Fox Nation Distorts Justice Sotomayor's Quote Regarding Affirmative Action
If there's one thing guaranteed to get Fox Nation residents drooling, it's affirmative action which, according to the Nation dwellers, represents an unfair advantage for those minorities who are on a much lower level than those fine white, Christians who inhabit the racist, apartheid Fox Nation. Fox Nation has this headline: "Sotomayor: My Race Got Me into Princeton." The thread links to a CBS 60 Minutes article titled "Sotomayor on Role Affirmative Action Played in her Life." In discussing her admission to Princeton, she mentioned that "affirmative action played a role in her admittance to Princeton." Key words here - "played a role" - in other words it was, as is the intent of affirmative action, part of a constellation of factors used for admittance to Princeton. She did not mention her "race" and did not state that affirmative action "got" her admission to Princeton. But yeah, I'm sure that lots of Fox Nation denizens were rejected from Princeton because of those unworthy "races."
Memo To Fr. Jonathan Morris - God NOT Mentioned In the Constitution
Fr. Jonathan Morris is Fox News' primary go to source for Catholic infused right wing propaganda (or right wing infused Catholic propaganda); but he is so not a Constitutional scholar. That he should stick to forgiving sins (but not those of Fox News) and opining on the hottest trends in right wing memes was underscored by today's attack on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell who, despite Fr. Johnny's best Broadway delivery, wasn't calling for the removal of the bible from presidential inaugurations. During his almost histrionic spittle fest, the sweet little padre claimed that O'Donnell was part of an imaginary (and very scary) group of activists who are trying to remove God from the money, the court house walls, and the Constitution. Problem here is that God is NOT mentioned in the Constitution - anywhere. This isn't the first time that Roger Ailes' special friend has made this mistake. No wonder Fox viewers are misinformed!
Fr. Jonathan Morris Attacks Lawrence O'Donnell As A God Hater!
As the mouthpiece for the Christian right, Fox News is always willing to promote whatever the church of the perpetually outraged is outraged about. Their new hissy fit involves the withdrawal of the pastor, who had been invited to give the benediction at the presidential inauguration, over publicity about his past anti-gay commentary.This prompted howls of outrage from the right wing including Fox's Todd Starnes who urged Christians to fight the gay bullies. More outrage when MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, in discussing this issue on his show, snarked about the necessity of having the president take his oath on the bible - a book that teaches that homosexuality is a sin. Newsbusters Noel Sheppard called it a "disgraceful tirade" and the homophobic, pedophile priest defender, anti-Semitic Bill Donohue said that President Obama should take the oath on Karl Marx's Das Kapital. And today, Fox's one true priest for the perpetually outraged, Fr. Jonathan, Morris, devoted his weekly Fox & Friends sermon to Lawrence O'Donnell's comments which, in true Fox fashion, were distorted but Father knows best?!
Read more11 Out Of 12 Fox Nation Posts 'On Fire' Oppose Gun Control
Think Fox Nation reflects America? While Americans generally favor more gun control, you'd never know it from checking out the "on fire" posts at the "fair and balanced" web site.
Read moreFox News: Trillion Dollar Coin Will Weigh 17,774 Tons
For those of you not familiar with the story of the trillion dollar coin, here’s a very concise overview of why the idea is being considered. When you’re finished, you’ll understand exactly why the GOP is terrified of the coin being minted, even to the point of creating a bill trying to stop that from happening. Fox is contributing to the discussion by expecting their viewers to believe that such a coin would be made out of a trillion dollars of platinum, and weigh roughly 17,774 tons. Or, as Fox quaintly also put it, equal in weight to 89 blue whales. Or a ballistic missile submarine.
Read moreKrauthammer Wrongly Says Assault Weapons Ban 'Didn't Work'
On the January 9 Special Report, the "All-Star" panel discussed what the Obama administration might do about gun control. Charles Krauthammer opined that there will probably be an assault weapons ban like the last one but which “didn’t work.” But Krauthammer is wrong.
Read moreOn Fox, Saving Lives Via Gun Regulation Is ‘Just Not Worth It’
In a jaw-dropping segment of callousness, Fox News trotted out contributor Jonah Goldberg to attack Vice President Joe Biden’s statement about his task force looking to curb gun violence, “Even if what we do only saves one life, it makes sense.”
Read moreStewart Exposes Fox News Hypocrisy Over Attacks On Al Gore
A few nights ago on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart mocked Fox's ginned-up outrage over Al Gore's sale of Current TV to Al Jazeera. Stewart rightly nailed the "controversy" as Fox's "first boner of the year." He went on to say, "This won't be a four-hour erection, or will it?" That was funny and great enough. But then he penetrated to the core of the hypocrisy.
Read moreO'Reilly Pretends His Comments About Asians Were Taken Out Of Context
Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI) confronted Bill O’Reilly tonight about his offensive comments that it’s “shocking” that Hawaiians are liberal because Asians are “usually more industrious and hard-working.” O’Reilly contended that Hanabusa had only watched his remarks from an out-of-context Media Matters clip and, therefore, was unqualified to debate him on them. In reality, Media Matters’ clip included the full context of his remarks and there was nothing in the rest of the segment to alter the meaning.
Read moreJudge Napolitano Insists We All Need Assault Weapons to Defend Ourselves Against … Somebody
All across the country, right-wingers are lining up behind a standard answer to the question: “Why are we against a ban on assault weapons”? And that answer is: civilians need assault weapons so they can defend themselves against tyranny. What tyranny? Well, they don’t really say. And though it sounds like a talking point from some militia survivalist bunker, even learned judges are arguing it, gentle reader. At least Fox's friendly judge, Andrew Napolitano, was arguing that point in a foxnews.com op-ed which was also posted on the Fox Nation.
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