Martha MaCallum - Not The First Fox News Host To Trivialize The Holocaust
The right wing love Israel because of its biblical connections. But they are certainly not attuned to Jewish sensitivities as seen in their callous comparison of right wing issues to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Fox News hosts provide examples of this insensitivity. When, at a Values Voters Summit, Mike Huckabee compared abortion to the Holocaust, the ADL described his remarks as "offensive" and "disturbing." The ADL condemned his comparison of the Holocaust to the national debt, at a NRA gathering, as a "political talking point." The ADL also called out Fox's Andrew Napolitano's column in which he suggested that if the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had enough guns, some could have survived. This type of right wing commentary was recently advanced, by the alleged fair & balanced "news" host Martha MacCallum, on her alleged "news" show when she said that if only the Jews had guns, things would have worked out so much better.
Read moreAllen West's Racist 'Message To White Americans' Is Our Most Outrageous Quote Of The Week
It's hard to think of any more deserving winner of our Fox News Outrageous Quote of the Week poll than Allen West. He's parked at Fox News while he earns money and exposure for his upcoming 2016 campaign "for whatever God would have me do." Meanwhile, he seems to have no qualms spreading an outrageous message of hate and bigotry.
Read moreMike Huckabee Insists His ‘Uncle Sugar’ And Libido Comments Showed His Respect And Admiration For Women
Mike Huckabee visited The Kelly File tonight to defend his now-infamous comments about women’s libidos and birth control. He insisted he has nothing to apologize for because the only ones he was knocking were Democrats, not women who want birth control. Au contraire, Huckabee repeatedly maintained, his comments about women believing they need “Uncle Sugar” to provide birth control because “they cannot control their libido” were made out of respect and admiration.
Read moreFox News Hypocrisy: Dana Perino Vs Gov. Andrew Cuomo
As Jon Stewart once said, "conservative victimization is the true genius of what Fox News has accomplished." So it makes sense that those on Fox News, who perpetuate the constant right wing victimization, would have their nice white panties in a bunch over NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's comment about how Republican extremists aren't in synch with the NY electorate. Among the Fox extremists who feel that the Governor is targeting them personally is Sean Hannity. When he whined about eventually leaving NY, Dana Perino said that unnamed "they" won't care if he does so because "they hate you." Wait a minute, I seem to remember that this same Dana Perino blithely suggested that a group of folks, whom she's not particularly fond of, leave not just NY - but the country!
Read moreMegyn Kelly Jumps On ‘Unvetted’ James O’Keefe Video To Attack Wendy Davis
Megyn Kelly, “truth detector,” seemed a lot more interested in attacking Texas’ Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis than in sniffing out facts last night. Even as Kelly acknowledged that an anti-Davis video produced by the very suspect James O’Keefe organization was “unvetted,” she promoted it. Then, in an interview about the video with Davis’ opponent, Greg Abbott, Kelly repeatedly prodded him to go after Davis more aggressively than he obviously wanted.
Read moreO’Reilly Turns To Megyn Kelly To Validate His ‘School Teacher Porn’ Position
After getting a shellacking from Kirsten Powers two nights ago, O’Reilly cued up Megyn Kelly to validate him discuss the issue of a school teacher caught reading pornography on the job again last night. Well, well, well.
Read moreWhat Megyn Kelly Should Have Told Her Audience About Glenn Beck’s Financial Motive To Be A ‘Uniter’
You know how I didn’t believe Glenn Beck’s sudden claim to regret being so divisive? Well, it turns out he has a financial incentive to change his stripes. And somehow, in three different segments aired by the Kelly File this week, self-appointed “truth detector” Megyn Kelly didn’t say a word about that.
Read moreRoger Ailes' Day Was Just Ruined
Gabriel Sherman's unauthorized biography of Fox News' Roger Ailes is now an official New York Times bestseller. While this is great news for those of us who care about the state of our news media, this is bound to be very upsetting to Mr. Ailes, himself. You may recall Ailes fired his close aide, allegedly over leaks to Sherman, and canceled Sherman's subscription to the newspaper owned by Ailes and run by his wife.
Read moreMike Huckabee, Women's Libidos, And 'Uncle Sugar' (Oh My!)
After the 2012 drubbing that the GOP took among young women, the RNC solons acknowledged that they need to improve their standing with women who were turned off by "biologically stupid" remarks made by GOP candidates whose comments about rape were, uh, batshit crazy. The GOP recently conducted training sessions on how to speak to and about women - seriously - Doonesbury satirized it nicely. But despite this effort to raise the level of discourse, it would appear that some in the GOP patriarchy still don't get it. Last Saturday, Fox's Mike Huckabee, a possible presidential candidate, talked about how real women don't need "demeaning" free birth control because having babies is what's really important for women's empowerment. And being the expert on women that he is, he said that the women he knows aren't like us pro-choice slutty sluts who are "slaves to their libido." And today, at an RNC meeting, he did it again!
Read moreBill O’Reilly: Boy, I’d Like To Hit Sarah Silverman With A Pie
Comedian Sarah Silverman has a video out that has given Fox News a new excuse to rail against the pro-choice community. In it, Silverman is visited by a Jesus who tells her, “Fertilized eggs aren’t people. People are people.” On tonight’s O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly didn’t just object, he announced – with blatant hostility – that he’d like to throw a pie at her.
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