TX GOP will sacrifice poor due to its hate for Planned Parenthood

Given the GOP's misogyny and hate of birth control its a "win, win" for them. Tough luck for sick poor women. Welcome to the GOP's "Culture of Life".

A Successful Health Program May End Thanks to Texas's Quest to Kill Planned Parenthood - Dallas News - Unfair Park

Congrats to NPR for making the list twice.

The year in media errors and corrections features Osama/Obama, Giffords | Poynter.

Politifact Is the Liar of the Year

If you'e looking an example of how much American journalism sucks, you can't do better than this, . .

Political Animal - PolitiFact ought to be ashamed of itself

"This is simply indefensible. Claims that are factually true shouldn’t be eligible for a Lie of the Year designation.

It’s unnerving that we have to explain this again, but since PolitiFact appears to be struggling with the relevant details, let’s set the record straight again.

Medicare is a single-payer health care system offering guaranteed benefits to seniors. The House Republican budget plan intended to privatize the existing system and replace it with something very different — a voucher scheme. It would still be called “Medicare,” but it wouldn’t be Medicare.

It seems foolish to have to parse the meaning of the word “end,” but if there’s a program, and it’s replaced with a different program, proponents brought an end to the original program. That’s what the verb means."

Not a bad article on the problems of "fact-checking"

"The problem is that fact-checking – like everything – is sometimes a lazy, half-assed business. If fact-checking is as important as it claims, its practitioners need to acknowledge its problems and fix them."

How to Fix Fact-Checking - Forbes

I wonder if I can get one that says, . . .

Via RAYGUN:




"I Listened to NPR before it gave up on journalism"

"I Listened to NPR before it called torture harsh interrogation"

"I Listened to NPR before it reporters' salaries placed them in the 1%"

"I Listened to NPR before it stopped reporting on human rights violations"

"I Listened to NPR before it just recited GOP talking points"

"I Listened to NPR before it black listed Elizabeth Warren"

"I Listend to NPR before it called dead civillians suspected terrorists"

"I Listened to NPR before Mara Liason started working at FOXnews full time"

" I Listened to NPR before it fell in love with drones"

Defending the 1 % can be sooo rewarding.

Nice to see that Adam Davidson is being rewarded for blacklisting Elizabeth Warren from on air and reciting GOP Right Wing Free Market talking points with nice soft job at the NYT.
Here's his first "he said, she said" nothing burger column of recyeled cliches:
The Wild West of Finance - NYTimes.com

As Dean Bank has repeatedly demonstrated, Planet Money can't be clueless, it pro-corporate GOP bias is clearly a feature not a bug.:


Adam Davidson's done quite will for producing one-side shallow economic illiterate pieces of pro-corporate propaganda.

Membership in the 1% Club has it privileges. But watch out Adam, Karma is a bitch.

America's Freedom Loving Allies, Saudi edition.

Saudi Arabia beheads woman for 'sorcery' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English:




Since President W's Propaganda, er Institue goal is to promote Women's Rights in the Middle East, will he return the Saudi's gift sword they presented to him on his last trip?