Fox & Friends & Fr. Jonathan Morris Promote "Angel Priest" Story
The old saying about not being able to serve God and "mammon" doesn't seem to apply to Roger Ailes. While his blatantly Christian format is a nice evangelizing vehicle, the "sheaves," that he brings in, are also good for Fox ratings so everybody is happy. The Fox religious programming, almost exclusively Christian, seems to suggest that if you get right with Jesus, you get to meet him when you make the celestial round trips that Fox & Friends are so fond of. And its just not heavenly frequent flyers featured on Fox & Friends. Knowing that a good miracle story is never wasted on the faith based, gullible Fox audience, Fox & Friends recently preached about how angels helped a kid beat cancer. And now that a story, about how a mysterious, disappearing priest saved the life of a victim of a car crash, is going "viral," it wasn't surprising that it was a topic for yesterday's Fox & Friends Sundays with Fox's official priest and right wing mouthpiece (the gospel according to Roger Ailes) Fr. Jonathan Morris.
Read moreEric Bolling: Benghazi Is Bigger Than Watergate
On The Five last week, Eric Bolling argued, along with co-hosts Kimberly Guilfoyle and Katie Pavlich, that Benghazi is a bigger scandal that Watergate. Even though Americans don’t care about it much, Fox seems determined to harp on the subject until Obama leaves office, whether at the end of his term or, if some of them have their way, driven out, like Richard Nixon.
Read moreFox News Opinion: Running The Gamut On Obamacare From 'Delay' To 'Defund'
Notice something missing from this Fox News discussion about Obamacare? Like maybe it's good legislation? Or even just that it's legislation that was democratically enacted and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court so maybe Republicans should accept it? But right at the outset, guest Guy Benson said that he and the other guest, Monica Crowley, "just have a difference of opinion here on tactics, not on principle."
Read moreFox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll - 8/4/13-8/10/13
Once again, dear readers, it is time for you to review the past week's outrageousness on Fox News and help us pick the MOST Outrageous Quote of the Week. This week's assortment includes Islamophobia, sexism, revival of "death panels" talk and racial accusations against Oprah! But while many can be nominated, only one can win the title of Outrageous Quote of the Week. The choice is up to you!
Read moreLaura Ingraham Hates Planned Parenthood And Wants You To Hate It Too!
While abortion is still legal, the anti-choice right wing continues to work towards the defunding of Planned Parenthood in order to ensure that women will have less access to abortion. In vilifying Planned Parenthood and validating those who want nothing more than to shutter an organization that provides vital health care for low income women, Fox News is a willing partner. During a recent "news" piece about Planned Parenthood, Bret Baier said that a Delaware clinic is "under assault" because three former workers have made accusations, which the clinic denies, of unsafe practices. He followed that up with news (A lede on the Fox website) about a GAO investigation of Planned Parenthood. Baier asked if Planned Parenthood is "playing fast and lose with taxpayer money." On Fox news' "Happening Now" Jenna Lee asked if taxpayer dollars should be going to an organization that provides abortion. And just to make sure that the pro-life propaganda blast reached even more viewers, "pro-life luminary" Laura Ingraham told us how Planned Parenthood wastes our tax dollars and in so doing, helped birth a Fox propaganda meme. Aww....
Read moreFox News Mail Call - 8/10/13 Edition
Here, for your voyeuristic pleasure, is our weekly peek into the minds of Fox News fans. Maybe it's just me but it seems that this batch of emails meant for Fox News, but inexplicably sent to us, is crazier than ever. This week, we've got complaints about drones in Florida, Judge Judy not in New Jersey and Megyn Kelly's upcoming prime time. Plus, an accusation that the left wing is responsible for someone's poor Fox News reception. All that and more after the jump.
Read moreFox News Pretends Palin Was Right About ‘Death Panels’
Sarah Palin returned to Fox News’ “business block” today to lend her special brand of acumen to a discussion about Obamacare and death panels. Despite the fact that her “death panels” accusation was rated “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, host Eric Bolling joined her in throwing truth out the window as she took what was laughably called “The Hot Seat” for softball questions and a pretense that she has been proven correct.
Read moreSarah Palin WIns 'Most Outrageous Quote' Poll Again!
Sarah Palin made it to the top of our Most Outrageous Quote poll again last week for the second week in a row. Once again, she blew away the competition, this time with her "wisdom" about threatening to shut down the government in order to defund Obamacare.
Read moreLeave It To Todd Starnes To Smear Obama's Support For Gay Olympic Athletes
Yesterday, President Obama spoke out against Russia's anti-gay legislation and, at the same time, rejected calls for an Olympics boycott by cheering on gay and lesbian athletes to defeat the homophobia via superior sportsmanship: “One thing I’m really looking forward to is maybe some gay and lesbian athletes bringing home the gold or silver or bronze, which i think would go a long way in rejecting the kind of attitudes were seeing there. And if Russia doesn’t have gay or lesbian athletes, it’ll probably make their team weaker.” Fox's resident Christian Crusader Todd Starnes was watching and he took to this Twitter account with a series of mocking tweets that I'm sure Jesus would have loved - not.
Read moreFlorida Bus-Beating Case Reveals Fox News' Racist Colors
If you’ve watched Fox at all this week, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the beating of a white student by three black older students on a school bus in Florida. Fox has seized on this story and, with sickening enthusiasm, used it for no other reason than to gin up racial animosity in its lily-white viewers.
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