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Sarah Palin’s Fox Debut

Jan 13, 2010
The self-described pit bull made her punditry premiere with a guest spot on Bill O'Reilly's show. O'Reilly wanted to know why liberals are so threatened by Palin (it's the hair) and whether she thinks Nancy Pelosi is actually crazy. Someone get that man a falafel.

‘Daily Show’: The Temple of Hume

Jan 7, 2010
Gosh, Brit Hume has been hit with some angry e-mails since he proclaimed on national television that Tiger Woods needs saving by one J.C. (whose name, Hume cleverly notes, causes "all hell" to break loose when uttered in such a setting), but Hume doesn't think his comment was tantamount to proselytizing, no sir.
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Myth of the Lone Shooter

Jun 3, 2009
It is believed that the shooter acted alone. But Michael Griffin also acted alone when he killed David Gunn in 1993. Paul Hill acted alone in 1994. John Salvi acted alone and so did Eric Rudolph and James Kopp. This suspect is hardly lonely in this murderous cast of lone actors.

Olbermann’s Tea-Hee Party

Apr 16, 2009
Yes, Keith Olbermann and other pundits (paging Anderson Cooper) had a field day with the right wing's adoption of "tea bagging" as the driving metaphor behind their Tax Day protests. But no, the double entendres didn't start "on the blogs," as Bill O'Reilly's "nice lady" guest Amanda Carpenter suggested on his show.

Penn: ‘End Is Near’ for Fox Pundits

Mar 20, 2008
Filming one of his last scenes as Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay politician, who was assassinated by City Hall colleague Dan White in 1978, Sean Penn got all Method on the crowd of extras assembled to reenact the scene of an important speech Milk made on Gay Freedom Day 30 years ago.

Fox Presses Its Attack on Obama

Jan 10, 2008
When Barack Obama first started running for the White House, Fox News tried to paint him with the terrorism brush. Rather than play games with the network, the Obama campaign simply blackballed Fox. Robert Greenwald's "Fox Attacks" brings us up to date after Bill O'Reilly's manhandling of an Obama staffer last weekend.