Steve Doocy Doesn't Want Kids Exposed To Scary War Stories
Fox & Friends is the morning mouthpiece for right wing outrage over any attempts to introduce new and different approaches to school curriculums. And while there are those who do support educational innovation, Roger Ailes does not and his "morning happy-talk show that Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream" makes it abundantly clear by their framing of the issues as "The Trouble With Schools." Yesterday, the Murdoch right wing tabloid rag, "The NY Post" reported that OMG, NY schools will be introducing age appropriate books about war to third graders. One of the books is a true story about an Iraqi librarian who saved books from American bombs. While the books are not required reading, some parents are outraged and surprise, surprise, one of the parents showed up on Murdoch's right wing tabloid network, Fox News where she was validated by Steve Doocy who doesn't think that kids should know about scary stuff like war - which, in the case of the Iraq war, was celebrated by Fox & Friends.
Read moreHannity Runs Interference On Any Birther Issues For Sen. Ted Cruz
During his suck-up interview with Senator Ted Cruz last night, Sean Hannity made a point of assuring viewers that the Canadian-born Cruz has no birther problem should he decide to run for president. Which would be of no interest had Hannity not done his best to attack American-born President Obama’s citizenship on far flimsier grounds.
Read moreO’Reilly Continues His Unhinged Jihad Against Colorado And The Denver Post Over Jessica’s Law
Bill O’Reilly is still so intent on looking out for your that he is doing his best to cram “Jessica’s Law” down the throats of Coloradans whether they like it or not – and “expose” how the Denver Post is "merging" with Democrats to stifle the law – whether there’s evidence or not. Rest assured, however, this has nothing, nothing to do with the fact the Denver Post called out O’Reilly as a “fact-challenged” bigot.
Read moreFox Starts Up Its Get-Thomas-Perez Engine
Oh joy. The right wing has found another target: Thomas Perez, President Obama’s nominee for Labor Secretary, and head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights division, who’s already unpopular among the right for some “radical” actions his department’s taken. Fox News and Fox Nation are vigorously reminding us how lefty and activist Perez is, and Senator David Vitter (R-LA) appeared On The Record last night to promise “significant pushback” on the nomination.
Read moreHannity: I Want Republicans To Shut Down The Government
"Great American" Sean Hannity showed just how much he loves his country last night when, in yet another slobbering interview with Dr. Benjamin Carson, he announced that Republicans should shut down the federal government. Why? in order to repeal Obamacare. That's right, in order to repeal a law that provides health insurance for all Americans, Hannity wants to halt food inspections, medical research, air traffic controllers and God only knows what else. What could be more patriotic?
Read moreRove Hits Back At Palin On Fox News Sunday
Sarah Palin made a brief visit from oblivion to CPAC over the weekend where, if you didn't fall over laughing at the spectacle of her complaining about other people demonizing the opposition instead of leading, you might have heard her take a swipe at Karl Rove. Yesterday, Rove just happened to be a guest on Fox News Sunday where he just happened to be given an opportunity to respond. I'd say he smacked her down pretty good.
Read moreBill O'Reilly's Holy War Of A Divorce
Here at News Hounds, we have theorized privately for quite some time that something deeply disturbing must be going on Bill O'Reilly's private life to be driving him so far off the rails so often lately. Thanks to a post on Gawker this afternoon, I think we now know. O'Reilly's involved in a very nasty custody battle with his ex-wife and he seems to think he can get God to side with him against her. Seriously.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Laughs As Dennis Miller Mocks "Chunky" Lesbians Who Don't "Need To Attract Men"
Bill O'Reilly minces no words in his condemnation of those whom he thinks denigrate Christians and in particular, the Catholic Church. During the run-up to the papal election, he even criticized comedy shows, like the Colbert Report, for mocking the Catholic Church. But while Bill is a strong admirer of his Catholic Church, he has no respect for the LGBT community, whose campaign for marriage equality is viewed, by Bill, as a strategy to destroy "traditional" America. So given that he is contemptuous of the gay community, it came as no surprise that Bill and Dennis Miller would engage in some very heterosexually machismo mocking of the lesbian community during last week's "Miller Time." In keeping with the right wing distortion of a government funded study which, unmentioned by the right wing media, also includes straight males, Bill and Dennis disparaged lesbians with the kind of homophobic "humor" that, if said in the workplace, would result in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Read more600 New Phone Hacking Claims Hit Rupert Murdoch
If you thought News Corporation's phone hacking scandal was over, think again. The Guardian reported yesterday that an informer has turned over evidence to the authorities that will amount to 600 new phone hacking claims. Police now say the investigation will continue into 2015.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Attacks Late Term Abortions & Women Who Have Them!
Bill O'Reilly is an anti-abortion zealot who actually believes that his zealotry is saving "babies" from being "murdered." In addition to attacking those who support reproductive rights legislation and abortion providers, he has attacked women who have abortions as being too stupid, childlike, and selfish to know what's best for them which, in O'Reilly's world, is bearing a child regardless of circumstances which, in many cases, involve the life, health of the mother and the fetus. O'Reilly's hatred of women who exercise their bodily autonomy was evident in a recent Talking Points segment during which he lamented that when it comes to late term abortions, "women have all the rights." While O'Reilly speaks in general terms about how abortion is murder, implicit in his argument is that women who have abortions are murderers - an argument that underscores the belief, among those who are pro-choice, that anti-abortion zealots not only don't trust women, they hate them.
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