Fox Fear Mongers The Election Of Bill De Blasio As NYC Mayor: ‘We May All Be Doomed!’
It’s been a little more than 24 hours since Bill de Blasio became mayor of New York and, as far as I can tell, the city's still standing, despite the snowstorm bearing down on it. But to listen to Fox’s Charles Payne and Charles Gasparino on New Year’s Eve afternoon, it’s only a matter of time until capitalism – and then the city and country fall apart. Oh, and while he was at it, Gasparino gave an unintentionally hilarious description of his life as a "card-carrying" Catholic.
Read moreFox & Friends Pimp GOP Rep.'s 'Bill' (Actually Resolution) To Save Christmas
This GOP led US Congress is on track to be "the least productive" session in history. But in the midst of constant obstruction and ongoing attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, there is one brave GOP Representative who is doing the Lord's work in trying to reach across the aisle. Teabagging Rep. Doug Lamborn, who once compared our first African-American president to the "Tar Baby" and who loves the First Amendment so much that he has banned public protest outside his Colorado office (cept for teabaggers), is the sponsor of a proposed Congressional resolution which would ensure that Christmas, which is btw, under attack, is protected under the First Amendment - or something like that! And for his efforts on behalf of that very endangered holiday, he was praised and thanked by the Fox & Friends Christmas loving Christmas Eve crew.
Read moreFox News Smears The Majority Of Americans Who Support Minimum Wage Increase As Misguided
You can chalk up the 66% of Americans who support raising the minimum wage as yet another sector of the United States that Fox News “patriots” don’t respect. In a “Happening Now” discussion on the subject today, Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan sneered, “I think the Americans that were actually polled did not make a payroll.”
Read moreOn America's Newsroom - Stephen Hayes Lies About HHS Birth Control Mandate Covering Abortion Drugs
As the mouthpiece for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Fox News has steadfastly validated the Catholic Church's opposition to the HHS mandate which requires all employers, with the exception of churches, to provide birth control coverage (as well as a wide range of women's healthcare services) in their employee insurance plans. But the Catholic Church believes that emergency contraception, covered under the law, is an abortion drug. Thus, Fox News has validated, on *many occasions, this lie as well as the lie that the law covers actual abortion inducing drugs. The bishops and an order of nuns have filed lawsuits to avoid compliance with the law. The nuns were just given a temporary exemption. This latest development was discussed on this morning's America's Newsroom where right wing columnist Stephen Hayes advanced, once again, the lie that the mandate includes "abortifacients." Good conservative Catholic and alleged "news" anchor, Bill Hemmer, didn't set the record straight.
Read moreFox News Gives A Warm Welcome To BFFs From Duck Dynasty On New Year’s Eve
In case you had any doubt that Fox News considers Duck Dynasty’s Robertson family as one of their own kind, check out much New Year’s Eve co-Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck slobbered over Willie and Korie Robertson when they joined the telecast last night. Co-host Bill Hemmer repeatedly tried to get the couple to disparage A&E but it was all love and “happy, happy, happy,” as Korie Robertson put it, between them and the network.
Read moreKelly Wright, Juan Williams Pimp Christian Right's America Founded On Faith Meme
The religious right has created a false historical narrative which claims that America was founded as a Christian nation and, ergo, those who seek to maintain separation of church and state are both anti-Christian and unpatriotic. There is a cottage industry in this bogus, revisionist "Christian" history as seen in Mike Huckabee's history for kids DVD's and anything written by bogus historian David Barton. While our Founders expressed themselves in devotional terms, they were Deists who, in creating our Constitution, sought to ensure that this country would not become embroiled in the types of church/state conflicts which had wracked Europe for centuries. But in the bizarro world of the Christian right and Fox News, our nation was founded on "faith" which is under attack by secularists. On Christmas Eve, Kelly Wright and Juan Williams advanced this narrative which worked in some war on Christmas figgy pudding.
Read moreFox News Babe's New Year's Plans: We're Gonna F*** S*** Up!
As part of its "All-American New Year" last night, Fox News' Phil Keating approached a drunk celebrant. "Well, hello there, tall drink of water," he said to a young woman, "Say something to the nation. Her response is definitely not safe for work. Nor for the "family show" Keating claimed to be part of.
Read more2013: The Year Of Fox News Race Baiting In Review
From Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman to “white Santa" – with racial attacks on Oprah Winfrey and many others sprinkled throughout - 2013 stands out as a year of race baiting extraordinaire for Fox News. We review this year of Fox News playing to the worst in its audience.
Read moreCatholicism 'Wearing' Eric Bolling Attacks Atheists - Again!
There is a bible verse in which Jesus tells his followers that when the pray they should "go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret." But this advice is not heeded by Fox's Eric Bolling who, in not wasting an opportunity to remind us of his devout Catholicism, is more like the "hypocrites" who "love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others." For Bolling, his public prayer persona is all part of his mission, from God and Roger Ailes to earn his Christian soldier stars by smiting atheists at every turn. Devout Catholic Bolling, who has no problem maligning President Obama and Muslims, also constantly reminds us that he really hates "mean" atheists. Last week, Bolling must have earned more time out of Purgatory with his good, Christian attacks on atheists who, contrary to Bolling's good Christian paranoia, aren't, contrary to the Fox News propaganda meme, trying to destroy Christian tradition.
Read moreJonathan Hoenig Demands GOP Stop Acting Like ‘We Are Our Brother’s Keeper’
On the December 21st Cashin’ In, the panel discussed whether the “media love affair” with President Obama is over and good for taxpayers. Near the end of the discussion, Jonathan Hoenig summed up what he thinks should be the Republican slogan for 2014 and beyond.
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