Download | Play    Download | Play Yesterday on his Fox News show, Glenn Beck tried to tell us the noble tale of intrepid citizens who are now taking on the mantle of real journalism. Of course, for those of us in the blogosphere, this is something of an old story. But for Beck, appar...

Download | Play    Download | Play Bill O'Reilly decided to take off after his liberal critics yesterday, devoting his Talking Points Memo to the "far left smear machine" -- ostensibly headed up by MoveOn.org and George Soros, underneath whom is David ("a guttersnipe") Brock's Media M...

Download | Play    Download | Play A consensus opinion floated to the surface -- like another Baby Ruth at the swimming pool -- of the right-wing pundit class: Republicans have no real leadership, and that's a good thing for Republicans. That was certainly the popular talking point on...

[H/t Sara for the video.] -- by Dave One of the more disturbing trends we've been observing is the return of far-right "Patriot" rhetoric about government oppression with the election of President Obama. Fueled in no small part by mainstream right-wing talkers proclaiming we're headed into "socialis...

One of the more disturbing trends we've been observing is the return of far-right "Patriot" rhetoric about government oppression with the election of President Obama. Fueled in no small part by mainstream right-wing talkers proclaiming we're headed into "socialism" -- not to mention a "radical commu...

Download | Play    Download | Play The date we can all look forward to: August 31, 2010. President Barack Obama on Friday declared that the United States would end its bloody and costly combat mission in Iraq by late summer of 2010 — but a dramatic force reduction was not expected u...

Download | Play    Download | Play You knew Jonah Goldberg had to be somewhere on the set the other day when Glenn Beck opened his Fox program with this: If you believe this country is great, but progressive fascists are trying to destroy it, this is your wake-up call! Before explaini...

-- by Dave The other day on Fox, Bernard Goldberg came to the defense of his buddy Bill O'Reilly -- who's nice enough to keep having him on at Fox without asking him any mean questions about his dumb book's multiple dumb mistakes -- over BillO's indefensible remarks about Helen Thomas. In so doing, ...

Download | Play    Download | Play At tonight's press conference, President Obama was asked a few times about "bipartisanship," probably most clearly by Chip Reid: Question: Thank you, Mr. President. You have often said that bipartisanship is extraordinarily important, overall and in ...

Download | Play    Download | Play Remember how a couple of weeks ago everyone was writing about how the vanquished John McCain was going to be Barack Obama's best Republican buddy in the Senate and help pave the way for a new era of senatorial bipartisanship? Well, et tu, McNasty: He...