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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Van Jones And Jeffrey Lord Nearly End Up In A Fist Fight Over Trump's KKK Connections


CNN needs to fire Jeffrey Lord if they want to keep the name "News" in their name. His performance with Van Jones tonight was shameful. Utterly shameless and also shameful. It was an insult to every Black person watching, and a mark on the head of any white person who would tolerate such lies.
First, Lord tried to deny Trump's racism and claim Trump had "disavowed" David Duke.

Then he goes to the so-called Republican Establishment to prove he and his pal Trump are no racists. Feigning shock and repulsion, Lord claimed, "Their view of civil rights is to tip the waiter five bucks at the local country club. This is atrocious." READ MORE

‘Lethal Injection Is Too Comfortable’: What Criminal Justice Could Look Like Under President Trump

CREDIT: AP Photo/John Minchillo
Based on his sweeping Super Tuesday victories, Donald Trump is one giant leap closer to becoming the GOP’s presidential nominee. But the candidate has yet to detail policy platforms for a wide range of topics, including criminal justice.READ MORE

Political humorist John Oliver shatters Trump myths—then ends show with a ZINGER


The HBO talk show host who brings us political comedy seems to get funnier every week. He’s also become quite informative. Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver starts off his February 28 show about someone he has chosen, so far, to ignore — Donald Trump, who is “like a back mole that may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that he's gotten frighteningly bigger and it’s is no longer wise to ignore him.” In dispelling many of the myths believed about Trump by his followers, John Oliver goes after the Republican frontrunner’s integrity hard, saying:
I’m not even sure he knows he’s lying. I think he just doesn’t know what the truth is.
In his comic way, Oliver begins to stomp out Trump myths.
  • Myth 1: He tells it like it is. Politifact rates 76% of what Trump says as “false” to some degree. Oliver reels off some Trump’s lies, including when the GOP candidate said he was invited on the show with Oliver—five times. Not true. READ MORE

Monday, December 31, 2012

The GOP's Lost Year In the Fox News Bubble

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
31 December 12

uffering an election hangover after having been told by Fox News that Mitt Romney's victory was a sure thing (a "landslide" predicted by Dick Morris), some Republicans have promised to break their addiction to the right-wing news channel in the coming year. Vowing to venture beyond the comforts of the Fox News bubble, strategists insist it's crucial that the party address its "choir-preaching problem."

Good luck.

This grand experiment of marrying a political movement around a cable TV channel was a grand failure in 2012. But there's little indication that enough Republicans will have the courage, or even the desire, to break free from Fox's firm grip on branding the party.

For Fox News chief Roger Ailes, the network's slash-and-burn formula worked wonders in terms of catering a hardcore, hard-right audience of several million viewers. (Fox News is poised to post $1 billion in profits this year.) But in terms of supporting a national campaign and hosting a nationwide conversation about the country's future, Fox's work this year was a marked failure.

And that failure helped sink any hopes the GOP had of winning the White House.

From the farcical, underwhelming GOP primary that Fox News sponsored, through the general election campaign, it seemed that at every juncture where Romney suffered a major misstep, Fox misinformation hovered nearby. Again and again, Romney damaged his presidential hopes when he embraced the Fox News rhetoric; when he ran as the Fox News Candidate  READ MORE