Fox & Friends Conservative Guest, Katherine Timpf, 'Bullied' By Feminists
Once again, Jon Stewart's comment about how "conservative victimization is the true genius of Fox News" was underscored on this morning's Fox & Friends who featured yet another right wing whiner and who is making the claim that she was not welcomed at a feminist event because of her conservative views. Somebody call me a whambulance!
Read moreHannity ‘Infuriated’ By ‘Premature’ Reporting That Fort Hoot Shooting Was Not Terrorism
Sean Hannity was a vision of journalistic concern over reporting by other networks that yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting did not appear to be terrorism. But peek underneath the surface and it becomes clear that Hannity wanted the networks to prematurely suggest that the shooting was terrorism. Later, during the same broadcast, without a trace of irony, Hannity announced that… the shooting did not appear to be terrorism.
Read moreRichard Silverstein Responds To Megyn Kelly's Personal Attack
As I reported yesterday, during her gynormas rant about how the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trying to suppress free speech on college campuses and intimidate Fox into not covering a movie made by the anti-Islamic Clarion Fund, Megyn Kelly attacked Richard Silverstein who agrees with CAIR's criticism of the film. But unlike so many of those attacked on Fox News, he is willing to rebut Kelly's hateful rhetoric and what he is claiming are outright lies. But isn't Megyn Kelly a "truth detector" so WTF?
Read moreWhoops, He Did It Again: Todd Starnes Gets Caught Lying To Promote Book Sales?
Todd Starnes might be a pathological liar; but he's a good Christian who loves Jesus and thinks gays are going to hell; so, in the nation of Fox, he is an exemplary citizen. He was recently outed (!?) for, sweet mercy, yet another example of his propensity to break that commandment about bearing false witness - a commandment not highly regarded by the very Christian network which employs him. But seriously, should we be surprised?
Read morePoliticization Of Fort Hood Shooting: Smear The Poor Edition
Fox News wasted little time politicizing the Fort Hood shooting. I’ll have more on that later. But “former FBI agent” Jonathan Gilliam shockingly used the incident to attack welfare recipients as doing “nothing to earn their citizenship.” Not surprisingly, neither host Sean Hannity nor Fox News contributor K.T. McFarland objected.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Accuses CAIR Of Trying To Suppress Fox Coverage Of Anti-Islamic Movie
Underscoring why Fox News is an "echo chamber" for the American Islamophobia cottage industry and the place where you can bash Islam with impunity is Fox's Megyn Kelly. Her record is stellar: She validated parents who opposed a textbook because of supposed pro-Islam bias; did not refute the lie , by anti-Islam David Horowitz, that Huma Abedin is connected to Islamic terror; supported the man who made an anti-Mohammed video which sparked protest in the Islamic world; and promoted an anti-Islam movie made by the paranoid Steve Emerson. Kelly's newest bit of Muslim bashing involves a movie, with ties to anti-Islamic interests, about Muslim violence towards women. CAIR refused her invitation to appear on her show and she's now attacking them for allegedly encouraging an alleged "spokesperson" to do a "hit piece" on Fox News. Obviously Fox News can give it, but not take it and Megyn Kelly says it's on like Donkey Kong!
Read moreO’Reilly Hearts Tesla, Electric Cars And Their Tax Breaks
It’s not often that I can say that I agree wholeheartedly with Bill O’Reilly but I did last night when he debated Fox's Eric Bolling on Tesla, electric cars and the federal tax breaks that come with them. Color me cynical, but I couldn’t help but suspect that the reason O’Reilly loves Teslas (and their attendant tax breaks) is because he has one. Still, I came away thinking that Bolling got his clock cleaned on this one… and it was most satisfying.
Read moreFox Guest's ObamaCare-Bashing Distortion Inadvertently Exposed Almost As She Speaks
On Fox’s Your World, a graphic on the screen undercut guest Betsy McCaughey’s misleading claim that the Affordable Care Act is not reducing the number of uninsured Americans. Instead of correcting McCaughey, host Neil Cavuto helped validate her distortion.
Read moreFox News Cuts And Runs From Democrats In Benghazi Hearing
Fox News’ fascination with Benghazi seems to end at the Republican partisan divide. Today, during what Fox hyped as a major Benghazi hearing, Fox gave the bulk of its airtime to Republican questioning and hardly any from the Democrats. Even though the hearing aired during the daytime hours, which Fox claims constitute its “objective news” lineup.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Fund Raises For Right Wing Filmmaker's Gosnell Movie?
As the conduit for those who seek to eliminate reproductive rights for American women, Fox News eagerly responded to "pro-life" complaints that the national media wasn't providing sufficient coverage of the trial of an abortion doctor who was eventually convicted of three counts of murder. For Fox it was a win-win. They were able to advance their meme of mainstream media bias (ahem) as well as promote the "pro-life" view that what Dr. Gosnell did is representative of all abortion clinics. Now that Phelim McAleer, whose movies promote anti-climate change and pro-fracking interests, is doing a movie about Gosnell, Fox didn't waste a minute in promoting the movie and McAleer's claim about having been censored by a crowdfunding source. Last night, Megyn Kelly continued to push the Fox Gosnell agitprop and, in so doing, might have provided a new media crowdsource for McAleer's movie!
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