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Breaking: Six More Weeks of Winter

Religious leader/groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning which, depending on your belief system, either predicted or caused another six weeks of winter. Fox News leads with the news, then a few grafs down says "The Groundhog Day forecast for the Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, area sug ... More >>

House Votes 90 Percent Tax on AIG, Other Bonuses

The House just passed a bill to "levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money," says AP. (Reason's David Weigel calls it the "Fuck you, AIG" bill.) We'll see whether this hastily- ... More >>

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Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

2,000 Tea Party Denounces Obama Spending, Cheers USA, Fox News

On February 28, a Tea Party demonstration in New York's City Hall Park drew about 250 protesters who decried President Obama as a socialist, a communist, and the second coming of Hitler. This evening's Tea Party on the edge of the same park was much, much bigger -- stretching on the west sidewalk ... More >>

OMG Almost Time for The Michael Jackson Viewing/Concert!

The live streams are up and running! Here's the Jackson Deathmobile, seen at the Fox News Stream loading in his casket! The Celebrity MySpace stream more somberly features a black screen with the words: "ATTENTION ALL MEDIA OUTLETS: The services are expected to begin in 10 minutes." Whoops, break ... More >>

What the Hell Is the "Hello Cow" Song?

In the seedy underbelly of the internet that is Google's Hot Trends--"Vanessa Hudgens pictures leaked" (leaked?), "steven tyler dead," "lady gaga hermaphrodite picture," etc.--now comes "Hello Cow," a song that's been tearing up Google's charts all day, despite no real identifiable information abo ... More >>

Fox News Gets Wind of Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger, Smells Sign of Apocalypse

The infamous Krispy Kreme cheeseburger has been making the rounds for a few years and has recently experienced a resurgence of prurient interest. Now, Fox News has decided its existence is on par with that of Islamofascists and H1N1. Looking at footage of the 1,500-calorie zeppelins, an expression ... More >>

White House Attack on Fox: Everybody W(h)in(e)s?

​A cynical person might ask how much Rupert Murdoch is paying the White House. This weekend Communications Director Anita Dunn told CNN "Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," that the network is "undertaking a war against ... More >>

Carrie Prejean is Countersued

​Remember when dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean sued the pageant organization for all kinds of not-very-pretty slander and discrimination issues? Well, nyah, nyah, nyah, they're suing her back! They say the tiara-challenged beauty's suit was merely a cheesy attempt to "extend her noto ... More >>

Sarah Palin Falls to "Journalist," Last Rung Before "Blogger"

​That Game Change book that revealed Harry Reid's damaging "Negro" comment also revealed damaging things about Sarah Palin -- for instance, that the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate "couldn't explain why North and South Korea were separate nations" -- but no one paid any attentio ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch: Won't Die Until WSJ Quenches Thirst for Sulzberger Milkshake with $100K Coffee

​ Good Media Magnate Monday Morning! screams New York's website with media reporter Gabriel Sherman's deliriously fun cover story of an old, cranky, combative, elbows-out Rupert Murdoch who basically wants to destroy the New York Times with his most recent purchase, the Wall Street Journal, be ... More >>

Fox News Poll Blames Barack Obama for Blaming George W. Bush

​Fox News took a poll, and according to the results, 66 percent of Americans think that President Obama should start taking responsibility and stop blaming the Bush administration for things. That's more than three times as many as the 21 percent who think it's right to continue to blame the ... More >>

MediaFail: Like Digg, But for Compulsive Media Critics

​Brian Stelter at Media Decoder recently took a look at a new site called MediaFail, which is kind of like FAILBLOG (part of the seemingly amorphous I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER intellectual think-tank empire, that involves the word "FAIL" being posted over pictures of humanity "failing" in various, ... More >>

This Is How Fox News Reports on Ground Zero: By Faking It

Via barthel.tumblr.com.​As you can imagine, there are plenty of TV cameras and reporters in the vicinity of Ground Zero right now, reporting on the story that Al Qaeda is now allowed to open a Church of Satan/NYC-themed shake-a-snow shop on top of the exact spot the Muslims started a war with ... More >>

Fair and Unbalanced Coincidence In The Dr. Strangelove Cast

​ Stanley Kubrick's 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove is the ultimate film about doomsday, paranoia, political idiocy, and the A-bomb. Well, someone at Fox News is going to get really paranoid when they take a look at the acting credits my pal Amy Lumet has dug up.

Fox News vs. Hipsters: A First-Rate Lesson in Hate Speech

​Fox News decided to publish an editorial on "hipsters" or what they think they know "hipsters" are, entitled, "The Trouble With Hipsters," written by a Hopefully you've landed here and will not read the actual article. That said, given that Fox News's broad outlook still sees President Obama ... More >>

Making Fun of Hipsters Now More Unfunny Than Ever (Video)

​Even using the word "hipster" is a slight in and of itself, in some regard: it shows the need to pigeonhole a group of people who may have very little in common under one generally misanthropic label. That obviously hasn't stopped anyone -- certainly not us -- from using it, but the "making f ... More >>

Racist Fox News Ignoramus Brian Kilmeade Clarifies Extent to Which He Is an Ignoramus (Video)

​When moments like the time that Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade called all terrorists Muslims -- which is both racist and also factually incorrect by a long shot -- actually do happen on Fox News, the surprising thing isn't that they happened. It's that sometimes, apologies can follow.

Rachel Maddow on Keith Olbermann Suspension: At Least MSNBC Isn't Fox News

Rachel Maddow dedicated her final segment on Friday night's show to the Keith Olbermann flap, in which the Countdown host was suspended for making political donations, and said she understands the punishment Olbermann received. "I understand what it means to break this rule," Maddow said. "I believ ... More >>

Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For New York Professor

Prof. Piven​Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who Fox News host Glenn Beck has declared "an enemy of the Constitution." Logically, to a certain type of Beck-worshipping nut, that means she ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

Rabbis vs. Glenn Beck in Wall Street Journal Ad

​Nevermind the fact that Glenn Beck is bullying a 78-year-old professor, inciting death threats against her. That offense doesn't even make the newspaper today as Business Insider points us to a full-page Wall Street Journal ad demanding Fox News and Roger Ailes "sanction" Beck. It comes via t ... More >>

Obama's Super Bowl Party Sounds Like a Nightmare

​It sounds like President Barack Obama is going to have the worst Superbowl ever. His beloved Bears didn't make the cut for the big game so he said he's "remaining neutral." Watching a game and not rooting for either team? Who do you cheer for then, the Black Eyed Peas? His horrible situation ... More >>

Sexy Lady Reporters Get No Trust From Men, Which Could Be What Fox News Banks On

​The more sexy a man finds a reporter or newscaster, the less likely he is to call her qualified for serious reporting, according to a study from the Indiana University's Communication Research, as relayed by Salon. The set-up had a 24-year-old woman perform a report on war or politics twice, ... More >>

Glenn Beck Could Start His Own Channel; Media Matters Sick of Liberals Losing

​When we last hated ourselves enough to spend any time at all thinking about Fox News' best host that cries, Glenn Beck, his people and his bosses were both floating the idea that neither needed the other. Beck's (amazing) ratings have dipped and his shtick has worn a little thin, Fox News whi ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch's Kid Coming to NYC: James Murdoch Named News Corp. COO

​It's always been the plan for one or a few of Rupert Murdoch's children to eventually take control of his vast News Corp. empire, the third largest media conglomerate in the world, which includes newspapers everywhere, 20th Century Fox, HarperCollins, Fox News, and so on. Today, Murdoch's you ... More >>

Pulitzer Prize Winners Win Pulitzer Prizes, Money; Roger Ailes Spies on Employees

via​Did you win a Pulitzer Prize today? Us either. If you're from the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald or The Tennessean, you also did not win, even though you were in fact nominated in the category of Breaking News Reporting. That $10,000 prize -- "For a distinguished example ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead [BREAKING]

​CNN is confirming that Osama Bin Laden is dead. More to come when President Obama speaks at the White House in the next 5-10 minutes. UPDATE 10:56 P.M.: From Fox News' website. "Usama Bin Landen Dead Fox News Confrims." For real: ​ UPDATE 11:03 P.M.: CNN is reporting that the Pres ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Truck Hits the Road; Human Breast Milk Cheese Installation Polarizes New Yorkers

​At the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational in L.A., the Cheesy Nerdz won several trophies for their Whole Enchilada sandwich, while a husband-and-wife team took top honors for a grilled-cheese dessert made with Peeps. [Wall Street Journal] Donatella Arpaia missed the Royal Wedding because she w ... More >>

Mitch Daniels Out of 2012 Race; Herman Cain is the Next President of the United States

Despite the speculation of Fox News ("he has a proven record of managing the kinds of fiscal problems that beset our nation"), the Washington Post ("a Daniels candidacy probably would be taken as a sign that the games are over for the Republican Party, that it is time to buckle down and organize to ... More >>

Roger Ailes of Fox News Thinks Sarah Palin Is a 'Stupid...Idiot...Loose Cannon,' ...or 'Smart'

​The cover of New York magazine this week features another Fox News/Republican party exposé from reporter Gabriel Sherman (see also: "Chasing Fox," Sarah Palin), this time focusing on the network's boss Roger Ailes, who never fails to make an interesting (and infuriating) subject with his pro ... More >>

Why Women Fake Orgasms: Science Attempts to Explain

​Since Wednesday is, apparently, the best day for getting laid, we would like to inform you that women may be faking their orgasms. You might wonder, as people have for centuries, why would a woman do this? Rest assured, science has sought to find out why. Shockingly, new research from Temple ... More >>

Scary Ramifications of Murdoch Mess

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​ First of all, a guy who blew the whistle on the whole phone-hacking scandal was found dead yesterday. He was in his forties. They're not sure how he died, but the cops will look into it. The same corrupt cop force that's embroiled in this whole shady can of worms!

"Pippa Butt Lift" Is Hot New Surgery Craze; Post Employees Ordered to Preserve Documents

​People are now asking, en masse apparently, for surgery to make their butts look like Pippa Middleton's. A plastic surgeon in Miami told Fox News that "ever since the royal wedding, Pippa Middleton has become the new queen of the booty! She opens the doors to those who did not know you could have ... More >>

Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?

​"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>

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​"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>

Dr. Keith Ablow: Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues

​Media Matters says that in 2011, Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow "brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudoscientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows. "The 'Fox News Medical A-Team' member has been a prolific source of anti-LGBT misinformation, disguising his animosity toward gay, lesbian ... More >>