O’Reilly Dictates His Marching Orders To African Americans For Combating Black Crime
Last night, Bill O’Reilly followed up his shockingly hostile tirade against African Americans of the night before with ill-tempered directives for how they should combat black crime. Papa Bear O’Reilly – without offering a single bit of evidence or evidence that he has done any research to back up his assumption – has concluded that single parenthood is the root of the problem and must be combatted, not with contraception or sex education, but with public service announcements by black leaders. The lack thereof, O’Reilly has further decided – also without offering any substance for it – proves black leaders have been derelict. Therefore, Papa Bear has concluded he has license to berate African American leaders for not doing as he thinks fit. All in the name of good will toward blacks, of course.
Read moreFox News Cuts Away From President Obama's Economic Speech To Talk Royal Baby Name And Anthony Weiner
President Obama delivered a major speech on the economy today, focused on his plans to strengthen the U.S. middle class, the first in what the White House said would be a series of speeches on his economic vision for the country and as his agenda for his second term. But after about eight minutes of the approximately one-hour address, Fox News made its disinterest and disdain shown by cutting away from the speech in favor of the royal baby's name (Prince George) and a slew of anti-Democratic stories.
Read moreWatch President Obama's Speech Here
President Obama is about to deliver a major speech on the economy that is supposed to kickstart the agenda for the rest of his term. We've got it streaming after the jump.
Read moreShannon Bream Advances 'Outrage' Over Bogus Claim That DOJ 'Pulled Funds' From Young Marine Program
As the mouthpiece for persecuted right wing Christians, it isn't surprising that Fox News would pick up on the latest "outrage" in the Christian right. Picking up on a story that Fox's resident perpetually outraged Christian Todd Starnes broke two weeks ago, and which is all the rage in the right wing Christian whineosphere, Shannon Bream, hosting today's America Live, reported on - wait for it - "growing outrage" - about how the Department of Justice is pulling funds from a Louisiana chapter of the "Young Marines" because of "voluntary, student led prayer." It was classic Fox agitprop. The plight of persecuted young, patriotic was Christians was used to slam the Dept of Justice (not a favorite of Fox News and its right wing audience) and the Obama administration was accused of trying to eradicate religion. Oh, and the funds weren't, as reported by Bream, "pulled" by the DOJ. But who cares about facts when you've got propaganda to push!
Read moreKarl Rove – Yes, Karl Rove - Complains About Obama’s Divisiveness
Karl Rove visited The O’Reilly Factor to offer his take on President Obama’s comments on race. This, after O'Reilly's vicious harangue against African Americans and Obama. First, there was “liberal” Juan Williams who slobbered over O’Reilly’s diatribe. Nevertheless, Williams was “balanced” by conservative Mary Katharine Ham in the same segment. But even that must have been too much “fairness” for the Factor folks because they followed that with Karl Rove.
Read moreJuan Williams Hearts O’Reilly’s Tirade Against African Americans
I posted last night about Bill O’Reilly’s tirade against African Americans which he cloaked under a very thin veneer of concern about the welfare of the black community. While O’Reilly posited his unsubstantiated, off-the-top-of-his-head “solutions” for poverty, crime, drugs and the other plagues of the ghetto, the underlying message of his Talking Points commentary last night was really, “Why I dislike and distrust African American concerns and why you should, too.” But somehow, Fox News’ African American contributor Juan Williams – a sometimes intelligent guest in opposition to race baiting on Fox – missed the deliberate hostility and ugliness spewing from O’Reilly and embraced it as an overdue voice of reason.
Read moreBill O’Reilly Uses Trayvon Martin Killing To Go On A Tirade Against African Americans And President Obama
In case there’s any doubt whatsoever about Bill O’Reilly’s utter disdain and dislike of the African American community, then take a look at the nearly eight minutes of ranting, condescension and hostility that made up his Talking Points segment tonight. O’Reilly didn’t just join his Fox colleagues in using the upset feelings in the African American community as an opportunity to attack them, he took it a step further by suggesting that President Obama is deliberately enabling African American ills by pandering to them. Because, apparently, O’Reilly believes he has fooled at least some people into thinking that his hate-filled rant was an effort of tough love and a gesture of concern, instead of, say, pandering to his (predominantly) white viewers' worst prejudices.
Read moreFox News Loves Democrats Who Turn Republican
If there’s one thing Fox News loves more than a Democrat who turns Republican it’s probably an African American Democrat who turns Republican. So sure enough, although Your World would probably have ignored most Louisiana state senators, substitute host Eric Bolling was suddenly fascinated last week by the thoughts of former Democrat, now Republican, Elbert Guillory.
Read moreFox News’ The Five Shoulder-To-Shoulder With Republicans In The War On Foodstamps
On The Five last week (7/20/13), the co-hosts coincidentally attacked food stamps and their recipients just as Republicans are doing their best to drastically cut the program. Host Eric Bolling justified his view by arguing that giving poor people less (so the rich can have more) is for their own good – and by painting them as undeserving and greedy.
Read moreJoe Scarborough Slams Hannity Over Trayvon Martin And George Zimmerman
Yesterday, it was Melissa Harris-Perry. Today, it's Joe Scarborough nailing Sean Hannity over his blatant race baiting. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough discussed the right-wing push to scapegoat the African American community over Trayvon Martin's death. Scarborough singled out Sean Hannity as a poster child for that kind of race baiting - and there's probably no more deserving candidate.
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