More Inconvenient Truths for the Right

As expected, the right is laying into Al Gore again. And as expected, they're wrong.

"...trumpet too much, but we did say Monday that right-wing pundits would start laying into Al Gore. Now the..."

Feb. 28, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Look Who's (Still) Talking

Miers nomination pushes right-wing spin machine into disturbing, delicious overdrive

"...represents the perfect hypocrisy and inherent dishonesty of current right-wing equations. Rhetoric is used to say the opposite of..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: To Whine Is to Love Again

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

"...at the imposing, multistoried, ornately detailed Babylonian facade that pundits have created almost entirely by weaving together different strands..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Everybody Plays the Fool

Neither party is sainted, and dominance tends to encourage the worst of political habits

"...out that I then went on to castigate certain right-wing radio talk-show hosts, as well as the audiences that..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Running in Place

Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades

"...mundane in the action-packed stasis of these primaries. The right-wing pundits' election analysis has taken intellectual dishonesty to new..."

May 30, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Eyes Wide Open

Obama supporters aren't as disillusioned as polls and pundits would have you believe

"...of course, only when the numbers go their way. Right-wing talking heads constantly bring up polls that show the..."

Jan. 21, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Greedy Lying Bastards

The greedy lying bastards are those responsible for destroying our planet's climate, and this documentary is naming names.

"...is outrageous. This, the interviewee says, is a trick right-wing politicians and pundits use when they declare global warming..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Page Two: Dead Dinosaurs

The only legitimate shot at energy independence is to develop alternative power sources

"...When it comes to Guantánamo Bay, the right-wing projection is that progressives who oppose this kind of..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Us Kids

Portrait of the Parkland shooting survivors never comes into focus

"...the online abuse they’ve suffered at the hands of right-wing pundits and politicians has only hastened their celebrity. But..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Hightower Report

Our "Made in China" Christmas; and Left-Wing Penguins and Devilish Tofu

"...Take the recent barrage of right-wing attacks on the little movie Happy Feet, an animated..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

Page Two: Haters and Promises

Whether it's in or it's out, the right twists reality to suit its own views

"...slogans shared by many of our good old, patriotic, right-wing American brethren – who believe that "patriotic" translates into..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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A First Amendment primer for Alex Jones' faithful and others in need

"...As I've noted before, the smug, cigar-smoking, right-wing would-be P.J. O'Rourkes who write us that they only..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Politics of Distraction

In the face of failure at home and abroad, the right turns on immigrants

"...and most of the states were controlled by "conservative" right-wing Republicans. Public mass-media discourse had been dramatically stunted and..."

April 14, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Along the Bias

Lack of media objectivity cuts all ways

"..."truth" of the story beforehand as I do for right-wingers who do the same. This is not a disingenuous..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Light and Darkness

Light and Darkness: In the bright cacophony of black and white, a confession of despair and an ode to uncertainty

"...letters this publication gets from strutting conservatives and would-be right-wing pundits, in which they mouth the pabulum being offered..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Music of the Spheres

We cannot work together unless we can talk to each other

"...to as though one is a young child as right-wing pundits argue that we need to leave those tax..."

June 20, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Attacking the Rights of Those Anti-Dixie Chick

"...Dear Editor, So Louis Black uncovers a right-wing plot to blacklist the Dixie Chicks [“Page Two,” Nov...."

Nov. 6, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two: Hypocrisy and Health Care

Toward a list of ingredients for stew

"...Right-wing pundits often attack the ACLU for being an anti-American,..."

July 3, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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Watching the watchmen

"...unlikely resurrection, the consequence of think tanks, strategists, and pundits working in a coordinated campaign...."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Fear, Anxiety for Texas Trans Kids Under GOP Attack

Republicans' moral panic leads to real panic for marginalized kids

"...Recently, right-wing pundits and online trolls began promoting the notion that..."

April 22, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

SXSW Film Review: Bill Nye: Science Guy

TV science-maker is called into battle against willed ignorance

"...to reason, but who remains a useful tool for right-wing pundits and politicians longing to dismiss the abundant evidence..."

March 13, 2017 SXSW Post by Michael King

Wendy's Daughters Stand Up

Open letters respond to charges Davis was a bad mother

"...inconsistencies in the Wendy Davis biography, none expose the right-wing psyche more than the treatment of her time at..."

Jan. 28, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Luv Doc Recommends: Dart Music International Benefit

The Scoot Inn, Friday, August 7, 2009

"...so strange. And yet, even though certain rednecks and right-wing pundits would have you believe that America is being..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

21 Million Copies of George Will

"...for the liberals: included in their list of political pundits was Garrison Keillor, whose latest column quoted St. Paul..."

Oct. 3, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

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Libby indictment evokes more scapegoating and hypocrisy from the right

"...This latest round showed how little regard the CRR pundits have for history, precedent, the American Constitution, and, most..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Spinning Tales

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

"...Meanwhile, the significant right-wing mainstream media – ignoring the long history of its..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Column by Louis Black

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The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate

"...torture the dictionary into reimagining yet another word. Politicians, pundits, talk-radio hosts and callers, as well as the people..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black

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In a post-Katrina about-face, Republicans suddenly don't want to play the 'blame game'

"...did many others in the aftermath of the storm. Right-wing talk-radio pundits immediately got on board the "no blame"..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.

"...with us). There is something perversely intriguing about having right-wing talk-show fans parrot the party line at you, adding..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Budgetary Fantasies

Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise

"...good chunk of the American people or the media pundits who analyze the public's political behavior in order to..."

Nov. 26, 2010 Column by Louis Black

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