FOX and the (News)Hound

It’s darn hard to write a blog during the State Fair, when the news world is slower than a Minnesota Senate recount. But then again, there was this interesting communications-related tidbit in today’s Associated Press briefs.
MINNESOTA BUDGET SUMMIT MOVED TO FOX NEWS STUDIOS
SAINT PAUL, MN — Former Governor Arne Carlson and former Congressman Tim [...]

Circumstantial Journalism

When a Republican CEO from another state alleges that a Minnesota Republican Senator has received $75,000 in laundered money from a supporter, that allegation is newsworthy. But when the alleged event happens to have occurred in the same time period when the Senator was investing in his home, that strikes me as [...]

Blog of the Day…

Time to move the countdown clock to a new color.  We’re going to DefCon 2.
I can’t wait for this damned election to be over as I’ll regain about 5 hours of productivity a day; I find myself clicking from link to link to link instead of doing the things people pay me for (I’m available [...]

Sarah Reborn…

America’s favorite moose hunter (c’mon, do you know any others?)  was stepping out a little today, upbraiding the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan.  As the New York Times put it,
Ms. Palin made it clear she had not been consulted about the McCain campaign’s decision to pull its ads and campaign operation out of [...]

Hannity Misses the Jugular…

…but does find another piece of Governor Palin’s anatomy to attack in Part I of his two-parter with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  Ms. Palin won’t be able to sit for a week due to the ferocity with which Mr. Hannity applied his lips to her cheeks.
To call this interview a softball is an insult to [...]

Terrorist Fist Gab

Fox News was recently ruminating and fulminating about non-verbal communications, and asked the question all of America is surely asking: Why is Barack Hussein Obama doing a “terrorist fist jab” with his wife?

Huh? Terrorist fist jab? If that was a terrorist fist jab Barack and Michelle were doing [...]