O’Reilly Hearts Tesla, Electric Cars And Their Tax Breaks
It’s not often that I can say that I agree wholeheartedly with Bill O’Reilly but I did last night when he debated Fox's Eric Bolling on Tesla, electric cars and the federal tax breaks that come with them. Color me cynical, but I couldn’t help but suspect that the reason O’Reilly loves Teslas (and their attendant tax breaks) is because he has one. Still, I came away thinking that Bolling got his clock cleaned on this one… and it was most satisfying.
Read moreFox Guest's ObamaCare-Bashing Distortion Inadvertently Exposed Almost As She Speaks
On Fox’s Your World, a graphic on the screen undercut guest Betsy McCaughey’s misleading claim that the Affordable Care Act is not reducing the number of uninsured Americans. Instead of correcting McCaughey, host Neil Cavuto helped validate her distortion.
Read moreFox News Cuts And Runs From Democrats In Benghazi Hearing
Fox News’ fascination with Benghazi seems to end at the Republican partisan divide. Today, during what Fox hyped as a major Benghazi hearing, Fox gave the bulk of its airtime to Republican questioning and hardly any from the Democrats. Even though the hearing aired during the daytime hours, which Fox claims constitute its “objective news” lineup.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Fund Raises For Right Wing Filmmaker's Gosnell Movie?
As the conduit for those who seek to eliminate reproductive rights for American women, Fox News eagerly responded to "pro-life" complaints that the national media wasn't providing sufficient coverage of the trial of an abortion doctor who was eventually convicted of three counts of murder. For Fox it was a win-win. They were able to advance their meme of mainstream media bias (ahem) as well as promote the "pro-life" view that what Dr. Gosnell did is representative of all abortion clinics. Now that Phelim McAleer, whose movies promote anti-climate change and pro-fracking interests, is doing a movie about Gosnell, Fox didn't waste a minute in promoting the movie and McAleer's claim about having been censored by a crowdfunding source. Last night, Megyn Kelly continued to push the Fox Gosnell agitprop and, in so doing, might have provided a new media crowdsource for McAleer's movie!
Read moreOn Fox News, Torture Is Patriotic
Sean Hannity still loves torture. Tonight, he discussed the bombshell news that a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report has found torture “yielded little if any significant intelligence.” Hannity didn’t bother to debate any facts of the report. Heck, he barely even discussed the substance of it. Nor did he interview anyone with real knowledge of it. No, he and his guests were too busy singing the praises of torture and demonizing those who disagree.
Read moreOn Fox & Friends: Anti-Immigration Kris Kobach Plays Fear Of 'Amnesty' Card
President Obama is on track to deport more people than any other president. But that's not enough for Fox & Friends which recently hosted the nativist Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach who claimed that the deportation numbers were false because Obama is "cooking the books" - an unfounded allegation that plays well to the Fox audience's fear of "illegals." This past Saturday Kobach returned to Fox & Friends where he fomented more fear while discussing a change in immigration policy which grants "unlawful presence provisional waivers to the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens" for those who, under old policy, were required to leave the US in order to reapply for status. The policy allows those who have committed "petty offenses" to obtain the waiver while waiting for a Green Card. Obviously, this represents a more humane approach to things - but not for Kobach who claims that this "amnesty" (popular right wing buzz word) is all about releasing hordes of criminal brown people.
Read moreEric Bolling, Andrea Tantaros Advance Anti-Choice Fox Lie: Birth Control = Abortion
As the mouthpiece for the America's anti-choice religious right who are opposed to the ACA's birth control mandate, Fox has *consistently pushed their talking point that the ACA covers contraceptives which cause abortions. This view is based on the beliefs of certain evangelical Christians (Hobby Lobby) and the Catholic Church. It is not based on science which has determined that Plan B prevents ovulation and the IUD prevents implantation prior to which, according to the medical community, there is no pregnancy. But rather than address this important nuance, Fox presents, as Fox Fact, that abortion is covered under the ACA. Last week, during discussions about Hobby Lobby, Eric Bolling and Andera Tantaros must have scored lots of "pro-life" points for pushing this patented Fox lie.
Read moreNotice Anything Wrong With This Fox News ObamaCare Picture?
When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, Fox News is so desperate to make it a failure that it cooked up a chart showing that six million enrollees are about a third of the seven million that was the March 31 goal. When it comes to Fox News bias, a picture is worth a thousand words - or a couple million enrollees. UPDATED
Read moreFox News Guest: Abolish The EPA To Help The Environment
Over the weekend, Forbes on Fox discussed an EPA plan to protect wetlands could give the government power to make what host David Asman called, “one of the biggest government landgrabs in our history.” He then asked panelist John Tamny to “make your case” to just abolish the EPA overall.
Read moreSteve Doocy, Guest Agree: Godless 'Noah' Example Of Today's Godlessness!
Despite Fox News having declared the movie "Noah" anathema, the movie finished the week-end in first place, having grossed $44 million in ticket sales. But rather than abandoning what seems to be a failed meme, Fox is using this inconvenient box office truth to spin the success of the film into more hell and damnation by recruiting an end times Christian to appear on Fox & Friends in order to preach that "Noah" is an example of today's "godless" society and, as such, is a sign that we are on a collision course with the end times. But not to worry, Jesus, whom we all should embrace, is en route. While that is bad enough, what's even worse is that Steve Doocy agrees with him about the godlessness. True story!
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