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As we approach the time where Newt Gingrich is given yet another opportunity to sound the dogwhistles tonight about our "Food Stamp President," it's my duty to report that among some contingents in South Carolina, it's working. Listen to the syrupy, condescending tone of voice of this woman as she lauds Mr. Gingrich's performance in Monday night's debate:

MATTHEWS: ...Listen to this exchange from a Gingrich event earlier today.

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SPEAKER: I would like to thank you, Mr. Speaker, for putting Mr. Juan Williams in his place the other night.

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His supposed question was totally ludicrous, and we support you.

Watch the look on Newt's face when she praises him, especially when she gets to the part about putting Williams in his place. He's almost bursting with pride.

Watch the clip to the end for a palate cleanser. Donna Edwards does a great job of putting little Miss Uppity Place-Putter right back where she belongs.

In the interest of providing fair and balanced perspective, I'd like to suggest that perhaps the woman who made that comment could possibly be related to this one:

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Lawrence O'Donnell explained what the hell Sarah Palin was talking about the other day on Greta. Apparently she's miffed at Megyn Kelly for telling the truth about where Palin is in the polls. Oh and then there was calling out her colleague on Fox News, Juan Williams for calling Herman Cain the "flavor of the month." It's like junior high only with more tooth whitener and hairspray.

Look, here's the thing: this is all Palin does. She's a petty, myopic mean girl who wants nothing more than to lash out at people she thinks have done her wrong. She's has one trick and this is it.

I compiled a list of Palin's feuds. Here it is. I'm now adding these two. So the list is up to 90 entries and it's only getting funnier.

I post this to show you how disgusting and dishonest right wing media is. We've had plenty of posts on the debt ceiling debate spelling out our frustrations, but at least we're honest about what is being said and how we feel. I've covered Hannity since 2004 because I always thought it is important for us to monitor what bile is being spewed onto our airwaves.

Remember, it was never covered as extensively before C&L came along with Media Matters so there was never any push back on all the lies. We've had an definitive impact, but I have to admit I just can't watch Hannity anymore. There's a limit to my RWNM stamina. Lo and behold I dared to step back into that cauldron of lies and I tell you, I'll leave him to others on our site.

Hannity is so vile that around the 3:42 mark of this video, Juan Williams calls him "myopic" and a "'liar." Even Juan Williams couldn't contain himself any longer and he's getting paid by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.

Williams: "You Are So Myopic. ... You Are Not Honest"

I don't know if Karl is this stupid or is being purposefully obtuse. All I can tell you is that I am positive that he's not nearly as politically savvy as Republicans insist he is.

With the 2012 elections drawing ever nearer, Karl Rove has made his prediction official: no matter who wins the Republican primary, Barack Obama is losing. On [Friday evening's] O’Reilly Factor, host Juan Williams tried to remind Rove that the Republican field is weak, at best, but received only an earful as to why President Obama is a failure with no chance of winning another four years in the White House.[..]

Williams continued to attempt to get Rove to cede that the Republican field was weak, which resulted in much barely-coherent cross-talk, thought which Williams finally made the point that each Republican candidate is severely flawed. “How do you recover if you are Mitt Romney and you have health care? How do you recover if you are Tim Pawlenty and nobody knows you? How do you recover if you are Michele Bachmann and everybody thinks you’re an extremist?” Rove compared them all to President Obama himself, an “obscure senator from Illinois who did diddly squat in the Senate.”

That's the best he's got? Really? Re-hashing tired 2008 talking points about his Senate record and pinning hopes on a poll more than eighteen months out on a generic Republican instead of the clown car crop of candidates currently vying for the Republican nomination? C'mon, Karl. That's lame, even coming from you.

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Fox News has adopted the Karl Rove playbook laid out for them earlier this week with regard to the Wisconsin protests. Watch as the Very Serious Conservatives talk about President Obama's statements with regard to the ongoing labor protests and pontificate. For them, it's all about consolidating labor union support for 2012 without any real issues.

That was just on. Earlier today, Megyn Kelly was shocked -- SHOCKED -- that Wisconsin Democrats would dare to leave the state in order to delay the vote on Governor Walker's union-buster bill. Here she is, wringing her hands with wide-eyed fury over such a terrible thing. I guess she forgot that it's been done before.

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Bill O'Reilly was in his usual High Umbrage mode last night over the way Meet the Press' David Gregory grilled House Speaker John Boehner over his manifest failure to provide some real leadership among Republicans by knocking down the continuing belief by so many conservatives that President Obama is Muslim -- embodied in that Frank Luntz/Sean Hannity "focus group" from Iowa that was dominated by fools who continue to believe that the president is not a Christian.

Of course, O'Reilly didn't bother to mention that the original media miscreancy that gave rise to the Boehner grilling occurred on Fox -- but this was just another classic case of O'Reilly defending his Fox colleagues for their smear-laden propaganda and claiming that it was perfectly legitimate.

But the real howler in all this was the segment's overarching narrative -- namely, as O'Reilly put it, that Gregory somehow conducted a "disrespectful" interview.

This is pretty funny, really, coming from a guy who just conducted an interview with the President of the United States that was remarkable for the utter lack of respect he exhibited -- not just in the nasty tone of his questions (such as how Obama felt about all those people who "hate" him), but even more particularly in the way he relentlessly interrupted the president, refused to let him finish a sentence, and .

Indeed, some folks even put together a video detailing all the interruptions:

Apparently, O'Reilly would have been fine if it were Obama getting the grilling from Gregory. But when it's a Republican, and the source of the matter is Fox Propaganda -- well hey, that's a whole nother story, Fox respects Republicans by tossing them softballs and giving them Hannity Jobs -- and it respects Democrats by treating them like crap.

Let's say, for argument's sake, that Juan Williams is sincere when he says this. As someone who's been unemployed for more than two years now, I don't feel anywhere near as polished and professional as I used to be.

But here's the thing, Juan, something you may not have noticed: There aren't enough real jobs for all the people out of work. And people are struggling even with the unemployment checks. Yet you and a Fox News talking blonde say that for the sake of some theoretical self-respect (which apparently involves living in a cardboard box on the curb), you're urging people to take low-paying part-time jobs with no security instead of unemployment checks -- a decision that's clearly against their economic self-interest.

Because you can't take self-respect to the electric company, or to your landlord. It won't put gas in the car, or food on the table. Sometimes you just have to swallow your self-respect to keep enough cash flow coming, right?

You, of all people, should understand:

Juan Williams told Fox News' Megyn Kelly that extended unemployment benefits are harmful to peoples' work ethic and basic values.

The two were speaking about the fight over the extension of the benefits on Thursday's "America Live." Kelly told Williams that a man she knows is staying on unemployment because his jobless benefits bring him more money than a potential job.

"To me it's crazy because the longer that person is unemployed the more difficult it is then for them to get a job," Williams said. He continued:

"Because employers, potential employers, will look and see that gee, they've been out forever, it doesn't make sense. And I think that's partly playing in to this cycle. And at some point then it becomes a matter of you lose your work ethic, your values are impacted, you know, getting up, showing up, dressing well, all that good stuff. So I don't know that that's smart."

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Bill O'Reilly was all giddy last night about the news that in the wake of the seat-shuffling that followed Helen Thomas' departure from her front-row seat at White House press conferences, Fox News has managed to nab a front-row slot (the AP was awarded Thomas' coveted spot).

BillO even implied that he'd be coming down and making things rough on Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Ho ho ho ho hah.

But as Lynn Sweet's report notes, Fox was awarded the spot over two other superb news organizations: NPR and Bloomberg. Indeed, both are at least legitimate news organizations and not the brazen propaganda outlet that Fox News has become.

If you want a clear example of just how openly Fox now propagandizes, check out the house ad it was running all day yesterday, touting speculation about what strategy is most likely to hurt Democrats and help the GOP:

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Fox has been able to get away with being a propaganda organ while pretending to do real "news" because of the cowardice of real working journalists, who have simply failed in their supposed role as the profession's "internal policing" mechanism.

This was exemplified, really, by the White House press corps' craven surrender to Fox's campaign to get that front-row seat, even though every working journalist in that room knows that at the end of the day, even a semi-decent guy like Major Garrett has to answer to Roger Ailes. Every one of them knows, too, that Fox churns out right-wing propaganda as a 24/7 operation.

But they will never do anything about it.

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Juan Williams calls out Bill O'Reilly!

From MMFA: Juan Williams to O'Reilly: "Bill O'Reilly neutral? That's a first. Bill O'Reilly neutral. Oh, please."

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Do not adjust your TV sets or whack them: That whining sound you hear is the petulant uproar by right-wing pundits upset about Bill Clinton's comparison of the Tea Party's rhetoric to that of the militia/Patriot movement that inspired the bombing of Oklahoma City.

The whine coming from Fox News Channel alone was enough to permeate entire cable systems. Leading the way was Fox's anchor sage, Brit Hume, who just couldn't believe Clinton was concerned about the problem when he never denounced similarly ugly rhetoric from the left during the Bush years. Bill O'Reilly picked up that ball and ran with it too, inviting Mary Katherine Ham to conclude, once again -- after eluding a bizarre O'Reilly nonsequitur -- that it was part of a plot by the "left" to "demonize" the poor ordinary Tea Partiers.

Of course, the Tea Partiers themselves would never demonize anyone, would they? Other than that evil Kenyan Muslim radical Barack Obama. And his Marxist fascist progressive enablers. Just a wee bit.

And where, as we noted, do you suppose anyone could have gotten the idea that Tea Partiers have anything to do with the militia/Patriot movement of the 1990s?

You don't suppose it could have had anything to do with the saturation of Tea Party events with Patriot movement ideas and agendas, as well as its many conspiracy theories, embodied in all those Patriot movement and militia leaders appearing at Tea Party events, do you?

Or maybe he got it from those news reports out of Oklahoma in which a state Tea Party leader advocated forming militias.

Funny thing about those stories: None of them were ever reported on Fox News.

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