Shocker! GOP Gets Twice As Much Fox Airtime During Benghazi Hearing
Despite Megyn Kelly's hilarious suggestion that Fox News had given Democrats a disproportionate amount of airtime during today's Congressional hearing on Benghazi, the truth is that Republicans got more than twice as much time on the "fair and balanced" network during the hearing. If you follow me on Twitter, you saw me tweet about it. But Media Matters did the math and confirmed my observations with hard data.
Read moreLou Dobbs Gushes Over ‘Amazing’ Printable Gun, and Almost Calls Anarchy an American Virtue
Technology took a sinister new turn last week when someone successfully fired a handgun made on a home 3D printer. The gun (also known as the “Liberator”) was the brainchild of Texas law student Cody Wilson, a self-described anarchist and radical libertarian described by Wired Magazine as “one of the 15 most dangerous people in the world.” Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) quickly called for a ban on the “stomach-churning” weapon; but over on Fox Business Network, Lou Dobbs thought the Liberator was “amazing,” and invited Wilson onto his show Tuesday to rave about it - particularly about how it gave the finger to gun-control advocates.
Read moreFox News Is So Hoping To Use Benghazi To Bring Down Obama And Hillary Clinton
If you think Fox News really cares about the deaths of Americans in Benghazi, Libya - as opposed to exploiting the deaths of those Americans to score political points against President Barack Obama and potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, just take a look at the current headlines on Fox Nation. Very little about what really happened that night - and lots more about how it makes the Obama administration and/or Hillary Clinton look bad and potentially harms it.
Read moreBenghazi Hearing - Live Stream
As millions of Americans suffer from budget cuts, sequestration and unemployment, Fox's most important issue is promoting the House GOP Benghazi witch hunt hearing. Never mind that the matter has already been investigated. But for Heaven's sake, this isn't the Iraq war, where we invaded a country on false pretenses. Nor is it 9/11 where a sitting president somehow missed a warning of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. No, this is a firefight overseas that might be useful in derailing Hillary Clinton's future presidential candidacy and in Barack Obama's current one. Let's hope the Dems are coming with their A game to shoot this crap down once and for all. Video c/o CBS News.
Read moreEndless Hype on Fox About Tomorrow's Congressional Benghazi Hearing
Showtime starts tomorrow, gentle reader. That's when the House Committee on Government Oversight hold its hearing about the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi last September. And to make sure we’re properly pumped up and ready for this partisan puppet show bold attempt to get at the truth, Republican stalwarts were tirelessly making the rounds of Fox News yesterday and today, in the hopes that maybe this time, they can make something stick on the Obama administration. For example, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared On the Record, last night, to inform Greta Van Susteren that “the dam is about to break” on Benghazi.
Read moreMark Fuhrman: Not Much Difference Between 'Muslim' And 'Radical Muslim'
Megyn Kelly had a jaw-dropping discussion with Mark Fuhrman yesterday in which he decided - without objection from Kelly - that the American widow of presumed Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Katherine Russell, is not just guilty of something (we don’t know what but it had to be something) without benefit of a trial but should lose her parental rights, too. In the meanwhile, Fuhrman let slip that he doesn't think there's much difference between "Muslim" and "radical Muslim."
Read moreSean Hannity Validates Todd Starnes' Bogus War On Christians Whine
Fox's Jesus loving, homo hating Todd Starnes never served in the military; but he loves Christian men in uniform who are being persecuted by the evil Military Religious Freedom Foundation which seeks to prevent good Christian military members from "living their faith." Translated into real world terms, the MRFF wants the military to enforce the rules against the proselytizing that has prompted many complaints from those who feel that the in-your-face evangelizing and course content create a hostile work environment. Starnes and his Christian pals aren't happy about this perceived affront; so Starnes has lately launched a series of "brimstone tinged apocalyptic reactions" to "Constitutional principals." Wednesday, Fox & Friends advanced the brimstone during an interview with a representative of the hate group, Family Research Council. And on Thursday's "Hannity," Starnes reinforced the "war on Christians" meme and in so doing showed why Weinstein refers to him as a "fundamentalist barking dog."
Read moreFatally Flawed Immigration Study? Who Cares?
On yesterday’s Your World, Jim DeMint of the Heritage Foundation got a friendly platform to defend promote a much-criticized report from his think tank, The Heritage Foundation, saying immigration reform could cost $6.3 trillion. As Media Matters noted, even conservatives have called it a “fatally flawed” study. But host Neil Cavuto made no independent verification of the report. Nor did he investigate any of its claims beyond a “he said/she said” kind of approach.
Read moreWhy Doesn’t Fox Like To Say The Words ‘Right-Wing Terrorism?’
If you watch Fox News for any length of time, it’s nearly impossible to avoid either a host or an esteemed guest condemn President Obama for not calling either the Boston Marathon bombing or the Fort Hood shooting, “Islamic terrorism.” As if fighting terrorism rests on what you call it. But yesterday, the FBI arrested a right-wing militia-type extremist who allegedly wanted to bomb a local police department. And Fox News is barely mentioning it at all, much less calling it “right wing terrorism.”
Read moreBill O’Reilly Suggests Obama Will Bomb Syria To Avoid Impeachment Over Benghazi
Bill O’Reilly jumped on the Benghazi bandwagon tonight in a big way. In a discussion with two Fox News contributors, Ralph Peters and Dave Hunt, O’Reilly echoed the sentiments of Mike Huckabee and floated the idea that President Obama might be impeached or deserve to be impeached as the result of upcoming House hearings on Benghazi. But then, after backtracking and playing the adult, O’Reilly floated the idea that President Obama might bomb Syria to “wag the dog” and divert attention away from Benghazi.
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