The Five Invite Rush Limbaugh Over for a Love-In
A day after Rush Limbaugh was forced to explain that he hadn’t been telling a caller not to watch Fox News - just not to watch the liberals on Fox News - he and Fox continued their mutual damage control, with Rush calling in to the Five, ostensibly to discuss the “news of the day” but really, I think, for a nice cozy session of Bonding and Fawning in Front of the Cameras.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Blames Gays For Assault On Christian Preacher At Pride Parade
While the killing of a NYC gay man was officially designated as a hate crime and a gay friendly Minnesota Christian church has been repeatedly vandalized, you won't find any outrage about that on Fox News. But when a Christian pastor, of the God hates fags genre, is attacked at a gay pride parade, Fox is all over it like the product that they produce on a daily basis. As the mouthpiece for the homophobic and perpetually victimized Christian right it doesn't come as any surprise that Fox Nation would feature, for an entire day, the banner headline "Shocking Video, Christian Preachers Assaulted at Gay Pride Festival." And given that Bill O'Reilly seems to have some issues with teh gay, it wasn't surprising that he would advance the Fox meme that the LGBT community is intolerant and violent towards Christians. Monday night, O'Reilly scolded the gay community about the aforementioned incident when the perps don't appear to be gay. Funny, O'Reilly doesn't scold the straight community for hate crimes against gays. Go figure!
Read moreDoes Anyone Really Think Sarah Palin's Going To Run For Senator?
Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity on his radio show yesterday that she's considering running against incumbent Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and suddenly the media believes her. Just like they believed her phony tease about running for president. Fox News is also trumpeting this myth, even though Palin just un-quit the network less than a month ago and told the viewers that she's very busy writing a book that's "kind of a legalese how-to push back" on the War on Christmas.
Read moreHannity And Mark Fuhrman Fear Monger About African American Riots In The Wake Of The (Certain) Zimmerman Acquittal
Sean Hannity, Fox News Master Baiter Of Race, once again stuck his finger in the eye of African Americans tonight with the blatantly insensitive use of Mark Fuhrman as an analyst of the George Zimmerman trial. But even worse, Hannity specifically asked Fuhrman to opine about how likely it will be that African Americans will riot if when Zimmerman is acquitted. As if a noted racist like Fuhrman would have any insight into African Americans in Florida. Yet Fuhrman used the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled swipe at the black community.
Read moreElisabeth Hasselbeck To Replace Gretchen Carlson On Fox & Friends
Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be leaving The View tomorrow and joining Fox & Friends in September, when Gretchen Carlson will get her own show.
Read moreNina Easton Advances Fox News Anti-Abortion 'Gaslighting' With Kirsten Powers' Pro-Life Propaganda
During the Gosnell trial, Amanda Marcotte wrote an interesting article about how anti-choice forces were "gaslighting the media and the public." She explains that gaslighting refers to "emotional abuse where the abuser deliberately denies reality and tells blatant lies" in order to disorient the victim who eventually can't recognize reality. This strategy, she notes, was inherent in right wing media Gosnell coverage which tied Gosnell to legal abortion when the reality is that lack of access drove desperate women to Gosnell. As an example of media obfuscation, she cited Fox contributor Kirsten Powers' anti-choice rhetoric - despite Powers' claim to be a Democrat. Fox's coverage of the Texas abortion law involves more gaslighting in that their focus on the supposed reasonableness of the 20 week ban obfuscates the greater issue of lack of access to reproductive health care which Powers thinks is no big deal. On this week's Fox News Sunday, the gaslighting continued with Nina Easton's anti-choice propaganda which even used one of Powers' bogus talking points as well as the now standard Fox attack on Wendy Davis.
Read moreDid Rush Limbaugh Really Tell A Caller To Stop Watching Fox News?
Both Fox News and Rush Limbaugh jumped into damage-control mode today after some websites interpreted a Limbaugh liberal-bashing remark as advice to a listener to stop watching Fox News.
Yesterday a certain Tony from Tampa called Limbaugh's radio show to rant about “Alinskyite Obama Democrats, steeped in Leninism, with their windmills and their solar panels” who appeared on Fox News panels - complaining in particular about disparaging remarks about coal that “Democrat Obama-Alinskyite” liberal contributor Julie Roginsky had made on a Fox panel hosted by Neil Cavuto (audio below via Mediaite).
Read moreBritish Lawmakers Think Rupert Murdoch Has Some 'Splaining To Do About Those Bribes To Officials
Those recently released secret recordings of Rupert Murdoch at a meeting with his employees are proving more than an embarrassment. Murdoch's supposedly private comments about the scandal plaguing his companies are so contradictory to the evidence he provided to a parliamentary inquiry that British lawmakers are asking him to come back and explain himself.
Read moreThe Real Fraud In The South Carolina 'Dead Voter' Story Came From Fox News
A newly-released report from a South Carolina state investigation has found that, despite Fox News fear mongering reports to the contrary, there was no indication that anyone purposefully cast a ballot using the name of a dead person in South Carolina. Yet while Fox pundits used the Republican cries of "voter fraud" as "proof" that more stringent voting restrictions were needed and Fox News promoted the alarmist cries, there has been no similar reporting on what turned out to be nothing more than a piece of partisan political theatrics that was as phony as the ACORN "exposé" Fox also blindly promoted.
Read moreGallup Ranks Fox News Number One (Sort of)
Fox Nation is trumpeting the fact that, according to Gallup, “Fox News is America's top outlet for news.” The Nation reprinted a glowing post from John Nolte at breitbart.com, which reported that 8% of those surveyed in late June said they got their news from Fox; second place is CNN with 7%. In fact, gentle reader, if you look more closely at the Gallup data, Fox appears to be in second place, and “non-specific” ranks first with a much larger 26%.
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