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Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

It's the actors who need rescue in this trapped-whale saga

Daniel Wozniak's Jailhouse Closeup

[Moxley Confidential] The actor and double-murder defendant's appearance on MSNBC's 'Lockup' has one victim's dad crying foul

The Hard Cell At the OC Jail

[Moxley Confidential] Deputies locked an innocent man in a cell with a homicidal, white-supremacist gangster and walked away

MSNBC's Five Hottest Foodie Trends... Yawn.

​Don't you just love it when the national media write about foodie trends? It always makes me think they're writing for people in some forgotten backwater who honestly do think that adding a packet of seasoning from Tastefully Simple to a cheese ball makes for a sophisticated, New York-style party ... More >>

Live From Ground Zero, Al Jazeera Presents Obama

​You can watch live coverage of President Barack Obama's speech this morning at Ground Zero on a cable news channel, your favorite network or a local newscast.But for something completely different turn not to Monty Python but KCET, the SoCal channel formerly known as a PBS station, which will pre ... More >>

Fox News Screws Up Again: Claims 'Bulletstorm' Game is Responsible for Increase in Rape (Among Other Things)

​John Brandon of Fox News recently published a hard-hitting news report about Bulletstorm, the upcoming video game from Epic Games. And when I say "hard-hitting," what I really mean is "hilariously unresearched."Fox News, once again, has seriously screwed up.

Shocker: OC GOPer Slams Obama on . . . Fox!

​"It's a disaster . . . He's the anti-Lincoln . . . This thin-skinned president."--Orange County Republican celebrity Hugh Hewitt happily commenting tonight on Hannity's Fox News show about President Barack Obama's decision today to sack outspoken General Stanley McChrystal. Because Hewitt would n ... More >>

See Dick Run . . . Away From Indoctrination Into the Gay Vegan Godless Proletarian Revolution!

​Katharine DeBrecht, a Fox News favorite who has already foisted onto young minds Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, has written a follow-up titled Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!, an anti-Obama screed she boasts is "a hilarious and entertaining way ... More >>

Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?

​Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .

Piercing Through the Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Fued

​Perhaps the blood feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann can be resolved with a simple game of darts.That's what an Israel-based graphic arts website seems to believe with the portraits it has bound for the cable TV blabbermouths who go head-to-head--and toe-to-toe--on Fox News and MSNBC ... More >>

Orange County Clergy Goes Hollywood for Obamacare

Yes, the people popping up everywhere to disrupt explanations of Obamacare by congress people and administration folk seldom get covered these days. A favorite was two days ago on CNN, when the anchorwoman cut to such a town hall where a U.S. senator was detailing the plan. Without ha ... More >>

Tax-Pot-to-Save-Teachers Ad is Too Hot for TV

Every two-bit party hack, corporate lobbying group and, yes, of course, The Chosen One can get TV airtime to sway the masses this way and that, to and fro, the hot issue du jour. But make that issue the legalization of marijuana so that it may be taxed to save our state from going into the shitter a ... More >>

Rev. Rick Warren Loves Gay People

He loves them so much that he offers them doughnuts and water! See, he's not a bad guy just because he wants to deny these loving, committed couples their equal rights. Listen to his heartfelt explanation to Ann Curry about why doughnuts water = not homophobic, during their interview set to air on ... More >>

Foods to Show Country of Origin

According to various news reports and this one from ABC News, beginning this week, the USDA is requiring that all food retailers label some foods with their country of origin. The law, called COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) will mandate that the consumer is informed where all "raw beef, veal, lam ... More >>

Rappers or Republicans?

In May, we posited that southern hip hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you're still not conv ... More >>

Why Southern Hip-Hop Is the Same as FOX News

FOX NEWS: Why New Mexico is so close

Some googly-eyed, drooly-mouthed Fox News talking head just said that the reason why New Mexico is so tight between Obama and Clinton (as of 10:50 p.m.) is because parts of the state were hit with a snowstorm today, and that many of Hillary's Latino supporters couldn't claw their way out of the snow ... More >>

Bill O'Reilly and the Media Mobius Strip

Long Beach Colbert-o-scam?

On the October 16 episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, television news anchor and Emmy nominee Stephen Colbert announced that he was "officially considering" whether or not he would announce if he was considering running for President of the United States, and would make that ... More >>

"Only in New Jersey!"

And other important "local" stories on Daybreak OC

Beating Mexicans and Fox News Reporters

Yesterday, with little or no warning, LAPD officers attacked unarmed Fox News personnel as well as men, women, children and the elderly gathered peacefully in Los Angeles--during the May 1 immigration rallies. Women? Children? Elderly? And Fox News personnel? We can guess that those cops rarely ... More >>

Slack jawed, Hounddog, and Mr. Donohue (not) at the movies

If there's one thing OC Weekly has in plentiful supply, it's Catholics of varying stripes-- devout, cafeteria, lapsed, vigorously lapsed, potential anti-pope-- with colorful and occasionally bizarre stories from their contacts with Holy Mother Church and its numerous franchises and subsidiaries. Fr ... More >>

Staying the Course, a Bush Family Value

As you've no doubt heard, Operation Iraqi Chaos (or whatever the official name is for the U.S. invasion and occupation) has now lasted longer than America's involvement in World War II. And judging by President Bush's statement this morning, American troops won't be leaving anytime soon. "There's o ... More >>

Our House Is A Very Very Democratic House

First it was MSNBC. Then it was CNN. Now, finally, even Fox News has acknowledged the (apparently) obvious: The Democrats shall retake Congress. MSNBC predicts a thorough stomping, giving the Dems as many as 234 seats (leaving Repugnicans with 201), with a margin of error of 10 seats. CNN is more h ... More >>

Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)

Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily ... More >>

Minuteman's Time Up

Certain students at Columbia University are none too fond of Jim Gilchrist. Yesterday the former accountant and OC native's speech was interrupted by protesters storming the stage, where some sort of fracas broke out. Though many news accounts suggest that Gilchrist himself was attacked, he appears ... More >>

Can You Hear Me Now?

In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained. --from Federal District Court Judge Anna D ... More >>

Remote Hog

Global Warming: What You Need to Know With Tom Brokaw

Papa Bear Coming to The Dick

From the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Deathplace and Untruthiness Center: BILL O'REILLY SET FOR NIXON LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 28 TV, Radio Superstar coming to launch Culture Warrior One of the biggest figures in American media, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, has selected the Nixon Library for the West C ... More >>

This is Dave Lopez Reporting

Surely it pales in comparison to being named by the Weekly as Orange County's best television reporter , but KCBS veteran Dave Lopez, who has in particular raked from the same muck patch as our own R. Scott Moxley when it comes to covering the oh-so-corrupt OC Sheriff's Department, will be presented ... More >>

Reconquista Time, Baby!

Wanted to see a replay of that bukkake-loving Kobe's amazing shot last night, but the newscasters only wanted to talk Mexicans. Wanted to hear Traffic on the 1's on KFWB-AM 980, but all they wanted to talk about is Mexicans. Yep: the Day Without an Immigrant is here--in fact, hear me at 1 p.m. on th ... More >>

O Say, Can You See...

If you're outraged by the idea of people singing the Star Spangled Banner in something other than English (a bit awkward having to make a nationalistic argument regarding language when your language is named for a different nation, but you have to work with what you've got), like, say, the new Spani ... More >>

Commie Girl

Something About Mexicans
Its time we had a conversation with Gustavo Arellano

This Week in Feeling 15 Again

Ray Bradbury

The Knightly News

George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

No Stunt Hair Necessary

For Steve Carell, the road to movie stardom was lined with dehydration and body waxing

Blended Burgundy

Will Ferrells anchorman: Equal parts Dunphy, Moyer, Snyder, et al.

The presidents conservative critics

The Presidents Conservative Critics

Gorbasms

Schwarzenegger gets OCs nuts excited

The Tonys!

The DAs enemies list? Its an honor!

Campus Radicals

The Republican campaign to dominate universities comes to Fullerton

Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll

Picture Perfect

Deep, Deep, Deep Undercover

Santa Ana P.I. is medias favorite terrorist tracker

Take the Last Train to Modesto

Goodbye, Gurza

Plus, the powers out! The Times bites! Let Freedom wring!

Breaking News!

Worm in a Web

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