Bill O'Reilly Once Reprimanded By ADL Over War On Christmas
Bill O'Reilly's Christmas crusade has not gone unchallenged. In 2004, on his radio show, Bill O'Reilly spoke with a Jewish person who felt that Christmas activities, in public schools, were attempts to shame and possibly convert Jewish kids. Bill went into a tirade with the caller, telling him that this is a "predominately" Christian nation and that if the caller couldn't accept that, he should move to Israel. He described the caller's comments as "an affront to the majority." Not surprisingly, the Anti-Defamation League quickly responded.
Read moreSteven Crowder Admits He Went To Michigan Protest To ‘Prove’ Union Thugs ‘For Who They Truly Are’
There’s something a little too James O’Keefe about Steven Crowder’s “I got assaulted by the vicious, leftist union supporters in Michigan” story. Part of it is that like O’Keefe, Crowder is an Andrew Breitbart acolyte, now palling around the Michigan union protests with the Breitbartian Lee Stranahan - who still loves scamster O’Keefe. Secondly, like O’Keefe, Crowder admitted to embarking on his video project with a hostile agenda. Thirdly, the integrity of the video of the assault on Crowder has come into question.
Read moreBill O’Reilly: The Rest Of The Media Not Brave Enough To Cover The War On Christmas
Last night, in his regular Monday night discussion with Bernard Goldberg, Bill O’Reilly tackled the thorny issue of why Fox is “pretty much the only ones covering the so-called ‘War on Christmas.’” Goldberg agreed this is an “interesting” story that the “liberal” media should not be ignoring. He chalked it up to lack of religion and, by implication, the liberal views that supposedly predominate everywhere else but “fair and balanced” Fox. But O’Reilly thought it was because nobody else has the cojones to cover it.
Read moreFox Nation's Jesse Watters Is An Obama Donor
Fox Nation editor and O'Reilly Factor ambush producer Jesse Watters deliberately race-baits President Obama, Michelle Obama and constantly smears them over everything from having too many Christmas trees to saying the president's approval rating is falling when it's actually rising. But it turns out, he's also an Obama supporter. Or at least, he donated enough money to Obama's campaign to get himself onto an FEC disclosure form.
Read moreRoger Ailes Pals Around With Anti-Abortion Terrorists?
As part of their efforts to smear then presidential candidate, Barack Obama, Fox "News" was more than happy to advance the right wing lie that Obama was joined at the hip to former student radical Bill Ayers - a meme that was picked up by Sarah Palin who, I believe, coined the phrase describing Obama as "palling around with terrorists." But in yet another example of Fox's double standard, Roger Aisles has no problem providing a dressing room, at Fox News' NY headquarters, for anti-choice Rob Schenck and his living Nativity which performs, annually, outside Fox. It's ironic - if the Occupiers engaged in the same type of shenanigans that Schenck did back in the 90's, it would be considered terrorism. And unlike Ayer's "terrorism," Schenk actually has a record!
Read moreStuart Varney Outraged That Salvation Army Worker Wished Him A Happy Holiday
Fox's Stuart Varney visited Fox Business' Imus in the Morning today where they debated the importance of the so-called War on Christmas. As Imus said he thought it was "absurd," Varney relayed - in a voice filled with outrage - the awful experience of donating some money to a Salvation Army worker on the street (they collect money every year around this time in New York) and getting a response of "Happy Holidays." Say it ain't so, Stu!
Read moreJon Stewart Skewers Fox News On Gun Control
Jon Stewart nailed Fox News hypocrisy again last night - this time over its phony outrage against Bob Costas' comments on gun control.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Shares Tips For Christmas - Not Hanukkah - Gifts!
While Bill O'Reilly didn't invent the bogus "war on Christmas, it had its genesis with those who, like Bill, mourn the demise of "traditional" America. It seems to have started with Peter Brimelow, a white nationalist who, like Bill, saw imaginary threats to Christmas as part of the "struggle to abolish America." Writers on Brimelow's hate group website, VDare, even blamed the Jews for the war on Christmas and accused the Jews of being resentful of those who celebrate Christmas. One writer claimed that Hanukkah "inculcates negative lessons about Christianity, not positive ones about Judaism." So that begs the question of whether O'Reilly's hatred of the inclusive word "happy holidays," which includes Jews, stems from a desire to marginalize a celebration important to Jews. One thing is for sure, in providing tips for gift giving, which Jews do for Hanukkah, Bill only uses the word "Christmas."
Read moreLaura Ingraham Worries More About Parental Rights Than Teen Pregnancy?
As the media outlet for the right wing, Fox News provides a mouthpiece for their anti-choice zealotry - especially on Bill O'Reilly's show which was used as a platform to relentlessly attack an abortion doctor who was later assassinated. Since Dr. Tiller's death, O'Reilly has continued his anti-choice zealotry with attacks on Planned Parenthood which, despite Bill's prediction, still hasn't been defunded by Congress. Even when O'Reilly isn't hosting the show, its pro-life bias is underscored in the pro-life bias of frequent substitute and "pro-life media luminary" Laura Ingraham. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that in addition to speaking to their patients about sex and birth control, pediatricians give their patients prescriptions to emergency contraception. Not surprisingly, Ms. Ingraham was outraged. As the saying goes, Bill O'Reilly's apple doesn't fall far from the tree!!!!
Read moreO’Reilly Furious Over His Racial Smackdown From African American Sports Writer Jason Whitlock
Bill O’Reilly is not just upset but furious over the smackdown he got – with distinctly racial tones – from African American FoxSports.com writer Jason Whitlock over an invitation to appear on The Factor. Whitlock didn’t just decline the invitation, he told O’Reilly in no uncertain terms “I don’t have to shuffle off” to “dance” before the Speaker of the Big House of Fox News. And more.
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