77% ?!

Only 42 percent of Republicans polled actually believe the President of the U.S. is a citizen of the U.S. Compare that to the 77 percent of Americans overall who think the president is actually an American.

I find the 77% of all Americans figure to be just as, if not more disturbing than, the 58% of Republicans over the issue of whether or not they believe the President is an American citizen. Republicans are known to adhere to unreasonable positions for partisan and/or racial loyalty, but they should total far less than 1/4 of Americans for my comfort zone.

It sort of goes to what Mike Molly was saying last night, that if Fox is the number one most trusted news source in the country, there's no point in trying to work with the American population on the basis of reason for progress. We just aren't capable of it. Forget it.

Bankrupt Trib Co. Awards Execs Big Bonuses

The judge handling the bankruptcy filing of the newsroom-job-slashing Tribune Company has approved a reorganization plan involving the removal of thousands of jobs and the downsizing of news sections, along with a total of $45,000,000 in executive bonuses.

Mutilating a Corpse

NPR added invective by a neo-con to Howard Zinn's obituary.

1. Horowitz's mortual attack on Zinn only underscores the frailty and self-perceived vulnerability of Horowitz's own phony, illusionist politics.

For a pundit of the diminutive stature of Horowitz to call Zinn "fringe" -- in spite of "millions of" readers -- is pathetic.

2. What's even more pathetic is that Non-Public Radio had to kiss their sponsors' "ring" and "balance" Zinn's merits with mendacious, corporatist propaganda just in order to be allowed to run a deservedly laudatory obituary of the visionary and progressive Zinn.

Obama's Big Wake Up Call

The liberal base was conned, ignored and bullied, as its vital issues were one by one discarded. Labor unions were stroked and intimidated by the White House, then double-crossed as Obama's reform extracted greater costs from union members than it demanded from the drug makers.

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Fox News' Homophobic Bathroom Jokes

Media Matters is really the only organization that routinely gets to Fox and their Cyclops pundits.

For some reason, FAIR and the Center for Media and Democracy, the Center for Public Integrity or even Free Press don't rankle Rupert like Brock and Burns. Maybe that's because Fox knows Media Matters sees through their charade--right through. Not only were they once radical right wingers themselves, but they know about the salacious and bloated appetites Fox pundits hide under their desks and in their closets.

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Ward Connerly: Harry Reid's Race Problem - WSJ.com

Here's anotherexample of corporate media giants using their privately-owned, once-reputable news outlets to spew business-friendly Republican propaganda.

In this case, Connerly conflates comments by Reid and Lott, even though one was advocating racial segregation and the other was proposing the timeliness of an Obama presidency.

The deafness of the reading population is only surpassed by the myopia of the editors at the Journal. One is compelled to give them the benefit of the doubt on humanitarian grounds, and assume that they actually believe their own fallacies.

It will be interesting to see what happens to their publication and readership as this march to delusion continues toward the brink of reality-divorced psychosis.

Media Criticism - Salon.com

Media Criticism - Salon.com

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