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Plus: TV Watch -- All set for Wednesday's "Rectify" series finale?In her post "Demanding a show of power" today, Digby offers this chunk of her "storification" of a 20-tweet Jay Rosen tweetstorm:-- Digby's excerpt from that 

You can find the piece to which Paul's directing us here."If you as a journalist are going to say that something 'raises questions,' and if you know the answer to those questions, you have to say that, too.

Attack Of The O'Keefe ClonesRob Tornoe, Media Matters for America blog (click to enlarge)"Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky pledged to “introduce an amendment to pending Senate legislation to immediately strip every dollar of Planned Parenthood funding.” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas called for defunding and for “an investigation of Planned Parenthood’s activities regarding the

Plus: The irony of superliar Rafael "Ted fromAlberta" Cruz titling a book A Time For TruthDaily Kos caption: "A Time For Lies?""This fake 'popularity' of conservative books is evidenced by the fact that

Fox News President Roger Ailesby Gaius PubliusIn a rather public and messy way, Roger Ailes has been demoted at Fox News. It started with Rupert Murdoch's plan to pass control of his recently formed media division, 21st Century Fox, to his sons Lachlan and James.From the Fox announcement (my emphasis mine except where noted):

This photo appears to have been taken moments after a secret agent (right) has injected an enemy agent (left) with a deadly toxin that even now is coursing through his veins, causing . . .

by KenLet me say at the outset that I am a singularly poor predictor of those game-changing moments When Right-Wing Scumbag Liars Go Too Far. With alarming frequency one of these hell-clowns says or does something that seems to me so irretrievably blatant that even the stupidest, most blinkered followers can't help but be shaken by, and nothing happens.

FBI Director James Comey at Georgetown Thursdayby KenIn his column today, "Silence from the right on James Comey's race talk," the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart raises a fascinating point in the aftermath of the hard-hitting speech given by FBI Director James Comey on the subject of race and law enforcement Thursday at Georgetown University: Why, instea

-- from Michael Moore's Facebook page [click to enlarge]by KenI've been paying as little attention as I could decently get away with to American Sniper, and so I'm coming late to the brouhaha caused by Michael Moore's forceful expression of disapproval.

Fox Noise has backed off the "no-go zones," but not our Booby.by KenBoy, all of today's stories seem to just tie together! Earlier today we were talking about the, er, distinguished roster of orators who have made their name in the Village by delivering responses to the president's State of the Union address, especially in the Age of Obama -- a list that will now and forever be headed by the biggest boob of them all, Louisiana Gov. Booby Jindal.