Van Susteren: I Would Advise IRS Tax-Exempt Chief To Take The 5th, Too
Before you watch the Fox News barking heads yapping over the IRS’ Lois Lerner taking the 5th Amendment before Congress today, consider Greta Van Susteren’s comments to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa last night. Van Susteren is an attorney but I can assure you that Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity – who are not attorneys – will ignore what she said in order to continue banging the drums of their phony IRS scandal.
Read moreFox Uses Trumped-Up IRS Scandal To Advocate For Abolishing Income Tax And The IRS
You can’t accuse Fox News of ever missing an opportunity to exploit a news story. On Saturday's Bulls and Bears (5/18/13), the pretext was the IRS scandal. Host Brenda Buttner didn’t waste any time. “IRS SOS, as the scandals keep sizzling,” she said to open the show. She suggested to asked regular Gary B. Smith, “Shut down the IRS as we know it and replace it with a flat tax, what do you say?”
Read moreFox News Sexism: The Video
If you're wondering why Fox News has mostly ignored the military sexual harassment scandal, a new video mashup from Media Matters might help explain it. And they didn't even include Sandra Fluke.
Read moreReuters: James Rosen's Reporting Was 'Almost Guaranteed' To Attract CIA Attention
The Obama administration has signaled that it does not intend to prosecute Fox's James Rosen despite the fact that a judge found probable cause that Rosen was a co-conspirator in a leak of intelligence. This comes as the right-wing howls about a chilling effect - less than a year after they howled about the Obama administration being too soft on leaks. But whether or not Rosen actually broke any laws, a column on Reuters.com points to quite a bit of professional malfeasance.
Read moreFox Poll Bias Assumes People Are Concerned About Its Fake Scandals
A Fox News poll is out about the IRS so-called scandal today. But it asks a question that assumes its respondents are of a mindset with Fox News viewers when it suggestively asks, “Which of the following scandals currently facing the Obama administration concerns you the most?” It goes on to list Fox’s favorite three, in language that Roger Ailes might have written.
Read moreFox Newsies Advocate Against Immigration Reform Bill
Six Fox News contributors, plus several regular guests, have signed a letter opposing the immigration reform bill. It signals not just a split in the GOP but the extent to which Fox News fills its airwaves with conservative activists in the guise of pundits. Perhaps in an attempt to distance themselves from their "fair and balanced" employer, none of the contributors identified him or herself as affiliated with Fox.
Read moreKucinich Told To ‘Move On’ From Criticizing Bush
On this week’s Fox News Sunday, liberal panelist Dennis Kucinich tried to cite the Bush administration – and its false pretenses for starting a war in Iraq – as at least equally responsible for Americans’ distrust in government as the so-called IRS scandal under the Obama administration. But when co-panelist Karl Rove objected and told Kucinich to “move on,” host Chris Wallace backed up Rove with the same instruction. Which Kucinich followed by attacking President Obama.
Read moreTucker Carlson's Staff Member Sends Dickish E-Mails To Secular Organization
Not only is Fox News' Tucker Carlson, as described by Jon Stewart, a "dick;" but one of his Daily Caller employees seems to be a chip off the old block. Christopher Bedford, the Daily Caller's Associate Editor, is a good Christian conservative who is dutifully doing combat duty in the mythical war on Christians - a meme pushed by Bedford's big media pimping daddy, Tucker Carlson, on Fox News. Bedford's target is the Secular Coalition for America, a group that advocates for that nasty "wall of separation" that good Christian conservatives want to tear down. As such, he has been sending e-mails to them. And while they consider his e-mails to be offensive, Bedford thinks it's just jolly, good fun at the expense of godless atheists. One of the e-mails, sent to a woman at the SCA, involved the use of the word "dick" which, when one considers whom Bedford is servicing, so to speak, is rather ironic, don't ya think?!
Read moreFox Nation’s Race-Baiting ‘Ghetto Tour’ Story
Given Fox Nation’s obsessive focus on maligning President Obama, it’s hard to think the website posted a story about ghetto tours for any reason other than to race bait. And sure enough, their readers took the bait. (H/T Barbara S.)
Read moreFox News Turns Its Back On Sexual Assault In The Military
Although the Defense Deptartment reported 26,000 cases of sexual assault within the military last year and Army General Martin E. Dempsey called sexual assaults in the military a “crisis," over the two-week period since the first of many reports of sexual abuse in the military broke, Fox News has devoted only about 19 minutes to the story.
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