Sooner or later someone is going to have to explain to Fox News that it is not the function of news enterprises to openly promote partisan political activities. This is a principle that they failed to observe when they hyped the Tea Party in Washington, DC, a few weeks ago. In the days leading up [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Sep 27
Chris Wallace Fluffs James O’Keefe On Fox News Sunday
For much of the past week, Fox News has been promoting the exclusive appearance of James O’Keefe, the ersatz pimp who produced the ACORN entrapment videos, on their Sunday interview program. The actual segment, it turns out, was not an interview at all, but an overtly favorable puff piece. O’Keefe was heralded as the Fox [...]
Sep 25
Fox News Is Soliciting Donations For ACORN Foe Hannah Giles
In yet another example of the interconnectedness of Fox News to blatantly partisan political activities, a “news” link on the Fox Nation website actually goes to a defense fund donation page for ACORN foe, Hannah Giles. You may recall that Giles is the YAFfie who dressed up as a hooker and accompanied her ersatz pimp, [...]
Sep 24
Sean Hannity Pimps Convicted Ex-Governor
The Providence Journal caught an interesting news bite while watching Sean Hannity’s program recently. Hannity had just finished pouring gasoline on the ACORN fire with his usual bombastic sensationalism. It was the routine right-wing attack formula. Then Hannity announced that it was time for a word from his sponsors… “[A]fter he broke for a commercial, [...]
Sep 24
Fox News Is Both The Most And Least Trusted News Network
Illustrating the ever-widening rift in American politics, a new poll by the Sacred Heart University shows that Fox News is the most trusted news organization (30%), as well as the least trusted (26.2%). That adds up to a 3.8% net trust for Fox. By comparison, CNN was most trusted by 19.5% and least trusted by [...]
Sep 23
The Glenn Beck Blackboard Challenge
Let’s face it…Glenn Beck is insane. He rattles off loopy conspiracy theories that connect dots that only he can see. He makes wild and unsubstantiated accusations against his perceived enemies. He weeps incessantly over unexplained threats to “his” country. And, best of all, he draws pictures of his hallucinations that he thinks makes everything oh-so-clear. [...]
Sep 22
What The News Emmys Tell Us About The News
The 30th Annual Emmy awards for News and Documentaries were announced last night. While I’m sure the winners are all grateful for the recognition, and many are respectable productions, there is much to learn from who did NOT win. Emmys awarded to Cable News Networks: Fox News – 0 MSNBC – 0 CNN – 1 [...]
Sep 21
The Sacred Trust Of Fox News
A little over a week ago, Fox News sponsored a rally in Washington, D.C. to vent their bitterness over having lost the election last year to a black man. The 9/12 Tea Party Project was conceived and promoted entirely by Fox televangelist Glenn Beck, and for six months it was peddled to his viewers with [...]
Sep 18
CNN’s Rick Sanchez To Fox News: You Lie!
An advertisement for Fox News appeared in today’s Washington Post. The headline for the ad said: “How did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?” The premise that Fox News is posing is that these other networks neglected to cover the Fox-sponsored Tea Bagging in Washington, DC. The truth is that they all [...]
Sep 17
The Pimp Show: Exclusively On Fox News
It should surprise no one that Fox News is hammering the ACORN affair with characteristic rightist zeal. They have featured the story across their media platforms on TV, radio, print, and the Internet, almost to the exclusion of all other news. Watching Fox would leave one with the impression that ACORN and a police car [...]
Sep 17
The Inspiration For Glenn Beck’s Racist Extremism
Salon has published an article that explains a lot about how Glenn Beck came to his repulsive ideology of hatred, conspiracy, and rage. It focuses on the author of a book that Beck has described as having changed his life. “The 5,000 Year Leap” has become an integral part of Beck’s sermonizing. He has literally [...]
Sep 16
Fox Nation News Priorities: An ACORN Obsession
Our nation is facing some formidable problems in these turbulent days. We have an economy that is struggling to recover from the worst meltdown in decades. We are engaged in two wars and at least two other diplomatic crises that threaten to escalate. Our environment is being assaulted by toxins and the industrial enterprises who [...]
Sep 14
Glenn Beck Boycott Costs Fox News Big Bucks
The advertiser boycott against Glenn Beck has grown beyond the expectations of many, including me. Currently there are 62 major advertisers who have indicated that they do not want their brands associated with the hatred and hostility for which Beck is known. Color of Change, the group spearheading the action, is continuing to apply pressure [...]
Sep 14
The 9/12 Rally Fox News Did Not Broadcast
Journalist Max Blumenthal attended Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Million (Minus 930,000) Paranoid Malcontents March on Saturday and documented a far more realistic representation of the Tea Baggers confederation than anything you would have seen on Fox News. Enjoy: Speaks for itself. My favorite part was the English-only advocate who had a bit of a problem with [...]
Sep 11
David Frum: GOP Surrenders To Beck’s Mob Rule
In a column that portends a possible recovery by Republicans from their lunatic stupor, David Frum, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and erstwhile conservative icon, has composed a defense of sanity over the “recklessness and political cowardice” represented by the Glenn Becks of the world. Frum’s commentary is supportive of the Cass Sunstein [...]
Sep 11
Prostitution And Criminality Rampant At Fox News
The big story on Fox News yesterday was the undercover video of ACORN employees improperly advising a couple of conservative activists, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, on how to deceive the IRS and acquire funds to operate their illegal business. The video was featured throughout the day on just about every program on [...]
Sep 10
Tell President Obama: Glenn Beck Doesn’t Speak For Me
America is presently undergoing a sort of devolution that is unprecedented in its history. The Tea Party fanatics who are disrupting town halls and appearing at rallies with signs associating the President with socialism, fascism and Hitler, are contributing to a hostile political environment that pits neighbor against neighbor and divides families and all citizens. [...]
Sep 09
Glenn Beck Loses This One: Cloture Vote On Cass Sunstein
For almost as long as Glenn Beck has been attacking Van Jones, he has also been smearing Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. However, this afternoon the Senate passed a cloture vote cutting off debate and permitting a final vote on Sunstein’s confirmation. The [...]
