Posted 7:26 AM by Scoobie Davis

Zev Chafets up to his Old Tricks
Eric Boehlert of Media Matters on Chafets' whitewashing of James O'Keefe's underhanded tactics. No big surprise: Chafets previously wrote a puff piece on El Rushbo that allowed him to pen a hagiography of Limbaugh. Read my Amazon.com review of his godawful book on Limbaugh (click here and scroll down).

UPDATE: Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic has more.

Posted 9:39 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Jon Stewart on Fox News victims.

Posted 9:19 AM by Scoobie Davis

Rick Perry's Star is Rising (According to Intrade)
Succession advocate Rick Perry is becoming popular with Intrade bettors. Here's a chart from the last 120 days based on Intrade bettors wagering that Perry will be the 2012 GOP presidential nominee:

Posted 11:37 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Katrina vanden Heuvel, "The GOP’s state-by-state crusade to disenfranchise voters"

Posted 10:05 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Reads
Tom Tomorrow on the Phone Hacking Scandal and Media Matters on how the right is responding to the Norway terrorist--here, here, and here.

Posted 1:48 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Stephen Colbert on alleged voter fraud.

Posted 9:16 AM by Scoobie Davis

Exclusive: Sean Hannity Speaks about Rupert Murdoch's News International Phone Hacking Scandal
Until yesterday, Hannity has been silent about the scandal involing his boss and parent corporation. I happened to be listening to Hannity's radio show yesterday and a caller broached the subject. Hannity's response: "This is all a political witch hunt from my perspective."

Posted 10:05 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Jon Stewart on "piling on."

Posted 11:08 AM by Scoobie Davis

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This could be huge: "Former Fox News Executive: Americans' Phones Were Hacked."

Posted 10:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Murdoch has nothing to say to Fox News anchor. On that subject, now that Murdoch is in deep trouble, someone should throw him an anchor.

Posted 8:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Eric Boehlert on the Murdoch/News Corp scandal and the way the right-wing media has ignored.

Posted 10:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Sacrifices I Make for this Blog
I read Laura Ingraham's new book, Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots. Amazon.com review is here. If you have an Amazon account, give my review a thumbs up because the wing-nuts are savaging it.

Posted 9:30 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Carl Bernstein, "Murdoch’s Watergate?"

But now [Murdoch’s media] empire is shaking, and there’s no telling when it will stop. My conversations with British journalists and politicians—all of them insistent on speaking anonymously to protect themselves from retribution by the still-enormously powerful mogul—make evident that the shuttering of News of the World, and the official inquiries announced by the British government, are the beginning, not the end, of the seismic event.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

Posted 1:32 PM by Scoobie Davis

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Why does this not surprise me?

Posted 7:42 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Sun Myung Moon Blog
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Posted 8:53 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Michael Lind, "The Three Fundamentalisms of the American Right."

Posted 10:06 AM by Scoobie Davis

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Roger Ailes’ Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News

Posted 8:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Jack Chick Tract
"Mean Momma"