Eric Bolling Asks If, OMG, NBC Approves Of "Atheist Night" At Ballpark!
Along with your humble correspondent, several other media outlets picked up on Eric Bolling's insane and rather un-Christ like tirade, on yesterday's Fox & Friends, over a minor league baseball team's plans to host an atheist night at their Minnesota ballpark. As I reported, Bolling was so upset that he urged his Christians fans to pray for rain and admonished the atheists to "stay out of the ballpark" if said Christian prayers don't work. Poor persecuted Christian soldier Eric Bolling isn't happy about less than flattering coverage and is lashing out towards the evil, librul media that doesn't believe, as does Bolling, that atheists suck and are going to hell. And aren't good Christians, like Bolling, supposed to "turn the other cheek?"
Read moreDid George Zimmerman's Attorney Write Hannity’s Interview Questions Or Does Defending Zimmerman Just Come Naturally To Him?
In a bizarre, hour-long interview last night, Sean Hannity donned the role of defense attorney for George Zimmerman and spoon-fed him a series of leading questions designed to acquit Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting. Hannity was such a lapdog that he didn’t even bat an eye or challenge a word when Zimmerman said, “It was all God’s plan” that he shot the unarmed Martin. Nor did Hannity pay attention to Zimmerman’s astonishing statement that after he shot Martin, he never made an effort to find out his condition. Hannity even seemed to agree when Zimmerman said he felt he was due an apology from civil rights leaders. The fact that Zimmerman’s real attorney, who was present throughout, barely said a word suggests that there was very little daylight between his and Hannity’s roles. But while Hannity made a splashy show of sympathy for Zimmerman, it's hard not to think that the only person who benefitted from this spectacle was Hannity, himself.
Read moreBrit Hume Hearts the New, Forceful Romney
Good evening, gentle reader. Good to be back. I did have a wonderful time, though; I was getting my eyebrows lowered at a thoroughly swanky, decadent spa in – no, never mind, I’ll leave it to your imagination. Meanwhile Fox News has been busy lowering something else: namely the tone of the political debate. Ellen has already noted the dedication with which Fox News is spinning President Obama's remarks about success being not only a matter of individual initiative but also “because we do things together.” They were doing it again on last night's On the Record, with Brit Hume as chief spinmeister.
Read moreJon Scott: It Seems Like Obama’s Sort Of Denigrating The Value Of Work In This Country
“Objective news” host Jon Scott offered what he called a “fair and balanced” debate on Happening Now this morning. That is, if your definition of “fair and balanced” includes a host validating Republican talking points, asking all the skeptical questions of the Democratic guest, making no challenge to the conservative, pro-Republican guest and taking a gratuitous swipe at President Obama.
Read moreWilliams And Hannity Give Sununu A Pass On His “Obama Is Un-American” Dog Whistles
Yesterday, Romney-surrogate John Sununu made a series of stunning statements that were distinct dog whistles about President Obama’s American bona fides. One of them, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American,” even Sununu walked back slightly. Yet, when Sununu appeared on Hannity last night for a debate with liberal Juan Williams, he made no effort to call Sununu on such inflammatory rhetoric. In fact, Sununu again suggested that Obama is somehow Un-American even as the discussion was framed around the supposedly outrageous rhetoric coming from Obama.
Read moreCatholic Eric Bolling Tells Atheist Baseball Fans To "Stay Out Of The Ballpark"
By his own standards and the definition of Fox News Insider, Eric Bolling is a devout Catholic who regularly attends mass and lights candles for his friends. And like the *Catholic Inquisition, he has a very low tolerance for those who do not believe as he does. He once kicked an atheist off his Fox Business show because he thought his guest denigrated Jesus. Of course, Jesuit educated Bolling denigrates President Obama, liberals, Muslims and that's all good; but I digress. But Bolling's bias against atheists is not an anomaly on Fox News - the "fair and balanced" news network that has atheists on the top of its enemies list along with all those groups that do not hew to the orthodoxy of the GOP right wing. This morning, in yet another attempt to smear those evil, Jesus hating atheists, Fox & Friends provided Bolling with yet another opportunity to express his distaste for those godless beings. Torquemada? Torquemada?
Read moreBill O’Reilly Threatens To Retire If His Taxes Go Up – Again!
Bill O’Reilly is very disturbed about President Obama’s plan to raise his taxes. It's all part of his job of looking out for you, of course. Tonight, he told former Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee that he's "looking at" a tax rate of 60% and if that happens, he’ll retire. You may recall O’Reilly made the same threat last September. He also repeated his threat to quit investing “at the level I am now” if his capital gains taxes rise to 40% and to move his money to the Cayman Islands and/or Switzerland.
Read moreRomney Picks Up Fox’s Dishonest Attacks On Obama’s Small Business Remarks
Yesterday, Fox News played a deceptively-edited clip of President Obama talking about how government has helped small business owners and turned it into a talking point that Obama was dissing entrepreneurs. Now, Mitt Romney has picked up on those attacks and has even made a YouTube video based on them.
Read moreCavuto Guest Explains How To Spin Cutting Food Stamps
On Your World last week (7/12/12), Crystal Wright, of conservativeblackchick.com, discussed the Republican plan to cut $16.5 billion in food stamps. It was presented as a given that the cuts were a good thing. The only real “issue” was how to spin it so as not to look uncaring.
Read moreJohn Stossel Suggests Unpaid Internships Better Than College
Last week, I posted about John Stossel urging younger Americans to aim lower in their job searches and, while he was at it, argued for abolishing the minimum wage. A day later, Stossel suggested students do away with pay altogether as he talked up the benefits of unpaid internships which, he told us, teach young people more than colleges do – and are free!
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