Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll 10/20/13-10/26/13
Do we have a slew of outrageousness for you tonight! We've got comments about the "narcotics" otherwise known as the U.S. monetary policy, the "magnificent" government shutdown, Bill O'Reilly's psychoanalysis of President Obama and oh, so much more! So put your thinking caps on, dear readers. Because while many can be nominated, only one can be the Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week.
Read moreDr. Ben Carson Doubles Down On Likening Obamacare To Slavery
Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson defended his incendiary attack on Obamacare – which he called “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” – by attacking Democrats andor liberals for using incendiary language.
Read moreTucker Carlson: Media Treats Gays Better Than Christians
The popular Fox meme, that minorities play the "victim card," truly underscores their hypocrisy and double standard in that the supposedly "fair & balanced" network is constantly promoting the sense of victimhood held by the right wing Christians for whom and to whom Fox broadcasts its propaganda. The Christian right's righteous whine about how they don't get any respect from librul Hollywood has been frequently validated on Fox. And it's just not Hollywood. According to defender of the (Christian) faith, Bill O'Reilly it's the media, too. Bill's recent claim about the media (some of whom have dared to criticize "Killing Jesus") was further advanced, last Sunday, by Episcopal Church hating Tucker Carlson whose obvious propaganda messaging on behalf of the homophobic religious right, once again, showed us why he is such a "dick."
Read moreFox News, You'Ve Got Mail: 10/26/13 Edition
It's time for our weekly peek into the minds of Fox News viewers via the batch of emails sent to us from people who thought they were writing to the "fair and balanced" network. This week's crop is as revealing as ever. We've got "the truth about Obamacare" from someone who thought nothing more needed to be said about what that truth might be. Also, somebody wants to know where Jenna Lee gets her shoes. And someone who thinks Fox News is biased against conservatives. Really. All that and more after the jump.
Read moreNo, Hoenig and Fields, The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Even Close To Being The Best
On today’s Cashin’ In, the fat-cat conservatives fearmongered about the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) by discussing how the problems of its co-ops could leave taxpayers on the hook for a billion dollars. Not surprisingly, it was left to liberal Juan Williams to point out how the co-ops’ problems are largely the fault of Congressional restrictions put in place after lobbying from the insurance industry – and thanks to budget cuts demanded by Republicans. Instead, the Fox News conservatives suggested it was all because President Obama had somehow impeded our country’s fabulous free market health care.
Read moreBob Beckel’s Dubious ‘White House Bludgeoned Me Over Obamacare’ Story
OK, quick question: An employee on your network goes on the air, and claims that the White House called him personally, to attack him for opining that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) mandate should be delayed. He won’t name names and gets dodgy when pressed for details. What do you do? Well, if you’re Fox News and the employee is “liberal” Bob Beckel, you promote the claim largely unquestioned. Later, when he changes the story and says it was a former White House official and that Beckel was the one doing the calling, you continue hyping the story anyway.
Read moreFox News Suggests Pres. Obama Ignores 'War On Christians'
When those in the right wing decide that a certain issue needs publicizing, Roger Ailes inseminates it (metaphorically speaking) into the Fox media reproductive organ where it is fertilized and given birth as a full fledged propaganda meme. Such is the case with Fox's patented Christian right trope that American Christians are constantly besieged by the slings and arrows of godless secularism which, according to Ailes, is a "wall threatening to cut America off from its Judeo-Christian roots." Tuesday, Megyn Kelly expanded Fox's "war on Christians" meme to include Christians in the Middle East, whose persecution by Muslims also serves to advance Fox's always popular Islam is evil meme, when she allowed her anti-Islamic guest to promote the persecution narrative as well as bash the president - another favorite Fox meme. But that was Fox "opinion." On Thursday, official Fox News took up the cross meme.
Read moreMegyn Kelly More Interested In Politicizing Obamacare Than In Fixing It
Megyn Kelly was yet another vision of scripted outrage last night as she debated Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Obamacare architect and brother of former Obama administration Chief of Staff and current mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. Kelly’s opening question gave a good clue to what kind of bias she'd soon display: Did Emanuel “believe the president was intentionally misleading or just grossly mistaken” about Obamacare?
Read moreFox Compares Stimulating The Economy To Nicotine And Narcotics
Earlier this week, the Your World show discussed a jobs report showing that the economy created 148,000 jobs, below expectations. The Dow Jones rose 75.46 on hopes the Fed will continue to stimulate the economy via QE or quantitative easing. Host Neil Cavuto “asked” his guest, “The markets are rejoicing that the nicotine’s going to keep coming, right?”
Read moreMegyn Kelly's Anti-Islamic Guest Says Obama Ignores Muslim 'War On Christians'
In addition to providing sanctuary for legions of persecuted American Christians, Fox News has expanded its role as defender of the faith to Christians world wide. In the spirit of medieval popes, who called for Catholics to kick some serious Muslim ass, Fox News appears to be calling on President Obama to intervene on behalf of Christians in Muslim countries. Tuesday, Megyn Kelly pushed this meme with Brooke Goldstein, a "human rights advocate" and attorney with the Lawfare Project, who, along with Islamophhobic types like David Horowitz, believes that Huma Abedin is connected to Islamic terror. Because of this bogus connection, Anthony Weiner, according to Goldstein, is no longer attracted to Abedin and that's why he got involved in internet mischief. But Goldstein is concerned about how Christians and other minorities are treated in the Muslim world and that's why Megyn Kelly treated her so well in a Fox propaganda triple play - persecuted Christians are showcased, Islam is, once again, "bashed with impunity," and Pres. Obama is smeared. Sweet...
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