President Barack Obama—painted by the FoxNews brush in shades of ghetto, pork, and gangsta'

An all too absurd and frightfully telling confirmation on the media's ongoing visual-rhetorical-liguistic scheme to provoke and perpetuate difference, antipathy, and general melaninophobia, brought to you, of course, by the good ol' boys at FoxNews—I wonder if Michael Steele or Herman Cain showed up at this urban-flavored, scary soiree in DC?

At Least Stalin had Expert Photographers in the Darkroom, Fox News Just Calls Up Footage Catch as Catch Can

First the Soviets with their madcap pre-photoshop editing hijinks, now Fox News... We are SO surprised.

New York Magazine on Fox News' Anti-Semitic Photoshopping

Click the image above for New York Magazine's take on Fox's Goebbels-reminiscent image doctoring; Media Matters is on it here. Below, Ailes, with his once-a-literary-critic chum.


A tex[t]-Mextian sidelight--Time is making more and more of their archive available: here, a period, cautionary tale from 1941. The scapegoating of immigrants ("Mexicans"), the manufactutred zeitgeist of the current era, is being driven by engines of hate blasting out the backside of Ailes's, et al's miasmic fascism.