O’Reilly Race War On Rep. Barbara Lee: Viewer Mail Edition
Remember when Bill O’Reilly mocked those who disingenuously use emails to make a point and act as though it’s coming from someone else? That was little over a week ago. O’Reilly must have counted on his audience not remembering or not caring. Because tonight, that’s exactly what he did as an excuse to level yet another racial attack on Congresswoman Barbara Lee.
Read moreFox News Double Standard On Flag Disrespect: "Hippies" Vs Tea Party
On Fox News, the American flag is right up there with the cross of Jesus as the ultimate American totemic object of worship. Any perceived disrespect to the flag is met with righteous indignation. In September 2012, Megyn Kelly was chagrined and appalled that the Obama campaign had an American flag visual which replaced the flag's stars with the campaign's logo. Meanwhile, nobody on Fox seemed concerned about images of the American flag that were similarly altered, only with Tea Party iconography. Yesterday, alleged "news" anchor Martha MacCallum showed us, once again, that not all American flags are created equal.
Read moreCavuto Mocks Minimum Wage Activists
On Fox’s Your World, host Neil Cavuto discussed the minimum wage and union-backed protestors calling for wage hikes in the usual “fair and balanced” way: by denigrating them. He showed a clip of protesters chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho. Poverty wages have got to go.” That was all the “other side” Fox News thought necessary to “balance” Cavuto’s very friendly interview with Sen. John Thune (R-SD). But first, Cavuto made fun of the protesters.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Keeps Hate Alive With More CAIR/Islam Bashing
While Fox News promotes right wing Christianity, there is, as we saw with its coverage of the "Ground Zero Mosque," no depth to which Fox will sink in its efforts to use any issue to smear Islam and, in so doing, reinforce its characterization as an "echo chamber" for the well-oiled national machinery of Islamophobia. Fox's "truth detector" Megyn Kelly has consistently aided and abetted Fox's efforts to denigrate Islam. On Monday she used a movie about domestic violence in Islamic society, produced by an anti-Islamic group, to attack CAIR and lie about a writer who agrees with CAIR in their criticism of the film. But just to show that she is fair & balanced, she subsequently hosted a representative from CAIR - and then proceeded to join her other guest, a woman who believes that Huma Abedin is tied to Islamic Jihad, in bashing Islam and CAIR.
Read moreFox News Military Analysts Destroy Fox’s ‘Fort Hood Shootings Prove Soldiers Should Be Armed On Base’ Meme
If you spent much time watching Fox News in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, you almost surely heard “expert” after “expert” use the occasion to call for soldiers to be armed on base – and looser gun laws in general. But The O’Reilly Factor actually called on two military experts - and they pretty much demolished any argument for perpetually-armed soldiers.
Read moreStephen Colbert Reminds Us How Fox Predicted ObamaCare Would Never Reach 7 Million Enrollments
On the very day that the Obama administration announced that health insurance enrollments under the Affordable Care Act had reached – and even exceeded – the 7 million goal, Stephen Colbert took a walk down memory lane to show us just how inaccurate the forecasts of Fox News pundits were.
Read morePoliticization Of Fort Hood Shootings: Putin, Russia And Crimea Edition
To our growing list of Fox News’ Ways To Politicize Fort Hood Shootings, we can add Allen West’s creative use of Putin, Russia and Crimea. Partial credit goes to Sean Hannity for all but jabbing West with an elbow in the ribs while suggesting that the shootings might “all go back to” Obama’s policies on terrorism.
Read moreFox & Friends Conservative Guest, Katherine Timpf, 'Bullied' By Feminists
Once again, Jon Stewart's comment about how "conservative victimization is the true genius of Fox News" was underscored on this morning's Fox & Friends who featured yet another right wing whiner and who is making the claim that she was not welcomed at a feminist event because of her conservative views. Somebody call me a whambulance!
Read moreHannity ‘Infuriated’ By ‘Premature’ Reporting That Fort Hoot Shooting Was Not Terrorism
Sean Hannity was a vision of journalistic concern over reporting by other networks that yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting did not appear to be terrorism. But peek underneath the surface and it becomes clear that Hannity wanted the networks to prematurely suggest that the shooting was terrorism. Later, during the same broadcast, without a trace of irony, Hannity announced that… the shooting did not appear to be terrorism.
Read moreRichard Silverstein Responds To Megyn Kelly's Personal Attack
As I reported yesterday, during her gynormas rant about how the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trying to suppress free speech on college campuses and intimidate Fox into not covering a movie made by the anti-Islamic Clarion Fund, Megyn Kelly attacked Richard Silverstein who agrees with CAIR's criticism of the film. But unlike so many of those attacked on Fox News, he is willing to rebut Kelly's hateful rhetoric and what he is claiming are outright lies. But isn't Megyn Kelly a "truth detector" so WTF?
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