Tag: Fox News
O’Reilly Says Watching ‘Glee’ Will Turn Kids Gay, Just Like Watching James Dean Movies Made Him Want to Smoke
After the Fox network show “Glee” featured a trans character last week, Fox News’ resident social scientists Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson did a segment on O’Reilly’s show in which they warned Fox News’ audience of predominantly elderly viewers that teenagers who watch “Glee” without parental supervision, often while doing drugs, are likely to choose to be gay:
Partial transcript:
Caught on Video: Sean Hannity’s Five-Second Flip-Flop on Teleprompter Use
Before his identity was uncovered and Fox News fired him, the “Fox Mole” provided a video to Gawker of an off-air, sotto voce pre-interview conversation between Mitt Romney and Sean Hannity in which they both criticized Pres. Obama’s use of teleprompters and then, literally within seconds, reversed themselves on the subject, with Hannity even agreeing that Romney’s dependence on teleprompters is “smart.”
In the video, Romney, a world-class champion flip-flopper, executes his 180-degree flip on teleprompters in a heart-stopping one-half of a second. It takes Hannity, the slow poke, just five seconds to completely reverse his opinion from being against teleprompters when the president uses them to being for them when Romney, the official presidential candidate of Fox News does — and 22 seconds after dissing the president, Hannity even tells Romney he is “smart” to use teleprompters because “they’re out to just eviscerate anybody who makes a mistake.” (The Gawker video is unembedable, but you can watch it by clicking here or the screenshot at the top.)
Here’s the transcript, which picks up at about 28 seconds into the video:
Fox News Host: If You Want to Kill Medicare, Vote Republican
[The federal budget plan associated with GOP House Budget Chair Paul Ryan that House Republicans passed last week] really is kind of a campaign document because it draws a bright line between what the Republicans stand for and what the Democrats stand for. If you want big government, then the Democrats are your party. Whereas, if you want a party that’s making some hard choices, vote Republican.
– Steve Doocy, host of “Fox and Friends,” easily the worst morning news/chat show in history, dropping all pretense that the network he works for is anything but the in-house propaganda organ for the Republican Party. Among the “hard choices” in the Ryan budget: ending Medicare (but keeping the name) and replacing it with a voucher program, more tax cuts for the uber-wealthy and increasing the deficit by additional $3.1 trillion over ten years.
The Nation Commissions an Experiment in Foxification
In the latest issue of The Nation magazine, Marvin Kitman deconstructs how Fox News works — by watching a whole bunch of Fox News. Read “The Fox News Effect.” It’s very funny.
O’Reilly: Next Time You Hear a Politician Say He or She Will Bring Down Oil Prices Understand It’s Complete [Bull Shit]
Next time you hear a politician say he or she will bring down oil prices understand it’s complete [bull shit]. Americans want lower gas prices — cut back. Sell those SUVs. Ride a bike when you can. If every one of us bought 10 percent less gasoline, prices would fall fast. That’s what the candidates should be saying. We need a strong leader who’s honest, smart, courageous and willing to explain dubious associations. That’s what we need.
– Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, March 21, 2008
Fox News Schools Its Viewers: Rising Price of Gas Not the President’s Fault
One of the Republican Party’s propaganda narratives being driven on Fox News these days is that it is Pres. Obama’s fault that gas prices are rising. Actually, it’s even worse — Fox is pushing the idea that the president wants gas prices to rise.
This issue came up during the president’s news conference yesterday in this exchange with Ed Henry, the GOP-Foxbot embedded in the White House press corps:
FOXBOT: Related to Iran and Israel, you have expressed concern about this “loose talk of war,” as you call it, driving up gas prices further. Your critics will say on Capitol Hill that you want gas prices to go higher, because you have said before that will wean the American people off fossil fuels onto renewable fuels. How do you respond to that?
PRES. OBAMA: Ed, just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into reelection wants gas prices to go up higher? Is that — Is there anybody here [in the White House press corps] who thinks that makes a lot of sense?
It is unlikely that that exchange made it onto the air on Fox News yesterday, which could explain why, in his concession speech last night after losing all the Super Tuesday primaries but one, Newt Gingrich felt free to lie about what the president said:
NEWT GINGRICH: And I thought today, in one of the most shallow and self-serving comments by a president that I’ve heard in a long time, he was candid in his press conference. He said, “You know, I’m really worried about higher gas prices because it will make it harder for me to get re-elected.”
I did not make this up.
Actually, Newt, you did.
Santorum Forced to Admit President Never Said Everyone Must Go To College
Rick Santorum came thisclose to admitting he has repeatedly lied about Pres. Obama’s position on higher education this weekend, and it happened on in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday“:
“I agree with the president that we should have options for a variety of training.”
– Rick SantorumWallace pressed Santorum on the issue of higher education. The candidate had recently called Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody in America to go to college,” but Wallace pointed out that what Obama actually encouraged was for all Americans to have at least one year of higher education or some kind of vocational training or apprenticeship.
Santorum acknowledged that he might have made a mistake.
“Look, maybe I’ve read some comments where at least it was characterized that the president said we should go to four-year colleges,” he said. “If I was in error, you said you haven’t found that, I certainly read that… if it was an error, I agree with the president that we should have options for a variety of training.”
We’ll just have to take Rick Santorum on his word, as he might say, that he misheard Pres. Obama on the multiple occasions when he has called for increasing resources for community colleges and similar job-training facilities. For example, we’ll have to assume Santorum blanked out during the president’s 2012 State of the Union Speech when he made this reference to the decades-old, public-private job training programs at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte:
Good Question, Breitbart
“Why do you grant a BULLY special status upon his death?”
— Andrew Bretibart, responding on Twitter to conservatives and others who criticized his tweets immediately after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy. In the tweets, Breitbart called Kennedy, a “big ass motherf@#$er,” a “prick,” and a “special pile of human excrement.”
Juan Williams Calls Birth Control Issue a “Total Fraud” on the Part of Conservatives
The most unlikely source of news presents an unlikely call by a very unlikely person: FOX News allows “total fraud” charge by Juan Williams.
