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Will Fox News Mock Passivity of Fort Hood Soldiers The Way It Did Va Tech Shooting Victims?

Guest blogged by Notveryhow

Commenting on the April 16, 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, Fox News contributor Mark Steyn wrote a piece for the National Review Online which decried the passivity of the students in the face of an armed gunman. Steyn, whose survival of a rough and tumble deployment at King Edward's School in the United Kingdom, before dropping out, has qualified him to comment on facing down armed adversaries, mocked the Virginia Tech victims by saying, “They’re not 'children.' The students at Virginia Tech were grown women and — if you’ll forgive the expression — men.”

Mike Huckabee’s Flag Fetish

Here’s a quick quiz for you: Which of the definitions below best matches the intended role and function of the American flag?

(1) something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, or convention; a visible sign of something invisible.
(2 an object having cultural significance and the capacity to excite or objectify a response.
(3) a material object which should be considered sacred in its own right
(4) an object worthy of devotion, intense reverence, and ritualistic veneration

(1) and (2) describe a symbol, and if you chose one of these definitions you are correct. (3) and (4) describe a fetish, and if you chose one of these, you’re Mike Huckabee. With video.
Updated with second video.

Fox News Overlooks Prejean Sex Tape In Report About Her Legal Settlement

TMZ has this juicy nugget, posted November 4, 2009, 5:00 PM: Prejean Sex Tape Triggers Settlement. According to TMZ, Prejean immediately walked away from her demands for more than a million dollars from the Miss California USA Pageant once she saw "an XXX home video of her handiwork." TMZ said it had obtained the video months before but had decided not to post it due to its extremely graphic nature. "Let's just say, Carrie has a promising solo career," the site quipped.

Fox News Gives Undue Weight To Bighollywood.com Conspiracy Theory

In the “Unresolved problem segment” of Friday night’s (10/16/09) O’Reilly Factor, guest host Juan Williams (one of Fox News' liberals) gave unquestioned credibility to an unsubstantiated accusation by a Bighollywood.com writer, that the Obama administration had engaged in “prime time propaganda.” With video.

Hannity Pretends Limbaugh Dropped From NFL Bid Because He’s Conservative

We can add Rush Limbaugh to the long list of white people caught making bigoted remarks whose cause Sean Hannity has staunchly championed. Hannity, who has a very disturbing record of his own when it comes to race, didn’t want to discuss any of the racially charged comments for which Limbaugh has come under fire and caused him to be dropped from a potential bid for the St. Louis Rams. Hannity didn’t even want to discuss what the NFL commissioner said about why he thought LImbaugh was not appropriae for the league. Instead, Hannity used the same fiction that Limbaugh used, that he was unfairly maligned because of his politics. While he was at it, Hannity turned around and played the race card against some of his favorite black targets: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, President Obama and, of course, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But at the end, Hannity, perhaps inadvertently, revealed that he knew Limbaugh had, in fact, made racially insensitive comments. With video.