Colbert vs. O’Reilly

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2007 Stephen Colbert Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Plays the Name Game

Staff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2007 The folks at Fox News, always innovative in the ways of fairness and balance, do some of their most inflammatory work on the banners that hover at the bottom of the screen. Not to rest at mislabeling party affiliation, they've taken to editorializing given names. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Barney Frank Does Battle With Fox’s Cavuto

Staff / Truthdig Jan 7, 2007 One thing we love about Rep. Barney Frank is his total unwillingness to allow an interviewer to step on his answer, misrepresent his argument and then slither away. Neil Cavuto practices the dark arts for Fox News in this particular interview, as Frank steadfastly defends his position on exorbitant CEO pay against an avalanche of nasal smugness. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Conservative Radio Host Wants Dissenters Detained

Staff / Truthdig Dec 21, 2006 Conservative radio personality Mike Gallagher appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to vent his anger at "The View" host Joy Behar for comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler. Without a shred of irony, Gallagher then called for the government to round up Behar, Matt Damon and Keith Olbermann and "take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over, because they're a bunch of traitors." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dan Rather Hurt O’Reilly’s Feelings

Staff / Truthdig Dec 21, 2006 In what must have been conceived as a self-parody, Bill O'Reilly and other notables from the Fox News circus lambasted Dan Rather for his accusation that the network receives talking points from the White House, and demanded an apology. On various Fox programs, O'Reilly and friends alternated between vehemently denying the claim and struggling with the meaning of balance. O'Reilly: "I basically say, look, we have people like [Kirsten Powers] on. We have Michelle [Malkin] on. This is balanced." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

“The Real Victims of Fox News…”

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2006 weren't the liberals it attacked but the conservatives who believed it," writes Nicholas Kristof at the N Times "Be very wary of Mr Bush's effort to tame the press Watchdogs can be mean, dumb and obnoxious, but it would be even more dangerous to trade them in for lap dogs" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Talking Sense About the Drug War

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2006 Don't miss this column at the Huffington Post about our nation's ineffectual and morally indefensible drug war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cheney’s Suite Demands

Staff / Truthdig Mar 24, 2006 When the vice president spends the night at a hotel, he requires all TVs pre-tuned to Fox News (natch), room temperature set at 68 and caffeine-free Diet Sprite, among other things. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

O’Reilly Threatens Caller re Olbermann

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2006 Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann have been feuding for a while now (background story here, a video example, and another clip), and on Thursday, when a caller to O'Reilly's show merely mentioned Olbermann's name, Bill cut the line and said, "We have your phone number and we're going to turn it over to Fox security, and you're going to get a visit"--as though the caller was threatening O'Reilly--when in fact O'Reilly was threatening the caller! UPDATE: FOX security calls back. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

LGBTQIA+

Down to the Wire

Larry Gross / Truthdig Feb 27, 2006 OK, the votes are in and now we all, or those of us who care, will have to wait till March 5 to find out whether the high water mark of the Year of the Queer in Hollywood will have been the nominations sweep by "Brokeback Mountain," Hoffman, Huffman, etc. In other words, did the Academy voters actually mark their ballots for this year's apparent favorites? Will the foxy stalwarts of cable talk shows be proved wrong again? When the Brokeback wave first broke over the industry the predictable consensus of the bloviators was that the "gay cowboy" film would bomb once it ventured outside the coastal enclaves into the heartland, but that it would clean up at that March madness of the lavender left known as the Oscars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Guess Why Cheney Came Out of Hiding

Staff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2006 It apparently wasn't the vice president's sense of duty to the country that precipitated his sit-down interview with Fox News. It was the president, no dummy when it comes to PR, who made Cheney sit down in front of the cameras, according to Time magazine. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )