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Now That Dems Will Be in Charge, Darfur Jumps to Top of Fox News' Agenda
Reported by Judy - Wed 12:01 PM
For three years, Fox News has largely turned a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but now that Democrats will be in charge of Congress in January, Darfur has suddenly jumped to the top of Fox News' agenda.
Continue reading »MacCallum Blames Pelosi for Reyes' Ignorance, Ignores Same Ignorance in GOP
Reported by Judy - Wed 11:43 AM
Fox News' "Live Desk" is doing its best to try to make life miserable for House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi. The latest attempt came Tuesday (December 12, 2006), when Martha MacCallum linked Pelosi to a lack of knowledge on the part of incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes. With Video.
Continue reading »Silvestre Reyes Doesn't Know Difference Between Shiites and Sunnis - But Is He the One Running the War?
Reported by Janie - Wed 11:02 AM
During Monday night's "Special Report", host Brit Hume used a portion of his "Two Minutes of Hate" (AKA "Grapevine" segment) to trash incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes for being unable to identify differences between Muslim sects. No mention, of course, of reports that the President who began the war was not only unable to identify the differences between the sects, but was unaware that various sects existed.
Continue reading »Luddite O'Reilly warns of child-abuse on Internet but falsifies background of cited video
Reported by Chrish - Wed 2:13 AM
On a recent Impact Segment (12/6/06) Papa O'Reilly warned again of the dangers we face from the machines, and pointed to a web video featuring a young girl railing against war, religion, and other adult matters. He characterized her appearance as "child abuse" and said that he knew who her parents are and the website address, but was not going to further publicize it to protect the little girl. He was lying or grossly misinformed.
Continue reading »In Happy Iraq, Oliver North "Jokes" That French Girl Scouts And Alan Colmes Are Part of Iraq Insurgency
Reported by Ellen - Wed 12:55 AM
Proven liar Oliver North (his conviction was overturned on a technicality) was on Hannity & Colmes again last night (12/12/06), still in Happy Iraq, with another Happy soldier talking Happy Talk. The only problem was that North came close to being shot. So to keep the Happy spirit, North joked to Alan Colmes, "Some character, who apparently had been trained by the French Girl Scouts or by one of your friends, Alan, took a pot shot at us. The outcome might have been different if he'd been trained to shoot by Dick Cheney, but he missed." Note to North: Dick Cheney missed, too. With video (coming).
Continue reading »Donald Rumsfeld Passes The Buck On Iraq; Hannity Fails To Take Notice
Reported by Ellen - Wed 12:38 AM
Hannity & Colmes aired the third (and, I hope, final) installment of Sean Hannity’s fawning interview with Donald Rumsfeld last night, December 12, 2006. In my previous post about the first two installments, I noted that Rumsfeld seemed to be passing the buck of responsibility for the problems in Iraq when he said, “There’s only so much the military can do. The military can do the military tasks but ultimately, it will take a political solution.” It was an implication Sean Hannity never explored. In the third installment, Rumsfeld repeated and expounded on that theory so that there was no doubt about his allusion. Once again, Hannity overlooked it. With video.
Continue reading »Double Standard for incoming Democratic leadership
Reported by Chrish - Tue 11:55 PM
On The Big Story today 12/11/06, John Gibson and guest Erick Stakelbeck, "Terror Analyst," discussed an interview where incoming Intelligence chief Silvestre Reyes incorrectly identified the majority of Al Queda followers as Shia when he should have said Sunni. The guest was even-handed in his criticism, saying it's appalling how many in Congress are uninformed about our enemies, but Gibson emphasized that the incoming chief is a Democrat. Too bad he doesn't hold the "commander-in-chief" to such a standard.
Continue reading »Bill O'Reilly Calls Guest Fascist Then Immediately Denies Doing It
Reported by Deborah - Tue 10:20 PM
Tonight Bill O'Reilly demonstrated for viewers just how nasty he can be when opposed. Wayne Madsen decided not to hide under his desk and bravely faced Christmas Bill after writing a critical article about his "war on christmas" in the Sacremento Bee. When Madsen told O'Reilly that the great war wasn't real, it was an oy vey or oh jeez moment, depending on your holiday symbol preference. 12/12/06
Continue reading »Fox Says President Leaning Towards Sending Thousands More Troops To Iraq
Reported by Donna - Tue 4:32 PM
Today on Studio B with Shepard Smith they ran a segment on what the president might be thinking on his new inititative in Iraq. Under the banner 'Battle For Iraq' Smith said that senior administation officials now told Fox News that President Bush is leaning toward a large increase, possibly more than 10,000 U.S. forces to bring down the level of violence.
Continue reading »Tom DeLay Blames Iraq War Problems On Liberals, Democrats And Media
Reported by Ellen - Tue 2:11 PM
Tom DeLay told an astounded Alan Colmes last night that liberals, Democrats and the media are the cause of the problems in the Iraq war. Colmes repeatedly made the point that the president is the commander in chief, that it was neither liberals nor the media who planned and executed the war effort. Yet DeLay insisted it was all the liberals/media's fault. Updated with video.
Continue reading »In Effort to Smear Democrats, FOX Hosts Report Unsubstantiated Rumor as News
Reported by Marie Therese - Tue 8:30 AM
On Monday morning (December 11, 2006) the FOX & Friends hosts - Steve Doocy, Kiran Chetry, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade - engaged in the worst kind of yellow journalism. They aired a story carried by WorldNet Daily claiming that an (unnamed) Hamas website reported that prominent Democratic Party leaders secretly met with Hamas leaders in Europe. Despite the fact that a Democratic party spokesperson denied that such a meeting ever took place, the original Hamas source was unnamed and FOX News had no independent corroboration of the WND story, it was given plenty of airplay during all three hours of the FOX & Friends show.
Continue reading »Tug o' War on FOX News Sunday
Reported by Marie Therese - Tue 5:29 AM
While doing holiday baking Sunday afternoon (December 10th), I turned on FOX News Sunday just to have some background noise and also to check on FOX's pale imitation of Meet the Press. The topic of conversation was the same as it was on every other Sunday political talk show - the Iraq Study Group's long-anticipated and much-leaked report. I think someone cloned James Baker and Lee Hamilton - they seemed to be on every talk show saying the same things: We did our best, there's no easy solution, the situation in Iraq is rapidly deteriorating, we took the issue of Iran's nuclear ambition off the table, let's talk with Iran and Syria, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. There were several moments of sanity, however, when NPR's Juan Williams actually defended the Democratic leadership and butted heads with Brit Hume and Bill Kristol as they spouted neocon drivel.
Continue reading »Donald Rumsfeld Tells Sean Hannity In Iraq, “Mission Accomplishing” – Or Maybe Not
Reported by Ellen - Tue 2:57 AM
The state of American journalism may have reached a new low last night (12/11/06) with Sean Hannity's softball interviews with Donald Rumsfeld recorded during their junket to Iraq. As often happens when he is in the presence of a Bush administration official, bullyboy Hannity was transformed into a lapdog – and a remarkably incurious one at that. You might think that a network which brags about providing “real journalism, fair and balanced” might have at least some questions about the planning and strategy for the architect of a war that was just declared a failure by a group of consultants called in by the president. But not on FOX News. So solicitous was Hannity, he didn’t seem to notice that Rumsfeld contradicted himself by claiming the war on terror a success while, at the same time, claiming that the threats to the US are growing.
Continue reading »First Annual NH Holiday Auction is up and running
Reported by Chrish - Mon 11:59 PM
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Continue reading »Hostilities expand, war declared on Hannukah
Reported by Chrish - Mon 11:42 PM
Or so it would seem if you watched The O'reilly Factor tonight 12/11/06. His interview with Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky indicated that because the rabbi had requested a Menorah be put up to accompany the Seattle-Tacoma Airport's Christmas trees (nine or fourteen, depending whose reporting you trust - the Seattle newspaper or O'Reilly, respectively). Rather than accomodate the rabbi and then be forced to accomodate other religions, the airport management opted to remove the trees.
Continue reading »Bill O'Reilly Searching For Republican Media Critics
Reported by Deborah - Mon 10:49 PM
Bill O'Reilly holds everyone accountable for their actions but naturally makes an exception for himself. Tonight he concluded that he gets bad press because the tv and movie critics are all liberal. Claiming that he has looked unsuccessfully for a Republican media critic, Bill asked viewers to help him in the search. So all you wanna-be movie and tv critics out there, looking for that big break, just run to the voter registration office first thing tomorrow and give Bill a call. If you're lucky enough to be called for an interview, don't forget a sprig of holly on your jacket lapel wouldn't hurt.12/11/06
MacCallum Picking on Pelosi
Reported by Judy - Mon 10:20 PM
Fox News' Martha MacCallum implied Monday (December 11, 2006) that the incoming Democratic majority in the U.S. House has multiple ethics problems piling up, but offered only one instance of such a matter.
Continue reading »Neil Cavuto Claims Dennis Hastert "Immediately Removed" Mark Foley After He Learned About Foley's Pedophilia
Reported by Melanie - Mon 7:29 PM
One of the first segments on Your World w/Neil Cavuto today (December 11, 2006) was about Rep. William Jefferson (D-La) being reelected to a 9th term in congress despite his being the subject of an FBI investigation after $90,000 in cash was found in a freezer in his Washington home. The topic of discussion, featuring radio talk show host Steve Malzberg and Democratic strategist Laura Schwartz, was whether Jefferson's reelection would "backfire on Dems," and in particular on Nancy Pelosi, as if Pelosi was personally responsible for his reelection.
Continue reading »Fox Guest Says Bush Doesn't Get Picture In Iraq
Reported by Donna - Mon 4:13 PM
Today on Studio B with Shepard Smith, he had guest Andy Grotto from the Center for American Progress. At question was the president's new approach to the war in Iraq.
Continue reading »It's About Time: Fox Hiring Fact Writer, reported by Janie,
Outrageous Quote of the Week - Week of December 4th, reported by Janie,
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Furious Border Patrol Agents Can’t Shoot Unarmed Suspects In The Back, reported by Ellen,
Terrorists in Them, Thar, Heartland Malls, reported by Chrish,
Richardson - is he, or isn't he?, reported by Chrish,
FOX News Launches Jihad Against Jimmy Carter and His New Book, reported by Marie Therese,
Chavez Worse than Bin Laden?, reported by Judy,
Bush 'Best President Ever'? Not Even on Fox, reported by Judy,
Fox News Plays Defense in 'War on Wal-Mart', reported by Judy,
Stephen Colbert's "Truthiness" is "The Word" - of the year!, reported by Chrish,
Chickenhawk Dennis Miller: What's Wrong In Iraq, Quite Frankly, Is That We're Not Brutal Enough To The Insurgents, reported by Ellen,
John Gibson Distorts News Blurb Into Vietnam Style Anti War Action, reported by Deborah,
Bill O'Reilly And Bernie Goldberg Join FOX Chorus Against David Gregory And NBC, reported by Deborah,
On Fox News, Only Whites Have Rights, reported by Judy,
Cowards in the War on Christmas, reported by Judy,
Hillary-Hate Meter Likely to Rise, reported by Judy,
During "Two Minutes of Hate" Rant, Hume Neglects to Mention Fox Ties to NY Post, reported by Janie,
Oliver North Misrepresents Iraq Study Group’s Findings In Order To Present A Happy, FOX News Fantasyland Iraq, reported by Ellen,
Heartland's John Kasich - "this is a civil war in Iraq", reported by Chrish,
The Sky Is Falling! Barbarians Are at The Gate! Nuke the Bastards! And, Oh Yeah, Four Minutes of Stock Advice, reported by Marie Therese,
Breaking News: Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) announces for presidency 2008, reported by Chrish,
Shepard Smith Uses The Word 'Japs' In His Story About Pearl Harbor, reported by Donna,
Revving Up For 2008, Carl Cameron Files Hit Piece on Barack Obama, reported by Janie,
Republican View Only Opinion Given In Reporting of New Congressional 5-Day Work Week, reported by Janie,
MacCallum Does Damage Control for Bush on Iraq, reported by Judy,
FOX News Draws a Bead on NBC's David Gregory, reported by Marie Therese,
Is FOX News Trying To Start A Race War?, reported by Ellen,
Despite FOX News Efforts To Make Iraq Look Happy, General Tommy Franks Agrees With Iraq Study Group Report That War Is Not Going Well, reported by Ellen,
Congressional whining over 5-day work week, reported by Chrish,
Iraq Study Group report: will Bush act on the group's suggestions?, reported by Chrish,
Bill O'Reilly Approves Conservative Parody Of Nativity Scene, reported by Deborah,
The Iraq Study Group's Recommendations Were DOA on Fox, reported by Melanie,
Studio B Spends Most Of Show On Missing Oregon Man, Mentions 10 U.S. Soldiers in Passing, reported by Donna,
Parody of ACLU Falls Flat, reported by Marie Therese,
FOX News Continues To Hype Phony White Genocide Threat From African-Americans, reported by Ellen,
Melanie Morgan: Muslims Guilty Until Proven Innocent, reported by Ellen,
Hannity & Colmes Presents The Perfect FOX News Boogeyman: An African-American Proclaiming War On Christmas, reported by Ellen,
Bill O'Reilly On A Body Language Kick, reported by Deborah,
Dick Morris on Big Story: Senator Clinton, "liar," will want to be called President Rodham if she wins White House, reported by Chrish,
Secular Progressive Beats Culture Warrior, reported by Judy,
Fox Invents a New Word: Democraticallycontrolledcongress, reported by Melanie,
Brit Hume Neglects to Mention Collaborating Witnesses in Jamil Hussein/AP Story, reported by Janie,
Save the Gulf Coastline? How About Drilling For Oil?, reported by Donna,
Hume Lobbies Bush to Give Bolton New Job, reported by Janie,
During Interview, Brit Hume Leads Bush to Blame Generals for Failings in Iraq, reported by Janie,
Hume Proves Clinton/Frank Criticism of Fox Interviews in Softball Questioning of Bush, reported by Janie,
Hannity’s Bigoted Bender Continues, reported by Ellen,
O'Reilly bemoans "disrespectful behavior," "incivility" - when it's his guy on the receiving end, reported by Chrish,
FOX News Pundit: Celebrities Who Criticize America While Abroad Should “Re-Apply” For Visa To Come Back, reported by Ellen,
Brit Hume and George Bush Share a Bong: The "Burden of the Office is Not Heavy. It's Light", reported by Melanie,
Fox: The Bush Administration Considered Paying John Bolton "On the Side in a Private Capacity", reported by Melanie,
Dumb Segment of the Day, reported by Judy,
Does Fox Read News Hounds?, reported by Donna,
Preview Of Brit Hume Exclusive Presidential Interview - Bush Says Office Is Not A Burden, reported by Donna,
Superficial Attempt at Covering School Integration Cases, reported by Judy,
John Bolton Resigns - Fox Only Shows White House Side, reported by Donna,
Breaking News: John Bolton Resigns, reported by Janie,
Outrageous Quote of the Week - Week of November 27th, reported by Janie,
Hear Judy's Radio Interviews, reported by Ellen,
Sean Hannity Proves He’s A Bigot: A Week In Review, reported by Ellen,
The Culture War – Coming to a Heartland Near You, reported by Chrish,
Mr. Brenda Buttner Tries to 'Straighten Out' Ben Stein, reported by Judy,
Olbermann: O'Reilly a 'Holy-You-Know-What' Liar, reported by Judy,
Here We Go Again: Poor, Persecuted Christians, reported by Judy,
Auction Coming To News Hounds, reported by Donna,
Neil Cavuto Turns an "Unconfirmed Cyber Threat" into an "Al Qaeda Jihad on Your Money", reported by Melanie,
On O'Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg compare "The View" to "Klan meeting", reported by Chrish,
Even Scarborough Beats Up on O'Reilly Now, reported by Judy,
Spinning the summit cancellation on O'Reilly Factor, reported by Chrish,
Hannity Hypes Fabricated Koran Controversy To Drum Up Hatred For Keith Ellison, reported by Ellen,
FOX News Double Standard On Stoned Celebrities: DeVito vs. Coulter, reported by Ellen,
John Stossel Uses Dubious Experiment To Prove Liberals Are Cheap., reported by Deborah,
John Gibson's BS on Iraq, Bush, and the Iraq Study Group report, reported by Chrish,
MacCallum Urges Conservatives To Attack Other Media, reported by Judy,
Fox Works to Brainwash its Viewers Into Thinking They're Prospering, reported by Melanie,
A Warning To George Clooney - Don't Go Drinking With Bill O'Reilly, reported by Deborah,
One Story, Two Very Different Slants, reported by Judy,
Iraqi PM Says Iraq Security Forces Can Take Over In 6 Months, reported by Donna,
"...Violent, out-of-control chaos — not civil war.", reported by Chrish,
Sean Hannity Erupts Into Frenzy Of Bigoted Anger, reported by Ellen,
"Maybe Imams shop at Crate and Barrel...", reported by Chrish,
Breaking: ISG to recommend pullback of troops from Iraq, reported by Chrish,
Fearless Barney Frank Takes On Bill O'Reilly, reported by Deborah,
Fox: Is There a "Democrat" Plan to "Diminish" the Fox News Channel?, reported by Melanie,
Tri Lateral Talks Turn Into Bi Lateral Talks In Jordan, reported by Donna,
New Children's Book Teaches Intolerance & Xenophobia, reported by Marie Therese,
Shortly After Complaining About “Racial Politics” Of African-Americans, Hannity Sympathetic To White Racist, reported by Ellen,
Hannity Uses New York City Police Shooting To Promote Racial Divide, reported by Ellen,
Bill O'Reilly Declares " The City Of Chicago Is Stupid", reported by Deborah,
In a Fit of Concern About Free Speech, Neil Cavuto Defends Michael "Kramer" Richards, reported by Melanie,
Fox News Debates: Civil War or Communal War?, reported by Judy,
Neil Cavuto: "Global Pacifists" Pressuring Bush to Talk to Muslim "Nuts", reported by Melanie,
Breaking News - Hezbollah Has Been Training Shiite Militias In Iran, reported by Donna,
Congressman Hastings Will Not be Chair of House Intel Committee, reported by Donna,
Sectarian Violence In Iraq Caused By Al Qaeda, Not A Civil War Claims Bush, reported by Donna,
John Gibson Thinks Endless War Will Keep Him Safe, reported by Deborah,
FOX News Guest Predicts Gas Will Go to $4.00 a Gallon by January, Claims Israel Will Bomb Iran, reported by Marie Therese,
Brent Bozell: Of Course Iraq’s A Mess But It’s Liberal Bias To Call It A Civil War, reported by Ellen,
More Hannity & Colmes Hypocrisy On Alcee Hastings, reported by Ellen,
FOX News Chickenhawks Disappointed Iraq Study Group Report May Prevent War With Iran, Syria, reported by Ellen,
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