Bill O'Reilly Still Pushing Anti-Abortion Rhetoric - Abortion = Baby Killing
Any good propagandist knows that "words matter." And as propaganda is the raison d'être for Fox News, Fox talkers know the value of using an incendiary, emotionally charged term when a more reasonable term could and should be used. The use of incendiary, emotionally charged rhetoric is nowhere more important than in the 'pro-life' community who, in order to shame and vilify abortion providers and women who have abortions, use terms like "baby killing" to describe the legal termination of a fetus as "killing" and abortion doctors as "killers." This vocabulary contributes to a climate of hate in which abortion doctors are murdered, as happened to Dr. George Tiller who was frequently denounced by Bill O'Reilly as a "baby killer." Tiller is gone; but O'Reilly still maintains, as fact, that abortion is "killing babies" - a point made during his interview with the attorney for Dr. Gosnell. Gosnell was found guilty of murdering babies after birth. Abortion doctors, unless adjudicated otherwise, are performing a safe, legal procedure. Big difference; but not for O'Reilly whose toxic words shouldn't matter, but sadly do.
Read moreFlashback: Andrea Tantaros Complained About Obama's 'Violent Rhetoric' Before Advocating Punching Obama Supporters 'In The Face'
It turns out that Andrea Tantaros is a hypocrite on top of being a violence-promoting hate monger. Our friend David in Elyria reminded me that about two years ago, she was on her high horse blaming President Obama's "violent rhetoric" for flash mobs. And yet, this is the same woman who has yet to apologize for telling her radio show listeners, “If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”
Read moreGreg Gutfeld, Bernard McGuirk Impugn MSNBC Hosts' Manliness! Really?
If you're looking for a testosterone infused sausage fest of extreme machismo, look no further than Bill O'Reilly's rap sessions with "comedian" and co-host of "The Five" Greg Gutfeld and Bernard McGuirk, Imus sidekick, who once referred to female African-American college basketball players as "hard core hos." When these three Catholic, former altar boys get together it's open season on women, gays, and anybody else that isn't part of their white, patriarchal, Christian boyz club. Included in this list of those who aren't part of O'Reilly's manly locker room posse are the male hosts on MSNBC who, according to Gutfeld and McGuirk, don't score high on the macho scale. That's right folks, the 5 foot 5 Gutfeld and the skinny, skin headed McGuirk actually impugned the manliness of MSNBC hosts during a discussion about a recent study that correlates the size of men's biceps with their conservatism. We know that McGuirk and Gutfeld are conservative but it's about the biceps thing....
Read moreFox Reporter Urges Obama To Channel His Inner Nixon
If anyone on the planet still thinks America Live is an “objective” news program, as Fox News insists it is, then I strongly recommend watching the clip after the jump in which substitute host Greg Jarrett and reporter Chris Stirewalt sneer and jeer at Attorney General Eric Holder and compare Obama unfavorably to disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Freaks Out During Interview With Gosnell Attorney
That the supposed "fair & balanced" Fox News official news services a "pro-life" agenda was underscored by their sensationalist, editorialized, and almost tabloid coverage of the Gosnell abortion case - coverage not seen on Fox during the trial of Scott Roeder, who was convicted of murdering abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller. The anti-choice movement is using the Gosnell case as ammunition in their attempts to roll back abortion rights - a crusade that is being aided and abetted by Fox News which refuses to address the reality that lack of access to safe, affordable abortion will lead to more Gosnell's. Wednesday, alleged "news" host Megyn Kelly spoke with Gosnell's attorney in a piece that could have been a discussion about the need for legal, safe abortion; but, instead, consisted of Kelly screaming at the attorney in a not very "fair & balanced" scolding which earned her praise from the radical movement that threatens women's reproductive rights. But in peddling pro-life propaganda, who cares about being fair & balanced? Certainly not Fox News!
Read moreMonica Crowley Conspiracy Theory Of The Day: Obama’s ‘Attack’ On The Bill Of Rights
On last night’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Dobbs dismissed President Obama’s lengthy, substantive speech on national security as an attempt to change the subject and said, “Now let’s go back to what is really important.” By that, he meant the trumped-up scandals that Republicans Fox is doing its utmost to exploit against the Obama administration. And who better to help with an effort to exploit a trumped-up scandal into a full-blown, anti-Obama conspiracy theory than Monica Crowley, the pundit who blamed her decision not to eat a hamburger on President Obama?
Read moreAndrea Tantaros: ‘Do Me A Favor’ And Punch An Obama Supporter In The Face
Andrea Tantaros crossed a line that should have caused her to be fired on the spot but, sadly, will probably earn her accolades from her right-wing community: calling for actual violence against Obama supporters. On her radio show today, the co-host of Fox News’ The Five said,“If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”
Read moreDick Cheney The Runaway Winner Of Our Outrageous Quote Poll
Former Vice President Dick Cheney had some stiff competition but he trounced each and every one of them to win our Most Outrageous Quote of the Week Poll with a decisive 58.4% of the vote or 122 votes. What made him such a "winner:" His comment that the attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya was “one of the worst incidents that, frankly, that I can recall in my career.”
Read moreO’Reilly, Guilfoyle And Wiehl Whoop It Up Over Jodi Arias’ Potential Death Sentence
I’m no fan of Jodi Arias but there was something beyond tasteless about the way host Bill O’Reilly treated her pending life-or-death verdict as some kind of theatrical event. “Can we make a bet of some kind? That would be entertaining,” he said to his guests, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lis Wiehl, the Fox News legal pundits who disagreed on the outcome. The “hilarity” that ensued was sickening to anyone who feels that sentencing someone to death is no laughing matter. It just proves that Arias has become nothing more than a media commodity to “pro-life” Fox News.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Declares Victory In 'Righteous' (And Bogus) War On Christmas Crusade (Or Is It Jihad?)
Bill O'Reilly's "Tip of the Day" is usually a little homily about how "the folks" should take Bill's advice about doing the right thing - in other words, preaching about what he doesn't practice. But yesterday, Bill's "tip" was actually a self-congratulatory piece about how the Texas legislature has passed what an atheist Texas public access TV host has called a "bunch of bullshit." As usual with O'Reilly's delusions claims of culture war victories, one can't assume that his media papacy had anything to do with this bill which "is designed as a legal firewall to protect educators or other public officials who wish to openly celebrate Christmas in the state, but fear legal action from secular groups." But that didn't stop O'Reilly from taking, as he did in the case of Great Barrington MA, credit for it!
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