Tag Archives: Fox News

Work it

Posted on 3/20/2013 by John Casey

Rogers Ailes, head of Fox News, seems to think that government work makes you lazy (via TPM): “Obama’s the one who never worked a day in his life,” Ailes said in Zev Chafets’ book “Roger Ailes: Off Camera.” “He never … Continue reading →

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Pump up the jam, pump it up

Posted on 3/12/2013 by John Casey

Timorous airline passenger and Fox News alleged liberal Juan Williams has admitted to making one of his weekly columns an undergraduate copy paste job.  According to Salon‘s Alex Seitz-Wald: In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — … Continue reading →

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Ein Volk

Posted on 2/26/2012 by John Casey

Seems obvious that racism is not just hatred of another race.  Someone tell Juan Williams and Pat Buchanan.  Note the following puzzling exchange on Fox News (via the Huffington Post): Williams added, "In your case, the charge is one that … Continue reading →

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Nut picking

Posted on 2/16/2012 by John Casey

Nut picking is a variety of straw man fallacy where one selects the looniest advocates of a position as representative of the best or the majority of the opposition.  Fear of nut picking often leads to iron manning–purposely ignoring the … Continue reading →

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The sleep of the just

Posted on 9/12/2011 by John Casey

Over at Fox News, Chris Wallace is complaining about liberal bias.  He does so in a way that reminds one of Steve Colbert's allegation that "reality has a well-known liberal bias."  Here's how Talking Points Memo reports it: Chris Wallace … Continue reading →

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Did it for the lulz*

Posted on 4/1/2011 by John Casey

For whatever reason, honestly and firmly believing what you argue seems to be a fundamental requirement in a critical discussion.  On account of this, a key challenge to an opponent is that not even she really believe what she's saying. … Continue reading →

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Daily Show on Nutpicking

Posted on 1/28/2011 by John Casey

Watch at this link for a fun back-and-forth between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly on the argumentum ad Hitlerum.  TL;DR for O'Reilly, his Nazi invocation (about "the left") is just fine because his assistants found an anonymous commenter at a … Continue reading →

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