John McCain: If Benghazi Comes To ‘Full Investigation,’ Credit Roger Ailes
On yesterday’s Your World, Neil Cavuto spoke with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) mostly about what else, Benghazi. Cavuto opened with a clip of President Nixon’s resignation speech from 1974. The headline blared, “CONTROVERSY MOUNTING OVER BENGHAZI INVESTIGATION, IRS SCANDAL.” McCain started with the IRS “scandal.” “I’m shocked, shocked that the IRS would be going after people whose political views aren’t to their liking.” Then he moved on to Benghazi and the Fox News obsession about the talking points.
Read moreO’Reilly Continues To Use Baltimore Prison Scandal To Target 2016 Democratic Hopeful, Martin O’Malley
Yesterday, I posted about how Bill O’Reilly used a prison scandal in Baltimore, MD as a thinly-disguised vehicle to go after potential 2016 presidential candidate Martin O’Malley. Last night, O’Reilly used his mail segment of The O’Reilly Factor to continue the effort.
Read moreRumsfeld Lectures Obama About Truthfulness Over Benghazi
If you haven’t died laughing over Dick Cheney’s lecture to the Obama administration about Benghazi and preventing terror attacks on Hannity last night, you may be at risk again tonight watching Donald Rumsfeld lecture Obama about the need to “gather the facts and then inform the American people.” This, from the guy who assured America that he knew where Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction were and that the Iraq war probably wouldn’t last as long as six months. And then testified that he had “never painted a rosy picture” about Iraq.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Pimps GOP 'Gosnell' Resolution - Minus Pertinent Facts
Throughout the Gosnell trial, Fox News has been parroting anti-choice talking points including the memes that the media wasn't sufficiently covering the trial and that what happened at the Gosnell clinic is typical abortion practice. Now, the anti-choice movement is using a failed anti-abortion Senate resolution, introduced by GOP Sen. Mike Lee, to portray themselves as victims of pro-choice zealotry and Democratic chicanery. So it should come as no surprise that Fox News, in coming to their rescue, would promote Lee's resolution which isn't quite what Fox News is making it out to be. Sunday, Fox News' Shannon Bream provided the requisite "pro-life" spin without reporting on the real substance and ramifications of the resolution which was similarly spun, by alleged "news" host Megyn Kelly, on Friday. Ah, love the smell of fair & balanced in the afternoon!
Read moreSenator Graham Promises He’ll Keep Pushing on Benghazi
Last week, Senator Lindsey Graham assured viewers, On the Record and elsewhere, that the “dam was about to break” on the Benghazi incident, thanks to last Wednesday’s House Committee hearing featuring three whistle blowers. I guess the dam hasn’t broken, because last night Graham was back On the Record promising more whistle-blowers – even though he declared he was “tired” of them and what he really wanted was a joint select committee and testimony from eye-witnesses.
Read moreFox News' Shannon Bream Allows Hate Group Leader To Equate Gosnell With Safe, Legal Abortion
That Fox News panders to the homophobic religious right and pro-life extremism is underscored by what seems to be more frequent appearances by Tony Perkins, head of the "Family Research Council." This so-called "family values" organization has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its virulent anti-LGBT views, some of which have been articulated, without rebuttal, on Fox. Along with opposing marriage equality, the FRC is part of the movement that, in seeking to ban abortion, would put abortion back in the hands of back alley butchers whose practices would rival that of convicted murderer Dr. Gosnell. So there was some irony in the official Fox "news" interview with Perkins, this past week-end, about Gosnell whose comments received no push back from Fox's Shannon Bream who does appear to be America's "pro-life" newsroom's "pro-life" news correspondent
Read moreO'Reilly's Baltimore Prison 'Investigation' Just Happens To Target 2016 Dem Hopeful, Martin O'Malley
Last night’s O’Reilly Factor conducted a “Factor Follow up” on a scandal in Baltimore in which a prisoner has allegedly run a drug ring in the prison and impregnated four prison guards. The story of the Baltimore detention center, taken over by the state of Maryland is, in fact, a big one. But O’Reilly glided over most of the details and deliberately made it more about Governor Martin O’Malley than the prison. And guess what? It just so happens that Democrat O’Malley is a 2016 presidential hopeful.
Read moreStephen Colbert Smacks Benghazi-Gate Down To Size
Nobody gets to the heart of Fox News maliciousness like Stephen Colbert. In his funny dissection of the Benghazi non-troversy, he also took an enjoyable swipe at Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld for calling the mainstream media “Obama’s condom.”
Read moreDick Cheney Lectures Obama About Benghazi And Preventing Terrorism Attacks
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry at the brazen hypocrisy of Sean Hannity and Fox News in calling on Dick Cheney to lecture President Obama about preventing terrorism attacks and being ready to handle attacks such as the one in Benghazi, Libya when they do come. While many may think of the Bush administration as having abjectly failed to protect the country from the original 9/11 – thousands of times worse than what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 – and for killing thousands in Iraq in a war based on false claims that the country was an imminent threat (and never mind Hurricane Katrina), Hannity and Fox pretended that Cheney had some kind of track record to be proud of when it comes to protecting Americans.
Read moreAllen West’s Completely Unsubstantiated Suggestion That IRS Scandal Is Linked To Debunked Auto Bailout Conspiracy
In Fox's never-ending enthusiasm for the rehabilitation of Allen West from a sore loser of a Congressional candidate who was nearly court martialed for torturing a prisoner while in Iraq into a Person Who Still Matters, Fox & Friends Weekend welcomed him to the show yesterday to share his “insights” into the IRS scandal in which the agency has admitted targeting Tea Party groups for investigation. But even there, West failed in that he laughably linked the IRS inquiries to the long-debunked conspiracy theory that the federal government supposedly discriminated against Republican auto dealers during the auto bailouts. That’s the same conspiracy theory that even Fox News has debunked. But the Fox & Friends hosts developed a West-friendly bout of amnesia about that.
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