The tide seems to be turning a bit this week. With COVID surging mainly in red states, Republicans suddenly seem willing to endorse vaccines. Fox hosts Steve Doocy and Sean Hannity encouraged their viewers to look into the shot. And long-time holdout and number 2 Republican in the House, Steve Scalise got his jab. Conservatives,…
Over the last 30 years or so, American wages have increased at a snails pace. At the same time, the cost of a college education has risen dramatically. College studies are becoming nearly impossible for low and middle income families to afford. Joe Biden‘s administration is calling for both pre-school and community college to be…
For wacky conspiracy theories you can’t beat Fox & Friends, Donald Trump’s favorite morning television show. Earlier this year they said that lower tax refunds this year were the fault of the American taxpayers instead of the Trump administration. And today they said that Former CIA Director John Brennan was behind the Mueller investigation, and…
Fox News guests and hosts had a big laugh Thursday morning at the smaller tax refunds being received by millions of Americans. Most working people who have filed 2018 tax returns so far have been surprised at getting smaller tax refunds — or owing more in taxes — after they had assumed their refunds would…
It is no secret to the American public, that Fox News is Mr. Trump’s favorite news outlet, with Fox & Friends being his go-to show. As Charles Blow, Opinion Writer for the New York Times makes clear: “This show, with its kindergarten-level intellectual capacity, moved from parroting conservative policies to constructing presidential priorities. “Fox & Friends†has…
Attorney Alan Dershowitz argued on Monday that all Americans are at risk of being targeted by special counsel Robert Mueller. In so doing he accomplished two of the biggest goals of right-wing media: He undermined the credibility of law enforcement officials, such as the FBI and the Department of Justice, and He furthered the idea…
The world continues to suffer the consequences of climate change and the United States has a president who’s too busy tweeting to care.
“What happens if North Korea launches another missile?†asked Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt finally. Trump’s answer was, “We’ll find out.â€
“Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. ‘Spied on before nomination.’ The real story.”
“Don’t allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people to intimidate you or scare you. Be who you are, do what you do.”
Trump tweeted about “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration” but 113 of them were released by President Bush
“For eight years Russia ‘ran over’ President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak!”
“After the votes taken earlier this afternoon, the U.S. Senate has now confirmed all of the available Cabinet nominations” – Marco Rubio
“I think President Obama’s behind it, because his people are certainly behind it.â€
“I can’t [take it personally] because I take it as a very serious violation when they say it and I have to write it off as being purely politics.”
“I just thought in light of the fake news and all the other things we’re talking about…I just thought it would be better if I didn’t do the dinner”
Steve Doocy referred to Sessions’ racism as “That 20-year-old joke” but “saying that the Ku Klux Klan is OK is not a joke.”
“In the case of Jay Z, the language he used was terrible. She talks about me and the language was unbelievable that Jay Z and Beyoncé used.”
“She looks angry. She looks upset. She comes across as hectoring. That’s not a good picture to paint as you come down the final stretch.”
“A 1999 study by the New York Attorney General’s Office found that ‘Stop and Frisk’ was unevenly applied — minorities were stopped disproportionately.”
“I can tell you that the vast majority of all of our citizens, no matter their ethnicity, are fine, hard-working people, and now is not the time for us to be divisive.”
“CNN is disgusting and they’re disgraceful. I watch it all. I watch all of it folks…It is so unfair.”
“We all have our coughing spells but it doesn’t look good when you have all of these conspiracy theories about her health.”
Fox News not only helped create the atmosphere of hate that made Trump possible, but the simplistic thinking that makes the Trump campaign tick like the dystopian clockwork marvel that it is. For example, yesterday, Tucker Carlson of Fox & Friends, seemingly intent on demonstrating that Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who once compared NFL scandals with Benghazi,…
“What I make of this is how bad things have become in America…it makes Donald Trump’s point that law and order is out of control”
“The whole thing was bizarre, starting from the like gender neutral bathrooms, which are disgusting. I mean I guess we’re liberated by this?”
“The headline of the week so far is, this convention is not a disaster, which is a massive victory for Trump.”
“It actually applies to her life. It talks about her parents and the values and the values she wants to put to her kids.”
“Folks who identify as a gender other than their own born gender…they haven’t found themselves, they’ve lost themselves. It isn’t true.”
Elisabeth Hasselbeck will no longer be amazing us with her bizarre commentary as she is leaving Fox & Friends at the end of the year
Kilmeade and Rubio agree that Plato, the guy who founded the West’s first institute of higher learning, should have been a welder
The Fox & Friends crew loves handouts to the wealthy but spend to help working class Americans and all they see are freebies to buy votes
Conservatives want you to believe that American history consists of the mighty white Northern European male imposing his will on a continent
Instead of acknowledging that as an austerity-minded Republican his only priority and primary goal for serving in the House cutting infrastructure spending, Ryan warned that Congress is in no way going to “rush to judgment and try doubling the size of government programs” just because some people died in an accident he said was caused by “human error.”
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution’s No Religious Test Clause
During a week when both Tea Party darling Marco Rubio and Fox “News” nemesis Hillary “Benghazi” Clinton announced they are running to be the next President of the United States, it’s instructive to contrast the stark difference in how the two candidates are covered on the Fox “News” Channel.
Fox & Friends wonders if students learned that the Qur’an says to kill nonbelievers, ignoring that their Bible says the exact same thing
If you want to hear one of the craziest things to come out of a Republican mouth this week, it’s the Republican objection to anyone reading the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic. This apparently deplorable display of patriotism took place on March 18 during National Foreign Language Week, of all things. Watch the latest…
This week’s Friday Fox Follies takes on Tucker Carlson’s refusal to allow anyone who works for him to criticize Fox News.
During Friday morning’s broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tried with all of her might to give Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, every opportunity to walk back comments he made to Fox News the previous day about Ferguson protesters wanting “dead cops.”
On Monday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did what he does best, which is preen for the cameras and make a couple of appearances on cable news shows. McCain made his way over to MSNBC’s studio for an extended sit down with the Morning Joe crew.
During Wednesday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck flipped out over comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday when he stated Fox News was overly preoccupied with the use of the term “radical Islam” when discussing the Islamic State.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Friday morning, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told host Steve Doocy that there was an epidemic of non-citizens illegally voting due to the immigration actions made by President Obama.
Republicans are outraged that Christian murdering and enslaving for God should be compared to ISIL murdering and enslaving for God
This past week on Fox, we saw fake apologies, complete flip-flops on how the network views terrorist propaganda, anger over movie heroines and quasi-racist country songs.
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released January’s jobs report and, as has been the case for some time now, the news was good. The economy added 257,000 jobs during the month.
In the early running for single stupidest news segment of 2015, Fox & Friends brought on a conservative activist to make the case that Hollywood is emasculating the men in this country by placing too many female characters as the heroes in movies.
During Sunday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Charles Payne outlandishly claimed that the United States “saved the planet” and moved a billion people into the middle class by engaging in war across the globe.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday morning, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney could have possibly defeated President Obama in 2012 if he “had made Benghazi a bigger issue.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani used the terrorist attack on a French newspaper to insist that the United States needs to have a police presence inside all Muslim places of worship.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, retired US Air Force general and current Fox News contributor Tom McInerney claimed “political correctness” caused the terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in France and New York City’s “communist mayor” would set the stage for another one in the United States.
Shubhranshu Choudhary says “Journalism has to become everyone’s business,” but Fox News says journalism is nobody’s business, including, especially, their own
Fox “News” has been slowly sliding into bat-guano-crazy territory ever since protests erupted following Michael Brown’s killing in Ferguson on August 9, 2014. After more incidents of Cops Gone Wild, more people took to the streets. Fox “News” pushed back harder.
During Wednesday morning’s episode of Fox & Friends, Peter Johnson, Jr. and Tucker Carlson said the Department of Justice investigation into Michael Brown’s death was discredited because they “sought advice” from radical Ferguson protester and livestreamer Bassem Masri.
Will’s most egregious sin may have been his “attacking and dismissing rape victims” but climate denialism and ethical lapses also dogged him
Friday Fox Follies examines The Colbert Report’s goodbye, Bill O’Reilly declaring victory in the War on Christmas and Megyn Kelly’s awkward encounter with President Obama.
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, Reverend Jacques Degraff, a Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor, shredded host Elisabeth Hasselbeck for arguing that black Americans lives have been made more difficult by President Obama.
Since hitting the cable dial in 1996, Fox “News” Channel values have been on full display: Anti-truth chief among them. Even when caught in flat-out lies, Fox “News” rarely issues apologies.
Fox News’ resident psychiatrist and member of the network’s ‘Medical A-Team’ Keith Ablow appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to discuss the possibility that Michael Brown’s stepfather could be charged with inciting a riot.
Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be saying ‘no’ to God?
Over the past few days, both before and after the St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made waves over his racially insensitive statements regarding Michael Brown’s death and criminal statistics within the black community.
It’s only taken 6 years of blindly throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks, but Fox “News” has finally invented Articles of Impeachment against President Obama — or, at the very least, figured out a way to throw the word around recklessly.
A Maryland school board removed all religious holidays from its calendar, angering Norris – would adding Muslim holidays have made him less angry?
Fox “News” is never so patriotic as when it puts on its phony camo to engage in phony warfare. Fox “News” is always in a perpetual state of war against something, someone, or some other. However, during Veterans Day week, they went all out.
Everything old is new again!!! When Bill “White Privilege” O’Reilly hosted Glenn Beck On Fox [to say] President Is Neglecting Dallas Ebola Danger Because Of City’s Unfavorable View Of Obama, it all came rushing back to me in a tsunami of nostalgia.
During a segment on Monday’s episode of Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade criticized the White House for not coming up with a cool, snazzy name for the operation against ISIS.
Led by Fox News (again), the mainstream media’s reaction to Obama’s admission of American intel failures has become the latest Benghazi hoax
Apparently, the talking heads over at Fox News have now decided to attack the father of recovered POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl due to the way he looks. It really was only a matter of time.
Real journalists’ assessment of criticism of the reporter on the ground proves that Fox News’ hosts do not understand what real journalists do because they are not journalists; they are GOP hacks.
“We control 30 governorships, we control 26 state houses and senates chambers. You know, we, in fact, know how to speak to women on their policy issues.”
For the past week plus, many of the afternoon and evening talk shows on Fox have devoted quite a bit of time to this ‘epidemic’ that is causing fear and violence in our urban areas.
Conservative Republican propagandists worked in an orchestrated fashion yesterday to paint a narrative for the media that Hillary Clinton is a Very Bad Cover Up Artist.
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
