Josh Silver covers the FCC’S declaration of TMZ and 700 Club as “Bona fide Newscasts” via The Huffington Post

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Looks like the Right-Wing FUD Factory Freedoms Watch is not doing too well these days…

(Read article on TPMMuckraker)

When Ari Fleischer (Dissembler Extraordinaire) was trotted out as the face of Freedoms Watch, they had the UFC swagger of Tito Ortiz. Now, they look a little bit more like Horseshack on Celebrity Boxing getting smacked around by Screech.

Indeed, the market for right-wing propaganda appears to be drying up. However, as is pointed out in the article above, no one ever went broke betting on the right’s ethical bankruptcy and capacity to swift-boat a political threat. As we get closer to the run up to November, we’ll see just how impotent they have become, or not…

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If you want to discuss the hidden costs of the Iraq war, you better have your cup on, because you WILL get kicked in the nuts.

Think Progress » White House Smears Nobel Economist: ‘Lacks Courage’ For Ignoring ‘Cost Of Failure’ In Iraq

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So this douchey kinda guy on Tucker Carlson’s show (he still has one?) postulates on the air about how he thinks Chelsea Clinton is being “pimped out” for the campaign and all HELL breaks loose…

He’s suspended from all NBC broadcasts except for apologies, which he’s making everywhere over and over again…

Take away lesson: this is what happens when middle-aged white guys adopt young urban slang, yo.

Word.

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ThinkProgress has the story about the right-wing radio oligarchy beginning to self-flagellate in a their post:

Conservative Talker Michael Medved: Hate Radio Is The ‘Big Loser’

Last June, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) noted “hate radio” had hijacked the political discourse on immigration with “xenophobic, anti-immigrant” rhetoric. That same month, then-Sen. Trent Lott said, “Talk radio is ruining America.” An advisor to Mike Huckabee piled on late last year, stating “Rush [Limbaugh] doesn’t think for himself. That’s not necessarily a slap because he’s not paid to be a thinker–he’s an entertainer.”

While right-wing talkers like Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Melanie Morgan continue to spew inflammatory rhetoric to incite their base, there are increasing signs that their influence in the conservative movement is temporarily evaporating. Conservative radio host Michael Medved — who got his start guest-hosting Limbaugh’s show — wrote this recently:

The big loser in South Carolina was, in fact, talk radio: a medium that has unmistakably collapsed in terms of impact, influence and credibility because of its hysterical and one-dimensional involvement in the GOP nomination fight.

Right wing talk radio has become the last bastion for the eternally self-deluded in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Modern Bush Republican ideology has been a colossal disaster. In the familiar world of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s radio-reality, down is still up and that is just the salve for the sucking chest wound that is Iraq and the US Economy.

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Juan Cole has a great post on the Iran Speedboat video controversy that erupted after the US charged that Iranians were intimidating naval vessels and threatening to blow them up…

That sounds pretty bad… Then, we saw and HEARD the video…

In a accent somewhere between Steve Martin’s “Wild & Crazy Guys” SNL character and that cuban guy who rolls cigars on Miami Beach, the ominous voice is heard saying: “I am coming to YOU…” and “You will explode after a few minutes…”.

Now, forget for a second that the accent is so horribly, laughably bad. To anyone with any sense of auditory acuity, the level and sound of the audio is distinctly different as well. It sticks out like a YouTube parody voiceover. But this is coming from the US GOVERNMENT? Sheesh.

Here’s Juan Cole’s piece: Informed Comment: US Video of Iran Speedboats Doctored; Iranians Charge Fabrication

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Open letter to the Katrina victim suing for $3,014,170,389,176,410…

Congratulations on your incredibly boneheaded attempt to bring attention to this matter.

Perhaps you thought you were sending a message. It sends a message alright. Only, the message is that those suing in the aftermath of Katrina are silly and frivolous.

It sends the message that those you seek to bring to account and cast a negative light upon are actually the SANE ones, full of compassion. “It’s important to the person who filed it, so we’re taking every single claim seriously,” said Corps spokeswoman Amanda Jones.

Nice PR job there.

Maybe you figured a stack of pennies that reaches to Saturn would be a commensurate punitive action in light of the shameful disgrace that was the government’s response to the hurricane.

Mabe you thought that by doing this, it would force the Army Corp of Engineers to be held accountable for the flood that killed so many and ruined so many lives.

What you have done, however, is provide convenient cover and a nice story for those most responsible.

Way to go, dumbass.

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Look who sent a Christmas card! Haven’t seen these two in YEARS…

“Merreh Christmas… Love, Bill & Hill”

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Uh oh. Break out the falafels… Looks like by O’Reilly’s standards, the president has just declared War on Christmas!

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Utterly off-topic. However, we are in full solidarity with both the writers’ cause and any scenario in which Christina Applegate is your imaginary wife…

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