August 7th, 2011 at 1:58PM

Competitive facial hair growing? I did not know about such things.

Now airing as an IFC reality series called “Whisker Wars.”

Photos via Sports Illustrated.

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April 29th, 2011 at 6:30PM
If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth politics.

If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth politics.

(via govtoversight)

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December 17th, 2008 at 7:37PM
As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to “demonizing” the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: “That’s my job. … I led the ‘Stop Hillary Express.’ By the way, now it’s the ‘Stop Obama Express.’ ” Hannity’s “Stop Obama Express” promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama. Along the way, he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical. When he was not going after Obama, Hannity attacked members of Obama’s family, as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and other progressives, and denied all the while that he had unfairly attacked anyone. — Sean Hannity: Media Matters’ 2008 Misinformer of the Year — MediaMatters.org
#hannity#mediamatters#media#bias
December 17th, 2008 at 7:31PM

…The vice president essentially confessed to war crimes the other day, and a guy hurled two shoes at the president’s smirky dome on Sunday, thus underscoring the staggering failures of the administration’s foreign policy, and yet cable news is still talking about Blagojevich’s hair brush and his stupid Lycra jogging tights.

Put another way, a physical assault on President Bush failed to knock the taint meme out of the cable news roundelay of hackery…

…Yesterday, Newt Gingrich of all people called the phony-baloney linkage between the president-elect and Rod Blagojevich a “destructive distraction.” Newt Gingrich said this. When the establishment media has plunged to depths of intellectual dishonesty that even Newt Gingrich fears to dive when attacking a liberal Democrat, then you know the cable news crazy train has careened way, way off the rails.

 — Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama — Bob Cesca, Huffington Post
#obama#media#blagojevich#bias
November 9th, 2008 at 9:41PM
Unlike the actual news, what we say is based in fact. — JR Havlan, writer, The Daily Show with John Stewart.
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October 18th, 2008 at 5:40PM
You want to keep the illusion of drama in play as long as you can. It doesn’t help your business to concede the game’s over. — MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson on how and if the media will portray the US presidential race as tighter than it really might be.
#elections#media#politics
October 18th, 2008 at 3:21PM
If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that? — Presidential candidate Barack Obama on American media culture.
#elections#obama#media
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:27PM
Whatever The New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day impugns the McCain campaign, attacks Sen. McCain, attacks Gov. [Sarah] Palin. — Steve Schmidt, a McCain campaign senior adviser, during a conference call with reporters.
#elections#mccain#obama#politics#media