All the news that’s printed to fit

I’ve seen the above graphic is several places now, and even though I don’t know where it originated I’ll give credit to our friend Joseph Cannon. The point of the graphic is that us Americans are woefully uninformed (or misinformed) about world affairs. I won’t dispute that conclusion. My question is whether this is something [...]

This is more like it

In my previous post I showed a clip of Chris Matthews calling Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) a “balloon head” and demanding to know why the Tea Party allowed her to speak for them. Compare that to Anderson Cooper who respectfully details Bachmann’s ignorance of U.S. history by comparing her statements to the facts. He doesn’t [...]