Van Susteren Prompts Israel’s Netanyahu To Criticize Obama’s Negotiations With Iran
Fox News “liberal,” Greta Van Susteren landed a lengthy interview with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and he sounded more supportive of the United States than she did about President Obama’s recent discussion with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and the likelihood of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. In fact, Van Susteren made several obvious attempts to get Netanyahu to criticize U.S. policy.
Read moreFox Nation Still Running Bogus 'Amber Alert' Story
Fox News and right wing blogs have been running with the lie that because the Department of Justice's Amber Alert program website was down, the program is no longer in operation. That is patently wrong because the alerts never stopped. And despite Fox News' cavalier attitude that the "Slimdown" is no big whoop, Steve Doocy was in near hysterics, this morning, with his claim that the Justice Department's "Amber Alert" had been shut down and ain't it awful because Obama...Fox Nation has a lede headlined with the the inflammatory and partisan "Govt's Amber Alert Site Shuttered, WH First Targets Veterans, Now Targeting Children in Shutdown." But the website is back online. So will Fox & Friends issue a correction tomorrow? And will Fox Nation take down their story now that their source has issued a correction? What will the Fox say?
Read moreStephen Colbert Lampoons Bill O'Reilly's Divine Inspiration
Last week, Stephen Colbert did a hilarious send-up of Bill O'Reilly's claims of divine inspiration and special "gifts." Especially amusing was the part where God's message to Charlton Heston's "Moses" was Bill's famous "f**k it, we'll do it live." He showed video in which the thin skinned O'Reilly attacks, as a "pinhead," a journalist who allegedly "mocked" O'Reilly's faith. In hitting O'Reilly's hypocrisy, Colbert described him as someone who is "full of the spirit of Christianity" who has a "no forgiveness mother, f**ker" theology. Colbert also satirized the idea of "voices" from God heard "in the middle of the night." Somehow I don't think that O'Reilly will attack Colbert in the same way that he did the journalist whose satire was far gentler. Could Bill be scared of "Colbert Nation?" Enjoy.
Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll 9/2913-10/5/13
If this isn’t a week of outrageousness, I don’t know what is. We’ve got Bill O’Reilly talking about how he was divinely inspired to write his latest book, Todd Starnes wondering if he’ll still be fondled by the TSA if there’s a government shutdown, FoxNews.com trying to make the shutdown sound like a diet plan – and oh, so much more. You’ve got your work cut out for you this week, dear readers!
Read moreHuckabee Blasts Cruz And The Intransigent Republicans Over Government Shutdown
Mike Huckabee is about as conservative as they come. But as a former governor of Arkansas, he knows a thing or two about governing and he blasted the intransigent Republicans who are holding the U.S. economy hostage – along with their enabling talk show hosts, such as Sean Hannity - with both barrels this weekend.
Read moreStephen Colbert Mocks Fox News' 'Government Slimdown'
As of last night, FoxNews.com was still calling the government shutdown a "slimdown." But today, after FNC's new media critic, Howard Kurtz, criticized it - again - they seem to be back to the "shutdown" word. But not before Stephen Colbert had a chance to give them the comedic spanking they deserve!
Read moreBill O'Reilly: Brown U. Students Took On Jesse Watters Because They're 'Scared' Of Him
Bill O'Reilly's devout Catholicism doesn't seem to get in the way of his fascination with anything that could have a sexual connotation. As such, he sends out his stalker producer, Jesse Watters, to seek out stories that involve the sexy even when the topic has nothing to do with anything prurient, such as when Watters stalked nudists under the pretense of interviewing them about politics. The videos afford O'Reilly and Watters the opportunity to giggle like a couple of jr. high school boys who have discovered their father's Playboy's. Watters recently stalked Brown University students about a campus event that “discusses and explores nudity in all forms." Brown students, who have been the target of Watters' and O'Reilly's mocking and exploitation in the past, pushed back with a video of their own. Because the video is critical of Watters, O'Reilly used the opportunity to further attack the students and in so doing, validate their talking points including their appropriate description of Watters as a "creepy, ambushing, stalker lunatic."
Read moreFox’s Kooiman Reports Fake Story About Obama Funding A Muslim Museum
Fox News and host Anna Kooiman were so eager to promote a report that President Obama is funding a Muslim museum – despite closing the World War II Memorial – that they couldn’t be bothered to do any fact checking. Otherwise, they might have discovered that it was a fake story from a parody news site.
Read moreFox News Mailbag - 10/6/13 Edition
It's been a few weeks since we've opened our mailbag for our regular glimpse into the minds of Fox News viewers, at least the ones who write us in the apparent belief that we are their favorite "fair and balanced" network. The reason for the moratorium was because the trickle had dried up. But, judging from the latest collection, I don't think it's because their viewers have gotten smarter.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Wins Our Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll
Bill O'Reilly was the clear winner of our Outrageous Quote of the Week poll last week. His winning entry was, "Things are obviously out of control and the Democratic party is primarily to blame. Simply put, President Obama and his acolytes do not want Americans to accumulate wealth. They want to take private wealth away from those who have it and give it to those who don’t have it. And they have succeeded in doing that with an assist from the Bush administration, which ran up colossal debt after 9/11."
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