Fox News V. Fox News Latino On Those Released ICE Detainees
Once again, as has been previously documented here, FoxNews.com and Fox News Latino have different ways of telling the same story. Where FoxNews.com uses the words “illegal immigrants” on Fox News Latino, they show up as “undocumented immigrants.” Plus, FoxNews.com made a point of describing those “illegal immigrants” recently released by ICE with language that made them sound distinctly more dangerous.
Read moreMartha MacCallum Pimps Cardinal Timothy Dolan As "Rock Star"
If there was any question as to the fair & balanced Fox "News" being totally in NY's Cardinal Timothy Dolan's cassock, it would be dispelled by Martha MacCallum's total puff piece about how Dolan is totally awesome! As usual, Dolan's problems relating to his handling of pedophile priests were not mentioned. Joining in the Dolan worship was - surprise, surprise - official and one true Fox priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris, who was at the Vatican. The giant sucking sound could be heard all the way from Rome.
Read moreOn Fox & Friends: Another Faux Founder Promotes Right Wing Talking Points
Last week, as part of the Fox & Friends Founding Fathers Fridays, the curvy couch potatoes interviewed a Thomas Jefferson impersonator. The real Thomas Jefferson would have been appalled that he is being channeled by a right wing Christian nationalist; but that didn't bother the impersonator who not only validated the gang's right wing talking points but offered some of his own. While there was lots of talk about the deficit, nobody asked him what he thought about a black man in the White House. And that question didn't come up during this Friday's Founders segment during which George Washington made an appearance. The real time George, who doesn't seem to have the same ideological agenda as "Jefferson," he was more than willing to affirm at least one right wing talking point fed to him by his hosts who seemed more interested in bashing Nancy Pelosi than getting a history lesson. One suspects that the real George Washington would be shocked at the idea of a female in Congress, but whatever...
Read morePat Boone: I Was On Obama’s Enemies List
Pat Boone ventured into Monica Crowley territory earlier this week on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business show. He brought along a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals book and kept trying – but failing – to talk about what a Marxist and socialist President Obama is. To his credit, Cavuto wanted none of it. But that didn’t mean he didn’t suck up or fail to challenge Boone’s dubious accusation that he was President Obama’s “enemies list.”
Read moreWH Spokesman Jay Carney Smacks Down Jenna Lee
White House spokesperson Jay Carney got into it with Jenna Lee on deficit reduction and the Easter Egg Hunt of all things. Lee asked, “The President has said that he’s open to changing the way that Social Security benefits, the increase for Social Security benefits are figured out, are calculated. …He’s open to that as part of a big deal. But if the President feels so strongly that changing that would be great for our country as a whole, why not just do it? Why use it as a bargaining chip?"
Read moreTucker Carlson Gripes About President Obama’s Food Tester
As guest host of the Hannity show last night, Tucker Carlson boasted about a phony scoop from Maine Senator Susan Collins: that President Obama has a food tester. It would seem that neither he nor the Fox News producers knew or cared that it’s old news – and that presidential food testers have been at the White House since before President Obama. But, apparently, Carlson thinks President Obama should stop acting like “a king,” save some taxpayer dough and put himself at risk. And Fox News didn’t mind. UPDATED
Read moreFox Disguises A Republican Operative As A White House Tourist
Yesterday, on Fox & Friends, the "high school student" whose spring break trip was "ruined" because the White House cancelled his tour seemed just a little too slick with his anti-Obama talking points. And host Steve Doocy seemed suspiciously prepared to probe, I mean ask, about them.
Read moreAllen West Explains Why We Liberals Are So Afraid of Him
I am still mystified, gentle reader, by the fact that turfed-out-after-his-first-term Congressman Allen West is giving speeches at CPAC and being repeatedly interviewed on On the Record. Last night he was amplifying, to a fawning Greta Van Susteren, on his CPAC statement that “there's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government!”
Read moreDid O'Reilly Factor Producer Put Partisan Words In The Mouth Of Its Republican Guest?
As part of our continuing look at Bill O'Reilly's attacks on Colorado's Democratic and openly gay Speaker of the House, Mark Ferrandino, News Hounds' Priscilla found a jarring snippet in yesterday's Denver Post. It quotes O'Reilly's first guest who went after discussed Ferrandino as saying that her accusation - that Ferrandino voted against "Jessica's Law," which would mandate sentencing for child molesters, because he cares more about the molesters than the victims - were words put in her mouth by Fox News producers.
Fox Nation Swoons Over Coulter’s Attack On Feinstein
Two-time voter-fraud suspect Ann Coulter went on the Hannity show last night to comment on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s smackdown of Sen. Ted Cruz on gun regulation. Coulter surely knew why she was there and was prepared with one of her “witticisms,” almost certainly pre-planned and designed for maximum hate-monger and shock value: “I used to think women should not be able to vote and now I think liberal women should not be able to hold office.” Laughably, Coulter – who for years has been mocked as a transvestite or transgender – also said that she wasn’t talking only about women in the “biological sense.” So how did “civil” and “tolerant” Fox Nation react? By slobbering over Coulter and, as usual, ignoring her voting history.
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