Sean Hannity: Planned Parenthood, Pres. Obama Support Infanticide
Bill O'Reilly isn't the only Catholic, pro-life Fox "news" guy who uses his show to promote the lies and propaganda of those who seek to control women's bodies. While not as strident as O'Reilly, who used his show to vilify an abortion provider, Sean Hannity is fully on board with the anti-abortion crusade against Planned Parenthood. Last week, a Florida Planned Parenthood representative, during a hearing regarding protection for fetuses born during botched abortions, said that medical decisions should be between the mother and the doctor. That generated a right wing media frenzy during which right wing media outlets were "shitting all over themselves" to show that Planned Parenthood supports the murder of post-born children which is, of course, a lie. Bill O'Reilly advanced this narrative which includes the perfunctory anti-abortion lie that Pres. Obama supports infanticide. Sean Hannity was more than happy to do the same!
Read moreTavis Smiley Gives Hannity A Pass On His Bigotry And Ben Carson
Sean Hannity apparently thinks that going on a tear portraying Dr. Ben Carson as a victim of liberal racism will somehow make his own record of bigotry and race-baiting disappear. Or maybe make us forget. But some of us cannot and will not. Sadly, Tavis Smiley either didn’t know or else overlooked it when he appeared on the Hannity show a few nights ago.
Read moreFox News' Bill Hemmer Thinks Jesus Belongs In Public Schools?!
As Fox News constantly informs us, America, a Christian nation, is constantly being besieged by evil atheists who want to take Jesus out of the public square. In so doing, Fox is pandering to those who object to their tax dollars being spent on women's health care at Planned Parenthood; but who have no problem with Christian symbols in the taxpayer funded public square and schools. Recently, an Ohio public school took down a portrait of Jesus (the schlocky Aryan Jesus hung in every Catholic home in the 50's), hung in the school foyer, because of concerns about the cost of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, two groups on the top of Fox's shit list. While anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of the First Amendment would agree that there is a church/ state issue here, Bill Hemmer, one of many conservative Christians in Roger Ailes' stable, just doesn't get why poor, ole Jesus can't hang out in this school.
Read moreGOP Civil War: Mark Levin Attacks Dana Perino Over Dr. Ben Carson
I think we can count on radio talk show host Mark Levin not being quite the Fox News regular he was supposed to be. At least not after his rant against "elitist" Dana Perino on the air yesterday. Perino's "crime?" Saying that Dr. Benjamin Carson doesn't do himself any favors by going on the air so much.
Read moreFox News' "Illegal Immigrants" Vs. Fox News Latino's "Undocumented Immigrants"
The news that the AP has dropped the term "illegal immigrant" from its lexicon was met with scorn and derision on the "fair & balanced" Fox News network. Steve Doocy suggested a conspiracy; i.e. that the AP was "cheerleading for immigration reform." Brian Kilmeade asked why anybody should care about the bias of the rejected term when these folks are "here illegally." On Neil Cavuto's show, Michelle Malkin did her patented snarling snark about how the AP is trying "to radically redefine the definition of citizenship." But the Fox News website is sticking with the patriotic American "illegal immigrant." Meanwhile, Fox News Latino is using the scorned and derided term. Paging Dr. Ablow, Fox media has a serious split personality.
Read moreFox Ignores Draconian ND Abortion Law While Extolling State’s ‘Freedom’
Last week, North Dakota enacted three of the most extreme anti-choice laws in the United States. But you’d never know that from watching Fox & Friends this morning when Judge Andrew Napolitano and the Curvy Couch Crew extolled a study by “a libertarian think tank” placing North Dakota as one of the “freest” states in the union. (H/T Bemused)
Read moreBill O'Reilly Dissed Bill Donohue?
Bill O'Reilly and Bill Donohue have so much in common beyond their first names, shared Irish heritage and NY origin. Both bloviators are in the mid-sixties and are divorced but devout, pro-life Catholics who are products of an authoritarian Catholic education. Both share a hatred of liberals and Hollywood; although Donohue focuses on Hollywood Jews while the sophisticated O'Reilly reserves his venom for Hollywood liberals. Both feel that Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular are being besieged by evil force of secularism. To O'Reilly's credit, however, he doesn't, as does Donohue, blame the victims of clergy sexual abuse and has evolved on gay marriage, something deemed anathema by Donohue who is obsessed with anal sex. But Donohue is upset with O'Reilly and he's letting him know it!
Read moreBill O'Reilly Claims Planned Parenthood Supports Infanticide, Smears Dr. Tiller - Again
Bill O'Reilly, like his fellow anti-abortion extremists, hates Planned Parenthood and is more than willing to use his show to promote anti-abortion lies and propaganda such as supporting GOP lawmakers' efforts to de-fund Planned Parenthood and validating Lila Rose's bogus "sting" videos. The latest bit of anti-abortion nonsense was generated as a result of comments made by a Florida Planned Parenthood representative during a hearing on a Florida bill that would tighten abortion law, including a provision dealing with fetuses "born alive" during a botched abortion. As noted on Slate, "born alive" laws are the anti-abortion movement's "white whale" in that they believe it's a real problem and that because Pres. Obama didn't support an Illinois "born alive" bill, he supports infanticide. So it's no surprise that forced birther O'Reilly would be peddling the same infanticide lie on his show in order to, once again, slam an organization that, unlike O'Reilly, supports women.
Read moreBill O’Reilly: I’m Mandated To Keep America Sane And Save The Easter Bunny
Bill O’Reilly’s megalomania reached new heights (or lows, depending on your perspective) last night as he announced – in all seriousness – that his program is “now mandated to keep American lunacy in check.” O’Reilly rattled off his accomplishments in that regard: freeing an American prisoner in Mexico, getting a Florida professor suspended for engaging in an intercultural exercise O’Reilly didn’t like and saving Easter in an Alabama school.
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