter registration effort, and who remember that the Republican votes are always numerically lower (the true clue of why their hatred is so intense), to support ACORN wherever and whenever you can, especially locally.
Call ACORN locally and determine the persecution factor. Ask if the cops are objective or blood-in-tooth routers. Mobilize against the money poured into the efforts to sully their image, seek to identify and out the sponsors who fund the hate-mongering.
Lend your presence in protest, and take no shame.
Help to deactivate the stigma the Right has constructed to damage them.
First of all the idea that Republicans want to get ACORN because they help people is patently ridiculous.
But, really, do you think it's fair that a left wing organization is running around doing illegal voter registration in order to affect the outcome of an election? That is sinister at best.
This, aside from the fact that they've betrayed themselves as a massive organized criminal syndicate.
I guess you didn't read the article. The real reason conservatives attack ACORN is because they register inner city citizens to vote. This attenuates the effect that rural and suburban voters have on our elections. It's a very well known fact that fewer voters leads to republican electoral victories. Since the right wing knows this, they do everything they can to discourage voter turnout and flat out disenfranchise minority voters through various means. I'm a white, college educated, middle aged man and I approve this message.
I'm not sure they want it to FAIL. They want it to be a target so they have somebody to attack and blame.
Sure the Republicans want ACORN to fail.
ACORN gets poor people to vote. The poor tend to vote Democratic. Of course they want them to fail.
The Rich win over the poor again.
THIS is how class warfare is really done.
And the Rich are winning.
sometimes the best way to reform an outmoded structure is to disband it and start anew, i am no fan of beck et. al, but it seems to me that a key characteristic of any social service agency is trust, and if hector vaca can help rebuild that trust with the american public in a new agency built from the ground up, then perhaps their clients will be better off and so will the agency which will not be tainted by scandal
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