Bashing today’s Republicans, the group from which the party of Lincoln devolved, has never been difficult for intelligent and articulate people, but it’s always great to see it done with such zeal and panache, and especially when it comes from …
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Stolen Election?
Reader “Tom” sent me this and comments, “And the corpse stinks worse with each passing day. We’re not going to let up on this until ethics are fully in, (and the truth of a stolen election prevails).” Scottish empiricist David …
Tagged with: Fox News, Newsmax, QAnon believers, Scottish empiricist David Hume, Stolen Election, voter fraud
Science Isn’t Infallible, But It’s All We Have
Conservative news sources tell us that science isn’t always right, especially where the politics is concerned. Of course science can be wrong. It could be argued that it’s always wrong. Think of how little of what we “knew” about physics, …
Explaining the Abysmal Ratings of Fox News
At left is what you can expect when you tune to Fox “News.” Donald Trump incited a deadly armed insurrection in an effort to overturn the 2020 election, and you’re blaming the current President of the United States for exercising …
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Doing One’s Own “Research”
My cousin-in-law voted for Obama in ’08 and ’12. A few years later, after a short but steady diet of Fox News, she told my wife, “Obama is a terrorist,” and “Trump is making America great again.” My wife gently …
Is Politically Motivated Violence Inevitable?
It’s hard to know what will happen in the coming month or so. Trump will never admit that he lost the election, and tens of millions of Americans, egged on by Fox News and extremist social media, believe him. It …
Fox News Falls in Standings Among Right-Wing Extremists
As shown here, when formerly state-run television network Fox News began to report that Trump lost the 2020 election, they were demoted to the “corrupt news” side of the ledger.
Looks Like Fox News Will Have Massive Amounts of Blood on Its Hands
From The Atlantic: Fox News Hits a Dangerous New Low — The most-watched news network in America is choosing to mislead its viewers about the state of the election. Here are some of the things that happened yesterday evening on the …
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The Rise of Climate Denial
Reader Jay asks for my response here: I’m curious on your take on what seems like an increase in anti climate change events like the one you reference in your post (“Are Environmental Protectors “Alarmists?”). That video has probably a …
Tagged with: climate change deniers increasing, climate denial, fossil fuel industry continues to pump out disinformation campaigns, Fox News, Koch Industries, libertarian think tanks like the Heartland Institute, Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore, sewing seeds of doubt into our society about climate change, The Social Dilemma
Democrats Are Sooo Inflexible
Are Democrats categorically against any future president like Donald Trump? Isn’t that a bit closed-minded? Rigid? Doctrinaire? At least sometime down the road, shouldn’t the U.S. elect another pathologically lying, criminal, aspiring tyrant? Don’t we need an occasional four years …
