Sen. Mike Lee Backs Away From Obamacare Shutdown Threat
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) was a guest on Fox News Sunday this morning where he backed down from his plan to threaten to shut down the government if Obamacare was not defunded. It was big enough news that Huffington Post and Politico reported on it. But Wallace let Lee's flip-flop pass unremarked.
Read moreFox News Pimps Bogus 'Botched Abortion' Story To Advance Operation Rescue's Abortion Provider Smear
That Fox News is a media arm of the anti-choice movement was underscored earlier this month. On July 11th, three "news" pieces focused on charges, made by the radical anti-choice Operation Rescue, that a Maryland late term abortion provider has injured an abortion patient. In the reporting, Fox advanced the anti-choice meme that this doctor has already killed a patient in a late term "botched" abortion when, in reality, the woman died of a rare complication that also happens in childbirth. In February, Fox "news" guy, Bret Baier, exploited the tragedy in order to push the anti-choice assertion that the doctor is guilty of malfeasance and the clinic should be shut down. It's July and the clinic is still open. But in his desperation to get attention for his cause, radical, anti-choice domestic terrorist Rev. Patrick Mahoney is making the claim that the doctor has done another "botched abortion." Providing publicity for Mahoney's attack on the doctor is Fox News which is also using this case to push the anti-choice message that restrictive abortion laws are really all about helping women and. Fox "News," fair & balanced as always!
Read moreFox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll – 7/20/13-7/27/13
It's been another week of Fox News outrageousness and we've got the quotes to prove it. But in this feature, you, our readers, get to have some fun. Check out our latest selection of quotes and cast your vote for the most outrageous. Because while many can be nominated, only one can be the Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week.
Read moreFox News To America: Minimum Wage Of $7.25/Hr Good Enough For You
Yesterday’s Bulls & Bears opened with an effort to kill a discussion about calls for raising the minimum wage. Host Brenda Buttner began by asking regular Gary B. Smith, a reliable conservative voice on the show, “Will maximizing the minimum wage minimize or maximize our job growth?”
Read moreGot Hypocrisy? Peter Johnson Jr. Holds Anthony Weiner To Standards Not Applied To GOP Bad Boys
Ya gotta love it. Knight of Malta, Cardinal Dolan gumba, Roger Ailes' Consigliore, and Fox News host Peter Johnson Jr. (Per Colbert, a name that's three euphemisms for penis) is having a fit of the vapors about Anthony Weiner and wants more Democrats to urge him to quit the mayoral race. Yet, as far as I know, Johnson didn't have the same reaction to Republicans who got caught doing more than just sending pictures of their junk. I don't recall Johnson being outraged about the congressional candidacy of Mark Sanford who, when he was the SC governor, lied about being on a hike when, at taxpayer expense, he was visiting his Argentinean mistress. I don't think Johnson had a problem when David Vitter, after having been exposed as the diaper clad client of a Washington DC prostitute, ran for re-election to the US Senate. I don't remember if Johnson exhorted Republicans to urge these fine fellows to get out of their races. Oh, right, the two aforementioned politicians are conservative, Christian, pro-life, family values Republican men who were saved by Jesus. Right...
Read moreFox News Mail Call - 7/27/13 Edition
It's time for another installment of our Fox News mailbag. Each week, I share emails received by News Hounds that somebody thought was sent to Fox News. This week's selection is not large but it's a matter of quality over quantity!
Read moreTodd Starnes Wins Our Most Outrageous Quote Poll Again!
Todd Starnes' perpetual hatred for America has earned him our Most Outrageous Quote Of The Week slot for the second time this month. Starnes' most recent tirade was a masterwork of incendiary hypocrisy. First, he attacked President Obama for "trying to tear (the country) apart" for not speaking out about the George Zimmerman verdict and Trayvon Martin. Then, after President Obama did speak out, Starnes claimed that that "justif(ied)" his earlier comment, that Obama "truly is trying to tear our country apart."
Read moreAl Sharpton To Bill O’Reilly: The Willie Horton Stuff Has Got To Go
I’ve long been critical of Rev. Al Sharpton for not confronting and speaking out against Fox News’ race baiting over the Trayvon Martin killing and the acquittal of George Zimmerman. But last night, Sharpton took the bullies by the horns and leveled a no-holds-barred blast at Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that was nonetheless dignified and restrained – which is more than you can say about any of those racial hate mongers, even as they have deliberately maligned Sharpton for being some kind of race hustler and “grievance” monger.
Read moreSarah Palin: I Was Silenced From Blowing The Whistle On Obama’s Ignorance By Karl Rove And The GOP Machine In 2008
Sarah Palin veered sharply from her usual “lamestream media” and “Obama is destroying America” shtick tonight and suddenly began ranting against Karl Rove and the “GOP machine” that ran the McCain campaign in 2008. That was pretty surprising given that Rove is her colleague and you can pretty much count Fox News, Palin’s employer, as a major part of that GOP machine, if not the actual engine. But the even bigger shocker was that Palin, the poster child for ignorance, lack of experience and who not to choose as a running mate, suggested that if only she had been allowed to blow the whistle on “Obama’s lack of knowledge and job experience” and, of course, Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, she would have won.
Read moreJesse Watters Investigates 'Pole Dance Tax'
While Bill O'Reilly is a devout Catholic, he does seem to have an affection for the more prurient side of life. Hopefully this don't cause him to have, as his grammar school nuns would say, "dirty thoughts," but that's what confession is for, so it's all good...Last week, he sent out his producer Jesse Watters, who loves to take a walk on the wild side, to check out strippers in Philadelphia during an (ahem) comedic investigatory piece on Philadelphia's amusement tax which Watters construed as a pole dance tax. Once again there is rich irony in the fact that O'Reilly's audience is a bit geriatric while the content is so junior high. But for many of his barcalounger brigade, watching "Watters World" is cheaper than Viagra. Ewww.
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