Listening to all the debate on whether Fox anchor Bill O’Reilly lied about his claims of being in a war zone in Argentina and the Falklands reminded me of how Al Franken (then a comedian now a US Senator from Minnesota) in 2003 wrote a book Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell them: A […]

Much was made of last week’s tussle between Jon Stewart and Mike Wallace’s son Chris on Fox News Sunday.  I know I’m late to this brouhaha. The website Politifact.com corrected Stewart when he said that Fox News viewers in surveys were consistently the least informed of cable news consumers.  Stewart responded with a laundry list […]

We live in times of disconnect.  With three wars raging that the US is still involved in, a widening gap between rich and poor, and many unsolved problems still raging.  So far I have avoided writing about the upcoming 2012 Presidential Election because there is nothing of substance to people’s lives discussed yet.  The media […]

Glenn Beck has given Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, many other comedians and pundits, and myself lots of great material with his paranoid rantings and ravings.  Stewart & Colbert mostly dismiss him as silly.  This funny clip from last night’s Daily show was cut in threes to maximize ad revenue, those commies.  I and the folks […]