Peter Johnson Jr. Freaks Out Over Columbia University's "Sick" Hiring Of Kathy Boudin
Usually, Fox News patented outrage starts on official Fox opinion and them makes its way over to official Fox News for further reinforcement and validation. However, the newest bit of right wing apoplexy, over Columbia University's hiring of a former Weather Underground radical who has done her time and is now a distinguished sociology professor, started yesterday on official Fox News with Megyn Kelly. It then made its way to Fox & Friends where Peter Johnson Jr. had a total hissy fit about it.
Read moreEric Bolling Says Fox's "The Five" Is Officially Anti-Abortion!?
That the "fair & balanced" Fox News network is an arm of the movement which seeks to take women back to the not so good old days of back alley abortions was shown on Fox's "The Five" last week. It's not the first time that the group has promoted anti-abortion talking points. They condemned a You Tube video which celebrated the anniversary of Roe. They attacked pro-choicers who used Tim Tebow's athletic prowess to raise money for Planned Parenthood which they attacked in another segment. During the segments, several members of the not so Algonquin Round Table expressed their extreme anti-abortion positions as articulated in Andrea Tantaros' invective against Planned Parenthood and Greg Gutfeld's pefunctory misogynistic attempts to guilt trip women who choose to have abortions. Last week, The Five panelists not only combined standard Fox Hollywood bashing with standard Fox anti-abortion talking points; but Eric Bolling declared what "side" The Five is on. Hint- it's not the side that stands for women!
Read moreDoocy Accuses AP Of ‘Cheerleading’ For Immigration Reform After Dropping Use Of ‘Illegal Immigrant’ From Its Stylebook
Fox’s latest phony controversy designed to make you hate other media outlets is the AP Stylebook’s revision that removes the use of “illegal immigrant” in favor of saying “how someone entered the country illegally and from where.” Predictably, the three co-hosts of Fox & Friends disparaged the change, with Steve Doocy going so far as to allege – without a bit of evidence – that it was made to “cheerlead” and help “push” immigration reform in Congress. Meanwhile, either nobody knew or else did not care that their own Fox News Latino had already dropped the term after finding that Latinos are offended by it.
Read moreFox Does Damage Control for Ben Carson By Slamming His Liberal Welfare-Loving Critics
Last week wasn’t the best week of Dr. Ben Carson’s life. He committed his first political gaffe when he lumped same-sex marriage in the same sentence with pedophilia and bestiality. Then, after harsh criticism, he dug himself a little deeper into the hole by running to CNN and MSNBC to explain his position, and getting a little harsher treatment than he'd been accustomed to on Fox. Luckily for him, Fox was all ready and waiting with their damage control. And one of their main tactics has been to slam Carson’s critics as racists who don’t want the disadvantaged to succeed in life.
Read moreMegyn Kelly, Michelle Malkin Outraged That Former Radical Is Columbia Prof
Despite the claim that the actual "news" on Fox is impartial, the reality is that Fox News is the place where manufactured right wing "outrage" is reinforced. The newest thing to have white, right wing panties in a wad is the revelation, broken by the Murdoch tabloid, the NY Post, that former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin is teaching at ColumbiaUniversity. And like its media sibling, Fox News, which never sees a right wing outage that it doesn't exploit, the title of the Post's article is - ready for it - "Outrage 101: Radical Jailed in Slay Now Columbia Prof." So it was no surprise that alleged Fox news host, Megyn Kelly would, in taking this national, provide validation for yet another manufactured right wing "outrage" which included the perfunctory Fox slam on Hollywood and "elite" colleges. And who better to validate Kelly than that paragon of journalistic objectivity, Michelle Malkin. But this is part of Fox's "fair & balanced" programming so it's all good...
Read moreJim Carrey Answers Fox Again
Jim Carrey has a blog post on Huffington Post answering his Fox News critics and standing up to the hate they have engendered against him after he made a pro-gun regulation parody video. Although he doesn't name the "fair and balanced" network, it's pretty clear whom he's referring to when he speaks of "the bullies" trying to "marginalize" and "discredit" him. H/T Mediaite
Read moreBill O’Reilly Loses It With Laura Ingraham
I’m beginning to think Bill O’Reilly needs some anger management classes. Tonight, less than a month after he had a major meltdown with Alan Colmes and another meltdown with a Denver Post columnist, he blew up at Laura Ingraham for having the nerve to tell him that his choice of words, “thump the Bible,” as a description of the tactics of same-sex marriage opponents, had helped fuel an antagonism between him and Rush Limbaugh – which O’Reilly kept saying did not exist. In fact, O’Reilly announced, in all seriousness and in solidarity with Limbaugh, “The two people the liberal media fear most are Rush Limbaugh and me.”
Read moreO'Reilly: The Two People The Liberal Media Fear Most Are Rush Limbaugh And Me
Bill O'Reilly is very upset, apparently, at "left-wing media" reports that there's a feud between him and Rush Limbaugh over same-sex marriage. So he spent an entire Talking Points Memo segment denying that. Only to have Laura Ingraham tell him in the next segment that there is a feud. But more on that in my next post.
Read moreObama Should Have Distanced Himself from Easter Sermon, Says Religious-Right Activist
Fox has found another subject for its Outrage Overdrive machine: the Reverend Luis Leon’s Easter sermon in front of President Obama, especially the line: "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling people back, for blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet and for immigrants to be on their side of the border." Last night On the Record it was Ralph Reed, chair of the evangelical-political-action-group-extraordinaire Faith and Freedom Coalition, doing the overdriving, asking why the Reverend had chosen a religious occasion to make a political statement, and why the President hadn't distanced himself from it. (The headline on the foxnews.com transcript asks with its usual hysteria: “Will Pres. Obama condemn pastor for using Easter sermon for 'cheap' attack on 'religious right'?)
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