August 12, 2013
Wringing Texas Dry: How Oil, Gas Fracking Steals Water From Citizens
Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty
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May 10, 2013
Benghazi: The Fox News Narrative That Just Won’t Stick
Fox News hosts and personalities have a long history of pumping up “news” stories they wish to see permeate the mainstream media. And regardless of the outcome, it’s a win-win situation for Fox News. If the narrative posited by Fox News is picked up and repeated by other news outlets — Win. If their narrative is ignored by other new outlets, they cry media bias — Win.
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April 20, 2013
Gun control reform: all but three ‘no’ senators received pro-gun cash
Analysis of campaign disclosures shows 42 of 45 dissenting senators logged donations from firearms lobbyists
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March 22, 2013
Rachel Maddow: Obama Receives Israeli Award, Fox News Runs ‘Enemy Of Israel’ Hannity Commercial
Last night Rachel Maddow pointed out that both CNN and MSNBC covered a ceremony where President Obama received the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor. What was Fox News doing at that time? — They were running a “Hannity” promotional commercial about Obama’s lack of support for Israel, and how it strengthens enemies of Israel. Oh, and this commercial told the captive Fox News audience to expect “expert insight.”
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February 6, 2013
New York Times, Washington Post, Kept CIA Drone Base A Secret
Today we found out that The New York Times, The Washington Post and apparently a number of other news organizations cooperated in keeping secret a CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia.
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January 20, 2013
My Laughable Solution To Fix The Senate Filibuster: The Mainstream Media
It appears Harry Reid, in longstanding Democratic (with a capital D) fashion, is losing his nerve when it comes to substantive filibuster reform. Since it seems we will not get the filibuster reform in the Senate that is required to make Republicans accountable, I suggest an alternate solution — the mainstream media.
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September 25, 2012
The One With Romney and the Airplane Windows
If you didn’t hear about this one, Ann Romney’s plane had to make an emergency landing over the weekend when the cabin began to fill with smoke. At a fundraising event in California, with his wife at his side, Mitt Romney said:
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September 10, 2012
Liberal Media Bias? Welcome to Reality. Or Would You Prefer ‘Truthiness’ Instead?
To say there is a sizable liberal bias in the media is to show how far the conservative movement has dragged this country to the right in the past 30 years. I’m talking politically, not socially. The country is on a progressive liberal march as always when it comes to social issues. The issues conservatives rail against today will be the issues they defend tomorrow. If there is truth to the charge of liberal bias in the media it is because, as Stephen Colbert quipped, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” In other words, it is liberals who have led the charge when it comes to advancing human progress on social issues, so it stands to reason the mainstream media would also have a similar slant if the media stands for the truth and what’s right. Alternatively you could go with Colbert’s “truthiness” and only accept “facts” you wish to be true (from the gut) instead of facts that are true.
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September 5, 2012
LEAN FORWARD: MSNBC Tops Cable News Ratings on First Night of DNC
NBC Universal put out a press release today that shows MSNBC had its first #1 night of prime time cable news coverage in its 16-year existence. MSNBC averaged 2.35 million viewers from 7pm to 2am. They hit their high for the night at 4.1 million viewers during the 10pm hour when First Lady Michelle Obama delivered her speech to the convention crowd.
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July 7, 2012
The Left Call: You May Have Noticed Something New
First, if you are a regular reader I want to thank you for your loyalty! It’s greatly appreciated.
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