Year: 2013
Nice Atheist Collects $125,000 Thanks to Wolf Blitzer’s Douchery
Comedian Doug Stanhope helped raise $125,000 for the tornado victim who told Wolf Blitzer earlier this year that she wasn’t thanking the lord for sparing her and her child because she’s an atheist and doesn’t go in for that sort of thing. But before you go thinking Stanhope did it because he’s a nice guy…well, watch his explanation.
No Northern Neighbor
Some say Tailgunner Ted Cruz is a comedian,
Others say that by birth, he’s an alien.
But to beat that birther trip,
He’s changing his citizenship
And pretty soon he won’t be a Canadian.
As If We Needed Another Sign
If ever there were a sign that the world is a crazy place, that is it.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by ABC News, on Ted Cruz to the Future being the bestselling coloring book on Amazon.
War in Afghanistan the Most Unpopular U.S. Military Action
82%
Of Americans opposed the war in Afghanistan with just 17% in support — making it the most unpopular war in U.S. history, a new CNN/ORC poll finds. Pollster Keating Holland: “Opposition to the Iraq war never got higher than 69% in CNN polling while U.S. troops were in that country, and while the Vietnam War was in progress, no more than six in 10 ever told Gallup’s interviewers that war was a mistake.”
Misinformer of the Year: CBS News
In 2013, CBS News, once the home of giants in journalism like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Conkrite, was caught deliberately misinforming its viewers about a series stories in the news — the Benghazi attacks, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and the NSA. For these other Fox News-worthy exercises in propagandizing for the right wing, Media Matters has named CBS News its 2013 Misinformer of the Year:
