Hannity And Rep. Steve King: Two Good Reasons To Think The GOP Minority Outreach Is Doomed To Failure
Memo to Fox News: While your outreach to African Americans on the issues surrounding the Trayvon Martin case is laudable in principle, you might want to avoid insulting them at the same time. Last night, you presented a debate about racial profiling in the Trayvon Martin verdict on the Hannity show. It was "fair and balanced" Fox-News style with the white host ganging up with the white, Republican Congressman Steve King against the African American Congressman Bobby Rush. And even if Rush were not a venerable member of the Civil Rights Movement and the Congressional Black Caucus, the sneering and jeering gave the impression of a certain - well, hostility to his perspective.
Read moreVan Susteren To Trayvon Martin Friend: Get Over It
Trayvon Martin's former football coach visited On The Record tonight for what host Greta Van Susteren clearly intended as a sympathetic interview. But even so, she couldn't resist (or knew her bosses wouldn't want her to resist) lecturing her guest for not "put(ting) the lid on" the tragedy.
Read morePeter Johnson Jr. Freaks Out Over 'Sick' Rolling Stone 'Terror Worship'
Just when you think that Fox & Friends has reached the outer limits of insanity, think again. This morning, while MSNBC's "Morning Joe" had a reasonable discussion about the most recent 'Rolling Stone' cover, that featured a glam selfie of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Peter Johnson Jr. was going ballistic about it. The MJ panel differed in their opinion, with some supporting it and some not; but their presentation was rational - unlike Johnson who sputtered in rage. It's funny, Maltese Knight Johnson, as a paid litigator for Cardinal Dolan, was all "freedom of religion" when it came to the Church's objection to the HHS birth control mandate. But he doesn't seem to have the same respect for freedom of the press - or at least for Rolling Stone's freedom to determine what goes on their cover and in their articles. Why the anger? Oh, right, Johnson is also Roger Ailes consigliore and Rolling Stone did a lengthy piece on Ailes which wasn't too flattering. Hmmmm.....
Read moreFox News To African Americans: Blame Yourselves, Not George Zimmerman, For Trayvon Martin’s Death
Not content with turning George Zimmerman into the “true” victim of the Trayvon Martin fatal shooting and Trayvon Martin into the villain, Fox News is now demonizing African Americans who are upset about Zimmerman’s acquittal by blaming their population at large for the entire tragedy. Oh, they don’t say so directly. But anyone with an ounce of insight can see that that’s the message behind Fox’s relentless lecturing that black-on-black crime is the “real issue” African Americans should focus on, instead of this case. Or, to put it another way, "Blame yourselves, not Zimmerman."
Read moreRolling Stone's Boston Bomber Photo Wasn’t 'Too Sympathetic' When Fox Nation Used It
I have to be honest with you, Dear Reader. When I learned of Fox News’ outrage about Rolling Stone's cover using a photograph of Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, my first reaction was, really? What on this cover is glamorizing him? The headline says that the article is about how radical Islam turned him into a monster - a story Fox would ordinarily love. Oh, the picture makes him look too sympathetic? Well, then maybe Roger Ailes should have a talk with Fox News’ Jesse Watters…
Read moreGretchen Carlson Hosts Alveda King To Diss MLK "Hoodie" Photo
I don't know if any of Dr. Martin Luther King's children have ever appeared on Fox News. But I do know that when the race baiting Fox News needs an African-American perspective on civil right issues, they routinely call on MLK's niece, the right wing Alveda King who routinely misrepresents her uncle's legacy in order to promote right wing talking points. She has criticized "Occupy." She joined her fellow right wingers in dissing African-American Congresswoman Maxine Waters over a comment about the Tea Party. Despite the fact that her uncle received an award from Planned Parenthood, Ms. King, who works for the radical, anti-choice "Priests for Life," claimed that he was "pro-life." And she just might have gotten the ball rolling for the ongoing Fox meme that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson "played the race card" in Trayvon Martin's "late abortion." This morning she was back, on Fox & Friends, to complain about a viral photo, done to commemorate Trayvon Martin, of her uncle in a hoodie.
Read moreTodd Starnes Is A Big Fat Fraud?!
Poor Todd Starnes. It must be truly horrific for him, a God fearing, gun loving, homo hating, white, possibly racist conservative, to endure living in an environment which represents the moral and cultural degeneracy that is taking this Christian nation down the road to perdition. But in placing himself in the midst of all this nasty social diversity, he can better observe it and subsequently warn his fellow God fearing, gun loving, homo hating, white, possibly racist conservatives about this decadence. So we should be thankful that Starnes has opted to live in NY's Park Slope neighborhood which, as described by a News Hounds reader and Starnes' near neighbor, as "one of the most progressive, queer, yoga-loving, miscegenating (horrors!), crunchy, communal neighborhoods in the world" - the kind of neighborhood that represents all that Starnes loathes. But because it's a tolerant place, he doesn't face the type of hostility that his neighbors would face if they moved into a neighborhood full of people who think like Starnes. Ironic, don't ya think!
Read moreFox’s Valerie Boey Does Her Part To Race Bait The Zimmerman Verdict With Alternate Juror
Fox Orlando reporter Valerie Boey is clearly using her moment in the limelight to angle for a job at the Fox News Channel. Last year, she conducted a lapdog interview with George Zimmerman’s father that overlooked key discrepancies in his story. More recently, she did her part to fear monger about African American riots (that didn’t happen) in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict. Now, in an interview with an alternate juror to the Zimmerman trial, she gratuitously brought up Al Sharpton in an obvious effort to smear civil rights leaders.
Read moreStephen Colbert Mocks Fox News' Gretchen Carlson/Megyn Kelly/Greta Van Susteren Line Up Changes
Stephen Colbert perfectly and succinctly summed up the changes coming down the pike at Fox News, with Gretchen Carlson getting a new show and Megyn Kelly moving to prime time. I won't spoil it for you but I will say you won't be sorry you watched the clip. It also includes Colbert's take on George Zimmerman, which was just as perfect. Must see TV!
Read moreFox News Helps Promote George Zimmerman’s Latest Fundraiser: His Lawsuit Against NBC
George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys visited On The Record last night for another round of sore winners’ whining about Zimmerman’s victimhood. Predictably, Greta Van Susteren could not have been more friendly and credulous about their every utterance, including Mark O’Mara’s ludicrous claim that he has “always been very respectful” to Trayvon Martin’s family (just pay no attention to his smearing cross-examination "questions" to Sybrina Fulton about her dead son). But it soon became clear the real purpose of the entire segment: helping to promote Zimmerman’s money-making scheme to sue MSNBC. Van Susteren even helpfully advised that the network quickly settle.
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