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Sometimes you have to point fingers.

Watching national Republicans and fans of FOXNews distance themselves from Jared Lee Loughner and his shoot ‘em up take on their brand of politics is absolutely one of the most amusing escapades this nation has seen in a very long time. It’s like the Keystone Kops fighting an invasion of zombies. [...]

News That Matters – Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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The “other side”? There’s another side? There is, only if we continue with the fallacy that two-years of hate speech is not to blame. But if we can agree that it *is* then we’re obligated to name the names of those who are on the airwaves who speak of violence and encourage hate and intolerance and I can tell you, it’s not coming from “Car Talk”. [...]

News That Matters – Monday, January 10,2011

Due to the weather report I encourage everyone to rush to the stores in a panic – right this very minute – and buy up everything on the shelves whether you need it or not. It’s well known that if it snows there will be no food deliveries for weeks afterward and thousands of people will starve. I mean, that must be the case since every time it’s going to snow people rush to the stores in a panic and buy up everything on the shelves. What’s with that? [...]

News That Matters – May 12, 2010

Do we ask doctors and auto mechanics and cops and educators and store clerks to pay a “fee” to work in the county? Does the county require gas station attendants to carry personal business insurance? Does the county require your vet to use e-Verify? No, so why just blue-collar workers who are mostly self-employed and struggling through this economic recession? What is it about the people who form the backbone of our economy the County Legislature doesn’t like? [...]

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Bill O’Reilly’s (Totally Bogus) Healthcare Stunner!

Bill O’Reilly’s (Totally Bogus) Healthcare Stunner!

03/17/2010 by Peter Hart

Last night on the O’Reilly Factor (3/16/10):

What I’m about to tell you is simply stunning.

A new survey published by the New England Journal of Medicine, a prestigious magazine, says that nearly half of primary care doctors in America could leave the medical profession if Obamacare is passed.

According to the Journal, 63 percent of physicians feel that healthcare reform is needed but should be done in a more gradual way. And an astounding 72 percent of doctors believe a public option, that is a government-run health insurance company, would have a negative impact on medical care in the USA.

Doctors hate the White House health plan–now that IS a story. And it’s published in a reputable scientific journal!

Or not.

Anyone trying to find the research will likely see it first at a right-wing blog like Hot Air– which linked to a New England Journal of Medicine “Career Center” website article that was actually the employment newsletter Recruiting Physicians Today. That this was not the journal itself would have been obvious to anyone reading the site. The survey was done by the Medicus Firm, a “nationally retained [...]

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Fox Reporters Worried About Their ‘Credibility’

Fox Reporters Worried About Their ‘Credibility’

03/15/2010 by Peter Hart

The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz turns in a profile of Glenn Beck today (3/15/10) that includes a few interesting anecdotes. He reports that “Fox staffers note that veteran producer Gresham Striegel left the network after clashing with Beck and say the host has surrounded himself with loyalists” from his own radio company, and that “a vice president was assigned ‘to help keep an eye on that program’ and review its content in advance–a full-time job.”

Kurtz also notes that some Fox reporters aren’t crazy about what his new fame is doing to them:

Beck has become a constant topic of conversation among Fox journalists, some of whom say they believe he uses distorted or inflammatory rhetoric that undermines their credibility.

Yes, Beck is somehow undermining Fox‘s credibility in a way that that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Geraldo Rivera and Brit Hume hadn’t managed to do yet. Fox has always been conservative– it was founded on an explicitly political agenda, after all–albeit [...]

News That Matters – February 24, 2010

Rental unit occupancy rates are down as are rents as fewer are able to afford the high cost of local residency. Brewster has so many apartments for rent they don’t know what to do and the homeless population is rising across the nation as people are forced out of their homes and apartments for their inability to cover their monthly payments. The national suicide rate has also steadily increased as people find themselves buried under a growing mountain of debt – not from credit cards mind you, but from the day-to-day bills that can no longer being met and who see no light at the end of the tunnel. [...]