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Erick-Erickson-CNN-2-cropped-proto-custom_28-615x345Fox News contributor Erick Erickson delved further into controversy today by claiming that most primates are more intelligent than human women.

In an interview on Lou Dobbs' radio show today, the founder of conservative blog RedState was asked why he thought there had never been a female president and responded in typically misogynistic fashion.... Read More →

 

Screen-Shot-2012-12-14-at-7.22.40-PM-1280x900Outspoken radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has called the Cleveland, Ohio, kidnapping case a “false flag operation” by the U.S. government and New World Order to increase police surveillance and enact gun control.

Jones questioned the official version of the kidnapping and the rescue on his radio show today and suggested it was another covert plot by the U.S. government, echoing similar claims he made about the Boston Marathon bombings.... Read More →

 

66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra)Filmmaker Michael Moore signed a $10 million contract today to write, direct, and produce a documentary on the history of socialism.

The upcoming project from Annapurna Pictures will be filmed in Germany, Russia, Cuba, China and the United States and will argue that only a strict interpretation of Marxism can save the world from "global capitalist destruction."... Read More →

 

98557606.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-largeAfter CNN drew its highest ratings in decades during its coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, the network’s new president is saying a different approach to covering the news might bring in more viewers.

President Jeff Zucker cited CNN’s high ratings as evidence that viewers tune in when the network is covering important breaking news, according to a recent memo he sent to network executives and newsroom editors, which was leaked to the news media.... Read More →

 

Screen-Shot-2012-12-14-at-7.22.40-PM-1280x900Outspoken radio host Alex Jones has claimed two “Looney Tunes” characters predicted the Boston Marathon attacks as part of a wider false flag operation involving the U.S. government and cartoons.

Jones, who is best known for fostering conspiracy theories on his national radio show and website, attracted controversy last week for suggesting two out-of-context clips from a recent episode of “Family Guy” had predicted the Boston Marathon bombings.... Read More →

 

Marilyn-Hagerty_2165801bUsers of the social news site Reddit are drawing criticism this morning for incorrectly identifying an 86-year-old grandmother from North Dakota as a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks has reportedly gone into hiding to protect herself from media scrutiny following accusations on Reddit that she ate dinner with the two bombing suspects at a Boston-area Olive Garden on the night of the incident.... Read More →

 

ingrahmFox News claimed today that Newtown mass murderer Adam Lanza "must have been a Democrat."

During a segment of America Live this afternoon, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham and host Megyn Kelly said that new evidence released yesterday about Lanza's lifestyle, personality, and hobbies showed "clear indications of liberalism."... Read More →

 

1363640049454.cached CNN aired a startling segment today praising convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky and lamenting his harsh prison sentence.

The bizarre exchange on Candy Crowley's State of the Union comes just days after the network hosted a similar conversation many accused of sympathizing with the Steubenville, Ohio, rapists.... Read More →

 

Today the Australian Parliament announced a new youth outreach program designed to bridge the generational divide between MPs and their under-25 constituents.

In the press conference in Canberra, Steven Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy,  introduced a series of Youtube videos which feature MPs reading comments from their constituents to an audio track typically associated with pornographic films.... Read More →

 

Glenn Beck - the conservative American talk show host and former alcoholic morning radio clown - has introduced a new product which promises to revolutionize the U.S. home Muslim detection market.

For the low, low price of only 4 payments of $199 Glenn Beck fans can now buy their own personal gold-plated Muslim detector, which Beck describes as "the ultimate jihad-aversion device for freedom-loving, god-fearing Americans."... Read More →

 

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch - the founder and chairman of News Corporation (NWS) - is reducing the amount of panda blood he has injected into his heart each day, The Daily Currant can reveal.

The Australian-born 81 year old has consumed raw vials of baby panda blood each day for the past ten years in an effort to stave off death and avoid a messy secession fight among his family for control of his media empire.

There is no scientific evidence that the treatment works, and it entails capturing and eventually killing scores of baby great pandas - one of the most notable endangered species in the world.... Read More →

 

Australia's national telecommunications operator Telstra has announced that broadband speeds in Oz will slow to a trickle in the coming days due to the overloading of one of its undersea cables linking the island nation to North America.

The Telstra Endeavour submarine cable - which connects Australian computers to the wider Internet though the U.S. state of Hawaii - is dangerously overcapacity due almost entirely to Americans attempting to view videos of Australia's vlogette fatale: Natalie Tran. ... Read More →

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