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Gore Vidal, one of our favorite outspoken pundits, comments on Obama's victory and the nature of the Republican party as well as what's going on with America... as only Gore Vidal and BBC can do.
There's an interesting activist clip circulating around the Internet from a Northern California woman who seems to have uncovered a vast government conspiracy. Check it out...
Last week on the Fox News network, their pundits beamed over the "opening of a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Fallujah", Iraq. Apparently, the opening of this slave-wage fast food operation is a signal that the invasion is successful, democracy is taking root, the economy is thriving and everything is working. 
The 21st century gonzo reporter, Matt Taibbi, takes us on revelatory and darkly comic adventure through a nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown—from the halls of Congress to the bases of Baghdad to the apocalyptic churches of the heartland.
Lately Bill O'Reilly has had a boner for the Democratic blogging site DailyKOS. He's obsessed to the point of having people harass the CEO of JetBlue at his home, for having the audacity to sponsor a gathering of this blog community. The DailyKOS people decided payback was a bitch...
One thing you might expect, when you watch a presidential debate, is to find out more about the candidates. But when moderator Wolf Blitzer gets the lion's share of the air time, you have to wonder--what kind of circus are you watching?
Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric.
Let's say you're a major American news organization. You bend over backwards to make yourself "the most trusted name in news" or something like that. And maybe, during a news show, you do a story on discrimination against a minority group. This is serious stuff--people being harassed, forced to leave town, their jobs threatened--all because they don't fit into the majority group.
