Hannity Guest Suggests Obama Delayed Sandy Relief Because Victims Are Middle Class
Sean Hannity joined the Republican Rehab: Sandy edition brigade tonight. Following on the heels of a similar effort on Fox & Friends a few days ago, Sean Hannity did his part to rehab the image of House Republicans - who blocked Sandy relief legislation earlier this week – via the all-purpose Fox News strategy: blame President Obama. Even though Hannity admitted that the supposedly poisonous pork in the bill that the GOP “had to pull” was put there by the Senate. One of his guests took it a step further and suggested that the reason for the delay in aid is because Obama only cares about lower class victims, not the middle class. And we know which races inhabit which!
Read moreFox Guest Accuses Gore Of Associating With Al Qaeda Over Sale Of Current TV To Al Jazeera
With all the faux Fox outrage over Al Gore's sale of Current to Al Jazeera, wasn't it only a matter of time until somebody accused him of consorting with Al Qaeda? Well, that happened on the Happening Now show today.
Read moreBill O'Reilly Compares Rhode Island To North Korea?
While the holiday season (ewww, I said a dirty word) is behind us, Bill O'Reilly just can't quit his Christmas crusade. His weekly column offers advice on which countries are best for those nasty "secular progressives" who "want to diminish the birth of Jesus in the public square." (Meanwhile, Bill has no problem with the crass commercialization of his main man's b'day!) The article is classic Bill O'Reilly bullshit, laden with projections, inaccuracies, and not so thinly veiled attacks against those who don't subscribe to his rigidly archaic views. But the pièce de résistance is some unintended irony at the end of the article where O'Reilly, the prince of personal destruction, wishes for peace. As the "Church Lady" would say, "now isn't that special."
Read moreFaux Fox Controversy Of The Day: Al Gore Sold Current TV To Al Jazeera
In case you missed it, Fox Newsies could not stop clutching their pearls over the news that Al Gore's Current TV had been sold to Al Jazeera. Supposedly this just verifies their accusations that Gore is Un-American (or else he wouldn't have sold to that America-hating network) and a hypocrite because a) Al Jazeera is based in oil-rich Qatar and b) he reportedly tried to close the deal by the end of the year in order to save tax money.
Read moreFox's Crackpot Dr. Keith Ablow Mulling A Run For U.S. Senate
File this one under truth is stranger than fiction. Fox News psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow - he of the crackpot, unprofessional and homophobic diagnoses - is considering running for the U.S. Senate in - get this - Massachusetts. As a Republican, of course.
Read moreU.S. State Department Mocks Fox News Producer For Questioning Hillary Clinton's Concussion
Philippe Reines, a U.S. State Department spokesman, sent a mocking email to Fox News producer/correspondent Justin Fishel for suggesting Hillary Clinton was not too ill from her concussion to testify about Benghazi before Congress. It's a devastating put down - and with a sense of humor.
Read moreKirsten Powers Calls Out 'Democrats Want Free Stuff' Rhetoric
Three cheers for Kirsten Powers for not sitting quietly by as a Republican debate opponent made the kinds of smears and jeers of the left that are commonplace on Fox. Powers is not exactly the strongest advocate for the left on Fox but she's often willing to do what others who are supposedly further left will not - and that is call out right-wing baloney when she sees it.
Read moreMegyn Kelly Outraged That New York Paper Targeted By Fox Hired Armed Guards
In case you missed it, there’s a small newspaper in upstate New York that published the names and locations of gun owners in its vicinity. The result has been a nearly non-stop vilification by Fox News. Now, as the paper faces the predictable threats as a result, Fox is vilifying the paper for hiring armed guards, as if that were some kind of unwarranted act of hypocrisy.
Read moreSteve Doocy Tells Historical Whopper During DAR Hit Piece!
There should be no question as to why Fox News viewers are not well informed. For example, on this morning's Fox & Friends, we were treated to a Steve Doocy comment which was made during his chat with Todd Starnes about how, based on anonymous sources, the Daughters of the American Revolution have abandoned Jesus. While it's quite possible that Doocy didn't really know the information, the fact that it seems to dovetail with the Christian right's bogus, revisionist historical claim that America was founded as a Christian nation makes one wonder if it was part of the script - an ongoing script that is a reflection of Roger Ailes' fear and loathing of secularism. So while we don't know if Steve Doocy is an idiot or plays one on TV, we do know that the only place where Doocy got this morning's goody- American revolutionaries "put In God We Trust" on "our money and our walls" - was from his ass!
Read moreCavuto Defends Boehner Cursing Out Reid
Don’t you just know that if Senator Harry Reid had said, “Go f*** yourself” to House Speaker John Boehner, we’d be hearing about it for days, if not weeks or months, on Fox News? They'd be hammering President Obama and every Democrat on Fox to condemn the language. But not only has Fox News not criticized Boehner for cursing out Reid, the “fair and balanced” Neil Cavuto all but endorsed the Speaker’s potty mouth.
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