Petition To Megyn Kelly To Eat Pepper Spray Now Has More Than 25,000 Signatures
Reported by Ellen - Thu 1:15 AM
As I posted yesterday, Fox News host Megyn Kelly has received some serious criticism for calling pepper spray, "a food product, essentially," during a discussion on The O'Reilly Factor about students getting pepper sprayed at UC Davis. Now a humorous petition has been started calling on her to eat or drink a dose on the air. (H/T AlterNet)
Continue reading »News Corporation Accused Of Trying To Bribe An Australian Senator
Reported by Ellen - Thu 12:59 AM
In yet another sign that News Corporation’s unethical and illegal behavior is not limited to newspapers in Great Britain, an Australian senator has come forward with a nine-page statement accusing an executive at the media conglomerate’s Australian arm of offering him favorable coverage if he voted against a particular piece of legislation the News Corp. division wanted defeated. After the senator voted the other way, he said he was suddenly unable to get anything published in the paper. Australian police are now investigating.
Continue reading »Steve Doocy Urges Harassment Of Suffolk University Dean?
Reported by Priscilla - Wed 3:41 PM
Not only is Fox "News" your place for "fair & balanced" news; but it also is the place for some right wing community organizing. Recently, a Suffolk University professor made some very negative comments about the US military. In response to a school solicitation for care packages for soldiers, Suffolk Law professor Michael Avery wrote an e-mail to fellow profs in which he said that "I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings." He then went on to complain about the large American flag in the school's atrium. (Dude, what were you thinking!). As expected, the right wing world is outraged. So it wasn't surprising to see their mouthpiece, Fox News, advance the outrage on their morning home for right wing outrage, Fox & Friends. This morning, Steve Doocy (who never wore the uniform) was fighting mad about this affront to the soldiers. He interviewed an active duty army reservist U.S. Army Reserves Major Robert J. Roughsedge, who just quit his position as an adjunct professor at Suffolk, because he doesn't approve of how the school supports Avery's free speech. And if the Fox audience is as upset as they should be, Steve Doocy, in doing a little activism, has provided them with an outlet for their anger.
Continue reading »About Megyn Kelly And Her Pepper Spray Is “A Food Product, Essentially” Comment
Reported by Ellen - Wed 1:45 PM
I’m going to be a bit of a contrarian here and stand up for Megyn Kelly a bit. Yes, I thought her now widely-ridiculed comment that pepper spray is “a food product, essentially” comment was dumb and disingenuous. But in the context of her overall remarks about police pepper spraying protesters at UC Davis, it wasn’t quite what it seemed. Kelly was not saying pepper spray was harmless. Nor was she excusing the police for using it on those grounds.
Continue reading »Bill O'Reilly Supports UC Davis Cops Who Pepper Sprayed Peaceful Protesters?
Reported by Priscilla - Wed 12:41 PM
The video of non-violent UC Davis students has gone worldwide. The college Chancellor, Linda Katehi, has stated that the campus police defied her orders when they used the strong, military grade pepper spray against peaceful students who did not appear to be, as claimed by the police, "encircling" them. There is outrage about what appears to be excessive force against those who, like Martin Luther King Jr, were engaged in non-violent protest. But Bill O'Reilly, who would probably have been apoplectic if this had happened to non-violent anti-abortion protestors, was rather sanguine about this. He dismissively said that “we don’t have a right to Monday morning quarterback the police." In other words we shouldn't second guess the police. Really?
Continue reading »James Murdoch Resigned From British Newspaper Boards
Reported by Ellen - Wed 12:36 PM
As the News Corp. phone hacking scandal continues to smolder, news comes that James Murdoch (son of Rupert) has resigned from the boards of News Group Newspapers Limited and Times Newspapers Limited. Apparently, this happened in September but is being reported now. However, he remains chairman of News International, the umbrella corporation that owns the papers, and deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. overall.
Continue reading »Right-Wing Comedian Brad Stine Helps Make Facts And Knowledge A Joke On Fox & Friends
Reported by Ellen - Wed 1:50 AM
As Aunty Em noted, the curvy couch crew on Fox & Friends uses right-wing comic Brad Stine to outsource outrageous smears and then pretend it's all in good fun. In fact, the hosts are so amused by Stine’s brand of attack-the-left humor that he’s becoming a regular fixture on the show. On Monday, November 21, Stine returned for at least his third visit, this month, this time to riff on the decline of American pride. His conclusion? “Marxist” and “fascist university professors” are the cause. The three hosts almost fell off the couch kowtowing to him.
Continue reading »Steve Doocy Pimps Catholic Bishop's Claim That Birth Control Mandate Is "War on Catholics"
Reported by Priscilla - Tue 3:22 PM
Fox News does seem to be rather cozy with the Catholic Church whose bishops are very unhappy with the Obama administration. The Catholic bishops, one of this country's largest and well funded lobby groups, is circling its wagons and preparing to fight for Catholic "religious liberty" which is really a fight against the Obama administration health care reform mandate which includes "conscience clause" provisions and birth control mandates which require employers pay for reproductive health care including contraceptives with no co-pay. The bishops say that the birth control mandate violates Church teaching. Given that Fox News seems to be an arm of Vatican Media (their only contributing clergy person is a Catholic priest who does tow the GOP right wing line of thought) it wasn't surprising to see Fox Knight of Malta, Peter Johnson, Jr., recently defend the bishop's position on "religious liberty." And this morning, Fox provided more reinforcement for this meme and a shout out to Fox's Catholic anti-choice audience when good Fox Catholic Steve Doocy interviewed a Catholic bishop who also provided some sweet Obama bashing. The world's oldest celibate (!) men's club seems to care far more about women's bodies than the abysmal American economy which has income inequality worse than some third world countries. Nice to see that "Fair & Balanced" Fox "News" is helping their newest crusade which, in the 21st century, doesn't involve the Saracen hordes - but is rather, a war on the reproductive rights of American women. And in the process, Fox is sending the message that Obama is anti-Catholic in order to move some Catholic votes into the "R" column. So it's all good...
Continue reading »Bill O'Reilly Defends Christmas Because Jesus Guided The Founders ?!?
Reported by Priscilla - Tue 11:51 AM
Unlike Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly is educated. He has an undergraduate degree and two Masters. And that's why it's truly amazing that O'Reilly believes that a Jewish teacher is responsible for evolution and the tides. But Bill's undergrad degree is in history (as is mine), not science, and that why it's even more amazing that, in his recent "defense" (as if it's in jeopardy!) of Christmas, he said that “the teachings of Jesus, the man, heavily shaped the founding of this nation.” This is clearly not mainstream history; but the kind of bogus America as "Christian nation" history being promoted by Glenn Beck pal, David Barton, whose academic credentials are also not exactly mainstream. If Fox viewers are misinformed, this is an example of how this happens. But hey, Bill's fans take his word on faith alone, so it's all good.
Continue reading »Brian Kilmeade Brings Us Another Sexist Term For Women
Reported by Priscilla - Tue 10:12 AM
Yesterday, in a discussion about a poll which showed that a large percentage of men don't care if their significant other makes more money, Brian Kilmeade took a page from the Dennis Miller lexicon of old-school and otherwise sexist terms for women. In response to Steve Doocy's comment that the percentage is even higher, the brown haired guy that isn't Steve Doocy said this: "You think that 90% of men wouldn't mind if their babes, their skirt, their chosen one was making more money." Toward the end of this comment, Gretchen Carlson did, laughingly, say "excuse me, what, it's amazing that women make more money than men with those kinds of thoughts." (Hey Gretch, next time you want to whine about Bill Maher, you might want to remember this.) But "skirt," seriously? Hey Brian, the 40's called, they want their vocabulary back.
Continue reading »Bill O'Reilly & Dennis Miller Yuk It Up Over Gay Penguins
Reported by Priscilla - Tue 9:42 AM
Beavis & Butthead look like Rhodes Scholars next to these two jokers. Giggling over "gay" penguins? Grow up. But, seriously, dudes, get a room!
Continue reading »Fox News Civil War! Roger Ailes Furious At Palin!
Reported by Ellen - Mon 9:01 PM
New York Magazine has a new article out saying that Fox News chief Roger Ailes was furious that Sarah Palin announced her decision not to run for president on a radio show, rather than on Fox News. "I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network," Ailes reportedly said. Author Gabriel Sherman also said that Ailes considered keeping her off the air until her contract expires.
Continue reading »David Frum Claims He Was Blacklisted From Fox “News” For Criticizing Rush Limbaugh
Reported by Aunty Em - Mon 7:22 PM
David Frum, who has been a Republican all his adult life, as he says in a recent New York Magazine article, called “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?” answers the titular question by laying much of the blame for that at the feet of Fox “News.”
Continue reading »Fox News: The Network For The Misinformed
Reported by Ellen - Mon 6:56 PM
Fairleigh Dickinson University has a new survey out showing not just that Fox News viewers in New Jersey are uninformed but that they are less informed than those who watch no news.
Continue reading »Hugh Grant Testifies In Phone Hacking Scandal: It's Not Just News Corp.
Reported by Ellen - Mon 5:51 PM
In a lengthy appearance before a British inquiry into phone hacking and practices of the media, actor Hugh Grant summed up his feelings for Britain's tabloids by saying that it's time for the country to stand up to the bullying by the press. He also alleged that it wasn't just Murdoch's News Corp. tabloids that have engaged in unethical practices.
Continue reading »Father Jonathan Morris Does Tim Tebow
Reported by Priscilla - Mon 3:08 PM
Simmer down now. It's not what you think - although I can't vouch for Father Morris' fantasy life! But Denver football star, Tim Tebow, is a devout Christian so it's not surprising that Fox's one true priest, Father Jonathan Morris, would be eager to discuss the newest thing in Tim Tebow fanland; i.e. orange football shirts with Tebow's number and the name "Jesus" on top of it. Some Christians, including Fox Five member, Bob Beckel, think it's blasphemous and that if Tebow were a "true Christian" he would ask his fans to cease with the Jesus couture. So who better to weigh in on Tim Tebow, Jesus, and couture but Father Morris whose weekly Fox & Friends homily was devoted to this important topic.
Continue reading »Dennis Miller & Bill O'Reilly Are Misogynistic Soul Brothers?
Reported by Priscilla - Mon 1:45 PM
It's no surprise that Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller would be soul brothers as they have so much in common (Although O'Reilly is successful. Miller, not so much).They are both overly inflated with a sense of their own importance and they loathe women who don't' subscribe to their world view - a world view that, for Bill, harkens back to the days when father (Daddies and Catholic priests) knew best; and for Miller, a Mickey Spillane world of macho men who were surrounded by, in Miller's parlance, ditsy dames. If O'Reilly and Miller were high school kids, they would be the creepy losers who think that the "chicks" love it when you talk dirty to them. (Think Caribbean showers) Like Beavis and Butthead they laugh at their lame and sexist "humor" some of it directed at, hardeharha, Nancy Pelosi's facial features. It's no surprise that misogyny loves company and last week's "Miller Time" provided yet another example of Miller's misogyny.
Continue reading »Bill O’Reilly Does The Java Jive In The No Spin Zone And Jesus Wept
Reported by Aunty Em - Sun 4:27 PM
Happy Holidays, Bill. Can I call you Bill? Can I still say “holidays?” I know you have fought your phony War on Christmas for many years now. Yet, you have never shown an iota of concern for the POWs of that conflict—the collateral damage, if you will, of your phony little war. I have never understood why you, and all the other little Sugar Plum Fairies (not that there’s anything wrong with that) at Fox “News,” simply refuse to accept and accommodate other people who might celebrate other holidays. Having said that, Bill, it always amuses me when you try and take credit for saving Christmas. Like Friday night, when you read a viewers’ letter:
Continue reading »Defending Occupy Wall Street A No-No On Fox News Sunday
Reported by Ellen - Sun 3:37 PM
During a Fox News Sunday discussion today about the presidential campaign, panelist Juan Williams tried to make the point that Republicans are the “protectors of the super rich.” Unfortunately for Williams, he also said, “in this time of Occupy Wall Street.” Host Chris Wallace immediately interrupted, attacked OWS, and never let Williams finish his thought.
Continue reading »Alan Colmes On Fire Defending Occupy Wall Street Protests
Reported by Ellen - Sun 1:14 AM
There are plenty of "Democratic strategists" on Fox who could take a lesson from Alan Colmes on how not to just sit there and take it but speak out. Colmes has been on Fox since its inception so he knows as well as anyone what the right-wing is up to and ways to fight back. Go Alan! Even though he's a Fox News employee (normally a disqualifying factor), I hereby appoint him our latest Top Dog.
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Imus And Cavuto Go At It Over Imus' Inconsistent Ratings, reported by Ellen,
How Bill O’Reilly Lied When He Demanded An Apology From Ellen Barkin And Joy Behar For Lying—Another Annotated Aunty Em Transcript, reported by Aunty Em,
Dennis Miller: I Spent Five Hours Fantasizing About Hitting The Muslim Kid Next To Me On A Plane, reported by Ellen,
Bill O’Reilly Still Complaining About The Fictitious $16 Muffins, reported by Ellen,
Van Susteren Enables Bachmann To Call Obama Administration “Criminal” And Then Pushes Her To Back Off, reported by Ellen,
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Criminal Charges Filed Against The Beck-Promoted Goldline, reported by Ellen,
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Sean Hannity And Fox News Help Thwart The Scott Walker Recall , reported by Ellen,
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Bill O’Reilly Declares Occupy Wall Street Movement “Dead,” “Finished”, reported by Ellen,
Perry Steps In It Again: Obama “Grew Up In A Privileged Way”, reported by Ellen,
FoxNews.com Readers Lament White House Shooter Missed The President, reported by Ellen,
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Fox & Friends Uses Gold Star Father To Attack CA Mayor, reported by Priscilla,
Van Susteren Rescues Palin From Saying She'd Like To Lynch Sandusky, reported by Ellen,
Hannity Discusses Occupiers’ Anti-Semitism With His Favorite Bigot, reported by Ellen,
Bill O’Reilly’s Misleading Defense Of The Accuracy Of His Lincoln Book, reported by Ellen,
Brian Kilmeade Thinks Tim Tebow Is "Picked On" For His Faith, reported by Priscilla,
"Journalist" (?) Steven Crowder Freaks Out About "Scumbag" Occupiers, reported by Priscilla,
Fox And Friends Outsource Smears To Comedian Brad Stine Again, reported by Aunty Em,
28 News Corp. Staffers Linked To Phone Hacking, reported by Ellen,
Greta Van Susteren To Herman Cain: You Were Almost Like A Stalker, reported by Ellen,
Fox’s John Bolton: The Arab States Will Be “Very Happy” If Israel Bombs Iran, reported by Ellen,
Fox’s Jonathan Hoenig: Unions Have Crushed Every Industry, reported by Guest Blogger,
Maltese Knight Peter Johnson Jr. Praises Catholic College Opposition To Birth Control Mandate, reported by Priscilla,
How Hannity "Corrected" Cain's Smear Against Harassment Accuser And Politico, reported by Ellen,
Special Report Panel Bashes Obama Over Pipeline Decision, reported by Guest Blogger,
UK’s Guardian: News Corp. Spied On Parliamentary Committee Investigating It, reported by Ellen,
Monica Crowley: Americans Are Sick Of Attack Politics (But Pay No Attention To My Record Of Attack Politics), reported by Ellen,
Fox & Friends & Fr. Jonathan Morris Don't Need No Stinking Atheist Chaplains In US Military, reported by Priscilla,
Fox Trots Out Two Doctors To Assure Us That Rick Perry’s Brain Freeze Was No Big Deal!, reported by Ellen,
On Fox & Friends: Alveda King Disses OWS, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and ACORN, reported by Priscilla,
Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Lincoln” Book Full Of Errors, reported by Ellen,
Herman Cain Shrugs Off His Anita Hill Joke: Herman Is Going To Be Herman!, reported by Ellen,
"Fair And Balanced" Fox Nation Calls Occupy Protesters "Savages", reported by Ellen,
Michele Bachmann Analyzes The Country’s Ills: We Have Too Much Socialism, reported by Ellen,
Bill Hemmer Ramps Up The Fox News Witch Hunt Against Eric Holder By "Asking" If He Committed Treason, reported by Ellen,
Fox Nation Still Longing For Occupy Protesters To Be Murdered, reported by Guest Blogger,
Perry Gets A Debate Do-Over From Fox, reported by Ellen,
Gloria Allred Debates Hannity About Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations, reported by Ellen,
Your World Helps Rep. Joe Walsh Blame His Near Meltdown On Coffee And An Empty Stomach, reported by Guest Blogger,
In The Wake Of Debate Debacle, Rick Perry Heads To Fox & Friends, reported by Ellen,
Bill Hemmer Thinks Rep. Joe Walsh's Freak Out Was Awesome?, reported by Priscilla,
Fr. Jonathan Morris Continues Attack On Vanderbilt Non Discrimination Policy, reported by Priscilla,
Eric Bolling Adds Media Matters To The Cain Conspiracy, reported by Aunty Em,
Fox and Friends To Florida Inmates: Let Them Eat Soy, reported by Aunty Em,
No Questions For Cain About Sexual Harassment!, reported by Ellen,
Bret Baier Launches A Google + "Hangout" With Republican Candidates, reported by Ellen,
Hannity: The Go-To Show For Race-Baiting Against African Americans, reported by Ellen,
GOP Rep. Freaks Out - Fox Nation Claims Calm Constituent Was "Troublemaker", reported by Priscilla,
"Civil," "Tolerant" Fox Nation Readers Discuss Murdering OWS Protesters, reported by Ellen,
Cain Campaign Steps In It Again! Spokesman Wrongly Insists Accuser’s Son Works For Politico, reported by Ellen,
Eric Bolling Takes Herman Cain’s Conspiracy Theory One Crazy Step Further, reported by Aunty Em,
Jon Stewart Nails Fox News’ Hypocrisy On Anonymous Sources In Cain Scandal, reported by Ellen,
O’Reilly Sleight Of Hand Redirects Attention From Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Scandal To Rev. Wright And Bill Ayers, reported by Ellen,
"Fair & Balanced" Fox Nation Runs Article From Anti-Abortion Website, reported by Priscilla,
Gretchen Carlson Sympathizes With Ex Border Agent Who Violated "Illegal's" Rights, reported by Priscilla,
Dick Morris Smears Cain Accuser: I Look Forward To Her Spread In Playboy, reported by Ellen,
O’Reilly Uses Herman Cain Scandal To Make Racial Attacks On Sharpton And Jackson, reported by Ellen,
FoxNews.Com Uses Michael Jackson To Distract From Herman Cain Scandal, reported by Ellen,
Megyn Kelly & Mike Huckabee Play Defense For Mitt Romney On "Personhood", reported by Priscilla,
Huckabee Suggests Sexual Harassment Is Like Being Called “Sweetie”, reported by Ellen,
On Fox & Friends: Right Wing "Comic" Brad Stine Says Liberals Responsible For "Wussification" Of American Men, reported by Priscilla,
Jeanine Pirro Skewers Kim Kardashian, reported by Ellen,
Is Fox Nation Inadvertently Or Deliberately Negligent In Not Correcting Its Grossly Inaccurate Smear Of EPA Head Lisa Jackson?, reported by Ellen,
Art Laffer Lies About Stimulus - And Cavuto Lets Him, reported by Ellen,
Bill O'Reilly Raps Religion With Dennis Miller, reported by Priscilla,
Megyn Kelly Thinks Romney Support For "Personhood" Is No Big Deal?, reported by Priscilla,
Peter Johnson Claims Occupy Movement Is Unacceptable, reported by Aunty Em,
Sean Hannity Waterboard Watch: More Than 2 ½ Years Since Hannity Agreed To Be Waterboarded For Charity, reported by Ellen,
Peter DeFazio Smacks Down Cavuto's Right-Wing Objections To A Stock Transfer Tax, reported by Guest Blogger,
Geraldo Thinks O’Reilly An “Old Fogey” For His Occupy Wall Street Vitriol, reported by Ellen,
Michele Bachmann’s Extremism Gets Warm Reception From Neil Cavuto, reported by Guest Blogger,
Bill O’Reilly Can’t Admit He Was Wrong About The $16 Muffins, reported by Ellen,
Bill Hemmer Say Congressional Prayer Caucus Is Awesome, reported by Priscilla,
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Fox Nation Tries To Shame Those Who Voted Against Ridiculous “In God We Trust” Bill, reported by Ellen,
Jon Stewart Skewers Ann Coulter Over Her "Our Blacks" Comments, reported by Ellen,
Fox News Joins The Republican War On (Democratic) Voting, reported by Ellen,
Rick Perry The Destroyer? Says He Plans To “Take A Wrecking Ball To Washington”, reported by Ellen,
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No Embarassing Questions For Rick Perry About Herman Cain Scandal!, reported by Ellen,
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More Occupy Wall Street Bashing!, reported by Guest Blogger,
Fox Nation Ignores White Militia Domestic Terrorism?, reported by Priscilla,
Brit Hume Suggests Sexual Harassment Law To Blame For Herman Cain’s Problems, reported by Guest Blogger,
Fox & Friends Not Happy About "Disrespectful" Anti-War Recruiters, reported by Priscilla,
Brian Kilmeade Warns About Unpatriotic "Anti-War Recruiters" In OR Schools, reported by Priscilla,
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Cain: I Was Prepared For Attacks But Not The Sexual Harassment Scandal, reported by Ellen,
Fox’s Andy Levy Challenges Coulter For Playing The Race Card Over Herman Cain, reported by Ellen,
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