The New York Times is almost quaint, in the era of Trump. It always speaks politely and uses referents like "Mr." Trump, and it comes up with euphemisms for his lies and racist speech -- probably because to tell...
Trump often attacks the news media with cries of "fake news" and the Boston Globe has decided that enough is enough. According to the AP, the newspaper has reached out to editorial boards nationwide to write and publish editorials on August...
If Alan Dershowitz had a shred of credibility left amongst intelligent people, after this rant of his published as an op/ed in right-wing Newsmax, espousing a conspiracy theory that New Yorker editor David Remnick is out to get him, it's...
I confess to being highly conflicted on two points in this incredibly important subject.
For one, I have absolutely no tolerance for the instinctive, self-satisfied liberal blogger need to snobbishly look down upon "the media" (never defined) as a corporate...
It's no secret to anybody that this country is as divided as it has been at any time in its history since the Civil War. In fact, you could say that we are in a Cold Civil War, or...
Thank God for Rachel Maddow. I've had the TV on all day for the last two days, but in her A-Block tonight, Rachel provided graphic evidence that it's far past time for the FCC to start seriously looking at...
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I’m not even going to say “I’m old enough to remember” because this didn’t happen all that fucking long ago! Many of you can remember when “Black Friday” meant that people lined up...
It's a given that Trump and his minions spew lies and slanders about their "enemies" (i.e. their political opponents) at a rate only rivaled by the amount of sludge spewed during the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Today, the slanders against Joe...
This is a perfect example of why I take almost anything I get from a pundit, talking head, or media expert with a cow lick size grain of salt. About 7 weeks ago, when Putin invaded the Ukraine, most...
If you're being paid or being told to cover for the president and rebut bad news, you have to do better than this.
This crisis has become something to push aside, because it is not all that real, because "some"...
