Hannity Goes to Bat for Poor Children in America. Aggressively.
Mohammed Morsi and his government in Egypt have worked a miracle, gentle reader! They’ve gotten Sean Hannity concerned about poor children in America! How did this wonder of wonders happen? Because Secretary of State John Kerry has just announced nearly $450 million in aid to the "terrorist," "Muslim Brotherhood" government in Egypt instead of spending it on poor children (or on the military, which is more characteristic). The Obama administration's support of Egypt is a familiar topic of outrage on Fox, and Monday night Hannity made it the subject of one of his bring-in-a-friend-and-we'll-bully-a-liberal segments.
Read moreO'Reilly Skeptically Revisits Menendez Prostitution Story
Minutes after O'Reilly's shocking meltdown with Alan Colmes - and when I was certainly in no mood to give him any props - he rightly questioned Tucker Carlson over those anonymously-sourced accusations about Senator Robert Menendez consorting with prostitutes. You may recall I criticized O'Reilly for denouncing anonymously-sourced stories - as he worked them into a discussion anyway - and for subsequently ignoring the recent evidence undermining the accusations. Well, file this under "Credit Where Credit Is Due." However, O'Reilly did allow Carlson to waffle on the question of whether the accusing women took money for their stories and he allowed Carlson to skate on media reports that undermine the Daily Caller's allegations.
Read moreO’Reilly Loses It Big Time With Alan Colmes
Bill O’Reilly had a major meltdown tonight with Alan Colmes. It has to be seen to be believed but let’s just say that O’Reilly was screaming at Colmes that he’s a liar and Colmes respectfully but firmly shot back, “Don’t you call me a liar.” Later, O’Reilly seethed, “It’s jack what you’re saying. There’s another word for it but it’s an obscenity.” In a subsequent segment, John Stossel told O’Reilly he had been out of line and “obnoxious.”
Read moreNeil Cavuto Prefers Pedophilia Over Sex Ed?
The American right thinks that sex education is a nefarious librul plot to turn American kids into raging sex machines with some of that sex being - OMG - gay! They still cling to the belief that "abstinence education" is the only approach and, as we see from high teen pregnancy and STD rates in abstinence only states, that just isn't true. As the mouthpiece for the radical right, Fox "News," has provided a media platform for the promotion of anti-sex education zealotry. The Fox "friends" supported a Michigan anti-teacher's union group opposed to a local sex education plan because it promoted "transgender tolerance." They also took the side of those who opposed a Montana sex education curriculum as did O'Reilly,who told homophobic lies about it. Hannity validated opposition to the MT and NY City curriculums. And now that Chicago will be implementing an age appropriate sex-ed curriculum, Neil Cavuto is providing Fox News affirmation for those who don't want kids to learn about their bodies - and sexual abuse. One suspects that he's also opposed to public spending on the consequences of ignorance. Anyway...
Read moreO’Reilly Fights ‘Barbarism’ By Stalking, Harassing, Smearing And Bullying Gay Congressman
If you’ve been watching The O’Reilly Factor lately, you know that he has been “questioning” whether we have become a “barbaric” country. In a Talking Points commentary last week, he vowed, “I do not want my country to be a place of barbarism and I will fight against that!” Apparently, O’Reilly’s “solution” is to behave like a bullying dictator, demand that the State of Colorado pass “Jessica’s Law," which imposes mandatory sentences on child molesters, then stalk and harass a gay state representative who opposes the law and, while he's at it, suggest that his opposition is due to his homosexuality. Yeah, that’s showing your compassion and kindness for the kids, alright.
Read moreWhy Didn’t Hannity And O’Reilly Note Problems In Menendez ‘Prostitute’ Story?
By Media Matters' count, Fox News hyped at least 22 times a Daily Caller report that Senator Robert Menendez paid underage prostitutes for sex in the Dominican Republic. But yesterday, the Washington Post reported that a woman who appeared in a video accusing Menendez of paying her for sex was in reality paid to make that accusation and never actually met him. So why didn’t either Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly mention that update last night given that they spent plenty of time airing the allegations?
Read moreBill O'Reilly Gives Advice On Being Rational? Really?
If Bill O'Reilly actually thinks that his sage advice, proffered during his *daily "Tip of the Day" segment, has any credibility, he's even more narcissistic and delusional than he appears to be. If anything, it provides an amusing example of the discrepancy between what he preaches and what he practices such as his recent admonition about private hissy fits when, in reality, O'Reilly's modus operandi is to "vent" his anger on his guests. He gave us more comedic stylings and irony with another "Tip" which was about how if you stand up for what you believe in, in a rational way, it will pay off in the long run. Rational? Bill O'Reilly? Hahahahahahahahah!!!!
Read moreO’Reilly Boasts About Threatening To Throw Someone In The Charles River
Apparently, tonight was Bill O’Reilly’s night to jump the shark. In a discussion with Bernie Goldberg about Bob Woodward (not) being “threatened” by the Obama administration, O’Reilly told a chilling tale about someone who once got angry at his reporting. A grinning O'Reilly boasted that he grabbed the guy’s tie, led him out the door and said, “Next time you talk to me like that, you’re going in the Charles river. You’re lucky you just got away with the square tonight."
Read moreFox’s John Roberts Hearts The Sequester
Fox’s “objective” John Roberts visited Fox & Friends Weekend yesterday morning for a peek at his upcoming Fox News special about the sequester last night. However, unless you were deeply interested in the Republican point of view, only, there seemed no point in watching beyond this five-minute segment. When Roberts wasn’t directly quoting Republicans, he was quoting and promoting their point of view.
Read moreJesse Watters Still Perving & Lying For Bill O'Reilly
Figures that Jesse Watters works for Bill O'Reilly. Both love the ladies and are fond of videos which maximize areas of the ladies body that aren't clothed. Both also lie - especially when it comes to people and places that Bill doesn't approve of. Such was the case with Watters recent video about Hawaii, a place loathed by Bill because of its diversity and liberal views. Watters, whose video featured scantily clad women and women whom Watters suspected of being prostitutes, told a lie, subsequently reinforced by O'Reilly, that Hawaii had the highest percentage of food stamp users in the US. Now that Gov. Jerry Brown has, allegedly, refused to go on The Factor, Watters was dispatched to California to reinforce Bill's meme that Brown is doing a bad job. As he did with his Hawaii opus, Watters found a "normal" person who validated the Bill/Jesse premise, "eccentric" types who support Brown, and a lovely, bikini clad woman who got lots of body time. And just as he did with Hawaii, Watters presented bogus facts about CA. Bill O'Reilly must be so proud of his boy!
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