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What did we Expect would happen after 30 years of hate radio and Fox News?

If you’ve ever done any kind of personal growth work you know that one of the central tenets of a lot of such work is that, while you cannot necessarily control the world around you, you can control your response … Continue reading

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Propaganda in action: Fox News use of Kneeling Eagles

Here at the Skeptic’s blog we have long promised to expose examples of propaganda where we find it, and nothing could be much more delicious than catching Fox News redhanded. As some of you may recall, Donald Trump disinvited the … Continue reading

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I’m feeling a little bit of Schadenfreude, not that it will last (or matter)

Do you know what the word ‘Schadenfreude‘ means my friends? That’s what I’m feeling this morning with the news that Fox News is cutting ties with Bill O’Reilly. It wasn’t the fact that he was a first class prick or … Continue reading

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Our Hypocrisy is not like theirs, part 4

Here is just a small hypocrisy that I found on Facebook, but so typical of the overheated right: Bill O’Reilly asking the question of how dare Obama not attend Nancy Reagan’s funeral. So, it turns out that Presidents historically don’t … Continue reading

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Why Fox News really does matter.

I read two articles the other day that seem to be unrelated on the surface, but I see a profound relationship between the two: The first was a blog post by someone named Haiku Kitty on how Fox News has … Continue reading

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What 20 years of Fox News and right wing talk radio have brought us.

A lot of you know that last Thursday Donald Trump failed to correct a man at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire who began his question by claiming that President Obama was a Muslim, wasn’t even American, and that … Continue reading

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We’re Cooked as a Nation

Politico ran a piece yesterday that a Quinnipiac University poll had concluded that Fox News was “the most trusted news in the United States.”   If that’s true, then there really is no hope for us as a nation. Fox … Continue reading

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More Blonds than at a Beauty Pageant

As some of you might remember, Fox News’ target demographic is middle-aged angry white men who think that somehow they’ve been gypped by the system. So who to capture their attention better than a bevy of beautiful blonds. Just don’t … Continue reading

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