Posts Tagged ‘ FOX News ’

Fox News’ War on the White House

Media Matters posted this great compilation clip of FOX attack dogs in action. The research is here. BACKGROUND: Following the White House’s exposure of Fox News as a partisan political operation, as opposed to a credible news network, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have claimed that the “warmongers” in the Obama administration have “declared war” [ READ MORE ]

Beck is flexing his political muscles, vows to “take the administration down.”

Beck is now calling for a coup, which is what I take it to mean when he says he is going to “take the administration out”. I wonder which high position he is going to appoint himself? I assume Sean Hannity will be Secretary of the Department of Defense. I guess if there was incompetence or [ READ MORE ]

Glenn Beck The Movie- Trailer “Fear”.

This is a YouTube clip posted today by @peterwlang It has Glenn Beck being despicable, and some juxtapositions with old-time demagogues that Beck draws inspiration from. I think it is really good. [ READ MORE ]

Beck lashes out in an ad hominem anti-commie rage.

I have been distracted for the last while, but this clip from Media Matters of Beck on today’s FOX news show fit too many categories here to not post. Beck plays a long clip of White House communications director Anita Dunn and claims he played the whole thing(even though he didn’t) so ‘the blogs’ would [ READ MORE ]

Hannity jumps the shark, links Jennings to child rape, yet refuses to support bill defunding companies that support rape.

Grab the pitchforks! Build the pyre! Hannity says the government is protecting  child rapists! Sean Hannity has dedicated hours repeating discredited fallacies in an attempt to have an openly gay government official removed from office. He is using guilt by association tactics in an attempt to imply that President Barack Obama is guilty by association with [ READ MORE ]

Hannity’s guilt by association charges of rape and child molestation would make McCarthy blush.

FOX News issued a retraction (see update) for smearing Kevin Jennings, the highly qualified and respected assistant-deputy of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, with a false and malicious claim that he helped conceal a rape that did not occur. UPDATE FOX did issue a retraction, but they have now continued with the false [ READ MORE ]

Nineteen more companies join Color of Change boycott

The organization Color of Change began asking companies to boycott advertising on Glenn Beck’s FOX news show after Glenn claimed that the President was “In August, ColorOfChange.org launched its campaign against Beck after the Fox News Channel host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people”. This type of   fear-mongering [ READ MORE ]

Grocery chain pulls ads from FOX to protest Glenn Beck

From Raw Story: The upscale British grocery store which has a Royal Warrant to provide foodstuffs to the Queen of England says it’s done with Fox News for good. The Waitrose grocery store chain, which has roughly 200 stores across the United Kingdom, has announced that it will suspend advertising anywhere on the Rupert Murdoch-owned [ READ MORE ]

Chavez to FOX news- “your mind is filled with poison”

An unidentified FOX reporter got a quick walk-by interview with Hugo Chavez, and questioned him on his friendship with Ahmedenijad, bringing up the Iranian presidents holocaust denial and the recent post-election killings in Iran. Chavez quickly turns the tables, asking ‘have you seen the images from Iraq, have you seen that?’ Understandably, holocaust denial and the killing [ READ MORE ]

In the overthrow the government relay, Beck hands the baton to Hannity.

Sean Hannity is no match for Beck when it comes to installing fear of the unknown into his audience.The only smears he can come up with for Samantha Powers are that she insulted Hillary Clinton, and that she is married to an intellectual. Media Matters gives a detailed point by point reading of this clip, [ READ MORE ]