Welcome to The Friday Fox Follies, a new weekly feature at PoliticusUSA. Each week Headly Westerfield will wrap up the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans (as the dictionary defines those words) into one neat little package with a bow.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a case brought by Texas that seeks to limit the use of statistics in housing fairness cases.
What began as a day filled with severe rain storms and an opportunity for a number of Ferguson protesters to take a break from demonstrating ended with the Ferguson police department once again abusing the 1st Amendment in an effort to intimidate activists and protesters.
Fox News and their viewers like to pound their chests and tout their success, but Fox can’t hold a candle to Obamacare. Nearly four times as many people have signed up for Obamacare than watch Fox News.
President Obama urges voters help him, “I need you to get involved.” He followed that up with hard jabs at the Republican Congress, telling supporters, “I can’t do it alone.”
It is difficult to believe that any American might think, even for a nano-second, that Republicans serve anyone other than the rich and corporations, and it is why they are hesitant to lay out their true agenda heading into the midterm elections.
Mitt Romney, two-time loser, but third-time hopeful, signed voter registration forms with the wrong address and wrong party. Romney is no longer a Republican, apparently, according to his own careful perusal of the voter registration he signed. He also used an address he hasn’t used since 2009. Oopsie!
All it took was one sentence from President Obama to send Fox News into a total panic. The president took down Fox with a short and sweet dose of reality that showed just how small the right-wing network is.
According to a new Fox News poll, the red staters that suck off of the rich blue states want to kick the rich blue states out of the union.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September’s employment figures on Friday and it was almost entirely good news. The economy added 248,000 new jobs during the month and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9%.
Jon Stewart lit into Republicans for claiming that they’ll do anything possible to save American lives when it comes to ISIS and the Ebola virus while showing no concern whatsoever for other issues that cost thousands of American lives annually.
Another breach of presidential security was revealed to have occurred last week when a fake congressman was allowed backstage at an Obama event.
Republicans are saying Obama is underestimating threat of Ebola, which might explain why they’re refusing to fund a cure and provide healthcare
