Nancy Giles from CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC stops by to talk about Louis CK, Brett Ratner, George Herbert Walker Bush, Donald Trump, Judge Roy Moore and all the other toxic men who make it so difficult for women to earn a living.
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West Virginia voters in the second congressional district have a chance to vote for the Independent Ed Rabel who takes no corporate funding. One of Cronkite’s boys, Rabel is a legendary radio, TV and print journalist as well as an outspoken critic of Big Coal and Big Money. Originally broadcast on The David Feldman Show.
The next Bernard Goldberg? When you can no longer cut it in journalism go to work for Fox. Salon writes…
The next Bernard Goldberg?
Sharyl Attkisson has principles. The former CBS News investigative correspondent became a heroine to conservatives for her intense, unerring, borderline obsessive focus on Benghazi. She ended up resigning from the network in March, implying that her bosses were trying to censor her and infect her reporting with malicious political bias. With that act of career martyrdom she instantly became a candidate for canonization by right-wing pundits and activists, and an important figure in the ongoing Benghazi conspiracy, which assumes a certain amount of media complicity in covering up THE TRUTH. Since then Attkisson has made the rounds with conservative […]
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Alan Abel has been pranking the media since the 1960s.
Originally broadcast June 18, 2012. Prankster Alan Abel has been playing tricks on journalists for five decades. He is the subject of the award winning documentary “Abel Raises Cain” recounting a lifetime of preying on the sloppiness and downright laziness of American media. Then Eddie Pepitone tells us about how he lost his virginity to his college professor. And we kick around an idea for a movie. With Paul Dooley, Frank Conniff, Jimmy Dore, Stefane Zamorano, Jeremy S. Kramer, Dylan Brody and David Weiss.
“Before Stephen Colbert, there was Alan Abel, the man behind the world’s most infamous pranks.”
— The Toronto Star
“Like a reverse Jon Stewart, Abel has been creating fake news… preying on mainstream media’s insatiable thirst for the lurid, the perverse, and the wacky.”
— PBS POV blog
“Alan Abel is a master spoofer with incredibly perceptive insights into the human comedy.”
— San Francisco Examiner
“Abel challenges the obvious and utters the outrageous.”
— New York Times
“Abel is the Franz Liszt of put-on artists, the Rembrandt of the ridiculous”
— Cleveland Press
“The imagination and sheer guts of Mr. Abel are pure delight.”
— Erma Bombeck
“His droll dry wit is hilarious… it’s intelligent humor.”
— New Orleans Times
“Alan Abel is a jester with a serious face bound for an adventure in absurdity.”
— Atlanta Constitution
“Long before the Yes Men satirized Exxon and Halliburton, and before Ashton Kutcher was born, Alan Abel was the undisputed king of media hoaxers.”
— UTNE Reader
“Alan Abel is devilishly clever, perhaps the greatest hoaxer of our times.”
— New York Daily News