Fox Business’ Kennedy ‘Diagnoses’ Obama As Mentally Unwell
Apparently, Fox Business host Kennedy’s B.A. in philosophy and a career in music and talk radio has prepared her to diagnose President Obama’s mental capabilities on Fox News. At least in her own mind. I’ll bet you can guess that the diagnosis is not good.
Read moreFox & Friends 'Apology' Includes Racist Dog Whistle?
In its ongoing attempt to show that white Americans are endangered by scary black people, Fox News has created an alternate reality where black on white crime is a clear and present danger. The idea that white Americans are being besieged by roving gangs of black thugs allows Fox to advance their ever popular victimization meme as well as blame "black culture" for this supposedly pervasive criminal activity. And that's why Fox eagerly provided coverage for the mythical "knock-out" game - an activity in which black youth assaulted innocent, primarily white people just for kicks. So was it a coincidence that during Fox & Friends' non-apology for its domestic violence humor, it ran the chyron shown below the fold? Was Fox using a disgusting act of domestic violence, perpetrated on a black woman, to advance its "scary black man" motif?
Read moreAnna Kooiman Asks If College Non-Discrimination Order 'Political Correctness Going Too Far?'
As the network for real American Christians, Fox News knows that God hates fags and that real American Christians should be free to discriminate against the LGBT community because religious liberty - which, on Fox, is not extended to atheists. For Fox, ordinances which forbid anti-gay discrimination are Satan's work. Thus, Fox brought us a campaign of real Christian lies about how the San Antonio non-discrimination ordinance was, yes, discriminatory towards Christians. Fox also provided extensive validation of Christian indignation over Vanderbilt U's policy which requires that campus organization elections be open to all. This morning, Anna Kooiman provided the patented Fox & Friends sympathy to a Christian college group that, according to Kooiman, is being denied recognition by the Univ. of California system over its religious beliefs. What nobody mentioned was that the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Group has a real big (but biblical) problem with teh gay but hey, religious freedom?!
Read moreFox Fails To Apologize For Ray Rice 'Take The Stairs' Joke
If you blinked while watching Fox & Friends this morning, you probably missed how the show "addressed" the backlash against co-host Brian Kilmeade's tasteless joke yesterday about Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée to the ground: "I think the message is, take the stairs." There was no apology and no remorse, either. In fact, Fox suggested that anyone who took offense is to blame for misunderstanding.
Read moreFox To Address Ray Rice 'Stairs' Joke Tomorrow
As I previously posted, this morning's Fox & Friends made a tasteless joke about Ray Rice's knockout punch to his then-fiancée. Apparently, the backlash was so strong that a Fox News spokesperson says the show will address it tomorrow morning.
Read moreAndrea Tantaros Exploits Ray Rice's Domestic Violence To Smear Obama
Early this morning, Fox & Friends trivialized the domestic violence video that showed Baltimore Ravens' Ray Rice punching out his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. But Andrea Tantaros wins the Rice Politicization Award with her attempt to use the awful incident to score some cheap political points by demanding that President Obama and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz speak out about it.
Read moreSean Hannity Defends 'Strong Christian' Phil Robertson's 'Convert or Die' Theology
As are many of Fox News talkers, Sean Hannity is an avowed conservative Catholic. So perhaps he was channeling his inner Torquemada when, last Thursday, he defended the noted theologian and Ducky Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson's "biblical" belief that ISIS should be offered the choice between converting to Christianity or die. Hannity's impassioned support for Robertson, whose words were supposedly "taken out of context," came on the heels of MSNBC's Ed Schultz's skewering of Hannity's hypocrisy in defending the very thing that we are condemning ISIS for doing. So not only did Hannity stand up for his bayou soul brotha; but he engaged in a very Christian ad-hominem attack on Schultz. But Hannity and Robertson are devout pro-life Christian, so it's all good.... As international affairs analysts, not so much!
Read moreTucker Carlson: 'Assault Weapon' Is A Made Up Term And There Really Is No Such Thing
Fox News host Tucker Carlson wasn't just outraged that New York police tried to enforce assault weapons laws he doesn't like, he announced that there is no such thing as an assault weapon to begin with.
Read moreFox & Friends Propaganda Fail? Tucker Carlson Gets School By Sociologist On Single Parent Families!
For the Christian right and its media mouthpiece, Fox News, things were so much better when families consisted of two married parents with a bread-winning dad and stay at home mom. So in order to disparage those slutty single mothers, purveyors of "traditional" morality cling to the belief that all children, in all single parent households, are at a disadvantage. Thus, heterosexual marriage is the only acceptable framework in which to raise kids who otherwise would be raised by lazy takers. This morning, Fox & Friends hosted a sociologist whose research shows that the economics of today's diverse families don't fit the right wing paradigm of the supposed two parent optimum. But Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, not a sociologist, wasn't swayed by the data, so there!
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