All Posts Tagged With: "Fox News"
The Media Gets A Clue
NBC’s Chuck Todd notices that the Tea Party movement isn’t a “grassroots” movement like it’s been portrayed by the media:
Chuck Todd actually gets this right on Meet The Press. Gregory played a clip of Dick Armey trying to say that the teabaggers represent the “center” of American politics as bizarre as that may sound and [...]
25Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
The Haiti Disaster Brings Out Teh Stupid
We’ve already heard about the disgusting statements of Pat Robertson about the Haiti earthquake disaster. Rush Limbaugh also couldn’t help making an ass of himself about the Haiti crisis.
On his radio show yesterday Limbaugh said the earthquake in Haiti will play right into Obama’s hands by allowing him to play up his “compassionate” and [...]
Breaking! From Talking Points Memo: Palin Joins Fox News
This is not a joke, it’s real. Although, come to think of it, it IS a joke.
Maybe, just maybe, this will remove any last vestige of credibility that this network has. And maybe, just maybe, someone in power will review whether this House organ for the Rethugs is living up to its broadcasting obligations.
She’s also [...]
Late Night Video — Red State Prays for Tiger Woods
OK, this is less of a Tiger Woods post and more of a Make Fun of Brit Hume’s and Fox News’ Showy Religiosity post. And it is funny. And NSFW!
10Jan2010 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Was Fox In On The Scam?
The “grassroots” groups that grew up around the tea party movement were generally funded by industry-backed groups. The tea parties were heavily promoted by Fox News with some of their biggest stars, like Glenn Beck, reporting from the protests. One of the PACs raised money from the tea party protestors, but most of [...]
4Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
FOX News Has Reached Televangelist Status
Not that anyone with a brain didn’t see this coming.
Via Balloon Juice:
Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover as a golfer, Hume says, but it remains to be seen whether he will recover as a person.
“He’s said to be a Buddhist,” Hume said. “I don’t [...]
Another Dispatch From The GOP Brain Trust
Fox News has figured out how to sell the GOP jobs plan. Cut wages!
Now, with its Republican-inspired “Where are the jobs?” campaign in full swing, Fox has gone “on the job hunt” with a “new” idea for increasing employment: cutting the minimum wage. Jumping off from an op-ed by Washington Post editorial board member [...]
Fox News Is Off The Deep End
I was doing my normal evening blog surfing and I came across this article at TPM: Fox Poll: Does Obama Want To Cut Taxes, Or Is He Corrupt Instead?
To be specific, here’s what the poll asked: “What do you think President Obama would like to do with the extra bank bailout money — [...]
Fox News Makes Fools Out Of MSM Again
One story that the MSM has been very enamored of this year is the Obama administration vs. Fox News. The administration (rightly IMO) has accused Fox of being biased. The MSM has circled the wagons in defending Fox and going as far as saying Fox = MSNBC (someone please remind me at what [...]
11Nov2009 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
Why It is OK to Call Out FOX News
And in many ways, the rush to accommodate FOX Noise is right at the center of how journalists are undermining their own authority and respect.
7Nov2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Evening Read
No Phillies tonight, no problem. Three good articles to get those brain cells warmed up.
The Nation: Why Reparations are good? It’s not what you think.
The Daily Beast: The Left’s hero on Fox “News”: Shep Smith.
Paul Krugman: Time to decide which side of history you are on.
Fox “News” Is . . . Gasp . . . Conservative
A Pew Research Center finds that Fox “News” is viewed as the most ideological of the six television news channels. Forty-seven percent of Americans think that Fox “News” is conservative, while 36% of Americans think that MSNBC is liberal. What’s interesting with this poll is that Americans thoughts regarding the news channels stay pretty consistent [...]
30Oct2009 | nemski | 23 comments | Continued
Are You A Good White Person?
Fox “News” commissioned Zogby run a poll for them regarding free speech reports FAIR Blog. Here’s one of the questions:
Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to [...]
The Republican Base Operates In Another World
James Carville’s political polling organization, Democracy Corps, released a very interesting report last week (warning: PDF). They surveyed the base of the Republican party and found that they had a different understanding of the world than the rest of the U.S. It’s a much more paranoid view.
19Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 28 comments | Continued
More Like This Please!
Fox News has apparently been whinging that President Obama did not appear with them in the WH blitz to appear on all of the talking heads shows this Sunday morning. Why would that be? Here is the WH spokesman answering that to ABC news:
21Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Big Shock: Fox News Lies
Has Faux News finally gone too far for the media to ignore? (Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.) Fox took out ads in the Washington Post, New York Times andWall Street Journal accusing the media (including WaPo, NYT, CNN and others) of not covering the Fox-organized and Fox-promoted 9/12 protest in Washington. Rick [...]
19Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Jon Stewart Discovers That Fox News Is Now Liberal Media
This is a little old but how freakin’ brilliant is this?
29Aug2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Is Beck Going Belly Up?
While Delaware Liberal was supposedly imploding last week, real news was occurring as Glenn Beck was losing advertisers faster than Republicans lose voters. What’s all the hubbub about? Beck was on one of the Fox News TV chat shows and he called the President a “rasict”. I know, I know, this doesn’t surprise you as [...]
25Aug2009 | nemski | 13 comments | Continued
The lie, and the liars
The lie: That any proposal currently before congress contains funding for “death panels” that kill patients against their will.
The truth: Your doctor can be reimbursed for helping you make a living will – in which you can declare “I insist that no one ever pull the plug on me for any reason whatsoever until I [...]
Late Night Video
Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asks whether highly accomplished Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin is too fat to be Surgeon General. Really.
22Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Another Bloodthirsty Fox Pundit
Fox News Pundit Lt. Col. Ralph Peters hopes that the Taliban will just execute the American soldier they captured to save the U.S. the trouble of putting him on trial.
20Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Glenn Beck Loses His Sanity
Glenn Beck loses his mind, not that he had much to lose. Really, listen to the whole thing.
15Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Late Night Oddity: Fox Goes Birther
Fox News reports on the challenge of a wingnut soldier against deployment to Afghanistan like it’s real news and a real issue for Obama. It isn’t. Psssst…Fox, don’t encourage the fringe crazies, it hurts your credibility. Not that they had much credibility anyway.
And for crazy anon, here’s his birth certificate and birth [...]
14Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 37 comments | Continued
Sean Hannity’s Pants Are On Fire
Media Matters brings us yet another story of Sean Hannity cropping and distorting Obama’s words in order to bash him. This one is pretty blatant.
Hannity aired the following clip:
GARRETT: In your speech this morning, you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years.
Mr. President, are [...]
I Wonder if This Guy Manages a Pool in His Off Hours?
Why do I keep hoping that the Republicans eventually “get it”? I think it must be a weakness in my personality.
9Jul2009 | liberalgeek | 9 comments | ContinuedFOLLOW DL
