Defining Socialism: Roger Ailes vs. Jon Stewart

No, this isn’t about the news and opinion manufactured out of hot air over at Fox News, the official propaganda outlet of the Republican Party. It’s about Roger Ailes and a story he tells about how Jon Stewart once told him (Ailes) that he (Jon Stewart) is a socialist. This apparently happened twelve years ago in a bar in Philadelphia.

Now, I wouldn’t blame you for assuming that Ailes made the story up. That’s kind of a habit with him, at home and at work. Ailes doesn’t seem to notice whenever outside reality is different from his inside fantasy. (Hint: it’s a lot.)

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Best of the Week: The Daily Show on Limbaugh, Hannity, and more…

MONDAY (March 5, 2012)

What was Jon Stewart’s main complaint about Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News folk assaulting Sandra Fluke for her advocacy on female health care?

I’m just saying to the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like, “Welcome to the f#$@ing club.” Everyone pays for sh@$ they don’t want to all the time. You know what? Reimburse me for the Iraq War and oil subsidies and guess what, then — diaphragms are on me.

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Newt’s Electoral Allure

When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.

–Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News
“Newt Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make a Strong President–Really”

Callista Gingrich

Image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr

Limerick after the leap

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