Fr. Jonathan Morris Smears Welfare Recipients While Praising Entrepreneurship
While there are many different Christian denominations, the only Sunday "preacher" at Fox News is a Catholic priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris who, as the one true Fox priest, preaches the gospel according to Roger Ailes and the GOP right. With his best Broadway delivery he regularly interweaves right wing talking points with Catholic dogma. Lately, he's been a bit prickly about how the nefarious forces of evil atheism are trying to take God out of society, especially that nasty MSNBC anchor, Lawrence O'Donnell who had the audacity to suggest that the Bible is long past it's sell by date for presidential inaugurations. This morning, in talking about the importance of religion at inaugurations, the sweet little padre was able to work in this meme in addition to preaching the GOP gospel entrepreneurship and dissing welfare recipients. What's *"Sinday" (another one of Father's Facebook Freudian slips) on Fox & Friends without Fr. Morris!
Read moreFox's Gun Appreciation Poll Includes A Suspicious Number Of Gun Owners
There's something fishy about Fox News' latest poll which the "fair and balanced" network is trumpeting as showing that "Twice as many favor more guns over banning guns to reduce crime." When you dig into the weeds, you discover that 52% of the respondents say someone in their household owns a gun (question 46) whereas other polls have found a significantly smaller percentage of the population has been found to have a gun in the house.
Read moreFox News Reporter May Have Compromised Aurora Shooting Prosecution
Well, well, well…it appears that Fox News’ Jana Winters is now a person of interest in the trial for Aurora shooter James Holmes. Seems that back in July, Winters wrote an article for FoxNews.com on the shooting that contained some pretty confidential information about a notebook Holmes sent a University of Colorado psychiatrist. Holmes’ lawyers are not amused; neither is the judge presiding over the case, who approved efforts to subpoena her for both her sources, as well as all her notes for the piece. As of this point, Fox News has yet to release a statement regarding their stance, or how they plan to handle the conditions that allowed such a leak.
Read moreGlenn Beck Plans A Libertarian Disneyland
In case you've been wondering what Glenn Beck has been up to, if you think getting booted from Fox News has chastened him in any way or put a chink in his megalomania, it's time to reconsider. It seems that Beck's plans are bigger than ever. Earlier this week, he revealed plans for some kind of super duper libertarian utopia/theme park. And guess what? It's one big monument to Beck's philosophy - and, presumably, to the lining of his pockets.
Read moreFox Nation Salivates over Obama Ratings 'Plummet'
I thought Fox News didn’t believe in polls, gentle reader – they certainly slammed the stuffing out of them during the last election campaign. But when a poll reflects badly on President Obama, Fox Nation is happy to make it their lead post. Titled “Rejected,” it gleefully informs us that according to the latest Gallup poll, Obama’s approval rating has "plummeted" to 49%.
Read moreThe NRA Is Wrong About Armed Guards At Obama Girls' School - Where's Fox News Fact Checking?
Fox News loves to point fingers at the so-called "liberal mainstream media" for being too credulous, especially now over the Manti Te'o hoax. So where were Fox's journalistic skills when the NRA attacked President Obama as an "elite hypocrite" whose own children go to a school with 11 armed guards, while trying to restrict guns elsewhere? Answer: nowhere to be found - just like those mythical armed guards at the Obama daughters' school. The Washington Post did some real fact checking and guess what? That NRA ad that Hannity gushed over got it wrong. I haven't seen a correction anywhere else on Fox, either.
Read moreKimberly Guilfoyle Says Rough Play OK & Dana Perino Loves A Man In Denim?!
As the mouthpiece for the patriarchal right wing, who would love to take us back to the 50's, Fox News' prime time is a man's world where, for the most part, white, Christian family values guys promote the patriarchal politics of the GOP while the leggy, buxom, eye candy gals do the same thing. For some time, there has been a GOP meme, advanced by the muy macho Rush Limbaugh, about feminized Democrats ("metrosexual" John Kerry). But now that they have a House Speaker who cries, this culture war focus has shifted to children, as evidenced by Fox's questions of whether yoga (Eastern, heathen) is "leading to the wussification of America" and contributing to "raising a nation of wimps." This week, the manly GOP man (Bolling) on The Five, along with his comely conservative handmaidens, tackled the pressing issue of whether the schools are "too feminized." Ah, don't ya love the smell of testosterone in the evening!
Read moreHannity Finds A Hot Lady To Showcase The AR-15 And Other Semi-Automatic Guns
As part of his NRA Gun Appreciation Night last night, Sean Hannity also brought on a telegenic woman to showcase demonstrate the magnificence of semi-automatic weapons. She started with the AR-15 "that everyone is wanting to ban." She forgot to mention that it's the same gun used in the Newtown and Aurora massacres last year.
Read more‘Regular Guys’ Hannity And LaPierre Whine About Those Hypocritical Elites Who Want Stronger Gun Laws
It was Gun Appreciation Day on Hannity tonight. And part of showing his appreciation was to help out NRA head and gun-rights martyr, Wayne LaPierre. LaPierre has not exactly been a popular guy lately, even in right wing circles. First, he came under criticism for his press conference after the Newtown school shootings, then for his subsequent Meet the Press appearance. Now he’s under attack for the NRA ad attacking President Obama’s gun proposals. But on Hannity, LaPierre was nothing but a regular Joe standing up for the rights of America’s other regular fellas under attack by gun-hating, hypocritical elites. UPDATED: The NRA lied and got a pass from Fox.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Rewrites "Factor" History To Accuse TPM Writer Of Lying
Yesterday, in his nightly lesson (Tip of the Day) for his audience who are obviously too stupid to take charge of their own lives, Bill O'Reilly cautioned his viewers about believing what they see on the internet because "there are no standards in cyberspace" where "anything goes." He then used this premise to launch into a personal attack against a Talking Points Memo (TPM) website writer. After accusing Josh Michal Marshall's website of stealing their name from his "Talking Points Memo," O'Reilly launched into a personal attack on one of their writers for stating that O'Reilly "once got into an on-air screaming match with Geraldo Rivera over whether to blame drunk driving deaths on illegal immigration..." In this case, the writer was telling the truth. Bill, not so much.
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