Stephen Colbert Eviscerates Eric Bolling
Earlier this week, Eric Bolling encouraged prison inmates to emulate Ariel Castro and commit suicide. Disgusting? Yes. But Bolling got his just comic rewards on the Colbert Report last night!
Read moreFox News: Where Tough Questions For Donald Rumsfeld Are For Other Networks
I've previously reported on how Fox News has rehabilitated disgraced Donald Rumsfeld into some kind of national security maven - who just so happens to have some criticisms of President Obama's policies at the ready. Now, Media Matters has put together a mashup video comparing tough questions from other networks about Rumsfeld's failed Iraq invasion with Fox's softball questions.
Read moreSteve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson Support Anti-Gay Christian Bakers
For the hottest trend in right wing Christian homophobia look no further than the aggrieved Christian claim that laws which prohibit discrimination against gays are a violation of religious liberty. That's right folks, Jesus hates fags and because he does, Christians should be free to discriminate against them. And it's not that these fine, upstanding paragons of morality have anything against gays, no sireee. It's all about how selling stuff to gays makes the Christians complicit in dirty, filthy sin. True story. This is the rationale of Christian bakers, who, according to Todd Starnes, were forced to close their doors because they were getting hassled, by "militant" gays, over their refusal to bake a wedding cake for a sinful lesbian wedding. Not surprisingly, this latest "controversy," involving biblical marriage supporting Christians, was promoted by Fox & Friends which is the Fox sanctuary for aggrieved Christians regardless of denomination - as long as that denomination is conservative and very heterosexual Christianity.
Read moreSean Hannity To Receive 'Statesman Of The Year' Award From Sarasota GOP
There are many things one might call Sean Hannity but "statesman" is not one that seems likely to come to most people's minds. So what does it say about Florida's Sarasota Republican Party that they plan to honor him as their Statesman of the Year later this month? Plenty, once you find out who last year's winner was.
Read moreHannity And Allen West Salivate: Syria A Good Reason To Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Sean Hannity may have weaseled out of his pledge to undergo waterboarding for charity, but that doesn’t mean he can’t talk tough about going to war with Iran instead of "merely" bombing Syria - when other people will be feeling the pain.
Read moreDespite Fox News', Todd Starnes' Homophobic Lies, San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance Passes
In their desperation to maintain a system which sanctions anti-LGBT discrimination, the homophobic religious right claims that official non-discrimination policies, which include sexual orientation, are a violation of religious liberty - in this case, the liberty to discriminate because, you see, God hates fags. As the mouthpiece for the homophobic religious right, Fox News provides validation. The allegedly "fair & balanced" Shannon Bream peddled a bunch of lies about the San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance, not once, but three times. During one of the propaganda sessions, she was joined by a spokesperson from the SPLC designated homophobic hate group, The Family Research Council. Not to be outdone was Fox's resident homophobe and "shit-stirrer" Todd Starnes who tweeted a bunch of junk about this ordinance. But reason prevailed and the ordinance passed. In a tweet, Starnes wrote that he fears that this granting of special status to gays (lie) will cause reprisals against Christians. Poor Toddles.
Read moreDana Perino: If You Don't Love The Pledge, Leave The Country!
Next to the Bible and guns, Jesus loving, atheist hating, conservative Christians fetishize the American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance. Any attempts to take the phrase "Under God" (added in the 50's at the behest of the Catholic Knights of Columbus) from the Pledge are seen as treasonous. But lawsuits involving "Under God" are red meat for Fox News which, in covering them, gets to push patriotism and the popular Fox meme about how evil atheists are ruining it for patriotic, Christian Americans. Yesterday, Peter Johnson Jr. and Steve Doocy were close to tears about a Massachusetts lawsuit in which the atheist plaintiffs are contesting that "Under God" is discriminatory towards atheists. Not surprisingly, some of the good Christians on Fox's "The Five" sold some of that red meat which, as usual, was pretty rancid.
Read moreSteve Doocy Provides Cheese For Young Republican Whine
While Fox News advances the meme that those who dare to advocate for minority rights are part of the "grievance industry," they provide a platform for any and every right wing group claiming to have been aggrieved by the forces of evil secularism and the evil liberal agenda. Fox & Friends, in particular, is always eager to host a pity party involving persecuted Christians, patriotism under attack, and so forth. And when young Republicans have a grievance, the gang on the curvy couch is there to provide warm affirmation. Such was the case, this morning, when yet another aggrieved young Republican whined about how those nasty, bad liberals, at the University of North Carolina, have cut their funding while nasty, bad liberal groups get more than their fair share. That, of course, wasn't really the full story; but then, this is Fox & Friends. Anyway, poor conservative students. Somebody call me a whambulance!
Read moreDonald Rumsfeld Scolds Obama For Not Pushing Regime Change In Syria
Donald Rumsfeld is back and Fox News has not just forgotten how he resigned in disgrace as Secretary of Defense in the last Bush administration but is actively rehabilitating him as some kind of sage with standing to criticize President Obama’s Syria policy.
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