John Oliver: who’s more corrupt, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? (video)


John Oliver gives a 20 minute forensic examination of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s scandals that have dominated headlines during the 2016 election. For him, one of them is “quantifiably worse.” “The point is, this campaign has been dominated by scandals, … Continue reading

Republicans hit Cleveland final day: Trumpageddon (video)


Donald Trump on Thursday night accepted the nomination of the Republican Party to be president of the scorched hellscape that is the United Yet Cowering States of America. That, at least, is the interpretation of his speech offered by the … Continue reading

Stephen Colbert on Benghazi and the new McCarthyism


Last month’s race to be the next Speaker of the US Congress, brought forth some interesting candidates. None more so than Republican congressman Kevin McCarthy. Stephen Colbert was quick to highlight a number of issues with McCarthy’s candidacy including his comments … Continue reading

Megyn Kelly: We don’t care what you think, Fox News’ reporters are heroes (video)


Fox News pretends to be a news organization and revels in its use of the most Orwellian of  straplines in global journalism – “Fair and Balanced”.  As if that was not outlandish enough, Megyn Kelly now wants to know when … Continue reading

The ugliness of Fox News and Megyn Kelly’s tsunami of bone headed ignorance (video)


Jon Stewart‘s dissection of the way Fox News reported the Department of Justice investigations into former police officer Darren Wilson’s shooting of Michael Brown and the wider question of racism in the Ferguson judicial system with their misleading reporting of the … Continue reading

Breitbart News: craven political hatchet men…..(corrected) (video)


Readers of this blog in the UK may be familiar with the ideological output of Breitbart News following its British launch in February this year. Presumably to gain traction with the UK’s reactionary right, it was quick to recruit the … Continue reading

Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart on the 60 minutes gaff (video)


On Sunday Lara Logan apologized on air for the mistakes that CBS News’ 60 Minutes had made in their report on Benghazi at the end of October. As you may be aware, CBS had to retract the portion of the … Continue reading

The facts don’t fit your prejudices? No problem. Be like Fox News and invent your own! (video)


This week both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert highlighted the fantasy facts used by Fox News regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s recent report about ObamaCare. Due to copyright restrictions in order to watch the clip use the password: imincorrigible (Video © Comedy Central) Jon Stewart … Continue reading

Fox News hates the US constitution (video)


Fox News says that the US Constitution is a sacrosanct and immutable document – at least it is when talking about gun control. Fox News numpties are very quick to quote sections of the 2nd Amendment whenever there is another mass shooting or … Continue reading