Andrew Sullivan reports: Blair Scott, a spokesman for the American Atheists, Inc., was subjected to over 8,000 death threats and other violent rhetoric after appearing on Fox News. Some examples: Your Thoughts?
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Michelle Malkin: Treat Atheists As Trolls
January 14th, 2011
Daniel Fincke There’s one unstated attitude that makes all this reflexive self-righteousness, galling hypocrisy, and unblinking sense of privilege possible, and it’s “Who Cares About Atheists?” Your Thoughts?
Shep Smith Lambasts Senators For Filibustering 9/11 First Responders Bill
December 19th, 2010
Daniel Fincke Below Shepard Smith, explicitly following Jon Stewart’s passionate lead, excoriates the Republicans in the Senate who are filibustering the Zadroga bill, which is a bill designed to assist the many 9/11 first responders who are suffering illnesses related to their service at Ground Zero: Jon Stewart spent his entire show Thursday night discussing this disgrace, including [...]
Maddow Vs. O’Reilly
July 22nd, 2010
Daniel Fincke Dr. Maddow slaps Mr. O’Reilly back most enjoyably: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Bill O’Reilly Compares Gays To Al-Qaeda
June 3rd, 2010
Daniel Fincke A little over an hour ago, I posted this McDonald’s commercial, running only in France thus far, which gently sends a pro-gay message. Little did I know yet that Bill O’Reilly got seriously O’riled up about it tonight: His physical hostility towards such a remarkably understated and delicate ad and his adamant insistence that the [...]
FOX News’s Anti-Atheist Comedy Fail
June 1st, 2010
Daniel Fincke Pretty unimaginative and stale, though the guy who plays the third atheist shows some potential despite the lackluster material. Has anyone outside of South Park managed to skewer atheists incisively and genuinely humorously? I have a sense of humor, I like to laugh at myself, anyone know anything that manages to skewer us in a [...]
The Best Of Shepard Smith: Taking On BP, Torture, Anti-Vaxers, Glenn Beck, Joe The Plumber, & More
May 21st, 2010
Daniel Fincke FOX News’s one passionately sane and moral voice last week went after BP executive Tony Hayward for his flippant attitude towards the ecological disaster his company has recently wrought. The man is an oasis amidst his network’s cynical demagoguery and sincere lunacy. And, of course, there is his passionate denunciation of torture from over a [...]
Man Fired For Telling Coworker Her Homosexuality Was “Bad Stuff”
November 16th, 2009
Daniel Fincke This poor man had to suffer hearing a woman make references to her fiance a whole four times. It’s damaged his psyche to the point where he can’t stop himself from saying the word homosexual six times in the space of two sentences. He just can’t stop repeating the horrible word: “This woman repeatedly and [...]
Glenn Beck’s “Instant Sadness”
October 3rd, 2009
Daniel Fincke Behind the scenes with the cynical clown: Jason Linkins contextualizes. Your Thoughts?
American Conservatism Right Now–Less A Movement Than An Industry
July 13th, 2009
Daniel Fincke In the context of trying to make sense of the Palin phenomenon and her recent resignation, Andrew Sullivan perfectly sums up the problem with the current state of America’s right wing establishment: And this helps explain the broader problem with American conservatism right now. It is less a movement than an industry. From Fox News [...]
What Species Are The Italians and The Irish?
July 9th, 2009
Daniel Fincke PZ Myers watches FOX and Friends so we don’t have to: Brian Kilmeade is, for some unknown reason, trying to dismiss a study that found that married people were at a lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease. his reasons for dismissing its applicability to Americans are bizarre. BRIAN KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species and other [...]
Glenn Beck’s Guest Suggests bin Laden Is America’s Only Hope
July 2nd, 2009
Daniel Fincke “”The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States” Why? Because only then will we defend America “violently” enough. See, we won’t defend ourselves adequately enough unless we are attacked. Paradoxically, if we’re not attacked, we’re not safe.




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