Laura Ingraham Suggests Journalists Arrested And Tear Gassed In Ferguson, MO Were Asking For It
On the O’Reilly Factor last night, host Laura Ingraham exploited the arrest of two journalists in Ferguson, Missouri to attack President Obama. How, you may wonder, did she tie them together? By suggesting the journalists were looking for trouble and that President Obama wrongly criticized the police for arresting them. For extra Fox points, she even worked in a swipe at Michelle Obama. But you’ll have to read further to find out how.
Read moreHannity Fear Mongers About Black Radicals In Ferguson, Missouri
Leave it to white-racist loving Sean Hannity to deliberately stoke fears of black radicals involved in the Ferguson, Missouri protests. This is the same guy who championed Cliven Bundy’s armed protests against federal BLM agents without a concern for the radicals hanging around or the danger they might have presented. And it just so happened that Bundy turned out to be quite the racist.
Read moreOn The Kelly File: Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins Suggests Obama Prefers Yazidis Over Christians
While Tony Perkins, president of the homophobic hate group The Family Research Council, is appearing less and less on the mainstream media, he continues to be embraced by Fox News, especially on the Kelly File where his views are validated. His appearances serve to promote right wing talking points and the requisite Fox Obama bashing. Perkins' Tuesday night appearance on the Kelly File was no exception. He articulated the Fox/rightwing meme of Christian persecution along with the Fox/rightwing meme that Pres. Obama is ignoring it! As propaganda it was vintage Perkins and vintage Kelly File.
Read moreFox & Friends Makes Case For Unconstitutional Public School Prayer
While Jesus' BFF's on the Fox & Friends curvy couch would be appalled if Muslim prayer were forced upon America's Christian public school students, they have no problem with the insertion of Christian worship into school activities funded by the taxpayers. This is what appears to be the case at a Georgia high school where coaches and teachers not only lead the football team in Christian prayer, but use a bible verse on the team's official workout sheets. A humanist group claims that this is a violation of that pesky 1st Amendment "establishment" clause which isn't popular with the America is a Christian nation crowd. But Fox & Friends openly supports unconstitutional public school prayer. So are we surprised that, this morning, they added some of their patented cheese to their patented persecuted Christian/evil atheist whine?!
Read moreTodd Starnes Race Hustles The Tragic Death Of Michael Brown
Of all the right-wing attempts to exploit – and yes, race hustle – the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, Fox’s Todd Starnes has to take the cake. Starnes ridiculed President Obama’s statement calling Brown’s death “heartbreaking” and posted a series of race baiting tweets questioning why Obama didn’t offer condolences to the police officer (who, unlike Brown, didn’t die) or other white people. “I’m sensing a pattern,” Starnes tweeted. So are we, Todd.
Read moreShepard Smith Sort Of Apologizes For Suggesting Robin Williams Was 'A Coward'
In his breaking news coverage of Robin Williams’ suicide on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith wondered if cowardice impelled Williams to kill himself. Yesterday, Smith apologized “to the end of the Earth to anyone who might think that I meant to openly call him a coward.” So was Smith saying he should have just privately said it?
Read moreFox's Ablow Doubles Down On Attacking Michelle Obama's Weight
In an interview today, Fox psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow didn't just defend his smear of Michelle Obama's weight, he doubled down by impugning her patriotism, too. Classy!
Read moreFox Nation Distorts Reality: Claims Iraqi Christians, Not Yazidis, Stranded On Mountain
In the Christian world of Fox News, non-Christian religions are not only denigrated; but in the case of the persecuted Iraqi Yazidis, stranded on a mountain top, they don't even exist. During a recent Fox & Friends segment about the plight of persecuted Iraqi Christians, only one mention of "religious minorities" was made while the rest of the conversation was about the Christians. The word "Yazidi" was not mentioned. But the denial that a non-Christian group is being persecuted has been taken to a whole new level on a Fox Nation. The article, titled "Exclusive, Journalist Recounts Aid Mission to Besieged Christians in Iraq" recounts last night's Kelly File interview with a journalist who "gave an incredible firsthand account of Christians trapped on a mountain in Iraq." The problem is that it's not Christians trapped on the mountain, IT'S YAZIDIS!
Read moreO’Reilly Keeping Score Of Naughty And Nice African Americans In Missouri Unrest
Once again, Bill O’Reilly used the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the riots that followed, as little more than a pretext to question the behavior of the black community. In this case, O’Reilly adjudged the local NAACP not guilty, Al Sharpton guilty and Brown’s father wrong but not guilty due to grief. The rest of the black community? Not so good.
Read more'Constitutionalist' Eric Bolling Validates Fox & Friends' Persecuted Christian Whine
While the Christian right loves the 1st Amendment's religious liberty protections, they don't have the same respect for the "establishment" clause's separation of church and state implications. And while they decry tax payer money being spent on the lawful activities of Planned Parenthood, they have no problems with taxpayer money being spent on the unconstitutional intrusion of Christianity into the public domain. And when this intrusion is questioned, they raise howls of indignation about how they are being persecuted by evil atheists - howls which are then validated on Fox & Friends. This morning, Jesus' AM BFF's hit the patented Fox & Friends persecuted Christian meme by promoting Todd Starnes and the religious right's newest bullshit persecuted Christian whine and, in so doing, cited the Constitution to support what appear to be Constitutional violations. But hey, "constitutionalist Eric Bolling doesn't think so. And as said in Plan 9 From Outer Space, "that proves it."
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