Cavuto And Moore Use The FAA Furloughs To Make President Obama Look Bad
On yesterday’s Your World, host Neil Cavuto and contributor Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal used the sequester and the FAA furloughing of air traffic controllers to try to make President Obama look bad. Noting that “some Republicans” must be getting concerned, Cavuto "asked," “It really isn’t the Republicans’ fault, is it?”
Read moreBolling Smears Ellison As A ‘Very Dangerous’ ‘Muslim Apologist’
Just when you think Fox News bigotry can’t get any worse, it does. Yesterday, on The Five, Eric Bolling took a baseless swipe at Rep. Keith Ellison, calling him “very dangerous” and “the Muslim apologist in Congress.” The only person who challenged that disgusting statement was Dana Perino. “Liberal” Bob Beckel didn’t say a word.
Read moreGretchen Carlson Hosts TN Parent "Outraged" Over Alleged Anti-Semitic School Text
Rather than actually hosting a book burning, so popular in repressive societies, Fox News provides a platform for "outrage" over school texts that don't conform to the right wing world view and which, OMG, actually serve to stimulate critical thinking, not popular in repressive societies. In 2009, Fox & Friends did a multi-month series, part of "the trouble with schools" in which a right wing professor vilified texts that he felt were biased. (Got irony?!)The happy friends even supported the Texas Board of Education's attempts to force textbook publishers to rewrite history according to the gospel of the right wing. Recently, they hosted a parent who claims that her son's curriculum blames the US for 9-11. (It doesn't) and this morning, following up on Todd Starnes "Outrage #1,878,001," Gretchen Carlson interviewed another conservative mom who, in this case, is outraged that her son's textbook is anti-Semitic. It isn't - but it fits the meme of the Fox defined "trouble with schools" so it's all good.
Read moreBob Beckel Wants To Restrict Muslim And Chinese Students In The U.S.
The Five's lone liberal, Bob Beckel, jumped on his employers’ Islamophobia train and took it down the track further than any of the conservatives I’ve seen on Fox in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Beckel announced that we should restrict most Muslim or Chinese students from studying here.
Read moreTea Party Funders are Reportedly Looking to Buy Major Newspapers
This isn't about Fox News specifically, but it's related. The Koch brothers, noted bankrollers of the Tea Party and other conservative "grassroots" activity, are reportedly considering a bid to acquire eight major newspapers, including biggies such as the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
Read moreTodd Starnes Outrage #1,878,001: A Textbook That Cuts Palestinians Some Slack
True to form, culture warrior Todd Starnes has found another piece of left-wing school brainwashing to get upset about. This time it’s a high school textbook which, according to “a group of outraged parents”, is anti-Semitic and promotes bias against Israel. Specifically, the book asks students to consider “If a Palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen Israeli teenagers in a Jerusalem restaurant, is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against Israeli government policies and army actions?”
Read moreHannity Hearts Call To Torture Boston Bomb Suspect
While most people were horrified by New York State Senator Greg Ball’s call for torturing Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sean Hannity didn’t have a discouraging word when he hosted Ball last night on Fox’ Hannity show. Ironically, Hannity was talking up “enhanced interrogation” and waterboarding on the very night that marked four years since he had said he’d undergo it for charity (to prove that it’s not torture) and yet hasn’t.
Read moreBill O’Reilly Enemy Of The Day, Boston Bombing Edition: Tom Brokaw
Bill O’Reilly has put aside his crusade against the Denver Post, at least for now, and taken up his pitchfork against Tom Brokaw. Brokaw, you see, had the audacity to suggest that Americans should examine the role United States drones may have played in the radicalization of Muslims such as the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev. O'Reilly twisted Brokaw's words to accuse him of arguing that America doesn't have "a right to defend itself." And then baselessly suggested his trumped-up mindset is that of a "cadre" of Americans.
Read morePeter Johnson Jr. Says America "Doesn't Torture People" - Really?
During his discussion with Brian Kilmeade, who wants mosques "bugged" and Muslims profiled, Peter Johnson Jr. said something jawdroppingly amazing. Johnson referenced how, earlier on Fox, a "wacky" state senator advocated that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tortured. Johnson didn't mention either the name of the senator or his party (Greg Ball - NY Republican) but he did say that Ball's statement was "irresponsible." So far, so good. But then Johnson made the claim that "we don't torture people in America" because "it doesn't help us." Johnson isn't stupid but he's either very naive or hasn't been keeping up with the news. An independent task force, headed by Democratic James Jones and Republican Asa Hutchinson who was Undersecretary of Homeland Security during the Bush years, just released a report which stated that "It is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture." Jebus, no wonder Fox viewers are so ill informed!
Read moreFox Nation Headline Lies About Immigration Bill Giving "Illegal Aliens" The Right To Vote
As has been shown on numerous occasions, Fox Nation is not only a retrograde sewer that seeks to foster divisive base bigotry; but it also misrepresents articles to which it links in order to foster the bigotry. In many cases, the Fox Nation headline has nothing to do with the actual linked article but it is rather an incendiary expression of a right wing talking point that is carefully crafted to produce the requisite mouth breathing, knuckle dragging responses so popular with those good Christians on Fox Nation. Today's explosive headline, "Immigration Bill Gives Illegal Immigrants Full Voting Rights!," is a classic example of this propaganda technique that is straight out of Goebbels. The linked Politico article did not suggest that this would happen because - wait for it - it just isn't true! But truth is a stranger in the strange land of Fox Nation.
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