Fox News Doctors Palin's Bailin' As Alaska Governor
Fox News did a little image makeover for newly-returned pundit Sarah Palin a few days ago when, in an article about Alaska politics, the "fair and balanced" folks described the improbability of her return to office with the following: "She hasn’t run for elected office since resigning as Alaska governor to become the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and recently returned to Fox News as a paid commentator." The problem with that statement? Palin did not resign to become the nominee. She resigned in 2009 - nearly a year after she became the nominee and about seven months after Barack Obama had been inaugurated - amid a swirl of ethics complaints. (H/T News Corpse)
Read moreFox News Most Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll – July 4th Edition
While most Americans were probably thinking about going to the beach and barbecuing this week, those “fair and balanced” folks at Fox News were thinking of ways to ram their agenda down the throats of the rest of us and smearing anyone who disagrees with them along the way. Here is a collection of their "patriotic" outrageousness for you, our readers, to mull over. Because, as always, while many can be nominated, only one can be the Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week.
Read moreHannity Hosts Islamophobic Hate Monger Pamela Geller As Egypt Expert
Pamela Geller has no expertise on Egypt, U.S. foreign policy or even the religion of Islam – other than the fact that her hostility is so extreme, her organization has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Great Britain recently banned her from entering their country because her visit was deemed “not conducive to the public good.” But the Hannity show presented her as an authority to comment on the then-demonstrations against Egypt’s President Morsi last week. Geller not only displayed her ignorance and shallow grasp of the situation, but she got a good chunk of sympathetic air time to hate monger, including saying that President Obama is “consistently on the side of jihadic, Islamic supremacist regimes.”
Read moreTodd Starnes Impressed With 'Giant Burrito' At Gay Pride Parade?!
Culture warrior extraordinaire, Paula Deen supporter, and Fox News writer, radio host, and TV commentator Todd Starnes is always on the lookout for examples of how the insidious "gay agenda" is out to destroy truth, justice, and the Christian American way, such as when SCOTUS recently "overruled God." And that's why, I'm sure, the Jesus loving, homo hating Starnes is always on the lookout for examples of this licentiousness at gay pride parades on which he seems to have an odd fixation. Last year, he tweeted about the male thongs and leather chaps seen at a NY pride parade. This year, he tweeted his sympathy for NY tourists who were exposed to this degeneracy which included, OMG, a giant burrito being ridden by one of those evil Christian seducing, Jesus hating, "sodomites," (in the parlance of Starnes' pals) and, pass Todd his fan because I do believe he's about to pass out, "foreskin activists." Jesus wept!
Read moreWe've Got Mail... For Fox News
It's time for our weekly peek into the minds and hearts of Fox News viewers - and it ain't pretty. It is, however rather entertaining and enlightening. So here is the latest installment of our Fox News mailbox, i.e. emails sent to News Hounds in the mistaken belief that we are Fox News. This week, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin seemed to be the biggest subject on the viewers'/readers' minds. UPDATED: One piece of mail was actually meant for us.
Read moreFox Guest Race Baits The Zimmerman Verdict
Just a few days after Greta Van Susteren obsessed on the air about African Americans “not accepting” an acquittal of George Zimmerman should the jury verdict be such (as Fox has long been advocating). But that seems to be a one-way concern that only centers on the conduct of black people. Last night, Van Susteren’s substitute, Kimberly Guilfoyle, hosted a guest who announced that if Zimmerman is found guilty, "I would say that would be as politically motivated and racially motivated as the O.J. acquittal.”
Read moreOn Fox & Friends: America Is Christian Nation, Fourth of July Is 'Religious' Holiday'
As Fox News' flagship show for those Christians who reside in an alternate reality in which the United States was founded by devout Christians seeking to establish a political system governed by the Christian bible, it isn't surprising that Fox & Friends would promote those who promote this view. Such was the case last week when Clayton Morris interviewed the head of the company that, according to Fox, teaches kids the "true meaning" of July 4th which is - are ya ready for it - really a religious holiday because, of course, we are a Christian Nation.. Once again, Fox & Friends shows us why Fox viewers are misinformed because, once again, propaganda trumps reality.
Read moreRupert Murdoch: Cruel, Stingy And Megalomaniacal Says His Former Lieutenant
The secret - and very incriminating - recordings of Rupert Murdoch leaked to the press earlier this week came as little surprise to one of Murdoch's former lieutenants. In a riveting blog post, Rodney E. Lever, a long-time former employee of Murdoch in Australia, says the recordings were further proof of exactly what he has thought. (Hat tip reader Noel)
Read moreThere are two sides to Murdoch: the megalomaniac-narcissist who considers himself above the law, and the nice guy who can hand out wads of shareholders money to people whose lives he has severely damaged and then bitterly complain about these same people in private afterwards.
On Fox & Friends: Persecuted Christian Still Whining After Persecution Resolved
Sometimes persecuted Christians actually have a real grievance. So when it's resolved you'd think that they'd be praising the lord and moving on with the lives. But noooooo, rather than accept whatever redress is offered, these congregants of the church of the perpetually outraged go on Fox News to continue to whine about how badly they were treated and thus, perpetuate the now standard Fox meme of Christian victimization. Such was the case on this morning's Fox & Friends when Jesus BFF Anna Kooiman, during their now standard "Fight for Faith" (What is with this constant "battle" imagery?!), followed up on Fox's decorated culture warrior, Todd Starnes' story about a Catholic student who was told by a college supervisor to remove her cross while she performed her duties at a student orientation. Long story short, it was a mistake, the college acknowledged it, and tried to contact the student to apologize. Should be end of story. But on Fox & Friends, Christian persecution is a never ending story!
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