Guest Blog: Fox News & Glenn Beck part ways

This is a guest blog by none other than contributor Steve Carlson: Paul Ryan’s good buddy Glenn Beck has fallen on hard times. It looks as though Beck’s lunatic run on Fox News is coming to an end. Beck entertained Congressman Paul Ryan on his radio show last April and…

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Fox News misleads viewers yet again

Watch as Bill O’Reilly of Fox News shows footage of the “violent” Wisconsin protests: While O’Reilly really really wants viewers to believe those violent protests are in Madison, the palm trees kinda give it away, because the last time I checked there weren’t palm trees outside the state Capitol –…

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“Follow the money,” he said…

Remember when right-wing commenter “Steve T.” told me to “follow the money” http://bloggingblue.com/2010/08/13/president-obama-supports-mosque-near-911-site/comment-page-1/#comment-31022>not once, but twice in reference to who was funding the Islamic center near Ground Zero? I remember Steve’s challenges to me quite vividly, and while I didn’t “follow the money,” Jon Stewart did, and something tells me…

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Jail time for health insurance evaders? Faux News says, “YES!” despite the facts

A couple of weeks ago, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who’s about as conservative a lawmakers as there is, debunked the idea that anyone who doesn’t buy health insurance coverage under the new health care reform legislation will be subject to imprisonment. After an audience member at a town…

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