The meme here proves nothing to the Fox News audience base. If you believe there is a planetwide campaign to discredit Fox News, its executives and on-camera actors, it’s going to come as no surprise that they don’t win awards …
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Republicans Get What They Vote For, and They Ask for Nothing More
What Trump actually did vis-a-vis train safety regulations is actually not as black and white as the meme here represents, but it’s close. We all know that, in the United States, the greatest levels of poverty and the poorest levels …
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Texas Republican’s Bill Will Remove Polling Places from Colleges
A few days ago, when District 73 Texas House Representative (R) Carrie Isaac introduced a bill to ban polling places from college and university campuses, very few people took notice. That’s because voter suppression in Texas is as common as …
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Ultra-Right-Wing Needs Your Generous Support, But Be Watchful
If you want to “fight back” against the “radical left,” Stephen Miller would appreciate your generous donation. Steve Bannon had a similar organization that also focused on bilking hateful morons; its ostensible purpose was completing the wall of on the …
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The Slow Implosion of Donald Trump
At left is the front page of the New York Post, one of Rupert Murdoch’s (formerly) Trump-friendly publications. Now, of course, Trump’s reaction was predictable: The Post has joined the rest of the fake news outlets, including the Wall Street …
Note on the First Amendment
The reason we don’t tax religious institutions is not that they don’t make money, but because the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that we don’t want “excessive entanglement” between the church and state.
Fox News Will Apologize
Eventually, Fox News will offer some sort of mealy-mouthed apology for having knowingly lied to its millions of viewers about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. (It certainly won’t resemble the one at left.) When Newsmax realized that they …
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More on Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News
In a recently post, Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News, I noted that the criterion that the plaintiff in this defamation suit must prove is “malice,” i.e., that Fox’s continual assertion, one that it knew to be a lie, is …
Tagged with: Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News, Fox's continual assertion that Dominion rigged its voting machines in the 2020 presidential election to covertly "flip" votes that had legitimately been placed for Trump and record them for Biden, the MAGA crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 2021 and death and injury ensued
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News
From “Fox News Is in a World of Hurt“: When it comes to the burden in this case, it falls on Dominion to prove that Fox acted with actual malice when it claimed that Dominion’s voting machines were designed to …
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Cognitive Bias
A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make. Because we’re not computers, we’re all victims of …
