Two weeks ago, in Facts Fear Fox, I admitted I watched Fox “News” as comedy. Now I learn that Fox News May Soon Be A Bigger Joke Than Ever because Kal Penn Is Developing Sitcom for ABC About a ‘Fair and Balanced’ News Channel. Remember that Penn also worked in President Obama’s White House, so ‘Fair And Balanced’ News Channel Comedy Starring Kal Penn From ‘Harold & Kumar’ Writers In Works At ABC could have scenes inside the Oval Office.
Whether you take it as comedy, or seriously, my former NewsHounds editor Ellen Discusses The Importance Of Exposing Fox News.
Last week, in Dates Debates & Debasement, the Fox “News” Phony War on Quentin Tarantino was just a side issue. Clearly Fox News [is] Angry Because Quentin Tarantino Dares To Have An Opinion On Police Brutality and, therefore, promoted the hell out of it all week. Now it’s bigger than than its Phony War on Christmas, with the backing of virtually every police officer in the country.
It was sad to see as Quentin Tarantino’s Father Teams Up With Hannity To Smear The Director. Taking his son out of context, just like the station he appeared on, Tarantino’s Father On Anti-Cop Comments: ‘What He Said Is Dead Wrong.’ What did he have to say on becoming Public Enemy #1? Tarantino Speaks Out: ‘All Cops Are Not Murderers,’ Critics Trying to ‘Intimidate Me.’
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Taking his rebuttal out of context, Fox & Friends aghast after Quentin Tarantino dares to ‘blame white supremacy for police brutality,’ yet Jamie Foxx, Kurt Russell Repond to Police Boycotts of Quentin Tarantino without any push back.
The latest news is that the Fraternal Order of Police Promises An Ominous-Sounding ‘Surprise’ for Quentin Tarantino, which Fox “News” has been reporting gleefully all this morning.
Remember, Tarantino was appearing at a #BlackLivesMatter rally, and To Fox News, It’s OK To Liken ISIS To #BlackLivesMatter But Not The Tea Party, yet, Fox Newsers Suddenly Quiet When Their ‘Hero Cop’ Revealed to Be Fraudster:
Have any of these Fox pundits corrected the record or issued mea culpas for their rush to connect this twisted story to their political narrative? Wednesday’s edition of Outnumbered, with Tantaros among its hosts, went without a single mention of the news their own network aired just an hour before. (The show did, however, spend an entire segment bashing film director Quentin Tarantino for his remarks against police brutality.)
As for Sheriff Clarke, he spent all day Wednesday tweeting not about “best policing” Gliniewicz’s complete betrayal of his peers, but instead about, yep, “cop-hating” “prick” Quentin Tarantino.
And Eric Bolling? His daily talk show The Five—which frequently gripes about Black Lives Matter—made no mention of Gliniewicz. Don’t hold your breath for a correct-the-record monologue from him this Saturday either.
A partial list of pundits, politicians and media outlets who used Joseph Gliniewicz’s death to push the ‘war on cops’ narrative includes many Fox “News” personalities and, for bonus points, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Highlights Conservative Media’s Irresponsible Coverage Of Fox Lake Police Officer’s Death. Watch:
Meanwhile as Outnumbered Uses Biased “Campus Reform” To Attack Stanford U. History Course As Biased & Anti-Police and Geraldo [says]: ‘Ghetto Civil War’ Bigger Problem Than Police Brutality in the Black Community, the Racists On Fox News Are OUTRAGED At People Protesting Donald Trump’s Racism.
And, proving (once again) the Trickle Down Theory of Hate, just take a look at how a Fox “News” affiliate handled this topic:
‘Address the Black Culture!’ TV Debate on
Spring Valley Confrontation Goes Off the Rails
DUH BAIT CENTRAL: Last week FFF thought he was crazy when Hannity Wants To Moderate A Republican Debate – With Rush Limbaugh And Mark Levin, Too. Crazy as a fox because a bigger crazy took him seriously when Ted Cruz [laughingly said]: Let ‘real journalists’ Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh host GOP debates instead of ‘left wing operatives.’ Who else thinks they can do a better job? Glenn Beck Wants to Host a GOP Debate and Bill O’Reilly Hopes They Let Him. Meanwhile, Limbaugh Brags: “I Have Been Endorsed” By Fox News To Host A Democratic [?] Presidential Debate, which begs the question: Are they all crazy, or just delusional?
Meanwhile, How Fox Business Will Avoid CNBC’s Debate Mistakes if Republican Debate Demands Don’t Apply To Fox News? While not answering that question, James Murdoch [hopes]: Debate Gives Fox Business Chance ‘To Differentiate Itself.’
We’ll see because the sniping from the very first Fox “News GOP debate continues:
Trump Swipes at Megyn Kelly
Again–This Time While on Fox NewsOn Fox, Donald Trump Complains About
Megyn Kelly’s Debate Questions And Gets A PassMegyn Kelly Hits Back At Trump’s Accusations
of Cherry-Picking Polls: ‘Facts Matter’Megyn Kelly Defends CNN Reporter Trump
Attacked: ‘Unless You Say It Just the Way He Wants…’
However, to be fair, she had fun with the entire GOP field when
Megyn Kelly Mocks GOP Letter Debate
Demands: You Want a Foot Massage Too?
Megyn Kelly Confronts Cruz: Should GOP
Moderators Have to Show You Their Voting Records?
But Kelly is not above conducting Republican Rehab, like when Ben Carson [whines] to Megyn Kelly: CNN’s Reporting on My Childhood Violence Is ‘Smear Campaign,’ ‘Garbage,’ or taking the party line, like when Megyn Kelly Confronts Woman Over Video of Her Ranting About ‘Open Season’ on White People, in order to denigrate the entire #BlackLivesMatter social justice movement with the rantings of one outlier.
THE TARANTULA STRIKES AGAIN:
Fox Host: We Can’t Have
Family Leave Because Liberals
Spend Too Much On Science
By now the entire world — except the Fox “News” audience — knows that Bill O’Reilly is a serial fibber. His latest work of fiction led to ‘No-Facts Zone’: George Will Tears Into O’Reilly’s Reagan Book, followed by a spirited defense as O’Reilly Responds to George Will: He ‘Regurgitates Attacks’ from Reagan Loyalists. Yet Loofah Lad never disproves any of Will’s points.
It’s ironic while, having one of the biggest megaphones on the planet in which to blather, Bill O’Reilly Accuses Liberals Of ‘Attacking’ Free Speech – While Fox Wages War On Quentin Tarantino For His Speech. This all came about because O’Reilly Blasts Petitions Against Don Lemon, Raven-Symoné: Free Speech Is Under Attack. According to Mediate:
Bill O’Reilly got pretty incensed tonight and defended both of them from what he deemed a liberal attack to beat down dissent. Juan Williams and Laura Ingraham agreed, with Ingraham saying there’s just “no tolerance” for differing views on the left.
O’Reilly declared, “Freedom of speech in this country is under attack.”
It appears Bill O’Reilly [really believes]: PC Campus Culture ‘Beginning Of Totalitarian Society.’ However, it seems somewhat totalitarian when Bill O’Reilly Seemingly Suggests the U.S. Should Hang Drug Offenders. That deep respect for the dignity of human life is why Bill O’Reilly [says]: Secular Democrats Are Leading Us Down The Road To Perdition, because that’s what Jesus would have done. Amirite?
Finally, because it is such an important issue, Bill O’Reilly Sending Comedian Dennis Miller To Antarctica To ‘Debunk’ Climate Change. What was I saying about it being a comedy channel?
FREE SPEECH FOR ME, NOT FOR THEE: Continuing its sensitive outreach to the Latino Community Fox Lectures Protesters To ‘Cállete Their Bocas’ About Donald Trump Hosting SNL.
THIS ISN’T HELPING:
Jeb Bush Hires Man Who Coaches Fox
News Anchors to Make Him Look Good
To Save Campaign, Jeb Bush Hires TV
Wizard Who Trains Fox News Anchors
BECKEL BULLETIN: As FFF reported previously, the hapless Fox “News” Liberal the viewers loved to hate until he was gone, has now washed up at CNN.
Therefore, it was doubly ironic that it was former-Foxite Alisyn Camerota to interview Bob Beckel on His Drinking, Departure From Fox News on his 1st appearance over there. Trying to get him to dish the dirt, as CNN’s New Day Awkwardly Quizzes Bob Beckel on Fox News Leave of Absense [sic] tells us, Beckel claimed a non-disclosure agreement — with the prerequisite legal penalties, no doubt — keeps him from being indiscreet on why Fox “News” fired his lame ass. Camerota clearly knows this because (I’ll bet you dollars to donuts) she signed the same gag order when the Fair & Balanced station pushed her out the door.
FOX BYTES: Fox Contributor: Undocumented Immigrants Spread Infectious Diseases In Cities • Fox Contributor Jonah Goldberg: ‘One Could Argue’ That Carson Is “Even More Authentically African-American Than Barack Obama’ • After HERO Defeat, Fox’s Erickson Calls Transgender Americans “Perverts” And “Mentally Ill” • Fox News Blames Hillary Clinton For Russian Plane Crash – Because Benghazi! • “News” Host Martha MacCallum Validates Persecuted Christian Coach • Fox’s Carlson And Erickson: The Obama Administration “Want[s] To Take Away Our Guns” And “Arm The Government Instead” • Fox News Sunday Helps Legitimize Carly Fiorina’s Conservative-Woman-Victim Whine • Fox’s Peter Johnson Calls Fiorina ‘A Conservative Commando’ Going ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ By Appearing On The View • Fox Host Dismisses Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money On Sporting Events • Fox Business’ Bartiromo Praises Exxon: “You Actually Helped Finance Accurate Scientific Research About Climate Change” • “Fox & Friends” tries to teach the bigots in your life “how to seem tolerant” on Facebook • Even Fox News Can’t Ignore That GOP Tax Plans Would Add Trillions Of Dollars To The National Debt • Hannity: “I Don’t Think You Should Have Natural Born Citizenship When The Parent’s Here Illegally” • Ben Carson Praised Fox News For Providing Him A Mechanism To Push His Beliefs While Calling Americans “Stupid” ~ Mother Jones Uncovers 2014 Video Of Carson Praising Fox For Keeping America From Becoming Cuba
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