Fox News Runs from Mob It Created | NYT Pranked | GOP's Stupid Media Stunts

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Watching Them Squirm: Is Fox News Abandoning the Mob It Created? By Mark Ames, AlterNet A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience. Read more »   Brilliant Spoof: New York Times Satire Claims All Problems Will Be Solved By July 2009 By Jason Linkins, Huffington Post New York City woke up to find that committed satirists had delivered a remarkably well-rendered facsimile of the Times. Read more »   Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda By Chris Hedges, Truthdig Millions of Americans live in a non-reality-based belief system informed by childish clichés - they can barely differentiate between lies and truth. Read more »   CNN's Election Night 3-D Holograms Channel Princess Leia and Obi-Wan By Martin Young, Asia Times The news giant wowed viewers with its holographic projection technology which "beamed" reporters into the studio in true Star Wars fashion. Read more »   The Desperate Right's Five Biggest Flops of the 2008 Election By Brad Reed, AlterNet How Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and other stupid stunts did not win the election for McCain. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     The AP and CNN Get 'The Huxtable Effect' All Wrong By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Brave New Films Why the mainstream media got 'The Huxtable Effect' wrong. Read more »   Scary: The Far-Right's Crazy Attacks on Obama Are Just Getting Started By Bob Cesca, Huffington Post What doesn't kill the far-right only makes them crazier. Read more »   Rachel Maddow Slams Palin's Attack on Bloggers (In Her Pajamas No Less) By Ali Frick, Think Progress Maddow -- who later said she saw herself as "a blogger on TV" -- did the show in her pajamas to show solidarity with bloggers. Read more »   Fake 'McCain Adviser' Tricks News Orgs, Pretends to Be Source of Palin Dirt By Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post It looks like the 'Eisenstadt,' who outed himself as the source of the Sarah Palin leaks, is a hoax. The stories about Palin though ... Read more »

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