Single women. That’s right, single women. According to Jesse Watters, the only way to combat such an insidious threat is for those ladies to get married, where, presumably, they will fall into line with the natural (or God-ordained) hierarchy. ‘We need these ladies to get married’ — Fox News’ Jesse
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Politics and its Discontents: I Rather Like This
And I have nothing to add to it. Recommend this Post
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Murdoch challenged
The most powerful man in the Anglosphere is, I submit, Rupert Murdoch, the world’s most influential media mogul. Yes, even more powerful than the president of the United States. Presidents come and go but News Corp, Murdoch’s media empire, goes on and on. Indeed, Murdoch can make and break presidents
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Your Saturday Consideration
With apologies to anyone (well, almost anyone) who suffers from a reading disability, I enjoyed this, and hope you do too: Fox News is right: Any idiot can read off a teleprompter pic.twitter.com/3S1EE2ky4x — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 21, 2020 Recommend this Post
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney’s bloviations about medical matters may have found a friendly audience south of the Medicine Line
Stuff UCPers Say! Epidemiologists and other scientific types may not like it very much when Alberta Premier Jason Kenney equates COVID-19 with influenza, but at least Fox News seems to be on side. Last Wednesday in the Legislature in a prepared speech arguing for the government’s understandable desire to get
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: From The Ministry Of Truth
Pay no attention to the left side of your screens. Goldstein has been very busy. This video on Fox News messaging around the coronavirus is really something. They are truly a propaganda outlet for Trump – nothing more – their messaging changed exactly when his did. pic.twitter.com/vSNJSpNqGY — Amy Siskind
Continue readingAlberta Politics: It’s almost as if the new coronavirus has evolved to exploit the vulnerabilities of the modern neoliberal state
“The risk to Albertans is still low,” the Government of Alberta’s official website soothingly assured us yesterday afternoon, the day the World Health Organization officially declared the effects of the coronavirus swiftly coursing ’round the globe to be a pandemic. This may reassure some of us. Others, not so much.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tis Devoutly To Be Wished
Now This News asks a question: What If Fox News Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama? Recommend this Post
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Oh, dear, what can the matter be? They promised to bring us a pretty ‘Blue-Ribbon,’ but all they deliver is cant!
Once upon a time, your blogger worked for a famous newspaper publisher who announced one day that since we journos hadn’t had a raise for a couple of years we could expect a small one in six months. There was a caveat, though. We would only get the raise if
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Keep your eyes on the story of Jason Kenney’s ‘War Room’ – it’s going to be a boondoggle!
The discovery last week Postmedia was trying to cash in on Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s promised $30-million anti-environmental “war room” at the same time it has its hand out to Ottawa for a federal bailout has rather surprisingly turned out to be a story with legs. The irony of a
Continue readingScripturient: Hegseth, hand washing and social media
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because “germs are not a real thing”. That’s the headline you read on dozens of media sites and shared throughout social media (this one from BBC News). Instant reactions (mine included)
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Even Fox Has Its Limits
I knew this accusation would be made, but even Fox wanted no part of it. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Normalization Begins
The other day, I wrote about a New Yorker article by David Remnick in which he warns of the insidious normalization of Donald Trump and his twisted values that will take place over time. It appears this is already happening, as the following makes clear. To her credit, Fox’s Megan
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Roger Ailes the Head of Fox News Is Forced To Resign
For twenty years as the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes helped shaped the current form of the Republican Party.And turn politics in that country into a sewer.But today it was his turn to be flushed into that same sewer.Read more »
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Where Ignorance And Racism Reign Supreme
Yep, that would be Fox News. Watch the following ‘deep’ sociological discussion between Bill O’Reilly and Donald Trump as the former discusses why black youth are unemployable. How many stereotypes can you spot? Start at about the 3:50 mark:Recommend t…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Groceries As Luxuries?
Apparently they are in Fox world.In an open letter to Yelp CEO last week, a 25-year-old woman who identified herself as Talia Jane explained that she had not “bought groceries since I started this job” at Yelp’s Eat24 food delivery network.After …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Are Americans Ever Embarrassed?
I know I would be if this kind of regular and much-watched commentary portrayed my nation as so egregiously stupid: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Fox Apologizes?
Surely the end is nigh. In case you have the interest and the stomach, this is what the apologies were all about: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is It Only Terrorism if White People are Attacked?
There was an act of domestic terrorism, an attack on the Colorado office of the NAACP, on January 6th. You probably never heard of it. That’s because the media didn’t cover it. A bomb, consisting of an explosive device attached to a can of gas, went unnoticed in America’s mainstream
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