Monica Crowley’s Latest Conspiracy Theory Too Wacky For Bill O’Reilly
Monica Crowley came up with a new conspiracy theory on The O’Reilly Factor last night. Not only did Bill O’Reilly not buy it, he all but told her it was flat-out ridiculous.
Read moreGot Irony? Bill O'Reilly Misses Anti-Girl Scout Propaganda Mark When Guest Overtalked Him?!
You might not know it but, according to the Christian right, the Girls Scouts of the USA organization is just another one of Satan's minions which is out to corrupt the virtue of American girls. Recently, anti-choice groups have started a Girl Scout cookie boycott because of a Girl Scout tweet which referenced an article that praised, among other women, TX State Senator Wendy Davis. Fox's Megyn Kelly got the national media ball rolling on that one. But Fox's promotion of the meme that the Girl Scouts are being corrupted by Planned Parenthood and controlled by Media Matters is nothing new on Fox. Thus, I fully expected the unabashedly anti-choice Bill O'Reilly to be in full agreement with last night's guest, a mom who has started her own version of Girls Scouts because of the moral depravity of the real Girl Scouts. While his intent might have been otherwise, O'Reilly's interview was actually reasonable - but that's because, when he attempted to work in his agitprop, he got talked over!
Read moreVarney And Santorum Help Promote ‘Stimulus Didn’t Work’ Lie
Fox’s Stuart Varney and Rick Santorum used the five-year anniversary of President Obama’s stimulus package (officially named the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) to join the right-wing misinformation squad when they attacked the stimulus program as ineffective.
Read moreFox's Black History Year
In case you think any of Fox News' brief Black History Month videos signal any kind of real respect for African Americans...
Read morePeter Johnson Jr. Validates Koch Brothers Obamascare Ad
The "fair & balanced" Fox News has, not surprisingly, been aiding and abetting "Obamacare" scare stories which turned out to be as bogus as Fox's "fair & balanced" slogan. So not surprisingly, Fox is providing validation for an anti-ACA TV ad, being run by a Koch funded group, Americans for Prosperity, which purports to tell the tale of a Tennessee woman, a former Obama supporter (ahem), who has lupus, lost her health care, and is now working two jobs just to make her Obamacare payments. Yesterday, she was interviewed on Fox & Friends by Roger Ailes BFF, Peter Johnson Jr. who didn't ask her the relevant questions, posed on Politifact, which could bring either some context or some verification to her story. But the ad was played on a national "fair & balanced" network so it was all good....
Read moreHannity And Guest Declare War Against NAACP ‘Racism’
Sean Hannity continued his race war against the NAACP last night. His conservative guest, David Webb, actually announced that it’s time he and Hannity go on “offense” against the NAACP’s supposed racism. Anyone with the slightest familiarity with Hannity’s own race record knows that accusing blacks of racism is one of his typical subterfuges of bigotry against African Americans. Anyone, that is, except maybe the other guest, Richard Fowler. It was an epic failure of liberal punditry.
Read moreFox News Sunday Distracts From Christie Scandal By Ambushing Democrat Strickland
Fox News Sunday feigned a fair and balanced discussion yesterday about, as host Chris Wallace put it, how the left and right “are working to derail” 2016 presidential frontrunners. But after a lengthy discussion about derailing Hillary Clinton’s potential candidacy, guest Karl Rove hijacked the discussion to smear the other guest, Democrat Ted Strickland. There was no objection from Wallace.
Read moreSean Hannity Accuses 'Comrade' De Blasio Of Anti-Catholicism Over St. Patrick's Day Parade Boycott!
In the bizarro, Orwellian world of Fox News, those who call out bigotry are accused of being intolerant. African-American leaders who dare to speak out against racism are called "race hustlers" who are playing the "race card." When the anti-gay commentary (but it's biblically based so it's all good) of the Duck Dynasty patriarch was criticized, Fox talkers claimed that it was the LGBT groups who were bigoted against perpetually, in Foxworld, besieged Christians who are standing up for their principals. Duck Dynasty Defender Sean Hannity continued this reality reversal earlier this month (2/6) when he blasted NY Mayor Bill de Blasio for boycotting the annual St. Patrick's Day parade because it doesn't allow gay groups to march. For Sean Hannity, who sees de Blasio as one of Stalin's minions, this is proof of "the left's intolerance" and de Blasio's hatred of Catholics.
Read moreFox News Outrageous Quote OF The Week – 2/8/14-2/15/14
It's that time of the week again when we turn to you, our readers, to help us choose the Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week. Once again, we have several finalists: Dennis Miller smearing Sandra Fluke, Sean Hannity with some national security advice for President Obama, Lauren Ashburn on the supposedly phony controversy of the Redskins name and many more. So get out your thinking caps...
Read moreNY Times Op Ed Nails O'Reilly And Fox News
You can bet your No Spin Zone that Bill O'Reilly has a new Enemy Number One in New York Times columnist Timothy Egan. In an op ed last week, Egan managed to explain everything that was wrong with Bill O'Reilly's Supert Bowl interview with President Barack Obama and, at the same time, everything that's wrong with Fox News.
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