FCC Proposes Fine for Airing Paid Pundit

The government on Thursday proposed fines totaling $76,000 against two broadcast companies for failing to tell viewers that programs featuring columnist Armstrong Williams were sponsored by the Education Department.

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Give Them A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

Everyone who cares about this country should turn the tables on the media. Anyone that's been paying attention knows that the media only cares about ratings which is partly why they continue to instigate any situation that could become divisive.

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I think this is the final straw for me. If American citizens are so obsessed with causing President Obama to fail that they would stoop to this or believe this for that matter, its time to move to another country.

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This Glenn Beck boycott is fascinating. I wrote a post for Andrew Sullivan on the substance of the matter last week, and I think it holds up okay. Let me just say that I continue to be amazed that some people think there is a free speech issue here.

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Ben Stein's TV ads for a scuzzy "free" credit product have finally caught up to him: The New York Times has fired Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating ethics guidelines.

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excerpt: ""William the Bloody Kristol passed on his wisdom for the American people and tells his Republican allies to hurt American families.

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My goodness, the subject of free speech elicits a lot of strong feelings. It is of course absolutely vital for different points of view to find their way to the public forum.

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In an earlier post, I promised to grapple with the way political ideas spread. The medium that's interested me most lately is talk radio. Though every host is different, I've spent some time listening to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.

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Newt Gingrich, John McCain, and Dick Cheney appeared as scheduled on Sunday's morning talk show circuit, unleashing a torrent of attacks on President Obama and arguing that the Republican Party should resist efforts to "moderate." On Fox News Sunday, Gingrich called Obama a "McC …

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" ... If majorities say they favor a probe, the news orgs will report the results and it'll make a short term media splash. Then pundits will promptly forget the poll ever existed.

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A few weeks ago, the Alexa Foundation, a group that offers support to rape victims, made the bizarre decision to invite right-wing propagandist Bill O'Reilly to speak at a fundraiser.

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This Thanksgiving, I heard one of my various relatives say, "Keith Olbermann is just as bad as Bill O'Reilly. He's just the O'Reilly of the left."

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Rachel Maddow always thought she was an outsider. How did she become a star?

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FOR THOSE who continue to insist that the U.S. is a "center-right" nation, at least one of these two things must be true: either they didn't observe the same election that the rest of us did; or they did observe it, and have decided to ignore it.

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This has been a campaign season when the conventional wisdom has fared about as well as Bob Barr's prospects for moving into the Oval Office.

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CNN Headline News is losing a headliner. And Fox News is gaining one. Glenn Beck, a best-selling author and radio host who has hosted a nightly show on CNN's Headline News since 2006, is moving to the top-rated Fox News Channel.

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I love the way Gergen makes me feel calm, even when he's making dire predictions about the future of our country. I love the way he knows everything and then formulates an opinion about everything that's always right.

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VP Debate Leaves Questions Unanswered – Palin Still Shines

Squaring off with Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin shined and proved once again that she is the best choice for the GOP in today's climate of woefulness about the outgoing administrations legacy.

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Sarah Palin makes Keith Olbermann pay. He had it coming.

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Maverick is His Name: Gambling is His Game

Remember James Garner as Maverick in the 1960's western/comedy? Well, would we want self proclaimed Mavericks to run our country? Candidate slating is about preparing to govern a nation - not casting a movie.

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McCain's approach and tone on foreign policy has always been more emblematic of a tv pundit rather than a sober president.

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Another rare icon of conservativism in the media is leaving the public stage. Here's wishing for the best, and now it's up to the rest of us to fill what little of the void we can.

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Back in the spinach crisis of 2006, many spoke of the importance of efforts to get compensation for innocent spinach farmers who had been crushed by the FDA's action.

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Has anyone ever described themselves as an "intellectual," or given it as the answer to the question, "And what do you do?" The very term "public intellectual" sometimes affects me like the expression "organic food." After all, there can't be any "inorganic" …

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PerishablePundit.com , which is written by the Editor-in-Chief of PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine, has posted an in-depth round up of its exhaustive coverage of the Salmonella SaintPaul/Tomato crisis. The roundup is updated frequently.

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