Suddenly Fox News Concerned About SEAL Safety - In Order To Attack Obama
Remember how Fox News outed and endangered the life of a Navy SEAL Team Six member who took part in the killing of Osama Bin Laden? That was so last month! This month, Fox is all concern about the SEALS' safety - now that it has an excuse to use it to attack the Obama administration.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Still Slut Shaming & Lying About Sandra Fluke
Move over Miley Cyrus, Bill O'Reilly has a new obsession. It's been almost a week since Sandra Fluke spoke at the Democratic Convention and Bill O'Reilly just can't stop slut shaming and lying about her. As News Hounds Ellen pointed out, he couldn't stop talking about her on Monday night's "Factor." Last night he continued his obsessive fixation on how Fluke during his seemingly endless braying about how these "far left" sluttly slut feminists and Planned Parenthood want to open drive through abortion clinicsat the nearest mall. Snark aside, O'Reilly is a fan of the white, Christian, male power structure who long for the "halcyon" days, when women "knew their place" and "accepted that sex was a dirty thing they should go out of their way to avoid, lest the taint of it made them unmarriageable." For O'Reilly and his patriarichal pals, Fluke epitomizes a new kind of woman who isn't willing to conform to fifties fantasies of womanhood. For Bill O'Reilly, she's a bad girl who needs to be punished.
Read moreFox News Rehabs Romney’s Middle East Blunder
Fox News is apparently willing to time travel in order to make Mitt Romney’s widely-blasted statements on the Middle East look more presidential and reasonable.
Read moreFox Nation Stands With Mitt Romney Over The United States Regarding Libya
Mitt Romney's attack on President Obama in the middle of riots in Libya and Cairo has been blasted by Republicans. As Buzzfeed reported:
“Bungle… utter disaster…not ready for prime time… not presidential… Lehman moment.” And that's just the Republicans.
But you'd never know that from checking out "fair and balanced" Fox Nation. There, Romney is presidential and President Obama looks like an enemy of America.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Wants Palin's Help Smearing Obama More
Bill O’Reilly has made it clear he has very little respect for Sarah Palin. Yet he trotted her out last night to offer Republicans advice on how to win the 2012 presidential election. That’s right, the quittingest half-term governor who is now the poster child for what not to choose in a vice presidential candidate and is persona non grata in the Romney campaign suddenly had more valuable insights than, say, Karl Rove or any number of other Republicans in the Fox News stable of pundits. Why? The answer seems to be O'Reilly wants Mitt Romney to personally attack President Obama in Palinesque, “palling around with a terrorist” kinds of ways.
Read moreFox’s Un-Godly Politicization of 9/11
Ever eager to display their Godliness – and find fault therein with Democrats - Fox doesn’t seem to have quite the same interest in truthfulness. Or decency. Case in point: Their deceptive effort to claim that President Obama gave “God the boot… again” in his September 11, 2012 Patriot Day proclamation. (H/T Jim T.)
Read moreBill O'Reilly Advances Family Research Council's Homophobic Lies About "Gay Pedophilia"
During the Chick-fil-A "controversy and the subsequent shooting at the Family Research Council, Fox News provided full support for FRC's president's constant whining about the unfairness of the Southern Poverty Law Center's charge that they are a hate group. Missing from the Fox Amen Corner was any mention of the reason for the SPLC designation; i.e. the denigration of the gay community with lies, chief among them being the bogus connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. But to his credit, Bill O'Reilly interviewed SPLC president Mark Potok who was allowed to explain the reason for the hate group label. And to his discredit, O'Reilly validated the FRC's homophobic lies. In other words, O'Reilly put the period in the Fox News sentence about how awful it is that the FRC is being persecuted by these evil libruls when the FRC is just telling it like it is. And why would O'Reilly disagree with the FRC, when he believes that "clustered gays" at ballparks are "inappropriate!"
Read moreBill O'Reilly Continues To Attack Sandra Fluke With Same Bogus Claim
Bill O'Reilly's baseless and hateful invective against Sandra Fluke is troubling when one considers what happened when O'Reilly's baseless and hateful invective against Dr. Tiller contributed to a climate of hate in which the doctor was murdered. And Bill isn't the only right wing man who loathes Fluke. Rush Limbaugh set the pace in the slut shaming of Fluke that has now become part of the conservative narrative - a narrative that Bill's fellow Fox "pro-life"pundit, Greg Gutfeld, has also advanced. As Amanda Marcotte points out, in her incisive article about why Fluke drives conservatives "bananas," the misogynistic reaction to Fluke stems from her challenge to patriarchal fantasies about womanhood. As I reported, O'Reilly (a misogynist defender of patriarchal fantasies) used his show to promote what appears to be the lie that Fluke wants taxpayers to fund transgender surgery - a lie that was advanced, by, Fox in March. He's now taken the lie to his column. Words matter. While O'Reilly claims that liberals are divisive, his baseless and hateful words are truly toxic.
Read moreGretchen Carlson's Guest, Wendy Long, Denies "War On Women" While Supporting It!
Fox News is on full spin cycle in its efforts to promote the GOP meme that there is no "war on women" despite the reality that the GOP, in the past two years, has promoted and passed an unprecedented number of anti-choice measures. But in an effort to reinforce the GOP meme of no war on women, Fox hosts have recently interviewed GOP women who reinforce the GOP meme. Rather than address the role back of reproductive rights, these women pivot to the economy. The reality is that without access to reproductive health care, women's personal economy will be affected; but that doesn't seem to be an issue for Gov. Nikki Haley, Gov. Mary Fallin and Mayor Mia Love whose support of anti-choice policies are part of the war on women. Yesterday, Gretchen Carlson spoke to GOP Senate Candidate Wendy Long who is another foot soldier in the supposedly non-existent war on women. Not only did Carlson validate the meme but claimed that focus on reproductive rights is "insulting."
Read moreBill O’Reilly’s Producer Tried To Ambush Sandra Fluke At The DNC
Bill O’Reilly just can’t seem to stop thinking about Sandra Fluke. Last night, he mentioned her numerous times on one show – and even led off the show’s opening with her. I counted five segments where he discussed abortion and/or Fluke. Including one where the Factor’s ambush producer, Jesse Watters, mentioned off-hand that he had tried to "stake out" Fluke. And yet, O’Reilly lectured President Obama for not focusing enough on the bad economy “rather than ginning up phony controversies.”
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