The Times, Obama and Ayers: 2,100 Words, and What Was the Point?
The New York Times splashed the Barack Obama-Bill Ayers "connection" story on the front page of Saturday's paper. Obama's practically non-existent ties to former Weather Underground figure William...
View ArticleHannity: Obama's Extreme 'Liberal Agenda' Is Now 'Center-Right'
In the lead-up to the November 4 election, Fox News host Sean Hannity warned (10/26/08) that an Obama victory would represent "a complete liberal takeover." He opined that a Democratic electoral...
View ArticleHannity Without Colmes
The announcement that Alan Colmes is leaving Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes show, where he serves as co-host to Sean Hannity, raises the pressing question: Will anyone notice? Fox News...
View ArticleWhy 'Hannity and Cohen' Wasn't
Commenter milo janus reacts to a Michael Calderone Politico.com piece (11/24/08) on Alan Colmes' arguably inconsequential departure from Fox News' long-running Hannity & Colmes: Word had it some...
View ArticleSean Hannity, Bad American
Sean Hannity is a great American. You can hear it every day on his national radio show, where the standard caller greeting to the host is, "Sean, you're a great American!" The catchphrase is so...
View ArticleFox Fortifying for 'Dirtiest Political Assaults Ever'
Keeping tabs on the "Fair and Balanced" network, Mark Howard (News Corpse, 3/2/09) details how last year, prior to the election, Fox News was already fortifying its right flank. New multimillion dollar...
View ArticleMedia Keep Faith in Dow Jones as Oracle
Prefacing a Daily Show segment (3/4/09) with his version of current big-media reporting: "Recent opinion polls indicate that six weeks into Barack Obama's administration, the American public thinks...
View ArticleHannity Hate Buddy Has 'Bullets to Put Them Down'
Reporting that "reactionary radio host and white supremacist Hal Turner was taken into custody Wednesday after remarks urging Catholics to 'take up arms' against two Connecticut lawmakers and a state...
View ArticleFormer Hannity Associate Upgrades His Hate
Former Sean Hannity show regular Hal Turner recently was arrested for blogging that "we have enough bullets to put… down" those not heeding his "warning to others in government: Obey the Constitution...
View ArticleFox's Phony Debates
When Fox News Channel was developing Sean Hannity's TV show, it was known as Hannity & Liberal To Be Determined. That liberal turned out to be Alan Colmes, who would eventually leave the gig after...
View ArticleSean Hannity and Scandalous Double Standards
Last night (6/6/11), Fox News host Sean Hannity was talking with WorldNetDaily's Joe Farah: FARAH: Charles Rangel is still in the House. Barney Frank is still in the House. Bill Clinton is getting...
View ArticleNew Audio of Hannity's Homophobic History
Sean Hannity got his start in radio on UC Santa Barbara's KCSB in the late 1980s, where he got in trouble for promoting homophobia and disinformation about HIV and AIDS. I wrote about this in a 2003...
View ArticleGeorge Washington on Guns…According to Sean Hannity
To make the case that gun ownership was not just a right, but something akin to a sacrament, Hannity quoted George Washington: "'Rifles and pistols are equally indispensable.' 'They deserve a place of...
View ArticleHow 'Unlikely' Is Mark Sanford's Comeback Really?
The journalists amazed by Mark Sanford's comeback make the mistake of assuming that since the GOP spends so much time preaching "family values" and "social conservatism," Republican pols who violate...
View Article'Knockout Game' Takes Center Stage
The ease at which violent criminal tendencies can be attached to youth--particularly black youth--is a dangerous habit of media.
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Fox Pundit: Civilians Die–Get Over It!
Ralph Peters talks to Sean Hannity: “This is war, dude!” A familiar critique of corporate media is that journalists too often avoid discussing one grim reality of US wars: the innocent civilians who...
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For Fox News, ‘Bad Guy’ Michael Brown Makes Obama a ‘Three-Time Loser’
It wouldn’t surprise anyone to find out that the Fox News Channel‘s coverage of Michael Brown killing was awful. But the night of the announcement of the grand jury decision (11/25/14), it was...
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The Only ‘No-Go Zones’ Are Found in Fox News’ Fantasyland
Life in the “no-go zone”: Roubaix, France (cc photo: Kathryn Burrington) Fox News pundit Steve Emerson drew international ridicule for claiming Birmingham, England, was a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims...
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