Rachel Maddow was not allowed to participate in NBC’s candidate forum on veterans’ issues because Donald Trump would have objected to her involvement. CNN reported on why NBC and MSNBC heavyweights were shunned for Lauer: Others within NBC were considered as potential moderators. A source said Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, and Rachel Maddow all came…
During a press conference in Laos, President Obama had some sharp words for the press and called out the media for grading Donald Trump on a curve.
Hopefully, the rest of the media will follow the MSNBC host’s lead and recognize that the real pay-to-play scandal they crave isn’t coming from the Clinton Foundation – it’s coming from Trump’s.
CNN’s Dana Bash said what many voters have long suspected. The media has lowered the bar for Donald Trump and goes easier on him with their coverage because they expect less out of the GOP nominee.
Greta Van Susteren is the first Fox News host to leave the network after the Ailes scandal, as the On The Record host has departed the network after 14 years due to what is being called a “financial dispute.”
Chuck Todd claimed that Donald Trump, who refuses to release any personal information to voters, is holding the higher ground over Hillary Clinton on transparency.
49ers QB Colin Kaepernick has given the Fox “News” Outrage Machine a rare two-fer: Patriotism and Race. What could possible go wrong?
The end is near for the current era of Fox News. The network could be facing what is being reported as a bloodbath and outside competition from Donald Trump if the Republican nominee loses the election in November.
Not only is CNN “employee” Cory Lewandowski still on the Trump payroll, but he is also in daily contact with the Republican presidential nominee.
The steady drip, drip,drip of the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal is now a flood as Andrea Tantaros drops the juiciest lawsuit yet.
As the Murdochs try to hold together Fox News in the middle of the worst sexual harassment scandal in media history, it is being reported that Megyn Kelly may leave the network after her contract expires next year.
In an obvious conflict of interest, CNN “employee” Corey Lewandowski was paid $20,000 for consulting by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in July.
A non-apology from Donald Trump, more hilarity from Hannity, and another look inside the Fox “News” boardroom, rounds out this week’s FFF.
Fox News’s Dana Perino called out her colleague Eric Bolling on the air for lying to Fox viewers about the polls being wrong in the presidential election.
Donald Trump is enlisting the help of sexual predator and former Fox News boss Roger Ailes to advise him and help with preparing to debate the first woman major US political party nominee.
How many times did Sean Hannity humiliate himself this week? SPOILER ALERT: You don’t have enough fingers to count them on one hand.
Scarborough claimed that he was opposed to a Donald Trump presidency “from the very beginning.”
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) took apart Fox News for editing video and leaving out key comments while trying to smear Hillary Clinton during an interview on Fox News Sunday.
CNN has gone full blown Trump news network by giving Trump surrogates a panel of their own to complain about media bias.
If the Fox “News” defense of Donald Trump’s gaffes doesn’t work, they are already helping him blame his loss on the mythical voter fraud.
The new Fox “News” sans Roger Ailes looks and sounds very much like the sly old Fox. However, some Fox folks no longer talk to each other.
Fox News continues to deny it, but it appears that Roger Ailes has been fired from the network. Ailes’s termination could lead to a collapse of the network as key Fox talent all have clauses in their contracts that allow them to leave if Ailes departs Fox News.
The meat puppets at Fox News are breathlessly fomenting anger and resentment at Islam, President Obama, and Gretchen Carlson
You can clearly see the depression taking over on Fox News as they realize that Donald Trump is blowing any chance of a Republican victory in 2016.
We have had too many Sandy Hooks in our schools, too many gun shootings at neighborhood grocery stores, playgrounds, street corners, and in homes across our nation.
Was Donald Trump’s meltdown at the press just a tactic to avoid bad Trump University news? It sure changed the topic in a hurry. Read on…
Hillary Clinton has made it known that she is not going to let the media get away with their biased coverage of Donald Trump.
“Bill O’Reilly: Cuckold” is a strange chapter in Loofah Lad’s sex life. The Falafel King must admire King Henry VIII by now. Read on . . .
Rush Limbaugh’s business model is in a state of collapse as years long advertiser boycott shows the power of decency.
While Friday Fox Follies could fill every week’s column with variations on the concept that Fox News is divisive and stupid, often there are bigger fish to fry. This week that includes how Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly: [is] A Marriage of Convenience, the fact that “People Expect It”: Media Downplay NY Times Report On…
The highest ratings — and therefore the biggest lies — on the Fox “News†Channel belong to that of Bill O’Reilly
Worst! Cliffhanger!! Ever!!! Trump signs onto Megyn Kelly’s prime time special. Will she hold his feet to the fire? Don’t make Follies laugh
Fair & Balanced??? No matter the topic, free-thinkers know that Fox “News†will take a side — just as they know it will be the wrong side.
Megyn Kelly met with Trump, which almost broke the Internet, and It looks more and more like Fox “News†has chosen its candidate
Bill Maher took Sarah Palin’s unhinged rambling during speeches for Donald Trump and set it to music. The result was a track that could change rap forever.
Backstage blackmail? Is vanilla milkshake a secret BFF code? Is Megyn Kelly stirring the pot? Who went to Cuba? More drama than a soap opera
In the midst of President Obama’s live discussion about the need to break the Republican obstruction of his Supreme Court nominee, MSNBC cut off the President to go to a report about Donald Trump hiring new campaign operatives as if it were breaking news.
President Obama is ending his two-year Fox News ban, by doing an interview that will air on Fox News Sunday. What is interesting is that the President will be using the interview to hammer Republicans for obstructing his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.
The Wisconsin primary today and a cheese head full of holes
Last Friday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show attracted more younger viewers than every Fox News program that aired from 4 PM-11 PM.
Good news, loyal readers! There will be nothing about the Fox “News” love affair with Donald Trump this week. APRIL FOOL!!! Don’t blame me; blame Fox & Friends. While I loathe Fox & Friends, I still watch it every morning. Maybe because I was a News Writer on the highest-rated morning in Toronto for a…
MSNBC is firing back against Donald Trump’s claim that MSNBC edited his interview with Chris Matthews to take his comment that women should be punished for having abortions out of context.
While other members of the media try to make news, Rachel Maddow showed how it is supposed to be done with two intelligent back to back interviews of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Fox “News” finally hits back at Trump, then attacks President Obama’s Cuba trip and for not rushing home when the bombs exploded in Brussels
Fox News turned on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and called out the hypocrisy of McConnell’s obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
As Fox “News” morphs into the Trump News Network, one Fox personality after another scrambles to jump into the Trump Dunk Tank
A new report confirms that five television networks cut a deal with Donald Trump that has effectively turned their coverage over to the Republican frontrunner and turned the networks into Trump propaganda arms.
Fox “News” was unprepared for the barrage of criticism for the debate it hosted, even from some people inside the tent.
MSNBC showed their bias for Donald Trump by carrying Trump’s incoherent “press conference” live and in full while tape delaying Hillary Clinton’s Mississippi victory speech.
Roger Ailes rejects Marco Rubio, so Fox turns back to Donald Trump. Then Mitt Romney demolishes Trump before the debate. Hilarity ensues!
PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones and Jason Easley discuss what could be the last 13 days in the life of the Republican Party.
Check out the reaction of PoliticusUSA’s Sarah Jones and Jason Easley to Donald Trump’s fake White House press conference meltdown. Audio:
Fox “News” Channel plays the Race Card while it promotes the GOP Race over the entire Human Race. More White Privilege on display.
The Republican presidential candidates gave disgraceful answers, and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer lost total control of a debate that is an embarrassment to every American.
According to a new Poll: Fox News Most Trusted Source for ‘News or Commentary’, a finding that makes intelligent people shake their heads. Yet, the same poll has Donald Trump leading all other GOP contenders, which speaks to the innate stupidity of those polled. However, according to the cheeky reportage at AdWeek: ‘Undecided’ Toppled as…
IRONY ALERT: The Trump that Fox “News” built is bursting the insular bubble that Fox “News” took the last 20 years to build.
Celebrating a dubious anniversary this week, FOX News Channel announced 20 years ago. Adweek would like to tell you How a ‘Half-Baked Little Operation’ Turned Into a Billion Dollar News Channel, but nothing was said about #FoxLies. Whenever I point to a lack of honesty at Fox “News” people respond with, “But…but…but, RATINGS!” as if…
Megyn Kelly, the GOP debate, and Donald Trump as the elephant in the room as the frenemies just can’t get along
Is the Fear & Resentment net taking particular delight as the National Review trashes the Conservative cred of Fox creation Donald Trump?
There’s are so many unintended laughs on the Fox “News” Channel that maybe it’s not just comedy but meta-comedy because the laugh’s on you.
Now that the Fox “News” Phony War on Christmas is over for another year, let’s look at the network’s War on New Year’s Eve.
Pressure is growing from advocates around the country for Temple University to finally cut all ties with Bill Cosby after an arrest warrant was issued against the comedian in connection with a sexual assault against a former Temple employee.
Seeing as how it’s December 18th, this will be Friday Fox Follies last chance to report on the Phony War on Christmas this year, as well as expose Jesse Watters as one of the worst personalities appearing on the Fox “News” Channel.
This is the week we finally learned what lines cannot be crossed at Fox “News” when trashing President Obama. Who knew?
Compare and contrast how two mass murders, less than a week apart, were treated by the Fox “News” Channel.
The corporate media hit a new and disgusting low today by destroying a crime scene in the San Bernardino shooting all in the hopes of capturing one sensational scoop.
Rachel Maddow is experiencing some huge growth in viewership as the ratings for the midnight (ET) replay of her nightly MSNBC show are up 70% with younger viewers.
A weekly round up of Fox News that this week asks who to blame more, President Obama, all Muslims, the victims, or our freedoms
Judith Miller responded to the terrorist attacks in Paris by sending out a tweet bashing American college students.
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…
According to Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro, “the left just declared at University of Missouri that white people must be fired for being white.”
Conservative columnist George Will and Fox personality Bill O’Reilly engaged in a bickering match over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan.”
Fox News propagandizes the GOP Debate and police brutality, and lets an all-male panel judge whether women should be able to wear leggings
The comment Friday Fox Follies most often gets is how I can watch so much Fox “News” Channel and not have gone off on a wild killing spree. I’ll let you in on my secret: I watch Fox “News” as if it’s a Drawing Room Comedy. There are people always rushing in and out to say absurd things.
Fox News proclaimed that Joe Biden is running for president, only he isn’t, and the Republican propaganda machine got the story wrong.
Every week Friday Fox Follies documents 7 days worth of Fox “News” shenanigans, tomfoolery, and pettyfoggery. As The Phony War on Christmas season is almost upon us, FFF noticed that Fox “News” is also engaged in phony wars on The President; Women; The Democrat [sic] Party; The Supreme Court; Hillary Clinton; The Blacks; The Gays; The First Amendment; Working People; and, as always, the Truth.
It turns that there are some Fox News lies that can land that can land a person in prison. Wayne Simmons is facing up to 35 years in prison after he lied about working for the CIA for 27 years.
Conservative columnist David Brooks condemned his own party, writing, “Republicans came to see themselves as insurgents and revolutionaries, and every revolution tends toward anarchy and ends up devouring its own.”
Friday Fox Follies awoke this morning to those Foxy Friends on Fox and Friends trashing GQ Magazine, men’s fashion, and pocket squares
The only thing keeping the Donald Trump and Fox “News” detente from leading this week’s Friday Fox Follies, is the school massacre in Oregon
As a certain xenophobic and racist presidential candidate felt himself slipping in the polls, Donald Trump Says He Will Boycott Fox News “For The Foreseeable Future,” which ensures his xenophobic and racists supporters will continue to trash Fox “News,” further fracturing the audience.
In case there is any doubt that Fox and Trump are engaging in total media warfare, Fox News reacted to Donald Trump’s announced boycott of the network by trashing the GOP frontrunner.
CNN needs to correct the record and apologize to their viewers after anchor Michaela Pereira accidentally called Obama President Muhammad.
Bill Maher hit Republicans right in between the eyes with reality by debunking 11 predictions that the Republican Party got wrong in 100 seconds.
CNN wanted to break Fox News’s record for biggest debate audience, but their bloated three-hour Republican candidate death march had one million fewer viewers than the first debate.
CNN has managed to do the impossible. They have gone so far with their Trump obsessed coverage, that even Donald Trump himself complained about it during an interview on MSNBC.
Pointing to Sarah Palin, Maher asks, “Why are the people who demand that everyone speak English always the ones who can’t speak English?”
As the country marks the anniversary of the attack on 9/11 with somber memorials — vowing to NEVER FORGET — this is a very good time to remind people how Fox “News” was the Bush Administration’s biggest cheerleader for taking the country to war against Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the downing of the World Trade Center.
Stephen Colbert put the media’s pandering to Donald Trump and obsessing over Hillary Clinton’s emails to shame with a masterfully compelling interview of Vice President Joe Biden.
The media has its own 2016 agenda that involves giving Donald Trump more attention than any other candidate an analysis by Nate Silver revealed that Trump received nearly four times more press coverage than Sanders.
If Fox “News” has not been trying to foment a Race War, it’s doing a pretty good imitation. The negative way it portrays Black folk, as opposed to the respect with which it gives White folk, has been a cornerstone of the station since it went on the air.
No sooner had Friday Fox Follies resigned itself to another column about the dust-up between Donald Trump and the Fox “News” Channel that a murder and morning television changed everything. Naturally while Fox accused the Left of politicizing these murders, it did everything in its power to politicize these murders.
As much as Friday Fox Follies wants to move on from the topic of Donald T-Rump and Fox “News,” there’s always time to acknowledge validation, especially since he’s still sucking all the oxygen out of the 2016 Presidential Race.
Trump’s plan to help U.S. automakers sounds an awful lot like Mitt Romney’s underhanded tactics at Bain Capital
There was a great synchronicity in the Cable Tee Vee Firmament this week. As Jon Stewart stopped climbing Bullsh*t Mountain, an avalanche called Donald J. Trump proved — once and for all — that “Fair and Balanced” is nothing but an empty slogan covering for all the other lies Fox “News” tells. Adding to the schadenfreude on the Left? Trump is the Frankenstein monster built in the birther boardroom of the Fox “News” Channel.
Back in the day, before television, one of this country’s greatest demagogues was Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting from a studio in the tower at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. At first he espoused a Social Justice platform and supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, as the years went by, Coughlin…
A 2013 Gallup Poll of 65 countries that considered the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace. Elect Jeb Bush and that number will double.
Tiger Woods will be judged by his somewhat hedonistic approach toward women and apparent willingness to cheat in both sports and life
When one challenges the average, brain-dead Fox “News” viewer, they often shut down because they have no comeback. However, if they have any social media skills at all, they’re able to cite other sites that say the same damned thing. This is the Fox “News” Echo Chamber in full effect.
