Fox news and friends, what a laugh.
They should start their own magazine
and instead of Man of the Year they
can feature Villain of the Year.
That way we all know who’s photo to
use during our daily 10 minute Hate session.

80% approval rating ehhhh? I suppose this is what happens when the opposition party is led by an eccentric Chess Player.

I think it would have been better if Time would have named the “Person of the Year” that Texas attorney who called a press conference after discharge from the hospital so he could actually apologize to Dick Cheney for the trouble he had caused after Rootin Tootin Dick had mistaken him for an upland game bird. It was a fitting crown for the era of abasement and cognitive dissonance we inhabit.

If only they would put Osama and that Shiite Mahdi Army Cleric on the cover...then the skirts would flutter.

From Moscow, to Tehran, to Caracas, multipolarity and multilateralism are not only back, but back through the ballot box.

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Every time the mainstream media is mentioned, everybody stands in line to dump a load on Fox News. Now… why is that?

One advantage to Rupert Murdoch and his gutter-spawn empire: If we want to know what the neoconservatives are thinking (and maybe setting us up for), we can watch Fox News. Albeit from a entry-level, wannabe-ass-kicker perspective, the network functions as a 24/7 fireside chat from the air-breathing detritus calling shots inside the Beltway.

Here’s the mission in three little words: fear more fear. Anytime News Corp. has the uneasy impression that Americans may regain their senses, it fills its airwaves with breathless folktales about World War V, anthrax Coke, mushroom clouds and churlish mammals in grandma’s panty drawer. When its spunky pundits aren’t hot on the trail of phantom Islamofascists – or, more likely, shoeless-joe-wino “terror cells” - we get an endless play-by-play of Britney’s awkwardness handling sippy cups.

And the lineup… the lineup:

Where the hell did they dig up Sean Hannity? He’s the Leo Gorcey of the Far Right –comical non sequiturs and stumblebum delivery soured only by a sinister, repellent nature common to brute sociopaths. His one distinguishing characteristic is that he’s the only guy in television dumber than Glenn Beck. Next up is Geraldo Rivera. Well… let’s see… Geraldo’s made a decades-long career out of mustache wax and a troublesome tendency to careen into one self-triggered catastrophe after another. He burrows into Al Capone’s vaults… then apologizes to viewers for piddling away two precious hours of their lives dredging up a mountain of rubble and some old pop bottles. He helps legitimize the hideous Satanic Ritual Abuse travesty… then makes on-air amends for his part in crushing the lives and families involved. He and Bill O’Reilly erupt in a screeching bitch-out… then kiss and make up. Through it all, Geraldo maintains his chip-on-the-shoulder, “macho de newsman” preen. He seems to invoke a kind of Universal Bedwetter’s Prerogative: As long as he apologizes for a mess he’s made, he MUST be forgiven.

And then there’s O’Reilly himself. Wow.What about Bill O’Reilly? If karma truly was the gentle guidepost of the cosmos, this dunderhead would be chewing up his own cardboard bedding in a lab-rat cage. Admittedly, his nightly “I, Dumb-Ass” manifestoes are bracing in a whorehouse-philosophy sort of way. But then he rips into teenage sexual abuse victims, gives his cold-reading imprimatur to every scrap of Likud Party propaganda skittering across his desk, creepily wishbones sleazy sex stories… He… exists. O’Reilly is the degraded, terminal species of TV talking head - a shriveled evolutionary vestige slipping off the ass-crack of broadcasting.

Fox News and its parent company helped mutate the news business into what it is today. Instead of observable fact, we get spin. Instead of reporting, we get chit-chat. We can no longer make our own decisions based on information provided us. We must be bombarded with the corrupt interpretations of self-proclaimed “experts”. Reality is, after all, whatever our masters say it is.

Not that Fox News lacks junk-food returns. I mean, full disclosure: If Anna Nicole’s saintly, white-trash visage appears shrine-like on a Denny’s sneeze guard, dammit, I wanna know. But news-as-propaganda is a key component of the new American Imperium that has brought this country its greatest strategic disaster abroad and disintegrating civil liberties at home. We have regressed to a politically primeval state - a spiteful banana republic gunned up with nuclear hardware. We are an international drive-by waiting to happen. How very new millennium. How very fashionable. How very… Fox News.

Thanks, Rupert. Thanks, guys.

1 Mr Spencer you are a wonderfull addition to this site.
2 San Fernando Curt,I never laughed so hard.
3 John Taldone,very true,viva Putin.He also backed Iran and I believe stoppped an attack,at least for now.

Russian People are emerging after a long dark night of Bolshevism, led by Vladimir Putin, to take their rightful place in the World.
Of course, this is not to the likings of those who were sucking the blood of that nation since 1917- who would prefer to see the internal strifes and decay in Russia- which they would call Democracy.
The excellent news for Russia and the World, indeed including the U.S., is that Putin is here to stay,(barring some plan of Mossad to eliminate him ‘ a la Harriri’)
What is especially encouraging is to see a world leader totally immune to our AIPAC desease i.e. minding strictly his nations business.
Putin, unlike Bush, is his Country’s Firster.

“Romney and McCain are in a fuss about Putin not because he’s a dictator (Washington gets along with other autocrats just fine) but because the Russian president pursues what he sees as good for his country no matter whether Washington likes it or not. If the post-9/11 GOP continues to reject the very notion that other countries’ national interests might be different than America’s, they will continue to fail in the arena of foreign affairs—but at least they’ll have plenty more opportunities to be publicly outraged.”

Brilliant...hit the point exactly.

I wish we in the US had a Putin that believed in national sovereignty instead of unrestrained immigration and “globalization”---which is a carefully planned campaign of labor arbitrage and cultural suicide. .

I cannot understand why anyone would think David Petraeus deserves the honor.
Adding more troops and paying off the enemy doth not make a great military strategist.

President Putin is a patriot, not a nationalist.  That’s why the neocons hate him, because he takes patriotism seriously and excoriates abstract nationalism, including the menace of nationalism in his own country.

And don’t anyone get me started on those so-called Russian “dissident” enemies of Putin like the National Bolshevik Party.
I was personally assaulted by two members of the National Bolshevik Party in public in a major Russian city in 1998; they assaulted me because they heard me speaking English, asked me if I was American, then started raging about Clinton and Serbia, attacked me without warning.  An anecdote Taki would probably enjoy:  I didn’t even need to hit them, I simply moved in the right way to avoid the blows, and one of them fell on his face and broke his eyeglasses. 
Then I offered him my hand, picked him up and offered him a cigarette (because they had both stopped attacking).  He saw that I smoked Russian cigarettes, and that fact, plus the fact that I didn’t continue fighting after he was down, impressed them enough to invite me to share a bottle of vodka with them.

Russians.  Never underestimate them, including how incredibly generous and large-spirited they can be if you just treat them with basic respect.

Putin’s just another shit of a politician, who whips up anti-Americanism for reasons of domestic politics just as Republicans whip up the war on terror and try to ignite another cold war for their own internal political benefit.  Contrary to what you may have heard, the enemy of your enemies is not always your friend.  And frankly, if I had those flabby pecs and abs, and little pipe arms, I’d keep my shirt on.  Guns aren’t only for shooting journalists, Vladdie.

It was not like “Time” did Putin a favor. Their cover photo and additional photos were given a menacing look and were not meant to show Putin as a caring and friendly individual.

They repeated the same old stereotypes and made a disfigured picture of Russia and Putin.

It was an “honor” to be featured as “Person of the Year” in this fashion.

I meant to say it was NOT an honor to be featured as “Person of the Year” in this fashion.