Just days after a poll found Fox News to be the least trustworthy among the cable channels, a new poll from NBC News — not teaming this time with Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall St. Journal — finds that around three-quarters of self-identified Fox viewers believe the four big lies being promulgated by the GOP about health-insurance [...]

Fox News is indisputably the most popular cable news channel. And yet in 13 years, Fox has never broken a story. That’s okay, because it is not in the news business. It is in the news-shaping business. Its programming is an admixture of right-wing propaganda and fear-porn for feeble-minded paranoiacs, served up by spokesmodels who [...]

See Boehner’s false statement at about 2:30
On Fox News Sunday, GOP House Leader John Boehner of Ohio made an assertion about the status of stimulus spending in Ohio that he had to have known was false:
BOEHNER: “In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago, there hasn‘t been a contract let, to my [...]

After the interview, Joan Walsh, who is the editor of Salon.com, filed an after-action report on her site:
I think the high or low point was when he shrieked at me, “You have blood on your hands!” At one point he also either told me to “Shut up” or “Be quiet,” I can’t remember. (If I’m [...]

In the wake of the right-wing terrorist attack at the Holocaust Museum in Washington yesterday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith raised concerns over the increasingly hate-filled emails he has been receiving from his network’s viewers. Within minutes, some of these same angry Fox viewers began posting comments about Smith at Free Republic, one of the [...]

A few weeks ago, the Alexa Foundation, a group that offers support to rape victims, made the bizarre decision to invite right-wing propagandist Bill O’Reilly to speak at a fundraiser. O’Reilly, who is married, was famously sued by a Fox producer for making unwelcome sexual advances, has also made a statement on the air in [...]

Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN) has ramped up her calls for a revolution against the government of the United States. Here’s what she said Friday in an interview with Sean Hannity:
REP. MICHELLE BACHMAN (R-MN): At this point the American people – it’s like Thomas Jefferson said, a revolution every now and then is a good thing. [...]

It’s that time again: Earth Hour! Don’t forget to turn out the lights wherever you are at 8:30 p.m. (your time zone) and keep them off for the next 60 minutes.
This year’s theme and artwork seem inspired by America’s last presidential election. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Here’s a more inspiring and explanatory video [...]

As Michael Scott, the boss at a paper company’s branch office in Scranton on NBC’s “The Office,” Steve Carrell, a “Daily Show” alum, plays an incompetent egomaniac with perfect pitch. In scripted dialogue, Michael Scott says things like this:
Michael Scott: The most sacred thing I do is care… Today I am in charge of picking [...]

Duck!
Does this woman just stay up at night, cooking up new and better ways to burn bridges and insult people? La Llorona (the crying woman) herself is at it again. Sarah Palin shared this delightful little swipe in a speech at the recent Anchorage Lincoln Day Dinner, as she once again revisited her losing campaign [...]