On Fox & Friends: Student Transgender Rights Bill Will Encourage Bathroom "Pranks"
When you strip away the bible quotes, the real basis for the homophobia of the Christian right seems to be an obsession with the supposed "unnaturalness" of gay sex. And when it comes to the whole concept of transgender, the small and narrow minds of the Christian right get totally short circuited. This is shown by the collective freak-out, by usual "family values" suspects, about a new California law which protects transgender students. But forget about sex, the strange obsession here is all about bathrooms - an obsession that seems to suggest that these God fearing types have some rather supersized kinky boots. That these boots are made for walking was demonstrated, Tuesday, when the happy hosts of the "morning happy-talk show that "Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream" talked about the California student transgender rights law with a focus on - wait for it - bathrooms - the same focus used by Greg Gutfeld last week. Talk about a bunch of pissants!
Read moreGret Gutfeld Mocks California Transgender Rights Bill And Students Who Benefit From It
Greg Gutfeld, a product of twelve years of Catholic education and author of "The Joy of Hate," is damned proud of his having been named, by GLAAD (Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) one of the worst anti-gay and anti-transgender voices of 2008. He was given this accolade because, as he gleefully expressed it, he referred to sex change operations as turning a "pole into a hole." That he is vying for a spot in the 2013 awards was demonstrated in his comments on last week's Factor where he was filling in for Bill O'Reilly who, like his soul brotha Gutfeld, has made derogatory comments about the transgender community - comments that generated a call, from GLAAD, to boycott O'Reilly's sponsors. Gutfeld, in promoting the transphobia of the radical Christian right, mocked the new California law which is about "supporting transgender students in an environment where they are routinely subjected to discrimination and harassment." Comedian Gutfeld showed what a joker he is by mocking this as "the bathroom bill
Read moreFox Host MacCallum Teams Up With White Birther Benkie To Chastise Oprah About Race
It’s bad enough that Fox News can’t stop whitesplaining to Oprah Winfrey that she was too racially sensitive about Trayvon Martin's death but for America Live host (white) Martha MacCallum to gang up with (white) birther Dee Dee Benkie to accuse Winfrey of being overly-sensitive about racial profiling was really beyond the pale, pardon the pun. Even worse, Benkie baselessly suggested Oprah had made up an anecdote about being profiled in a fancy store in Zurich to promote her new movie.
Read moreHuckabee And Nugent ‘Joke’: Maybe We Should Hunt Democrats
Ted Nugent visited Mike Huckabee’s radio show today where the two good ol’ boys talked a little game hunting. But Huckabee, showing his Christian sense of humor, no doubt, soon joked that maybe “we ought to turn loose” Nugent’s “mystical, wonderful” hunting dog “on some Democrats and see if he can hunt them, too.” The Nuge readily agreed.
Read moreHannity Defends Offensive ‘Obama’ Rodeo Clown
While most people were outraged over the racially-tinged antics of an Obama rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair, leave it to white-rights champion Sean Hannity to stand up for the routine – and use the opportunity to attack African Americans as racial hypocrites. But Hannity ought to be more careful before he points a finger of hypocrisy at anyone else. UPDATE: At least two other Fox shows use this segment to attack liberals.
Read moreGreg Gutfeld Insults Muslims While Whining About Insults To Christians
While the right wing complains that civil rights leaders are part of a "grievance industry," the biggest purveyor of grievances seems to be the Christian right whose constant grievances get warm support on their very own network, Fox News. Their over-arching narrative, which gets lots of traction on Fox, is that while liberals mock Christianity, they don't do the same thing to Muslims which, of course, they believe deserves not just mocking but condemnation. The irony here is that while Fox News is claiming a "double standard, it has no problem attacking Muslims and atheists. This double standard, regarding what they feel is a double standard, was evident on last Friday's Factor during which former altar boy Greg Gutfeld spoke about the blowback to a tweet, sent by famous atheist and Bill O'Reilly nemesis Richard Dawkins (hmmm) about the intellectual capacity of Muslims. He whined that those who are upset about this tweet don't have the same sense of outrage when Christians are mocked and are, thus, engaging in a double standard. Then he proceeded to denigrate Muslims. Talk about a double standard?!
Read moreDonald Trump: I’m A Man For The Poor!
Donald Trump visited On The Record last night where he pimped yet another phony run for president. Even Greta Van Susteren, possibly the world’s most credulous news host, didn’t buy it. But that didn’t stop her from goading Trump into criticizing President Obama’s golf vacation and egging him on to present himself as more of a man of the people. Not only did Trump take the hint, he insisted, “I have a tremendous base” of poor and blue collar people.
Read moreSydney Leathers: Hannity ‘The Worst’ According To Anthony Weiner
Sydney Leathers visited the Hannity show tonight for a lengthy interview about her sexting relationship with Anthony Weiner. Frankly, I don’t care about her, him or their relationship. But she did say some interesting things about Sean Hannity.
Read moreGretchen Carlson Accuses Democrats Of Double Standards Re Dem "Dirty Deeds!" Really?
Last week, I reported that on August 4th the week-end crew on the curvy couch promoted the newest RNC meme that the sexual misdeeds of three Democrats (Weiner, Spitzer, Filner) constituted the "real war on women" as opposed to the REAL war on women being waged by Republicans who seek to abolish back women's reproductive rights and oppose pay equity. The hosts and their guest, a conservative woman, told a lie when they claimed that Democratic women hadn't made any public comments about the issue. Well sure as Fox lies, on August 6th, Gretchen Carlson, who said nothing about bad behavior on the part of saintly, Christian GOP men, promoted the same *lie in a piece that adhered to the same (RNC approved?) script that was used on Sunday's propaganda fest - including a sweet, young, conservative woman. Hey, what good is propaganda if you can't repeat it?!
Read moreFox’s Own National Security Expert Demolishes Latest Benghazi/Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theory
Fox host Martha MacCallum was obviously taken aback on America Live today when her conservative, Republican guest shot down Fox’s Benghazi/Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory of the day, that the Obama administration is covering up the theft of 400 missiles that were stolen from Benghazi, Libya on their way to Syria. But good little GOP foot soldier that she is, MacCallum valiantly soldiered on with the theory anyway.
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