This Week:

AlterNet has released a new book from Rory O' Connor -- Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio, and we've got a new excerpt from it on Michael Savage, one of the worst peddlers of hate.

Written by veteran media critic and Emmy winner Rory O'Connor, Shock Jocks features unsparing profiles of the ten worst conservative radio talkers in America, including Michael Savage, Bill O' Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus and the rest. Shock Jocks highlights the politicized and often factually challenged world of talk radio that dominates a sizable portion of America's airwaves, and shows how misogyny, racism, and utter contempt for other human beings is disguised as "free speech."

Check it out!

If Congress Slaps Rove with Contempt, How Will His Bosses at Fox and Newsweek Deal with It?
By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
The press is too busy employing -- and praising -- Rove to notice his mounting legal jeopardy. Read more »

Right Is Wrong -- How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America
By Arianna Huffington, Knopf Publishing
The GOP is now a dark, putrefied party of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and Coulter. And we're all the worse because of it. Read more »

The Real McCain That the Corporate Media Won't Show You
By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
Video: John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing nothing to present the truth. Read more »

Right-Wing Media Using Immigration Debate to Mainstream Hate
By Ali Gharib, AlterNet
By poisoning the public discourse with disinformation, Right-wing talkers improve their ratings while leaving us far from fixing a broken system. Read more »

What Makes a Movie Sexist?
By Lisa Kansas, Punkass Blog
Is Iron Man sexist, or just an accurate reflection of sexism in our society? Read more »

Clarifying Obama's Position on Net Neutrality
By Matt Stoller, Open Left
What did an Obama spokesman mean by "tiered pricing?" Read more »

FOX's Ollie North Wrong on Iran (Yet Again!)
By DJK, Brave New Films
Talking to Iran = Bad, Selling Arms to Iran = "Neat" Read more »