Fact: Everybody who has died from the coronavirus was going to die eventually anyway. Honestly, I expect Fox News to pick that up and run with it. The new conservative Trump cult fucknut talking point is that covid-19 is being given too much credit for killing people. Fox News and others are pointing out that... Continue Reading →
Romping With Hannity
Now that Fox News' Sean Hannity has abandoned his hunt for the "real" story in the murder of Seth Rich, he can apply his amazing journalistic instincts on another matter. Like defending Republicans who beat up journalists. Hannity spent a week pursuing a story into the death of Rich, a staffer for the Democratic National... Continue Reading →
Ailing
Roger Ailes, the man who crafted Fox News and reshaped the way cable news is presented, died Thursday at the age of 77. There's been a lot of comments about the genius of Ailes and how he tarnished his legacy with allegations of sexual harassment, which eventually ousted him from Fox. I disagree. His legacy... Continue Reading →
Farewell, Jon Stewart
Michael Cavna of the Washington Post writes a blog about cartoons and yesterday he wrote about Jon Stewart's influence on political cartoonists and he provides a lot of quotes from a few of my colleagues (some of us suffer from a lack of brevity, myself included at times). Most of them talk about how he... Continue Reading →