Rand Paul Wants Support Of Murdoch And Ailes For 2016 Run
Here's another sign that Fox News is joined at the hip with the Republican party: Politico reported today that 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul met privately and separately with both Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes recently. As Politico put it, Paul has been "working to smooth concerns among Republicans and influencers about whether he shares his famous libertarian father’s views on issues like national security." Or to put it another way, he knows how important Fox News is to any Republican presidential candidate and he wants the blessings of the bigwigs.
Read moreO’Reilly: For The ‘Greater Good,’ People Should Go Without Health Insurance Another Year
Bill O’Reilly had a spirited discussion with Dr. Jonathan Gruber last night. Gruber is a supporter of the Affordable Care Act who had previously called out O’Reilly on some of his distortions. Last night, as Gruber explained that the mandate is what makes health insurance affordable and available for people with pre-existing conditions, O’Reilly dismissed that concern by saying that “for the greater good of the nation,” those people should wait another year to get health insurance. Of course, he’s not one of the ones who will have to make such a sacrifice.
Read moreFox Misleadingly Spins Higher ObamaCare Premiums In Red States
A featured FoxNews.com story yesterday was headlined, “ObamaCare’s red state rate squeeze.” A subtitle said, “Study finds Obamacare premiums will be highest in states that did not vote for President Obama, prompting some lawmakers to say it proves ‘law picks winners and losers’ across the country.” Such a byline invites the reader to venture forward to the article itself whereupon a plethora of nonsense is unleashed.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Dismisses Obamacare Coverage Of The Uninsured As ‘Old News’ So She Can Dwell On Impeaching President Obama
You can chalk up Megyn Kelly as the latest Fox News talking head to suggest President Obama should be impeached over his “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it” remarks. That’s bad enough. But during the same show, she dismissed as “old news” the fact that millions more people are now eligible for affordable health insurance under ObamaCare in order to continue her impeachment talk.
Read moreTodd Starnes Takes Bogus Credit For Restoration Of NJ School Christmas Music
Bill O'Reilly isn't the only Christian Christmas warrior who has saved Christmas from the nefarious forces of the Christmas hating atheist agenda. It seems that beloved Fox News culture warrior Todd Starnes is now taking credit for the reversal of a ban on religious music to be performed at some New Jersey school winter concerts, an issue that also got the attention of Mr.Christmas himself, Bill O'Reilly. But as with much of what our dear Toddles reports, it's not exactly true. But Toddles loves Jesus, so it's all good...
Read moreStephen Colbert Mocks Fox’s Blog Sockpuppets
Stephen Colbert hosted David Folkenflik last night to discuss his new book, Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. The book has already made news with its revelation that Fox News employees trolled blogs to counter anything negative that had been written about the network. So before bringing on Folkenflik, Colbert revealed his Twitter strategy to give Fox glowing reviews.
Read moreRNC Chair Priebus Insists ‘We’re A United Party’ - Then Kind Of Proves Otherwise
Less than one week after Sean Hannity announced that Republican Party efforts to unseat Tea Party efforts meant “open warfare” to him, Sean Hannity hosted Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus for a friendly chat with only the mildest of pushbacks as Priebus insisted the party is united. But even Priebus gave several hints otherwise.
Read moreFr. Jonathan Morris: Christian Public Prayer Rules So Screw U Atheists, Jews, And Buddhists!
Many of our nation's poorest have just suffered a cutback in their food stamps. But that doesn't seem to be a concern for official Fox priest Jonathan Morris, whose lack of concern about poverty issues suggests that he shares, with his fellow Fox devout conservative Christians, an attitude of Jesus and me and the hell with thee. On Sunday, he used his Sunday Fox & Friends pulpit, for the second time, to express his hopes that the Supreme Court will overturn a lower court decision and allow Greece NY's city council to have public prayer before their meetings - an issue also propagandized by Megyn Kelly. Once again, Fr. Morris, in opining on the issue, did his due diligence in reinforcing Fox's patented anti-atheist narrative. And while, during his last fact free pontification on the topic, Morris denigrated the belief systems of the atheist and Jewish women who brought the original suit, this time he insulted Buddhists. But prayer makes it all good....
Read moreBret Baier Dishonestly Blows The ‘Muslim Invasion’ Dog Whistle About Homeland Security Advisor
On the Political Grapevine segment of Special Report today, “objective” host Bret Baier deliberately hate mongered against an Islamic member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Advisory Council, Mohamed Elibiary. Baier twisted Elibiary’s words to suggest to Fox News viewers that he is some kind of Muslim extremist bent on converting the U.S. to Islam. In fact, Elibiary is a distinguished member of the anti-terrorism community. If you want to know just how low Fox will stoop to smear someone for the sake of fear mongering about the Obama administration, read on.
Read moreSen. Lindsey Graham: The Ted Cruz Wannabe Over Benghazi
It’s Republican Temper Tantrum Tactics Déjà Vu all over again. Only this time, it’s Senator Lindsey Graham – fighting a Tea Party challenge to his re-election next year – instead of Senator Ted Cruz and instead of a government shutdown to defund Obamacare, it’s an equally pointless blockage of presidential nominees to showboat over Benghazi. One of those nominees is the head of Homeland Security. So, apparently, while Graham is holding himself up as some big national security maven, he’s also willing to jeopardize it. Not surprisingly, on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace grilled Graham on the political strategy but gave him a pass on the substance (or lack thereof).
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