It's the best proven technique: "I can’t imagine Fox News Channel or friend of Fox News Channel having some fancy 'launch party' at a fancy NYC upper east side address with a bunch of celebrities for a new cable news show," says Greta van Susteren. (A patently untrue thing, as those of us who were there for the last one will recall.) She now makes north of a million dollars a year; I'm sure she's never been to a fancy party with celebrities in her life. (She also works for someone who rents out his boat for $300,000 a week, you know.) This poor-acting is [...]

Were you aware that the term "class warfare" could just as easily describe attacks directed by the rich against the poor as those made by the poor against the rich? Not if you get your news from the mainstream media, according to Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). A recent survey of major news organizations' use of the phrase shows that "it was almost 18 times more likely to describe bottom-up action-rhetoric or policy decisions perceived as benefiting the poor or lower classes-than it was to describe top-down action (90 percent vs. 5 percent of occurrences)." Let's all look surprised!