Worst blind date ever!

Something I really admire about this President is that he is not always good at glad handing and pretending that he likes somebody when he doesn't.

It gives him an air of authenticity.

As for Putin, well he's just an asshole!

Just in case you thought this was just an unfair photograph that showed a single moment of awkwardness while they were much more relaxed the rest of the time, I have a video which begs to differ with you.

If you thought Palin's appearance on Fox and Friends was awkward you haven't seen anything yet. Upate!

I swear Palin looks like she would be any place else in the world rather than sitting on that couch with these people.

"Jesus how much longer do I have to pretend that I like these losers?"

And what is it with constantly talking about her son's "warrior body?" Is it just me, or is that extremely creepy?

If you want to see an even MORE awkward encounter check out this video of when she tried to interact with the people outside the studios. I swear those fake tits never looked more phony.

(H/T to Gina for both the videos.)

Update: Here was Bill Maher's take on Palin's appearance.

Palin is on Fox & Friends now? They must have had a meeting and said, Who is the one person in the world who could make this show dumber?
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) June 18, 2013

By the way it should be noted that Maher has still not responded to Palin's one sided Twitter war with him.

Texas Congressman says abortion should be banned at 15 weeks because fetuses masturbate. Wait, what?

Masturbating fetuses are such a problem in this country.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) said Monday that abortion should be banned as early as 15 weeks after conception because he has witnessed male fetuses masturbate at that stage. 

RH Reality Check first reported Burgess' comments, which came during a late-night House Rules Committee hearing on a GOP bill that would ban abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception. 

"This is a subject that I do know something about,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN. "There is no question in my mind that a baby at 20 weeks after conception can feel pain. The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15 weeks, 16 weeks." 

"Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” Burgess continued. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?"

First of let me just express how embarrassed I am that it took me so long to figure out how pleasurable it is to masturbate. I was ALREADY born when I first polished the bishop, if you can believe it.

Second I finally understand whey we have original sin.

Here I thought that babies were all innocent and everything, only to discover that they have been wanking like drunken sailors since BEFORE they left the birth canal. (Personally I don't how they can do that with their mother so close. My mom walked in on me when i was sixteen and I almost jumped out of he window.)

And thirdly, how is it that even after a Republican says "This is a subject that I do know something about," they can STILL be so completely thick headed about the subject?

And here I thought I had already heard the stupidest thing a Republican could say. Gotta keep lowering that bar.

200 peaceful protestors supporting immigration reform show up at home of the Kansas Secretary of State. He suggests a 2nd Amendment solution.

Courtesy of Fox News Radio:  

At least 200 members of Sunflower Community Action were bused into Kobach’s Kansas City-area neighborhood on Saturday – to protest his staunch anti-illegal alien views. 

“I was just appalled,” Kobach told Fox News. “They have a right to protest at my office or at public places – that’s fine. But they don’t have a right to enter someone’s private property and engage in this kind of intimidation.” 

“I have four little girls and they would have been terrified to see 200 protesters shouting at their daddy on megaphones on the front lawn,” he said. The secretary of state said a large number of the protesters were believed to be illegal aliens. (Believed to be illegal aliens by whom?)


They can be seen on video chanting in Spanish, standing on Kobach’s porch, front yard and driveway and demanding that he come outside. “Kris Kobach, come on out,” one unidentified protester shouted. “We’ll show you what Kansans are all about.” (Oh, they spoke SPANISH! Well then of course they MUST be illegal.)

You can see video of these "terrifying" protestors here.(Scroll down to the bottom.)

On Fox Radio the Secretary, Kris Kobach, expressed great concern for his family even though there was no violence or any property destruction, and suggested that the way to deal with this kind of thing in the future could be found in the Right Wing's favorite Amendment: 

The secretary of state is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment – and he said the incident at his home is an example of why Americans should bear arms. 

“If we had been in the home and not been armed, I would have felt very afraid – because it took the police 15 minutes to show up,” he said. “It’s important we recognize there’s a reason we have the Second Amendment. There are situations like this where you have a mob and you do need to be able to protect yourself.” 

He said had they been home and the mob had gotten out of hand, his family would have been in “grave jeopardy.” 

“The Second Amendment is the private property owner’s last resort,” he said.

Okay well as we saw in the video the crowd was quite passionate, but certainly NOT violent. So it appears that Korbach is imagining a Dirty Harry scenario which it is very unlikely tohave occurred.

Look I can see the Secretary's point that having 200 people come to your home is very intimidating, and I would not have liked it very much either, but the fact that his first instinct is to pull out a gun sounds more like a guy that wants to shoot him some Mexicans rather than a man who is seriously worried about his family.

It does not seem to me that a political action group would want to do anything that would undermine their cause. (I understand that the Sunflower Community Action will issue a statement later today.)

Of course that did not stop the Fox radio host from encouraging his Twitter followers to get ready for some frontier justice.

Fox News, the channel of choice for racists, lunatics, and gun fetishists.

The New York Daily News captures Sarah Palin's return to Fox News in pictures. Oh, my.

Courtesy of The NY Daily News:

Sarah Palin returned to the FOX News airwaves Monday morning, blasting Mayor Bloomberg for his "bizarre bucket list" of measures that deprive New Yorkers of their God-given rights and treating city residents like "a bunch of little babies." 

"Your mayor, bless his heart," she started before bashing him for trying to ban large soft drinks, institute tighter background checks for gun owners and she took aim at his recent proposal to recycle food scraps in the city. 

Donning a pink top, black mini-skirt with pink polka dots and snakeskin strappy high heels, Palin, 49, was warmly welcomed back to the conservative cable news channel. 

Her return segment included an interview with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a chat with two captains from "Deadliest Catch" and a tour of a Winnebago parked outside the show's studio. 

Palin returned to the network after a five-month leave but she assured viewers that "she never went far." She says she's been spending time with her family and also revealed her newfound enthusiasm for hot yoga. 

Hot Yoga?  Nothing this woman does could be considered "hot" anymore.

Hmm, perhaps she meant "hot yogurt?"

Perhaps the best advice concerning Sarah Palin came from Jhn Oliver last night on the Daily Show, who made the startling claim that we could all just ignore her.

"She's now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted."

Yeah well that WAS pretty funny but seriously how do you NOT pay attention to a giant train wreck, covered in shit, careening across your television set?

I mean come on!

It would be like watching a giant meteoric plummeting toward earth. Yeah you realize that the light will probably burn your corneas but you still want to see it actually crash down to earth. Right?

Sweet pro-gay marriage commercial from Google.

Courtesy of Business Insider: 

Before gay marriage became legalized in France last month, the folks at Google found a way to allow same sex couples to legally exchange vows: via a Belgian mayor conducting ceremonies in Google Hangout. Gay marriage is legal in Belgium. 

The Belgian mayor has married Chilean couples on the Google video meeting platform as well. 

Google made a tear-jerking ad about two French men, Marc-Antoine and Sebastien, who met in 1976 and have at last — thanks to Google — found a way to make their relationship official. 

Yes I know it was just a commercial, but it was a very effective commercial.

Alaska man feeds barbecue meat to bear. That's a mauling!

Come at me bro!

Courtesy of ADN:

A man was mauled by a bear near the Eklutna Lake Campground on Saturday after he threw barbecued meat at the animal, the Alaska State Troopers said Sunday. 

The man was at the lake, north of Anchorage, for a church picnic, said Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen. 

Sometime around 5 p.m. on Saturday he broke off from the picnic and decided to go for a bike ride, bringing some food from the barbecue along. 

He came across a black bear somewhere between a campground fee station and an ice cream stand near the park, Ipsen said. 

The man threw a piece of meat at the bear, which ate it, she said. Then he offered another piece, she said. 

“That’s when it kind of went ballistic,” she said. 

I am going to add this next part even though most of you re probably way ahead of me.

"He'd been drinking." 

Yeah no shit!

I swear some people are too stupid to live here!

Look if you re planning to visit Alaska, here are some things to keep in mind.

EVERYTHING up here wants to kill you.

The mudflats around Anchorage can and will kill you.

The rivers and lakes can and will kill you,.

The weather can and will kill you.

Bears can and will kill you.

Our moose can and will kill you.

And yes, if there are enough of them, even our mosquitoes can and will kill you.

But if you are smart and check out the visitor's guide and make some basic common sense choices you will have a great time.

Trust me, if a panty waist like Sarah Palin can survive here, so can you.

P.S By the way I am supposed to go camping at Eklutna some time this week.

I have decided to leave the barbecue sauce at home, because apparently bears HATE that crap!

New book, "Christian Nation," examines what might happen if Sarah Palin became President. Can be found in the horror section of your local bookstore.

Courtesy of Mediaite: 

“They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.” 

That’s how the first chapter of a new alt-history novel called Christian Nation ends, beginning readers along a journey described as a “terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy,” led by President Sarah Palin after President John McCain unexpectedly passes away. 

The book, written by lawyer Frederic C. Rich and published by W.W. Norton & Company, is based on Palin’s famous 2010 remark that “America is a Christian nation.” Envisioning a Palin presidency, Christian Nation describes an alt-history in which “America’s Christian fundamentalists” gain power and transform the country into one in which “constitutional protections [are] dismantled” and “all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called ‘The Blessing,’ enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the ‘Purity Web.’” 

“The scariest thing about Christian Nation is that it’s so plausible,” said Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s executive director Rev. Barry W. Lynn. “No violent revolution, no blood in the streets, is necessary for Americans to lose their freedoms—just a failure to defend the liberties that we often take for granted.”

Why? Why write a book like this?

Don't I have enough trouble going to sleep at night?

BOO!

 You know the crazy thing about this, besides Sarah Palin of course, is that THIS was the actual scenario that used to haunt my dreams back in 2008. I will have to assume that this book is clear evidence that I was not the only person visited by Palin induced night terrors.

Miss Utah has suddenly become 2007 Miss South Carolina's favorite person.

"It's really all about the jobs."

As an Alaskan I would like to warn my friends in Utah to be on alert.

We have seen how this plays out up here and it is NOT pretty.

Sure she may seem fairly harmless now, but just let her get into public office, and then you'll see!

However I know at least ONE young lady that stood and cheered when she heard this Q&A.

Listening to these two talk about education is like listening to the high school chess club give advice on sex. If you have no frame of reference, you probably should not touch the subject.

Asked to name ONE investigation that Darrell Issa has handled appropriately and not politicized, top Democrat "can't think of any."

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Cummings told The Daily Beast that the testimony, yet to be publicly released, shows the decision by the IRS to flag tea party groups seeking non-profit status for extra scrutiny was in fact the brainchild of a Cincinnati-based screening manager, rather than the political move coming from Washington Issa and other conservatives have called it. What’s more, said the Maryland Democrat, that manager is a self-described “conservative Republican” who volunteered that information to a committee investigator. “They didn’t ask him. He said he was.” 

Cummings—who has yet to receive a response to the letter he sent Issa Thursday asking for the manager’s full testimony to be released by this coming Monday—ripped the committee chair for first offering inflammatory allegations and then “scrambling . . . to find the facts to match the allegations.“ 

“It kills you,” said Cummings. “It not only hurts the credibility of the Chairman, but hurts the credibility of the whole committee, both Republicans and Democrats.” He claimed “a number of reporters” no longer trust Issa, and now feel obliged to check with Cummings “for the full story.” 

Asked to name one Issa-led investigation that had been appropriately managed and not politicized, Cummings paused. “That’s a tough question,” he said, later adding “I don’t want to say there were none, but I can’t think of any.”

You know I often refer to people like Darrell Issa as "assholes." But to be fair that would be an insult to assholes everywhere to continue to do so. 

The guy is so transparently partisan, and slimy, that he seems to be the very embodiment of every terrible characteristic that we assign to politicians.

I certainly hope that the 49th District in California is paying close attention, because I cannot imagine that they are happy with the representation they get from this douchebag.

 Well great, now I've insulted douchbags!

Salon's Joan Walsh: "Palin’s return to Fox shows that Roger Ailes knows the GOP can’t win back the White House in 2016."

Courtesy of Salon:  

I stopped paying much attention to Palin around the time she self-destructed by trying to make herself the victim after the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the shooting of 18 other people in Tucson, Ariz., in January 2011. After that, not only my attention but others’ seemed to drift away. She declared that she wouldn’t run for president, surprising no one, her spots on Fox News became less frequent (to her loud complaints) and, ultimately, the right-wing network didn’t renew her contract (though it was stated as her choice; she was going on to better things). I thought maybe Palin didn’t matter anymore. 

But she continued to be the big crowd-pleaser at conservative gatherings from CPAC to the NRA convention, where she mocked Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun politics by slugging a Big Gulp, taking on the whole elite, effete nanny state her admirers imagine threatens them. Still, it was her attack on Bush this weekend that made me realize the extent to which she could become the face of the white nativist backlash, which is a dangerous development for the GOP, and the country, but a cushy, natural perch for Palin. 

Bush, you probably heard, made a dumb play for conservatives to support immigration reform by claiming older white America needs their … babies. “Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population,” the former Florida governor told Reed’s convening on Friday. Alex Seitz-Wald noted immediately what a mistake that was: Bush was stating some of the very reasons that the far right opposes immigration reform. And he did it the same day we got the news that deaths among native-born whites were outpacing their births. Way to rub it in, Jeb! 

Well, Palin rubbed Bush’s nose in his mistake, trashing him ideologically while using her trademark sex appeal. You kind of have to see it – her hair has never been bigger, and she mocked Bush with such visible self-confidence and self-satisfaction: 

"It’s dangerous, touchy territory to debate this over one race’s fertility rate, and I say this as one who’s kind of fertile herself. I don’t think that’s where we want to go in deciding how we will incentify [sic] the hard-working families who want to be in the line, follow the law and become American citizens, versus those whose very first act on American soil is to break the law…"

Note that Bush didn’t mention any specific race as being either more or less fertile. Native-born Americans of every race tend to have fewer children than immigrants. It was Palin who perceived an insult to the fertility of white people – and who had to therefore remind us of her own. (Which those of us on this blog know is just as phony as her hair.)


Palin’s return to Fox shows that Roger Ailes knows the GOP can’t win back the White House in 2016, so he may as well focus on consolidating his audience, and keeping them comfortable as they watch the further decline of what Bill O’Reilly called “the white establishment” that was vanquished by Barack Obama.

So Palin's inherent racism is no longer being discussed only on "defunct" blogs but has now been accepted as fact by the mainstream. Nice to see that the drum we have been beating for the last five years now has a few more drumsticks to increase the volume of the tunes we play.

By the way, THIS was how one of the Palin-bots responded to Joan's article:

@joanwalsh jealous bitch! Maybe if u did ur hair and wore women cloths; didn't seem like a transgender wanna b u might look like a girl

— Alexandra Foster (@KAFosterSowell) June 17, 2013

Yes the ONLY reason that anybody would criticize Sarah Palin is because they are jealous. Hah!

While we are on the subject of Palin I thought you all might enjoy this video of Joe McGinniss, which I had never seen,  that suddenly showed up today, talking about moving in next to the Palins.

You know it suddenly dawns on me that my first meeting with Joe took place on the morning of this Monday which he is talking about here.

I actually do remember asking him where he was going to live and he told me it was someplace in Anchorage. I only found out later, after Palin's famous Facebook post, where he eventually took up residence.

Palin's "triumphant" return to Fox News. Now she has to sit and talk with the lowlifes, like Brain Kilmeade.

Click hair tumor to play video.

The video above contains a portion of the truly awkward appearance that Palin had this morning on Fox and Friends, where the hosts asked her questions about current affairs and she tried to answer them with wisecracks and her usual busted talking points.

Here is how Politico covered the "event":

“I get to be here the entire hour, good, bad or ugly, I will be here, thank you,” Palin said after the hosts welcomed her back to the network. (Yeah, does ANYBODY think that sitting down and talking to the little people, while in the actual Fox studio, was Palin's idea?)


On Monday, the former Alaska governor slammed CBS’ Elizabeth Palmer, who reported on the Iranian election this weekend and sparked controversy in conservative circles by saying “in U.S. terms it was as if all the candidates for the presidency came from the tea party,” as representative of the “out of touch,” “lamestream” media. 

“Okay, Elizabeth, you just put the BS in CBS,” Palin said. “It’s things like that that people hear and see and realize how out of touch the lamestream, the mainstream media is. To compare, really, the Iranian revolutionaries with those who are patriots in America and just want government to live within its Constitution?” (Yeah I agree, how is that fair to the hard working Iranian candidates? If I were them I would sue CBS.)


As the hosts and Palin broke down the various scandals that have hit Washington since she left Fox News, the former Alaska governor said she was most concerned about the “whole ball of wax that all leads to the revelation that government lies, unfortunately.” 

“And with Benghazi, though, government lied and people died, so that’s very, very significant,” she said. “The other issues are government lied, and government spied. That’s pretty bad, too. But the Benghazi issue where brave, innocent Americans lost their lives in defense of our country, our freedoms, is quite significant because we still don’t have truth in regards to what happened there.” (At least not a truth that fits our agenda.)


And with the NSA leaks, the focus should be on how the Obama administration is intruding into people’s lives, not on Snowden, 

Palin said. “I really don’t think that Snowden is the issue, though, in any of this,” Palin said. “I think that the issue again is that government is so large and so intrusive in all aspects of life that we need more revelations, we need more truth about what our administration is doing so that we can hold our government, that works for us, to hold them accountable.” ("Remember, the only thing we need to concentrate on is that it's ALL President Obama's fault. With that mantra in mind all of this is really simple to figure out, don'tcha know?")


Later Megyn Kelly asked Palin how she was doing personally. (Yeah like she is going to answer THAT question truthfully!)

“I am doing great, very busy of course with my kids, two beautiful grandkids,” she said. “Writing a book, a book about Christmas, and pushing back on the politically correct who would try to take Christ out of Christmas. We talk a lot about that in the book, a kind of legalese about how to push back and protect the heart of Christmas, at the same time, a very festive and happy and jolly book about tradition, and recipes and fun things about Christmas.” 

Personally I can hardly wait for Palin's Christmas book to be ghostwritten for her. After all I have never really figured out how to keep Methamphetamine  Marzipan's from eating through the serving platter.

 I have a feeling there will be more Palin humdingers to come out of this appearance today. It seems that Ailes yanked the muzzle off of Palin and simply said"Get'em," so there is NO telling what kind of craziness will froth forth from the depths of her psychosis.

For those who still argue that government cannot effectively deliver health care, Sweden would like to politely disagree.

Courtesy of The New York Times:  

The United States spends more than $8,000 a person per year on health care, well more than twice what Sweden spends. Yet health outcomes are far better in Sweden along virtually every dimension. Its infant mortality rate, for example, was recently less than half that of the United States. And males aged 15 to 60 are almost twice as likely to die in any given year in the United States than in Sweden. 

In fairness, those differences result partly from lifestyle. In Sweden, workers are more likely to commute by bicycle than by car, for example, and obesity is far less common. Absolute poverty and income inequality — both associated with adverse health outcomes — are also lower. 

But when illness strikes, the Swedish health care system responds efficiently. Managers have exploited economies of scale by consolidating services into fewer but larger hospitals. The American system has also gone through consolidation, but, by contrast, boutique hospitals are also more common here — partly in response to demands from patients with very high-cost health plans. In large hospitals, CT scanners and other expensive diagnostic and treatment machines are in nearly constant use, versus only a few hours of weekly use in some small ones. 

Larger hospitals with heavier patient flows also enable their staff to hone their skills through specialization and experience. If you are getting a knee replacement or coronary bypass surgery, you want teams that do scores of such procedures each month. 

Doctors in the two countries also face different financial incentives. In the United States, under the fee-for-service model, they can bolster their incomes, often substantially, by prescribing additional tests and procedures. Most Swedish doctors, as salaried employees, have no comparable incentive. 

Another important difference is that, unlike many American health insurance providers, the government groups that manage Swedish health care are nonprofit entities. Because their charge is to provide quality care for all citizens, they don’t face the same incentive to withhold care that for-profit organizations do. That more hip-replacement operations are performed per capita in Sweden than in most other countries is almost certainly a reflection of the generous care options rather than of any inherent deficiency in Swedes’ hip joints. 

The Swedes also provide drugs and other treatments only when evidence establishes their effectiveness. People can spend privately on unproven treatments, but the government refuses to impose their cost on taxpayers.

Remember the conservatives are not against Obamacare because they fear that it will NOT work, they are against because they know that it WILL.

How conservatives destroyed journalistic integrity in America.

This is part of an excerpt from “Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America” courtesy of Salon:

 One key factor that has altered campaign coverage comes from the corporate right in the form of “conservative” media. If there has been a vacuum created by the downsizing of newsrooms, conservative media have filled it with an insistent partisanship unseen in commercial news media for nearly a century. The conservative media program has been a cornerstone of the Dollarocracy’s — the big money and corporate media election complex — political program since at least Lewis Powell’s 1971 memo. Initially, the work was largely about criticizing the news media for being unfair to conservative Republicans and having a liberal Democratic bias. Although the actual research to support these claims was, to be generous, thin—one major book edited by Brent Bozell actually claimed corporations such as General Electric were “liberal” companies with an interest in anti-business journalism because they had made small donations to groups like the NAACP and the Audubon Society—the point was not to win academic arguments. The point of bashing the “liberal media,” as Republican National Committee chairman Rich Bond conceded in 1992, was to “work the refs” like a basketball coach does so that “maybe the ref will cut you a little slack” on the next play. 

The ultimate aim of Dollarocracy was, as James Brian McPherson put it, “to destroy the professionalism that has defined journalism since the mid-twentieth century.” The core problem was that professional journalism, to the extent it allowed editors and reporters some autonomy from the political and commercial values of owners, opened space for the legitimate presentation of news and perspectives beyond the range preferred by conservatives. That professional journalism basically conveyed the debates and consensus of official sources and remained steadfastly within the ideological range of the leadership of the two main political parties—it never was sympathetic to the political left—was of no concern. It still gave coverage to policy positions on issues such as unions, public education, civil rights, progressive taxation, social security, and the environment that were thoroughly mainstream but anathema to the right. Key to moving the political center of gravity to the right was getting the news media on the train, and that meant getting them to have a worldview more decidedly sympathetic to the needs of society’s owners. Newt Gingrich was blunt when he told media owners in 1995 that they needed to crack the whip on their newsrooms and have the news support the corporation’s politics. “Get your children to behave,” he demanded in a private meeting with media CEOs. 

In the late 1990s, Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News cable channel, and because television is such a ubiquitous and powerful medium, that put right-wing news media in the center of the mainstream. Michael Wolff characterized Fox News as “the ultimate Murdoch product,” because it brought tabloid journalism to American television. What has been missed in the analysis of Fox News is the business model of tabloid journalism: dispense with actual reporting, which costs a lot of money to do well, and replace it with far less expensive pontificating that will attract audiences. For a tabloid news channel, that means the value added is a colorful partisan take on the news; otherwise the channel has no reason to attract viewers. Former CNN head Rick Kaplan told the story of how he was confronted by Time Warner executives in 1999 or 2000 who were dissatisfied with CNN’s profits despite what had been record revenues and a solid return. “But Fox News made just as much profit,” Kaplan was informed, “and did so with just half the revenues of CNN, because it does not carry so many reporters on its staff.” The message to Kaplan was clear: close bureaus and fire reporters, lots of them. In short, Fox News is the logical business product for an era where corporations deem journalism an unprofitable undertaking. 

Fox News and the conservative media sector (including the conservative blogosphere) provide a “self-protective enclave” for conservatives to cocoon themselves. Research demonstrates that the more a person consumes conservative media, the more likely she is to dismiss any news or arguments that contradict the conservative position as liberal propaganda and lies. Tom Frank argued that the point of conservative media is to facilitate a “deliberate cognitive withdrawal from the shared world” by their adherents. Conservative media also, to a remarkable extent, stay on message, and the message is largely that of the Republican Party; these media, at least Fox News and Limbaugh, seem to march in lockstep with the same talking points, the same issues, and even the same terminology deployed across the board. They apply the core principles of advertising and propaganda.

There of course never WAS a "Left wing media," only a media that presented all sides of an issue and did so factually, And since a fair exposure of the Right Wing agenda rarely looked appetizing to the American people that simply could not be allowed to continue.  

The rabid partisanship which is currently ripping our nation asunder can be traced back to the initial conversation between Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch that ultimately resulted in the birth of Fox News.

Benedict Arnold had NOTHING on those two.