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Conservatives and Fox News react to (and freak-out over) the way Obama’s next Treasury secretary Jack Lew writes his name. (Yep.)

"Glenn Beck has a dream. On Thursday, the former Fox News host, gold bug, survival-seed guru, movie star, and bestselling author unveiled plans for a new planned community—inspired by the Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’—to be built at an undisclosed location somewhere in the United States."

— No, really.

"Fox News obsessed with lone Black Panther" →

Politico with some Election Day realkeeping. As media reporter Dylan Byers put it: “Ladies & gentlemen, we’re more than a decade into the 21st century and this is the most-watched cable news network.”

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Michael Jordan = “failed baseball player”

Carmelo Anthony = “noted anti-police activist”

… UM …

Fox Nation = “notorious race-baiting troll site”

(via)

UPDATE: Fox Nation = “unoriginal notorious race-baiting troll site,” which bogarted this from the “aspiring online rag” Washington Free Beacon.

Fox News reporter reveals the name and age of a Seal Team Six sailor who participated in the bin Laden raid, less than a year after penning an article titled "Navy SEALs Want to Protect Their Identity Following UBL Kill." →

Shorter Fox News: In order to save operational security, we had to destroy it.

More outstanding content from magazine.foxnews.com.

As the spouse of an MJ staffer (and self-identified ladyblogger) just said: “Wow, this is like, the most cynical women’s magazine evar.” Which, y’know, is saying something.

http://magazine.foxnews.com/ is actually a thing. →

Apparently, it’s for the ladies. The ladies who are interested in

• 8 Steps to Really Clean Windows,
• How to Keep Mealybugs Out of Your Flour,
• 3 Ways to Spot Your Future Ex-Husband, and
• Easy Solutions to Any Wardrobe Malfunction.

Fox News. The “W” is for “women”!

Judith Miller uses Mother Jones’ Trayvon Martin coverage to school her Fox News colleagues

Yes, that Judy Miller. While her conservative colleagues were busy arguing Trayvon’s death wasn’t a national story, and the media had done a poor job of reporting, Miller shot back Saturday:

ELLEN RATNER: …and the journalists didn’t do their jobs in terms of the racial composition of the community, were there other racially motivated crimes in that community — ‘cause they’re all just talking about racism — and the history of this guy, Zimmerman, and whether he in fact on his other calls — which, he made thirtysome calls over the last ten years to 911, or the cops, did they have a racial component. Nobody really looked at that…

…The press has been terrible on Zimmerman’s family. We don’t have any profiles of the guy, we don’t know his family life —

JUDITH MILLER: —I’m sorry, Mother Jones did a very piece on this that has a lot of the elements that you say haven’t been covered. in fact, it has been covered.

RATNER: OK, missed it.

Thanks, Judith. And here’s some of the work she was talking about.

Oh, and Ellen, if you read our reporting, you’ll find that George Zimmerman made 46 calls between January 2011 and Trayvon’s death. Not “thirtysome.” Add in the previous years’ totals, and there are many more.

MoJo tells Geraldo on-air: Back off the hoodie-hating and victim-blaming.

Reporter Adam Weinstein donned a hoodie and went on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show to hit back on Rivera’s claim that “[Trayvon’s] hoodie killed Trayvon Martin as surely as George Zimmerman did.” Here’s a partial transcript of what went down.

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Dude. Maroon 5 just got a big boost in our MP3 collection.

Wherein Bill O’Reilly o-riles up Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, producing a funnysad moment of exasperation at 5:01. Check it…5:01, people.

Radio host Neal Boortz tells Hannity on Fox News: “Barack Obama is a bigger disaster to this country than 9/11.”

(via MediaMatters)

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cognitivedissonance:

Michelle Malkin makes the claim that Occupy Wall Street is 99% white. It hurts my irony bone for someone on Fox News to criticize a social movement for being “99% white.” It hurts real bad.

According to Malkin:

“The protesters have taken to calling themselves the ‘99 percent’ in the country, labeling the capitalists they wish to remove from power the other ‘1 percent.’ When Occupy Wall Street activists call themselves the ‘99 percent,’ it turns out they mean 99 percent non-diverse (by their own politically correct measurements). It’s as pale out there at Camp Alinsky as MSNBC’s prime-time lineup or the New York Times editorial board. Not counting the cameos by Jesse Jackson and Cornel West, that is.”

Uh-huh… love the photo choice showing a rather diverse crowd, Fox Nation. I don’t need to debunk your claim since you, um, did it yourselves.

Bravo.

h/t to Media Matters

 Oh, Malkin, you race-baiting fact-mangler, you.

Did the Obama administration declare a War on Salt!?? →

No.

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