Fox News Mailbag - 5/3/13 Edition
We've been inundated with mail for Fox News lately. I don't know whether more of their viewers are dissatisfied with Fox or if the ones they have are getting dumber! Whatever the reasons, following are a choice selection from the clueless. As you'll see, most are not happy with the "fair and balanced" network! As usual, names and other identifying information has been redacted to protect the ignorant. Grammar and spelling mistakes have been left intact, however.
Read moreCharles Krauthammer Wants Obama To ‘Pack Up And Go Home’
Charles Krauthammer joined the Fox News chorus of announcements that Obama’s three-month-old second term has been such a failure that he might as well resign. Of course, Fox thought Obama’s first term was so terrible, he all but lost his re-election bid – even after he won it decisively.
Read moreAt End Of Interview, Dana Perino Tells George W. Bush She’s His ‘Biggest Fan’
You didn’t need to watch any of Fox’s coverage of the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library last week to know that it would be slobbering and a blatant example of Fox News Republican Rehab. But I think Fox may have reached a new high (or low, depending on your point of view) in its GOP PR machine with its choice of former Bush press secretary - and current co-host of The Five - Dana Perino to host a tour of the library and a lengthy interview with Bush. The fact that Perino told Bush on the air that she’s his “biggest fan” pretty much said it all. Especially since she must have had some stiff competition among her FNC colleagues.
Read moreFox Nation Gives Clarence Thomas’ Catty Obama Remarks More Prominence Than They Deserve
As we know, Fox News’ main contribution to boosting conservatism’s appeal to African-Americans consists of making martyrs out of black conservatives because of the hostile treatment they get for going against "stereotype". So when someone at Fox unearthed remarks made last month by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about Obama being President because he’d said the things the “elites and the media” wanted to hear, they made haste to make that the lead post on yesterday's Fox Nation.
Read moreSean Hannity: ‘Obama Presidency Is Very Much in Peril’
Sean Hannity has developed a serious case of wishful thinking lately. On Thursday night (5/2/13), just two nights after Hannity called Obama’s second term “a complete and utter failure,” he announced that Obama’s presidency is “very much in peril.” Why? Because Obama's having some trouble getting his agenda enacted. “From sequestration, gun control, immigration, global warming, Obamacare, it’s been a very tough year so far for the president,” Hannity said. Funny, he never mentioned Benghazi – you know the issue that Hannity desperately hopes regularly suggests will result in Obama’s impeachment.
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Hannity Guest: Obama Sends Signal To Black America Having ‘Former Drug Dealer’ Jay-Z As His ‘BFF’
If you thought that Sean Hannity’s hammy display of outrage over a racially offensive – and withdrawn - Mountain Dew commercial indicates that he has developed any racial sensitivity, think again. Or at least reserve judgment until you can find an instance of Hannity showing any such concern when it isn’t politically expedient. As for me, I’ll believe it when he stops palling around with slavery apologist Jesse Lee Peterson. Or Niger Innis, one of Hannity’s favorite African-American black attackers, who quickly described the ad as “Mickey Mouse” compared to “the signal that is sent to black America, to all Americans, when the President of the United States has as his BFF an unrepentant former drug dealer. And I’m talking about a guy named Jay-Z.”
Read moreKimberly Guilfoyle Declares Dr. Gosnell Guilty Of Homicide!
Remember back when Duke Lacrosse team members were accused of rape. Remember how the bloviating heads on Fox accused the public, the mainstream media, and the prosecuting attorney of declaring that the young men were guilty before having been proven innocent. Well, hold that thought and flash forward to 2013 and a case that has become a cause celebre for Fox News as it offers an opportunity to bash the media for not covering it sufficiently and promote anti-choice propaganda about the evils of abortion. As you've probably guessed, I'm talking about murder trial of abortion provider, Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Tonight, Fox News will present its special report that doesn't appear to be a "fair & balanced" documentary but more anti-choice, anti-media propaganda. No verdict has been returned. Still, Fox legal analyst and resident of "The Five's" coveted leg chair, Kimberly Guilfoyle, has rendered one and we're talking guilty!
Read moreFox's The Five Attack Michael Weinstein As 'Anti-Christian Extremist'
Fox News' tainted food chain often begins with Todd Starnes' howls of Christian victimization which are then taken up by Fox & Friends. The meme is then reinforced on later programs - or, as stated by Goebbels, "make the lie, keep it simple, and eventually they will believe it." This regurgitation was seen in Wednesday's Fox & Friends topic, gleaned from Starnes, about how the faux, Fox generated "War on Christians" is now happening in the military where Jesus loving Christian soldiers aren't being allowed to "live their faith." The reality is that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is pressuring the Pentagon to enforce the rules against proselytizing which is, according to to the MRFF, very common. Fox & Friends hosted a Christian extremist and hate group VP to attack the MRFF and its head, Mikey Weinstein. Later, "The Five," a show that specializes in toxic spew, did the same thing. Goebbels would be so proud!
Read moreWill O'Reilly Condemn Glenn Beck's 'Reichstag' Remarks About Houston Airport Shooting?
You know how Bill O'Reilly says he is on a jihad against "gibberish" about "deadly terrorism?" How he's so concerned about truth telling and calling out BS that he ignores what people think of him? Well, he'd better be out there condemning Glenn Beck's heinous exploitation of the shooting death in Houston's Bush International Airport yesterday the same way O'Reilly condemned the "out-of-control" "far left" May Day protesters. Otherwise, he will have exposed himself conclusively as in bed with Beck's inciteful rhetoric and a fraudulent concern troll when it comes to the left.
Read moreSteve Doocy Validates Hate Group's Bogus War On Christian Soldiers Claim
In the bizarro world of the Christian right, Christianity is under siege everywhere, including the military. The reality is that those in the military, who feel that they are under siege from proselytizing evangelical Christians, are pushing back which, of course, generates that sense of victimization in which right wing Christians revel. As Fox News specializes in persecuted Christians, as does Fox's Todd Starnes, it wasn't surprising to see Fox & Friends pick up on his recent report that the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation told Pentagon officials that troops who proselytize should be punished, a comment that provoked immediate outrage from Tony Perkins, head of the "hate group" Family Research Council. So who better to get the word out, on yesterday's Fox & Friends than FRC Exec.VP, retired general Jerry Boykin who thinks Sharia is a threat to America and marriage equality is the same as bestiality and pedophilia.
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