Frankly, Fox News, what took so damn long? After months of doing pretty much nothing since he lost his re-election bid to patrick Murphy, Allen West has finally landed himself a job! In the most obvious hiring of all time, West will become a Fox News contributor, the network announced on Thursday. ... More >>
President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday night to apologize for calling her "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country" during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Thursday afternoon in Atherton, California. And rightly so. Obama ... More >>
Turns out James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who theorized the Sandy Hook massacre might be a mass media conspiracy, has a history of paranoid weirdness.Students say the guy went off in class. And his academic work hints at how someone could go so off the tracks. In a book review ... More >>
A "mystery man" with press credentials gave the middle finger to hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers on Monday. Former General and presidential candidate Wesley Clark was being interviewed by pundit Shepard Smith at Boca's Lynn University. At about 2 p.m., Clark was answering questions from S ... More >>
As we noted earlier, we've invaded Lynn University for tonight's third and final presidential debate. As get ready to live-blog tonight's nuttery for you, please enjoy the photos of things we've spotted so far, including a Budweiser taste testing booth for the media (woo-hoo!) and John Kerry looki ... More >>
With the election a mere weeks away and the polls tightening ever so much, campaign workers and volunteers are burning the midnight oil to get their man a November victory. They're knocking on doors, registering folks to vote, and making phone calls to educate the masses on the qualities of their c ... More >>
Son of Sam had talking dogs. This guy has Steve Doocy. Lake Park resident David A. Kappheim, who is apparently obsessed with Fox News and the Republican Party, is in jail after he threatened to kill his liberal girlfriend. According to a police report, the 60-year-old Kappheim was involved in a nu ... More >>
Because he doesn't "mince words," and "pulls no punches," and "keeps it real," Rep. Allen West went on Fox News Saturday morning and told America that "Obama is serving up a crap sandwich with a smile." The term is supposedly a military term. Because West likes to remind everyone that he was in the ... More >>
Renegade Fox News employee Joe Muto got a lot of attention when he joined Gawker and started writing dispatches from the inside of the Murdoch empire. He got only one post in before he was found out and fired from Fox, with a follow-up letter from the legal folks being sent to Gawker threatening leg ... More >>
When asked about a vice presidential nod by CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien this morning, Congressman Allen West that he is "always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity that the American people would desire.""As far as the vice president thing, you know, who knows what the future ... More >>
Fox News stooped to a bit of copyright infringement last week in lifting a story from the Pulp. In response, we sent a letter to Fox this morning with a reasonable demand for compensation. Dearest Fox News,It came as some surprise to see your January 27 article titled "Epic Campaign Ad Brings Oba ... More >>
Roger Ailes: You owe me money, dude.Fox News likes to mock news from liberal media. Today, however, they plagiarized some.We already know what Fox thinks of New Times -- when we accused Congressman Allen West of violating the flag code by taking an American flag scuba diving, Fox News r ... More >>
Fox "News"If Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said something profoundly stupid, we'd be all over it.Unfortunately, this is a case of a Fox News writer saying something profoundly stupid.When the headline "DNC Chair Blames Tea Party for Tucson Shooting" comes with a chopped-up video clip and an ellip ... More >>
Rep. Allen West, the self-proclaimed Harriet Tubman.It seems like yesterday was another day Congress didn't get too much done, and Rep. Allen West made another appearance on Fox News to run his mouth.The Senate voted heavily in favor of the payroll tax cut extension worked out by both parties' le ... More >>
Rep. Allen West is looking for cuts to make in the federal government to spare the defense budget, so he thinks there's no reason for the Department of Commerce to exist since there's a lobbying group with a similar name.West seems a bit confused on this one.He says we need to take a hard look at ... More >>
Earl RynersonEarl Rynerson -- a constant critic of Fort Lauderdale's current leadership under Mayor Jack Seiler -- announced on Veteran's Day that he'll be running for the mayor's spot again.Rynerson, who spent 20 years in the military, made the call "official" on his website -- abetterfortlauder ... More >>
Email comes in, new email allegedly goes out. You can't explain that.Fox News has been accused of distorting its news content in the past. Often.Now, a St. Petersburg man says he sent an email to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, and it ended up being displayed on his show, the O'Reilly Factor. Well, ... More >>
Harriet TubmanBelieve it or not, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" who compared being gay to liking ice cream and riding scooters, said gay soldiers can "change their behavior," called not-a-lady Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz the "most vile, unprofessional, and de ... More >>
About a month from now, most of the GOP presidential candidates will be in Orlando for the Republican Party of Florida's "Presidency 5" straw poll.It'll work a little differently than the recent Iowa straw poll -- the 3,500 delegates will be pre-selected, and neither Michele Bachmann nor Mitt ... More >>
More than 80 U.S. lawmakers are headed to Israel during Congress' vacation, but Rep. Allen West said yesterday he's more than ready to come back to the House floor and run the place by himself.Both chambers of Congress are in recess until September 5, which hasn't been sitting too well with sever ... More >>
Just in time for national Blueberry Pancake Day (Friday, Jan. 28) and just on the heels of the Taco Bell faux beef scandal comes a report that those "blueberries" you think you're eating in many cereals, pastries and muffins actually aren't blueberries at all, but rather chemical concoctions of s ... More >>
This photo of Gov. Charlie Crist and Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter could be a classic someday. They look so darned happy. Inside see more.
Photo: Robert Kunst for CongressKunst wants to defeat Wasserman Schultz, then impeach Obama, then protest Wasserman Schultz and Obama policies.Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a tough customer -- so tough that even a hardened combat vet-turned-politician like Allen West didn't dare run against her, ev ... More >>
Flickr: Broward Democratic PartyAs long as he's the chairman, Democrats have to laugh at Ceasar's jokes.Mitch Ceasar, clown dictator of the Broward County Democratic Party, has lent his not-considerable wit to a column for today's edition of the Huffington Post. Since your time is valuable (and m ... More >>
If you noticed that the service at the Fort Lauderdale Blue Martini was really, really slow on Sunday, that's probably because it was amateur hour behind the bar. YouTube celebrity and congressional candidate Allen West was mixing drinks as part of the bar's Forgotten Soldiers Outreach event.That "R ... More >>
An old editor I used to know gave me a line to use every time someone complained to me that journalists write only about bad news: "Would you rather read an article about a plane that landed safely or about the one that crashed?"For Fox News producers, the mere prospect of a plane crashing was indu ... More >>
Sorry, Fox News, but ol' Jeb ain't quite ready to announce his support for Marco Rubio. He'll need a bigger stage than Neil Cavuto's show. It'll happen at a time and a place when it can do maximum damage to the Crist senatorial campaign. And when it happens, let's all remember to be surprised, or l ... More >>
Your local congressional candidate Allen West is Fox News' go-to guy on the treatment of suspected terrorists. He's outraged that we read them their Miranda rights -- just like Sen. George LeMieux is. That damned liberal Barack Obama isn't as "tough on terror" as a true Republican like George W. Bu ... More >>
Flickr User: misternaxalThat's a screen grab from Fox News' recent coverage of disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford. Notice the single letter next to Sanford's name: "D" as in Democrat.In fact, Sanford is a Republican. Now, I understand that typos happen -- this blog being the exception to the rule. But this ... More >>
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