Fox Fails To Apologize For Ray Rice 'Take The Stairs' Joke
If you blinked while watching Fox & Friends this morning, you probably missed how the show "addressed" the backlash against co-host Brian Kilmeade's tasteless joke yesterday about Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée to the ground: "I think the message is, take the stairs." There was no apology and no remorse, either. In fact, Fox suggested that anyone who took offense is to blame for misunderstanding.
Read moreFox To Address Ray Rice 'Stairs' Joke Tomorrow
As I previously posted, this morning's Fox & Friends made a tasteless joke about Ray Rice's knockout punch to his then-fiancée. Apparently, the backlash was so strong that a Fox News spokesperson says the show will address it tomorrow morning.
Read moreAndrea Tantaros Exploits Ray Rice's Domestic Violence To Smear Obama
Early this morning, Fox & Friends trivialized the domestic violence video that showed Baltimore Ravens' Ray Rice punching out his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. But Andrea Tantaros wins the Rice Politicization Award with her attempt to use the awful incident to score some cheap political points by demanding that President Obama and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz speak out about it.
Read moreSean Hannity Defends 'Strong Christian' Phil Robertson's 'Convert or Die' Theology
As are many of Fox News talkers, Sean Hannity is an avowed conservative Catholic. So perhaps he was channeling his inner Torquemada when, last Thursday, he defended the noted theologian and Ducky Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson's "biblical" belief that ISIS should be offered the choice between converting to Christianity or die. Hannity's impassioned support for Robertson, whose words were supposedly "taken out of context," came on the heels of MSNBC's Ed Schultz's skewering of Hannity's hypocrisy in defending the very thing that we are condemning ISIS for doing. So not only did Hannity stand up for his bayou soul brotha; but he engaged in a very Christian ad-hominem attack on Schultz. But Hannity and Robertson are devout pro-life Christian, so it's all good.... As international affairs analysts, not so much!
Read moreTucker Carlson: 'Assault Weapon' Is A Made Up Term And There Really Is No Such Thing
Fox News host Tucker Carlson wasn't just outraged that New York police tried to enforce assault weapons laws he doesn't like, he announced that there is no such thing as an assault weapon to begin with.
Read moreFox & Friends Propaganda Fail? Tucker Carlson Gets School By Sociologist On Single Parent Families!
For the Christian right and its media mouthpiece, Fox News, things were so much better when families consisted of two married parents with a bread-winning dad and stay at home mom. So in order to disparage those slutty single mothers, purveyors of "traditional" morality cling to the belief that all children, in all single parent households, are at a disadvantage. Thus, heterosexual marriage is the only acceptable framework in which to raise kids who otherwise would be raised by lazy takers. This morning, Fox & Friends hosted a sociologist whose research shows that the economics of today's diverse families don't fit the right wing paradigm of the supposed two parent optimum. But Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, not a sociologist, wasn't swayed by the data, so there!
Read moreFox Business Expert: Obama Would Have Lost World War II
Who knew Fox News business experts are also experts in fighting ISIS? And World War II! But, hey, they’ve learned the Fox Golden Rule: Blame Obama as much as possible. What else could they need to know?
Read moreFox & Friends Attacks Healthy School Lunches Because Michelle Obama!
Fox's hatred of Barack Obama is such that not even the First Lady is safe from their slings and arrows of outrageous partisanship. In the world of reality, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was passed by a bi-partisan congress in 2010. But it incorporated nutritional guidelines which were part of Ms. Obama's campaign to end childhood obesity. And that's why the right wing always associates it with Mrs. Obama as a way to attack her for forcing real American kids to eat treasonous socialist junk, like fruits and vegetables rather than real American pizza and fries! Fox & Friends has been in the forefront of the fight against those who seek to take away America's prized status as one of the fattest nations on earth.Yesterday, during a thinly disguised attack on the FLOTUS, our Fox friends lamented, again, that kids just don't like healthy food. And it's all Michelle Obama's fault!
Read moreGeorge Clooney Making Movie About Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal
More bad news for Rupert Murdoch is likely to be good news for those of us who care about media integrity. Actor/director George Clooney has announced that his next film project will be a movie about the phone hacking and other unsavory behavior at Murdoch's U.K. tabloids.
Read moreFox’s Ralph Peters: Obama ‘A Terrified Little Man In A Great Big Job He Can’t Do’
Obama-hating Lt. Col. Ralph Peters joined Obama-hating Sean Hannity for a “fair and balanced” discussion to exploit the ISIS terrorism threat as a vehicle for making their viewers hate Obama even more.
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