After Getting Booed At The NAACP, Romney Runs To Fox News
Mitt Romney got booed at the NAACP convention today when he said he’d eliminate Obamacare. So where did he go afterward to spin it? Where else but Fox News? But it wasn’t all sweetness and light as host Neil Cavuto followed in the footsteps of Laura Ingraham and other Fox Newsies in giving Romney’s campaign some unsolicited suggestions.
Read moreKirsten Powers Smacks Down Opposition To Obama's Tax Plan
Kirsten Powers went toe to toes last night on the Hannity show as she smacked down each and every criticism of President Obama's plan to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone earning less than $250,000 a year. The "Great American Panel" segment was stacked two-to-one against her - with host Sean Hannity joining the opposition to make it three-on-one. But Powers mowed them all down and refused to be cowed.
Read moreFox & Friends Just Loving That Spam!
That Fox & Friends appeals to the fat, sick, and nearly brain dead citizens of a growing (as in girth) America is reflected in their advocacy for those foods that contribute to growing health care costs in America. School administrators who support nutritional school lunches are attacked as food police. Schools that prohibit sugary flavored milk are denounced. FDA attempts to change sodium standards are seen as intrusions by the nanny state - in fact, Gretchen Carlson claimed that a study found that salt is good for you. (It didn't). But Fox & Friends' advocacy for unhealthy food choices reached a high point, this morning, when they just gushed over the awesomeness of Spam. Spam has very little nutritional value. Fox & Friends has no value. Nuff said.
Read moreHannity Guest: NAACP A Hate Group
One of Sean Hannity’s favorite African Americans, Michael Meyers, visited the Hannity show last night where he announced, “The NAACP has become a hate group in America.” That was bad enough. But what viewers may not have known is that Hannity had every reason to expect his guest to say such a thing – all the while feigning neutrality - if not sympathy - toward the group, himself. Even worse, Meyers was presented as the purported balance to conservative African American David Webb.
Read moreFox’s Cavuto And Payne Pretend $250,000 A Year Is A Middle-Class Salary
On the July 9, 2012 Your World, Neil Cavuto and Charles Payne – each also part of the Fox Business Network – felt the pain of the “middle class” whose taxes will rise under President Obama’s plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. The only problem? $250,000 a year is not middle class no matter how you parse it. Yet the two business "experts" insisted otherwise.
Read moreFox News Continues its Jihad Against Rep. Andre Carson
Since I wrote my last post about Fox News’ attack on Democratic Congressman Andre Carson, at least two more smear segments have been run against him, each with the obvious aim of making him look like some kind of radical and/or Muslim extremist. Mind you, none of the shows presented any actual research to report on just what kind of Congressman he truly he is. Instead, we got inflammatory sound bites and incendiary accusations.
Read moreWill Hannity Discuss Curt Schilling's Crony Capitalism Collapse?
When the government backed energy company, Solyndra, failed, Fox News was all over it. Across Fox media, there was a cacophony of braying about the evils of public investment in risky private ventures. Sean Hannity whined, while Michelle Malkin sneered, about how it was a "scam," "pay to play," yadda, yadda. But Hannity's tone was almost reverential when, in March of this year, he interviewed former Boston Red Sox pitcher and proud Republican Curt Schilling about Schilling's video game company. This business venture was subsidized, to the tune of a $75 million loan guarantee, by the state of RI and facilitated, in part, by a GOP Governor who is a big Schilling fan. Flash forward to June when Schilling's company, Studio 38, went totally toes up leaving the taxpayers of RI on the hook for more than $100 million counting principal and interest on the bonds. Will Hannity mention this failure of corporate welfare which is sending Schilling to the bankruptcy bullpen?
Read moreConservative Wunderkind Turned Liberal, Jonathan Krohn, Smacks Down Fox News And His Right-Wing Critics
Jonathan Krohn, the kid who wowed CPAC a few years ago as a 13 year-old conservative but is now a 17 year-old liberal, has been treated not-so-nicely by Fox News and other conservatives. Krohn has hit back with a very nice smack down. “These are not adults leveling serious criticism; these are scorned right-wingers showing all the maturity of a little boy. No wonder I fit in so well when I was 13.”
Read moreGretchen Carlson Advances Zombie Lie : Pres. Obama Disses Successful People
Part of the genius of Fox News propaganda is that it is reinforced. Once Fox gets hold of an issue, it is featured on a variety of Fox shows. What starts out as just another outrage morphs into just another right wing narrative. As I reported, Fox has taken a quote from an Obama campaign speech, cropped it, and provided a unique "interpretation" that has no basis in reality - but one that corresponds with the right wing meme that Obama is engaging in class warfare and, in this case, attacking success. It was spun on both The Five and Sunday's Fox & Friends during which Fox priest Fr. Jonathan Morris provided the requisite Fox "interpretation." On yesterday's Fox & Friends, Gretchen Carlson provided even more reinforcement of this zombie lie. Congratulations, Fox News, it's a meme.
Read moreBill O’Reilly Threatens To Quit Investing “Aggressively” If His Taxes Go Up
Remember when Bill O’Reilly threatened to quit his job if tax hikes for millionaires were enacted? And then recanted? Well, it looks like Round 2 has just begun – Ding! Ding! Ding! In tonight’s Talking Points, O’Reilly threatened to stop “aggressively putting any money in the market” if President Obama raises capital gains taxes from 15% to 30%.
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