193% Fair and Balanced
Hilariously, Fox News has sent a memo to employees announcing a new policy of "zero tolerance for on-screen errors" after yet another screw-up. How will they fill their so-called newscast if they're restricted to just the facts, ma'am? Will they have to find Iraq again? Media Matters offers a look back at a year of old footage, misquotes, photoshopping, just plain lies, and their apologies for same.
With Us or Against Us
Beset by socialists and other low-lifes on all sides, Republicans are considering a Reagan-inspired purity test for potential candidates to help figure out if they are them or us. Among the criteria are support for lower taxes, market-based health care and energy reform, guns, babies and "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A goal of the resolution is "to demonstrate that we are open to diverse views," said Jim Bopp Jr. of the RNC and National Right to Life, "but you have to agree with us most of the time."
Gitmo Algerians Cleared
An Algiers court has cleared two men held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years. Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari, acquitted of being terrorists, said they were "brutally tortured" while in detention.
A Brief History of Socialist Plots to End the American Way of Life
Too High A Cost, At Every Conceivable Level
The news gets darker, the chorus grows louder. As four more Americans were killed in Afghanistan over the weekend, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee said sending more U.S. troops there makes no sense and would "wipe out every initiative to rebuild our own economy." Wisconsin Rep. David Obey called for a "war surtax," echoing an earlier call for rich people to pay for the insanity. A coalition of peace groups has declared today National Call-In Day to protest escalation: Call now.
"There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan," said David Obey.
Auntie Andrea And Little Luke
Young Luke is quite the analyst. You can see why he was vaulted to the top of the American news business over the heads of others who have far more training, brains and ability. It's in the blood.
Luke Russert: Harry Reid, no matter what happens, he is showing to the liberal base that he has done everything in his power to get a bill with a public option to the floor at least up for debate.
This satisfies the liberals, this satisfies the MoveOn.org crowd, and really, I think it will show him to be the standard bearer of the liberal cause, Andrea.
More Bad News: Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television
The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he is retiring from weekly television and will end his Friday night public affairs show "Bill Moyers Journal" on April 30, 2010. That date will also be the last for "Now on PBS," which has been canceled.
Announcing It With P.R. and Trumpets
Poor Goldman Sachs. Everybody, even their own shareholders, hates them for their gluttonous ways. They cancelled their holiday party and told employees not to hold private parties. Now a skeptical media is being so bold as to note that their much-touted charitable fund to small business is insultingly small potatoes: $100 million a year, or the worth of one good day of trading, or 3 percent of the obscene $16-plus billion they're paying themselves. God's work: It's a tough gig.
"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men." - Matthew 6:2
