Hannity Tries But Fails To Sanitize Buchanan’s Bigotry
Chalk up Pat Buchanan as the latest white bigot to find a sympathetic platform on the Hannity show. Buchanan was recently fired from MSNBC in a move that Sean Hannity desperately tried to paint as an unjustified, ideological purging by intolerant liberals hell-bent on destroying conservatives. But that argument was undercut by Buchanan himself as he quite explicitly argued that having an ethnic majority made a country strong and that “one of the strengths of this country” was its predominantly western and European ethnicity when there were (only) 10% African Americans. Not even Hannity seemed able to spin that.
Read moreHannity And Bozell Throw Stones At Media Matters From The Very Thin Walls Of Their Glass House
Those perpetual victims, Sean Hannity and Brent Bozell, predictably used the Hannity show’s weekly liberal-media-bias whine session last night to attack Media Matters in the wake of Daily Caller hit pieces on it this week. But the whine session was a cornucopia of distortions, hypocrisy and, most of all, distractions. Neither Hannity nor Bozell offered up a single Media Matters report that was false. In short, Hannity and Bozell were every bit as guilty of media malpractice as they accused anyone else of being.
Read moreFox and Friends Continues Personal Attack on Media Matters’ David Brock
They’re not haiku. Nor are they poems. However, in this modern Twitterverse where thoughts can be no longer than 140 characters, the Fox and Friends chyron writer reigns supreme in an English language niche in which there are few competitors. If one were deaf—and didn’t have closed captioning—everything Fox “News” wants you to know is delivered in these short blasts, each less than a half-a-tweet. It’s a gift.
Read moreVan Susteren And Fox Help Whitewash Allen West’s Comments That Democrats Practice “The Most Insidious Form Of Slavery”
Allen West has been hate mongering again. And Fox News is helping to whitewash it again. A few nights ago, West characterized Democratic support for social safety nets as “the most insidious form of slavery remaining in the world today.” This, just a few weeks after he announced that liberals should “get the hell out of the U.S.” But he got a warm welcome from “liberal” Greta Van Susteren on On The Record last night, followed by friendly questions that helped legitimize the kind of rhetoric that would have been soundly denounced had it come from a Democrat.
Read moreFox & Friends Provides Partisan Guest, Kyle Olson, With Platform For School Choice
Fox & Friends is the go to place for attacks on public schools, public school teachers, public school teachers unions, and public school textbooks. Their newest "authority" on the "trouble with schools" is Kyle Olson, head of the right wing "Education Action Group" which is "opposed to teachers unions and committed to privatizing public education." Earlier this month, Olson, who also writes for Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government," appeared on Fox & Friends where he accused those who support healthier school lunches of being part of a "federal power grab." Any semblance of his being objective about education is dispelled by his book, pimped by Fox & Friends on two occasions, which is titled "Indoctrination" - a screed about how public schools are subverting American "exceptionalism." Once again, he was warmly welcomed on yesterday's Fox & Friends where he provided more of the same old, same old biased agitprop.
Read moreHannity Lectures “The Obamas” Author Jodi Kantor For Not Portraying Obama As A Secret Radical
Most likely author Jodi Kantor had never spent a moment watching Hannity before she agreed to appear on the show to discuss her big-selling book, The Obamas. Otherwise, she would not have looked so utterly bewildered last night as Sean Hannity first praised her work then argued that she had missed the “hidden,” radical Obama and lectured her to “do your investigative work in the future.”
Read moreRobert Greenwald: Tell Koch Brothers To Testify About XL Pipeline
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald and our friends at Brave New Foundation’s Koch Brothers Exposed are calling on the Koch Brothers to testify about their interest in the XL Pipeline. Greenwald writes, “Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it? The Koch brothers have refused to answer questions about how they stand to profit from the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile long boondoggle that would cut through six states and damage American homes and farmland.”
Read moreSteve Doocy and Psycho Doc Keith Ablow Stigmatize Mental Illness in “Get Brock” Segment
On Wednesday’s (2/15) Fox and Friends, Steve Doocy and Dr. Keith Ablow behaved like stoned college kids with a copy of the DSM IV as they proceeded to diagnose Media Matters chief David Brock, the bête noir of Fox News. In the course of their analysis, the TV insta-shrink and the Clown on the Curvy Couch managed to stigmatize the mentally ill, insult adoptees, and violate medical ethics. With video.
Read moreCavuto Helps Spin Bill To Remove Tax Credit For Buying Electric Cars
On yesterday’s Your World, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) got a few minutes to attack President Obama for increasing the tax credit for electric cars from $7500 to $10,000. Neil Cavuto began the segment with a red strobe light and siren signaling what he called a “budget alert.”
Read moreDick Morris: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Is A “Paid Democratic Hit Man”
A few days ago, Dick Morris announced on Hannity that, based on George Stephanopoulos’ debate questions to Mitt Romney about contraception, Stephanopoulos must be a “paid Democratic hit man.” Last night, Bill O’Reilly shot down Morris’ theory – not that Stephanopoulos was acting as a Democratic operative, but that he was paid for it.
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