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Showing posts with label fox bullshit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox bullshit. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Thursday, December 15, 2011
FOX News Math, cont...
Dec 15th, 2011
Did you know that 8.8 is less than 8.6? Or that 9.0 is equal to 8.6? Neither did I. Take a look at the Fox News chart below spinning the most recent unemployment report.
via Media Matters
Did you know that 8.8 is less than 8.6? Or that 9.0 is equal to 8.6? Neither did I. Take a look at the Fox News chart below spinning the most recent unemployment report.
via Media Matters
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Frum On The Fox/Cain Spin Job
Nov 9th, 2011
David Frum may have been substantially more polite than we were in analyzing Fox News' astounding campaign against the Cain accuser(s), but, he is no less indignant:
"It’s telling that the central communications network of the conservative world remains–for all its professed concerns about the war against Christmas–much more “Mad Men” than 700 Club in its attitude to women. On Fox, women exist as talking pinups, their opinions valued to the extent that their legs are shapely and their hair is blonde. Increasingly it looks like Herman Cain may well share those attitudes much more than the faith-and-family culture of the Christian conservative who plumped his poll numbers over the past weeks."
Hear hear. What Fox, along with Limbaugh, have set in motion is nothing short of program-directed misogyny. And for what? To promote and defend, without all the facts, an uniformed fringe candidate about whom a case can be made that he is punking the electorate.
David Frum may have been substantially more polite than we were in analyzing Fox News' astounding campaign against the Cain accuser(s), but, he is no less indignant:
Hear hear. What Fox, along with Limbaugh, have set in motion is nothing short of program-directed misogyny. And for what? To promote and defend, without all the facts, an uniformed fringe candidate about whom a case can be made that he is punking the electorate.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Luridly Loathsome Laffer
Nov 6th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker
As much as rational economists from both right and left continue to hope that Art Laffer will, at long last, simply shut up, Mr. Laffer shows no signs of doing so. Nor, it would seem, does he have any interest in lessening the actual damage to our country that he has done over the course of two generations. In fact, Mr. Laffer continues to double down on promoting the very policies which have brought us to our knees.
Yesterday afternoon, Neil Cavuto hosted Mr. Laffer over at Fox Business.
Something so very wrong was said that it cannot go unchallenged; It was not any part of the predictable litany of anti-Obamaisms. Nor was it Mr. Laffer's pandering declaration that the stimulus is "the reason we have... high unemployment." What was truly shocking was Cavuto's description of Mr. Laffer as "about as fair and balanced an economist as you're going to get."
This is rather like describing Idi Amin as having been a well rounded humanitarian.
by F. Grey Parker
Yesterday afternoon, Neil Cavuto hosted Mr. Laffer over at Fox Business.
Something so very wrong was said that it cannot go unchallenged; It was not any part of the predictable litany of anti-Obamaisms. Nor was it Mr. Laffer's pandering declaration that the stimulus is "the reason we have... high unemployment." What was truly shocking was Cavuto's description of Mr. Laffer as "about as fair and balanced an economist as you're going to get."
This is rather like describing Idi Amin as having been a well rounded humanitarian.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
There Was No $16 Muffin. Period.
Sept 30th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker
Kevin Drum is pissed and he has every reason to be. Having thoroughly and unequivocally debunked the Fox News meme about "muffin-gate," he noticed that Bill O'Reilly doubled down on it during his recent appearance on the Daily Show. It was an epic fail moment on Jon Stewart's part.
Drum writes:
"On the Daily Show last night, Bill O'Reilly was griping about the great $16 muffin affair and Jon Stewart had no idea what he was talking about. So the whole thing passed without any pushback, and now millions more people think Uncle Sam is paying $16 for hotel muffins.
Once again, then: it's a myth. There were no $16 muffins. It's just an artifact of the way hotels aggregate costs for events and bill them all to a few line items instead of breaking down every charge separately. In fact, for the event in question, DOJ came in exactly on budget. All the details are here.
Now, can we please hear no more about this?"
by F. Grey Parker
Kevin Drum is pissed and he has every reason to be. Having thoroughly and unequivocally debunked the Fox News meme about "muffin-gate," he noticed that Bill O'Reilly doubled down on it during his recent appearance on the Daily Show. It was an epic fail moment on Jon Stewart's part.
Drum writes:
"On the Daily Show last night, Bill O'Reilly was griping about the great $16 muffin affair and Jon Stewart had no idea what he was talking about. So the whole thing passed without any pushback, and now millions more people think Uncle Sam is paying $16 for hotel muffins.
Once again, then: it's a myth. There were no $16 muffins. It's just an artifact of the way hotels aggregate costs for events and bill them all to a few line items instead of breaking down every charge separately. In fact, for the event in question, DOJ came in exactly on budget. All the details are here.
Now, can we please hear no more about this?"
Not only is the story a staggering falsehood, the price tag was actually a bargain. I have a great deal of direct experience organizing and billing formal events from my years in restaurant management. A catered affair that comes in at $16 per person in Washington D.C. is a miracle of responsible spending.
Period.
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