Fair and Balanced? Fox News Gives Republicans $1 Million

Pesky things, those open-government transparency initiatives. Put your records online, and who knows what those pesky citizens will find? Well, for one thing, we can discover that Fox News gave the Republican Governors Associate a cool $1 million for political purposes. No bias there, right?

Here's the link to the IRS form where the Repubs had to report it. And here's the link to the longer story on Daily Kos. The poster, News Corpse, also tracked down the Dem Gov form, and guess how much good old Rupert "I don't give a shit about journalism" Murdoch gave to the Dems? Nada. Zilch.

So, for anyone who still believes that Faux News is anything but a shill for the right wing -- talk to the hand form.

Best Quote Ever About Fox News

Had to pass this on:

Recently, Fox News pushed a Daily Mail story about global warming that was full of falsehoods, half-facts, and bad science. The title? "Could we be in for 30 years of global cooling?" The expert it was supposedly based on? Dr. Mojib Latif of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Except ... it wasn't true. Dr. Latif never said the things attributed to them, and he certainly isn't a climate-change denier. In fact, he states repeatedly that rapid warming is all-but-inevitable over the next two decades.

Here's the quote, though, that just perfectly captures Fox News:

He had me reread the quotes attributed to him a number of times, asking twice, “those are direct quotes?” After I did, he said to me:  “I don’t know what to do.  They just make these things up.”

Pretty dead-on accurate, don't you think? In fact, I think that would make a great tagline for the national Fox News Network:

Fox News -- we just make shit up.