This week NPR’s David Folkenflik is joining us to discuss the inner workings of the Murdoch media empire, the scandals that racked the company in the UK, the King Lear-like drama with his family, the perfection of bamboozlement as business model ™ in the US with Roger Ailes’ dukedom at Fox News. He’s got a fascinating piece up today about how Murdoch and Ailes built the Obama-era scream machine at Fox News. At noon on Friday, Folkenflik will be joining us at The Hive (sub req) to answer your questions about the inner-workings of Fox News, Ailes and all things Murdoch. Get your questions in now and then join us at noon on Friday.
According to a new police report, Mayor Ford apparently tried to buy the crack tape from the Somali drug dealers. But he only offered $5k!
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns that lying is part of Middle Eastern culture. So Iranians can’t be trusted. Watch.
Elizabeth Warren says she will serve out her term, i.e. will not run for President in 2016.
Fascinating. NPR’s David Folkenflik on how Fox News and Roger Ailes built the Obama era scream machine.
You’re hearing it, the deafening “but, but, but!!” heard across Capitol Hill. With the HealthCare.gov fix apparently a success, now struggling to pivot to why the website never really mattered and Obamacare totally sucks anyway.
With HealthCare.gov signing up more people in its first two days post-fix than it did in all of October, are we heading back to death panels?
Angry Floridians protest plan to build a Union monument at the largest Civil War battle site in Florida. “Passions ran high, at one point erupting in a spontaneous chorus of ‘Dixie’ led by a black man, H.K. Edgerton, who called Union soldiers rapists and wielded his large Confederate flag like a conductor’s baton as the audience sang.”
Dick Cheney rebukes gay daughter Mary for publicly criticizing straight daughter Liz Cheney for opposition gay marriage.