I have always held CBS’s Sixty Minutes in high esteem, that is until a few days ago when I learned that their eye-witness informant’s claim that he was there the night of the Benghazi attack, heroically scaling the 12 foot wall and encountering al Qaeda, was false. He claimed…
By OcJim Fox News was so cocksure that the Supreme Court was going to gut what they call “Obamacare” that they didn’t bother to read beyond the first page of the ruling on Thursday morning. Several reporters boldly declared – and repeated -- in an enunciated, emphatic tone: “The…
By Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence The US military message machine never sleeps, is everywhere, and spends $billions on being dominant in the category of conflict turn-to sources for members of the American mainstream media. Editors want experts and they want experts who have been on the ground…
By OcJim Have you ever seen such an egregiously ill-equipped crew of Republican candidates running for president? By category, they vary from the unseemly uninformed to obdurate liars to boorish scam artists. Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain flash in your mind regarding uninformed. Bachmann also comes to…
By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…