Fox "News" : blatant right-wing propaganda tool These idiots make no attempt to hide their true intentions

The day after Kurt Vonnegut died, the sleazy Fox attack apparatus went after the author, because Vonnegut didn't like the Bush administration (this I can attest to, having seen Kurt in person a couple of years earlier). They attacked his "left wing screeds," called him "irrelevant," accused him of "leftism," brought up his attempted suicide, and so on. It was a vicious piece of dreck. Check out this very thoughtful piece by another fan.

This keeper of the right-wing economic bullshit (as opposed to the social, military, or foreign policy bullshit) has gone off his rocker, as of July 2007. He put out a piece on Faux News saying that economy is doing great. Unemployment's low, more Americans than ever own fancy gadgets and homes, corporate profits are up, gas prices are up but they're worse in Europe, stocks are doing well.

Okay, so who does that benefit? RICH WHITE GUYS like Cavuto himself. Unemployment's down, but lotsa new jobs are crappy, low-paying jobs, and many people have simply stopped putting in for benefits. And apparently Cavuto never watches his own f___g channel, because there are record foreclosures, like never before, and homes aren't selling. It's the worst home market in decades. 

More people have gadgets, just like more people have no savings, no pension (thanks to Reagan's policies), but they do have record credit card debt.

Corporate profits are up, but corporations aren't reinvesting. Exxon-Mobil has made money out the ass, but cut internal budgets (much to the chagrin of many employees) and put nothing into refining capacity (which they claim is to blame for high gas prices), while continuing to accept government tax credits for alternative energy research they never bothered conducting. 

Cavuto doesn't see any badness in the economy? It's because the Bush administration only sees good, which means that Fox News chief Roger Ailes only sees good, and he tells his evil minions what to say and what to print.

Monday, March 19th, 2007 was the fourth annniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Fox "News" didn't bother putting it on the main page of their web site, and they barely mentioned it on the air. WHY? Because these dumbasses have supported this thing from the beginning, in a huge, partisan, boostering way. If you tuned into MSNBC, you saw all-day coverage of it, from every angle. CNN, largely the same thing. Fox News? Forget it. Here and there, but not much. 

Late May 2007, a survey of cable news coverage indicates that Fox covers the Iraq war far less than CNN, and HALF the time that MSNBC does. In the spring of 2007, Fox spent far MORE time on that most vital of issues, Anna Nicole Smith's baby.

August 2007, Fox News spends more time covering the presidential campaigns than it does the Iraq war. In a week when 500 people died in three separate bombings over there, Fox barely touched the story, but was all over Hillary Clinton.

April 2007: A Pew Research poll indicates that Americans, raised on a steady diet of idiocy, are even less able to name important governmental figures than they were ten or twenty years ago. And once again, we find that regular viewers of Fox "News" are the dumbest. A poll from a couple of years ago indicated that Fox viewers were far more likely to believe that Saddam Hussein caused 9/11, because the Bush administration had repeated this false nugget over and over, prompting Fox to repeat it over and over. And this time around, the polls indicate the Fox viewers were less able to identify Dick Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, and others. Fox viewers were also FAR less able to name the two warring Muslim factions in Iraq (Sunni and Shiite). 

So in order to be drawn to Fox News, do you need to be a moron to begin with, or does the actual watching of Fox News turn you INTO a moron?

Of course, some of their writing makes it obvious how dumb they are over at Fox. Check out this line from a straight news story from Halloween 2007: "A Japanese guy in a translucent raincoat has become very popular on YouTube demonstrating something similar, as you can see here." A Japanese guy?"

And while we're on the subject of true versus NOT, a site very much like the Onion published a parody news story about Muslim students in the USA being attacked with ham sandwiches. Fox and Friends did eight segments on it, reporting it as true, and even saying, "We can't make this stuff up!" Ah, but the problem is that somebody else made it up, and Fox bought it as fact, without checking first.

February 2007, Rupert Murdoch admitted in an interview that his network "tried" to influence White House policy, including the Iraq War. NO SHIT. And they've tried to brainwash their idiot viewers ever since that they've been following the right course. It's no coincidence that fans of Fox "News" are far more likely than other segments of t he US population to believe, to this very day, that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11, a fact that even Dick Cheney admits is wrong.

The Fox News Resident Bimbo

Julie Banderas was hardly a journalistic genius before she worked for Fox "News." But she's amped up the stupidity level since joining the Roger Ailes spin zone. As a local reporter, she once insisted during an interview on asking a college president why he was "resigning." He had to keep reminding her that he was in fact retiring. He finally asked her, "Why do you insist on saying resigning when I've told you over and over again I'm retiring?"

When interviewing one of the nutjobs from Fred Phelps' gay-bashing church about their protests at military funerals, Banderas threw interviewing out the window and started yelling like a fool at the other lady. Instead of allowing this scumbag woman to hang herself, Banderas went apeshit. Apparently they had Geraldo give her "journalism" lessons.

Banderas understood the Fox "manufacture and spin" process early on. When the American Dental Association produced their own "news" video, the job got tossed to Banderas, who essentially performed a commercial for the ADA.

In March 2005, she completely destroyed the Fox slogan "We report, you decide" with her "reporting" on the Terri Schiavo situation. Apparently she decided to decide FOR you. Some of her editorializing quotes on the case:

• "Also inside just now, you know, the protesters out here are calling on President Bush, as if he hasn't done enough."
• Governor Bush had a good statement, and it makes sense."
• "[Schiavo's] husband and guardian Michael Schiavo ..... has spent fifteen years dodging the Schindlers' (Terri's parents) appeals."   And the problem with that is, dodging means that he was in the wrong, which is not her call to make, and in fact the husband and parents worked together for years before they divurged.

1. Yeah, sweetheart, if you don't know, then don't say. So here's what all is wrong with the above statement. 
2. Tom Brokaw retired TWO YEARS AGO.
3. Peter Jennings worked at ABC, not NBC.
4. Two million viewers? Hardly. The ratings dips have been negligible. Like O'Reilly, Banderas apparently makes shit up.
5. Peter Jennings is DEAD.

Don't bite the hand that kisses your ass

January 2007: Condi Rice says "I love my guys from Fox, every one of them." Well, of course she does. They parrot the presidential line. When Democrats disagree with the prez, Fox attack the Dems. When Republicans attack, even over the same issue, Fox ignores it. When Dems and the GOP both went after Bush about the proposed troop surge for Baghdad, and the nastiest lines came out of Republican Chuck Hagel, Fox News abandoned objectivity, attacked the Dems, and didn't bother mentioning what Hagel had to say. When the White House decided to ignore all the best advice and release a hacked Al Qaeda video so that Al Qaeda KNEW they'd been hacked and subsequently shored up their own security, they released it on Fox. And THIS is why Condi Rice loves them.
 
 

Damn that email trail

In the very excellent documentary "Outfoxed," it was revealed that Fox News' honcho Roger Ailes (former Republican strategist) regularly put out talking points memos about HOW the news should be slanted. They claim to be "fair and balanced" but in fact they spin the living hell out of everything. So in January 2007, it's further revealed that another of their honchos sent out an email immediately following the Nov 2007 elections, in which he spelled out HOW the network should continue spinning, especially over Iraq, in the wake of the Democratic victory. This includes continuing to play up threats (to scare people into regretting voting for those "weak on terror" Dems), and make up bullshit about how Arabs were celebrating in the streets over there over the Dem takeover and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, the clown who got so many American kids killed.

Why doesn't Fox just admit they don't do news, that they only do propaganda?
 
 

Fox's OJ Simpson scam

November 2006: The Fox News guys were quick to point out that the entertainment division's plan to air the sleazy OJ Simpson "If I Did It" special for sweeps had nothing to do with the "News" group. Their foul commentators, including John Gibson and Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly, were displaying all manner of righteous indignation. O'Reilly was even wondering why the evil, liberal, mainstream media was ignoring the story. 

HERE'S why. Few others wanted to provide any more free publicity for this mess, which is exactly what Fox "News" was doing. It's the notion that any publicity, good or bad, is good. It ensures better ratings. So the Fox News guys were provided a target to beat up on ("we're defending America's Judeo-Christian values"), while the entertainment group got lots more P.R. for the shit they're so well known for. Both sides win. 

Once this Simpson swill was canceled, the "News" guys took credit for it. Look how fair and balanced we are, we went against the parent company. And the parent company IS indeed sleazy, since Mr. Values-Protector Rupert Murdoch puts out some of the slimiest "entertainment" there is. 

But make no mistake. This was completely planned, start to finish. The entertainment group puts it out, the "news" group trashes it (effectively drumming up higher ratings), and both sides win. These Fox guys have no conscience, no values, no shame. They are SCUM. 

 
Nov 29, 2007: Brit Hume goes after a Clinton pollster, and John Gibson blames Nancy Pelosi for mucking up the FBI, NASA, and DOJ. Holy crap, Democrats are f___g up everything, Gibson, you partisan dickhead.

November 27, 2007: Riots in France are Fox's reason to assail Democrats on social programs. Unbelievable. These dickheads will find the flimsiest excuse to flog their rightwing agenda. Meantime, they've managed to piss off Fred Thompson, because Fox is going with the lowest common denominator: like many in the GOP, they've given up on guys who fit the agenda (Huckabee, Thompson) in favor of guys who are just plain electable (Romney, Giuliani). How sad, how far they've lowered the bar.

Late November 2007: Why is it that Sean Hannity is allowed to practically serve as Giuliani's campaign manager, and raise money for him, and relentlessly plug him on Fox, but then is also allowed to relentlessly rip on John Edwards and Hillary Clinton? What happened to "We report, you decide?" Do they not care that even the thinnest veneer of impartiality is gone? November 25th, Hannity runs a piece on Edwards that non-stop tears on the man, using the word "hypocrisy" over and over. 

Thanksgiving 2007: John Gibson, an obvious anti-American slug, says that somebody ought to GET A MEDAL for outing Valerie Plame. This comes just days after one of the guys who actually committed that CRIME, (and it was a crime) Richard Armitage, admits what a mistake it was. Then Brit Hume takes his usual shot at global warming. Again, WHY? Because the GOP and Big Business are in cahoots to the detriment of the poor, the middle class, and the environment, and if BZig Business and the GOP don't believe in global warming, then Fox "News" doesn't believe in global warming. Brit covers a talk by a well-known warming denier, Dr. S. Fred Singer, as he did previously for John Christy, who has done lots of paid work for oil companies.

 "-In a September 24, 1993, sworn affidavit, Dr. Singer admitted to doing climate change research on behalf of oil companies, such as Exxon, Texaco, Arco, Shell and the American Gas Association."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=S._Fred_Singer      and more about this guy at 

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1

Nov 21, 2007: John Gibson loses track of reality by saying that "Bush-haters" are "having the ground cut out from under them" because the Surge appears to be working, and somebody's discovered how to create stem cells without embryos. Well, the surge will only work as long as the USA has masses of troops over there, which cannot be sustained. Once we leave, the whole place will go to shit. With regard to stem cells, how the hell can he possibly credit Bush for that? The guy's goofy. Then Brit Hume shows new levels of hypocrisy by complaining about a former ABC journalist, now a teacher, endorsing Hillary Clinton, while his own network, and Sean Hannity in particular, going crazy in promoting Rudy Giuliani. What a bunch of hyocritical bullshit Brit is selling these days.

November 2007: It's hard to keep track of the bias this month. John Gibson is now whoring for Rudy Giuliani, having taken over that job temporarily from Sean Hannity. He blathers about how NASCAR fans like Rudy. Meanwhile, Hannity is relentlessly on the attack against Hillary Clinton, utterly ignoring the foibles of any of the GOP candidates. This comes as an impartial report shows that Fox devotes huge amounts of time to Rudy, all favorable, because they've decided he's their guy and, to paraphrase their tag line, they report after they decide.

Nov 16, 2007: Gibson says MSNBC has a "sportscaster over there every night" and they should "let the real news people report the news," forgetting conveniently that he himself hardly has a news background.

Nov 15, 2007: Nov. 15, 2007: John Gibson, trying to help the futile attempt to justify the American debacle in Iraq, says that a new book outlines Saddam's dream to build a nuclear bomb. Like that was ever going to happen. O'Reilly, ever the polarizing presence, complains about liberals again. It's always left versus right with this idiot, and he usually sides with the right. And Brit Hume, always trying to crush what little people might remember of his long ago credibility, once against goes after Hillary Clinton, and throws in Barbara Boxer for good measure. Always ont he hunt for Dems, Brit.

Nov 7, 2007: Brit Hume takes issue with a Congressman (naturally, a Democrat) who gives credit for the decline in Iraqi sectarian deaths to the fact that so many areas have been "cleansed" (something the US military notes) that in those areas, there are far fewer targets. Hume also goes after the slow release of Clinton archives. Meantime, John Gibson doesn't like the fact that Dennis Kucinich has introduced articles of impeachment against Cheney, who regularly ignores the Constitution, just as his boss does. Gibson also refers to Kucinich as "the vegan," meaning that because he's not a meat-eater, Kucinich must somehow be inferior. Gibson goes on to rail against Congress in general, something he didn't bother doing when it was the GOP in control, spending a surplus into a debt.

Nov 6, 2007: Brit Hume with his near-daily denial of global warming finds another fringe scientist who wants to insult Al Gore. He has a whole collection of these guys.

Nov 4, 2007: John Gibson names his winners and losers. Hillary Clinton is a loser. And in going after a Seattle-based newspaper, he uses the word "secular" like it's dirty. Ooooh, they're not religious enough. I thought "secular" was O'Reilly's pet word. Anyway, noited cross-dresser Rudy Giuliani and bonehead George Bush are winners. Congress, the "far, far left," and Democrats also get knocked. So once agon, GOP good, Dems bad. Fair and balanced? 

Nov 2, 2007: Rightwing whore John Gibson says the Democrats should thank George Bush for saying nasty stuff about them. Good Lord.

Nov 1, 2007: Wait, late in the day Brit finally got in his daily global warming denial. He quotes John Christy this time. He cals Christy a "Nobel winner" because Christy gets lumped in with a whole bunch of scientists who can claim a fraction of the Peace Prize given to Al Gore.  Christy is affiliated with a group funded by Exxon-Mobil, and has often been a go-to guy by warming deniers. You can google him on this point. Then Brit once again quotes the rightwing shill Cybercast "News" in a story about evil Arabs attacking a Palestinian Christian. Brit also takes a shot at Hillary Clinton.

Nov 1, 2007: Brit Hume takes a break today from denying global warming, so he can again go after bio-fuels, which for some reason he detests. He then goes after healthcare in the UK, and here's why: Bush is pushing back on insuring poor children by saying it's a step toward federalized medicine, which is utter horseshit. If THAT is federalized medicine, whaddaya call Medicare, you simpleton? Anyway, Brit is simply parroting the party line. Because Roger Ailes told him to. Then John Gibson says that Dennis Kucinich is "crazy" because he saw a UFO. Kucinich didn't say it was Martians or anything other than an unidentified object in the sky. What an asshole Gibson is. And O'Reilly, that massive shitpile, goes after Hillary Clinton, tossing out the very general statement, "the prevailing wisdom is that Hillary does not stand for anything." Ah, but Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, complete flip-floppers, DO stand for something?

Oct 31, 2007: John Gibson, that right wing whore, has a piece entitled "Why Democrats Are Failing in Congress." Besides showing that his grammar skills are awful, Gibson goes after Dems in a way he never bothered with when the GOP was running things into the ground and racking up record deficits. Where was he THEN? Then Brit Hume goes after Hillary Clinton for her projections on Social Security's solvency. It's a bizarre attack, just another of those thigns that he dangles out there as if she's done something really bad. It's actually rather pointless. He also goes after the New York Times, a REAL newspaper, unlike Cybercast News or Rasmussen Reports (a couple of fringe, righwing sources he quotes all the time). AMAZINGLY enough, he mentions that Republicans hold the second and third spots in terms of Congressional earmarks, but only after pointing out Dem John Murtha as number one. He then provides data from a study that says flat out that Fox's tilted stories favored Republicans over Democrats. Like they needed a study for that?

Oct 30, 2007: Fox News at the dinner hour broadcasts Bush's hypocritical attack on Congress over spending, without giving time to any of the Democratic responses. Then their smug asshole field reporter, after pointing out Bush's own fiscal issues, mentions that while Bush is unpopular, "this Congress" does even worse in polls, then he smiles broadly. 

Oct 28, 2007: Brit Hume says that contentions that recent California wildfires might be connected to global warming aren't supported by science. And yet the recent global warming report from the Bush administration, which was severely edited, actually included (before being chopped out) predictions that warming leads to increased wildfires. Brit also found time to pick on, who else, Democrats, using a memo from an obscure congressional aide from Hawaii. Whoa, stop the presses, Brit.

Oct 26, 2007: Neil Cavuto gets in the act, ripping specifically on Democratic plans to make taxes more fair for the middle class, since Fox caters to wealthier white guys. Then the main online headline rips on Hillary and a "scatching new documentary," and as usual ignoring all the dirt circulating around people like Rudy Giuliani.

Oct 25, 2007: John Gibson says that many news organizations have fallen in love with the left and want the US military to lose in Iraq. He bases this on -- pure speculation. This is an old canard that the right loves to use, but which it can never back up. Way to go, Gibson, falling for this bullshit or, more accurately, being one of the idiots who repeats it with no proof. And then Brit Hume panders to whites with his take on the Jena 6, although I'll admit he actually got a couple of things right. Then he picks on AIDS stats, and quotes the right-wing propaganda tool Cybercast News, which isn't really news. He also quotes Valerie Plame's book to pick on her husband Joe Wilson, for pure character assassination purposes, not immediately finding fault with the basic presmise of the book, which is the well-known fact that the White House leaked her name while she was still a covert agent. But this is what the right does, it attacks the messenger when it can't attack the message. Oh, and we can't forget about Brit going after a soldier who related some stories of cruelty by American soldiers in Iraq. The right likes to pretend that our soldiers are always well behaved, forgetting that an awful lot of them have criminal records. In fact, the US military allows increasing numbers of recruits with criminal and gang backgrounds.

Oct 23, 2007: Brit Hume AGAIN picks on Hillary Clinton. He claims that the Clinton presidential library is withholding information on Hillary's role while her husband was in the White House. Hmmm. Seems she's not the subject of a criminal or other investigation. So how about all those lost emails and memos the CURRENT White House is withholding, Brit? Hume also marks a "victory" against the homeless, spoken like a true rich guy, and once again "debunks" global warming, a scientificky thing that Brit simply won't admit that even the White House admits is real.

Oct 21-22, 2007: Fox is really digging today. An OBSCURE story in the London Times is a HEADLINE on Fox. Socks the Cat, the Clintons' famous pet, was given to an assistant after Bill left office. Fox parrots the Times in saying that the "dumped" pet could come back to haunt Hillary. They even managed to find some dirt on the assistant. Jesus Christ, these people are f____g low and desperate. They speculate that sh'es "too cold and calculating" to be president, conveniently forgetting about Bush making fun of a woman on death row while he was Texas governor. They talk of the "financial sleaze" of the Clinton years, make it sound like Giuliani somehow scared Hillary, it compares her to McGovern (noting that he lost 49 of 50 states in 1972), and almost sounds hopeful that this latest attack will somehow hurt her when others haven't ("Perhaps the cautionary tale of Socks the cat will make a difference."). It's complete editorializing disguised as "news," a typical Fox ploy. And it gets better. The story was modified Sunday morning to attribute the story to the Atlantic magazine, rather than the Murdoch-owned Times. The following day, after they'd swapped out all the other mini-headlines, they were still circulating the Hillary story, in addition to two other Hillary stories. They need you to know, Hillary bad, Hillary bad, at the expense of other, actually relevant news. In fact, they completely cycled every single other mini-headline twice, but still the Hillary stuff was there.

And here's more. Their little video box, showing you bullet points for the four videos they think viewers might be most interested in, are, in order, picking on critic Stephen Colbert's mock run for the president (suggesting he could run into legal trouble), picking on Hillary Clinton's campaign donors, a plug for Hanity's fluff piece on Rudy Giuliani (which conveniently forgets about Rudy's $9.11 sleaze donations), and a plug for the war.

Oct 20, 2007: Brit Hume AND Hannity both picking on Clinton for "questionable" campaign contributions that nobody else seems to sweat too much. And both Hume and Gibson highlight Rush Limbaugh mocking the people who defended US soldiers against his witless radio attack. As always, they're coordinated attacks. Meanwhile, rightwing whore John Gibson calls Rush Limbaugh and the lame new Fox Business Network "winners" and a Democratic Congressman a "loser." Lopsided as always.

Oct 16, 2007: This is unbelievable. Neil Cavuto complimenting idiot Dan Quayle in a blatant plug for
the new Fox business channel. Brit Hume picks on socialized medicine in the UK, in complete lockstep with Bush's lame complaint about socialized medicine. Sean Hannity goes after General Sanchez who dared to speak up against the White House's bad leadership in Iraq. O'reilly claims the mainstream media, that great Satan, is contributing to the deaths of American soldiers. Gibson says Iran should be more afraid of Hillary Clinton than Dick Cheney, who rattles his saber weekly. Hume picks on San Fran as well, because it's his turn. Brit also picked on Moveon.org and Air America. In other words, this has been one of the most blatantly biased days on Fox in a long time.

Hannity also conducted a lengthy interview with noted cross-dressing flip-flopper Rudy Giuliani, in which he gave him nothing but softball questions, and fed him one leading question after another about Hillary Clinton, allowing the GOP candidate to tee off on her over and over. No hard questions, only the opportunity to let the mayor go off. And the picture illustrating the link on their website to the video for the interview shows a happy, smiling Rudy and wife, as opposed to the nasty pictures they always put in of Gore, making him look like he's yelling, always in the middle of a sentence.

Oct 15, 2007: John Gibson defends Rush "Racist Pillpopper" Limbaugh and goes after MoveOn.Org all in the same breath. So it's okay for Limbaugh to insult regular soldiers, but it's not okay to criticize a general who's prostituted his position for political expediency. 

Oct 13, 2007: Retired General Sanchez, who used to head up US forces in Iraq, is now ripping on the White House for its awful leadership in the war. Every single TV and online outlet has the story. Every single one, except Fox, which tends to ignore stories when they don't reflect well on the party line. And then they cover a completely obscure story in which a statue of former Mexican prez Vicente Fox was torn down by the opposition party. Why does Fox care? Because Fox has said some uncomplimentary things about Bush lately, including on Bill Maher's show.

Oct 12, 2007: Brit Hume picks apart Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. He quotes junkscience.com, which uses its web site to sell, well, junk. It also doesn't like gun control, which has nothing to do with science, while at the same time it complains that global warming has nothing to do with peace. Brit also quotes a totally obscure rightwing think tank. And in yet more evidence of coordinated attacks, he and John Gibson both make mention of the British judge who somehow decided he's an authority on Gore's movie. Brit also quotes the Washington Times to attack "liberals," not bothering to note that the Washington Times isn't really a news outlet, it's a paid propaganda tool.

Oct 11, 2007: Brit Hume goes after Google because they won't run ads for a Congressman that are critical of MoveOn.Org.  Hume goes on to seemingly pick at Google's ad policies, saying they "pick sides." Well, Fox "News" allegedly is neutral, but they've long since picked sides. Oh, and since Roger Ailes coordinates attacks at Fox, John Gibson ALSO goes after Google. Then Hume goes after Jimmy Carter for criticizing Dick Cheney, going after various stats from Carter's presidency. Attack the messenger, that's Fox's message. Oh, and with literally every news outlet there is covering Ann Coulter's recent anti-Semitic rant, Fox alone ignores it.

Oct 10, 2007: Brit Hume goes after homeless people AND the city of San Fran in the same tidbit. San Fran is a favortie target of Fox (check out O'Reilly's horrific invitation for terrorists to bomb SF's Coit Tower). Brit also goes after Obama's pastor. Holy shit, Brit, that's low. Rightwing whore John Gibson also completely misconstrues Democratic intentions in compromising with Bush on wiretapping. Since the GOP is intent on simply f____g up Congressional votes rather than go along with any reasonable legislation, Dems are simply trying to get things moving. And Sean Hannity once again goes after Al Gore.

Oct 9, 2007: Brit Hume goes to town on Sandy Berger, who wrongfully took some documents from the national archives and who now advises Hillary Clinton. I wonder if he'll ever mention the convicted coke dealer advising John McCain. And then he's in a hurry to push the media to publicize the shrinking casualty numbers in Iraq, forgetting that the civilian toll is still up, and that the numbers will only look good as long as the surge lasts. THEN he goes after Dan Rather for the story on Bush's ducking of his National Guard service. Documents had been faked, yes, but the essence of the story, the fact that Bush did indeed weasel out of Viet Nam, has never been touched by the right. Finally, Hume wonders why the word "God" got left off some commemorative flags, conveniently forgetting that this nation is officially non-religious. Rightwing whore John Gibson once again goes after Obama. Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly picks on Rudy Giuliani's long-ago mayoral opponent David Dinkins. He also asks Bush about defining torture, in light of the newly-released docs that show Alberto Gonzalez approved torture methods shortly after taking office. O'Reilly barely puts any weight on the prez, while at the same time picking on the media for somehow vaguely misleading the public in a way that HE doesn't really define.

Sept 25, 2007: Brit Hume finds out that the whistleblower who exposed the disastrous construction story on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad has a criminal record. Okay, lovely. You're right, he does. But what he found out was still bad shit. Hume also tees off on GQ magazine for allegedly killing a negative story on Hillary Clinton. He also goes after San Francisco for not letting the Marines film a commercial downtown, AND he pulls out a story that claims Bush has been coaching Dem candidates on how to portray themselves with regard to the Iraq war. So let's see now, whistleblower and Dems and liberal city bad, Bush good. Par for Hume's course. And Bill O'Reilly went on one of his usual rants against another media outlet (take your pick). This time it's CNN, who, like many sources, picked up on O'Reilly's bizarre, condescending take on black people after he dined in Harlem. This guy would've made a great plantation owner.

Sept. 18, 2007: Right wing whore John Gibson hypocrtically asked, "Why are Dems afraid to denounce MoveOn.Org?" Where was this asshole when the rightwing was unleashing the Swift Boat liars in 2004? And why is he keeping this feeble story alive? This is old news that even the GOP candidates are past. But when your side of the equation is bleeding so badly, you've got to dig for ammunition. Brit Hume is pulling from the same bag of sleazy tricks, ripping on a "liberal" group called Iraq Veterans Against the War, which, unlike the Swift Boat guys, is really a group of vets. Hume also takes the time to take his daily shot at global warming, anything to say that it doesn't exist, despite the OVERWHELMING evidence.

Sept 15, 2007: Brit Hume runs interference for an Attorney-General candidate who has already been deemed DOA. He also attacks the Dem gov of Massachusetts for some barely noticed remarks on 9/11 (Brit loves finding obscure nothings to comment on, always digging for attacks on Dems). Meanwhile, loony John Gibson says that MoveOn.Org's anti-Petraeus ad has "put the Democratic Party out of business," and that Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, in their godawful Congressional testimony, are "winners."

September 14, 2007: Bush gives a speech trying to shore up fading support for the "surge" in Iraq. And Fox News is the only network NOT to air thte Democratic response, which pretty much reflects what polls say the majority of Americans are thinking.

September 9, 2007: Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume repeats the bullshit. IN his little TV panel, which includes idiot Bill Kristol, a man so divorced from reality, he thinks everything in Iraq is beautiful, Brit refutes a guest who read from the Iraq commission report which stated that the U.S. presence in Iraq serves as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, which is only in Iraq because of the invasion. Brit says Al Qaeda was there before the Americans. BULLSHIT. This is the White House line.

September 2007: On Fox and Friends the morning of 9/5, the two talking heads show a clip of Barack Obama. Then they say that his comments are going after Hillary Clinton. To comment on the matter, instead of enlisting a mainstream pundit, they tap Michael Reagan, Ronald's rightwing nutjob kid.

August 2007: Brit Hume continuees on his global warming denial parade. Every other day, he's lined up yet another "source" to say that global warming isn't a problem. One of his sources was two Chinese scientists who say that carbion dioxide's role in global warming is "vastly exaggerated." Well, no shit, Brit. These guys in China put out more CO2 than anybody these days, so of COURSE they're going to say that. Holy shit. You gonna quote Bin Laden next when he says terrorism is just a big joke? Also this month, Brit flogs right-wing "news sources." He quotes both the Rassmussen Reports, a right-leaning polling organization (which should be an oxymoron but which is not) to say that Fox News is considered the most unbiased news outfit (huh?), as well as Cyber-Cast News, which is only a right wing mouthpiece, not a legit news service.

Also this month, right wing whore John Gibson calls Karl Rove a "winner" for surviving his White House tenure without indictment. Way to go, Gibson. The architect of all those disastrous Bush policies that make Bush the most unpopular president since Nixon, who is legitimately a candidate (so named by historians) for worst president ever, THAT Karl Rove. The Karl Rove who lied about leaking Valeria Plame's name. The Karl Rove whose "permanent Republican majority" lasted a handful of years, and was brought down by its own arrogance. THAT Karl Rove?

This month, Brit also spent a day going after John Edwards about his SUV, and also went after Dems who are opposing a wind farm near Nantucket. He ALSO went after a PAC that donated money to Democratic candidates. Three political stories, all about Democrats. 

July 16, 2007: Brit Hume again tramples his own conscience. Brazenly defends a city mayor who rips on minorities, while Hume himself picks on Cindy Sheehan and Jack Murtha. Republicans do no wrong, Dems do no good. It's the same tired old story from Hume.

Late June, 2007: Instead of reporting on widespread criticism of Dick Cheney for claiming his office is not part of the executive branch, Fox instead chose to report on it as “Democrats aim to cut funding for Cheney’s office.” So they took a completely partisan approach to this incredibly important and patently absurd story.

June 30, 2007: Brit Hume once again goes global warming, finding some who-is-that guy to poke lame holes in it. Then lame-brained Brit goes after Elizabeth Edwards for filming at a national park. Trivial disagreement with a park ranger. But he made news out of it. Pathetic.

June 7, 2007: Bill O'Reilly says he wants, in fairness, to hammer on a right-wing bad guy, pointing out that he often hammers on the left. In setting up his attack on a right-wing guy, he repeats several attacks on left-wingers, and in fact spends more time on that than on the right-wing guy. Meanwhile, lost cause Brit Hume gets totally wacky, with his "Noted Leftist Criticizes Some Liberal Bloggers," and THEN he utterly spaces out with his observation that many people in Greenland are actually welcoming global warming because it frees up some otherwise frozen water for fishing.

June 5, 2007: John Gibson blathers pure speculation as to whether Hillary Clinton will be as tough on terror if elected as she sounds now. He offers no proof that she would NOT be, he simply poisons the well. The next day, Brit Hume goes totally off his right-wing rocker with a piece defending the Boy Scouts discrimination, defending Dick Cheney's Halliburton profits and hiding of his visitor logs, trying to discredit global warming via the German chancellor's comments, and citing some stats that indicate the Democrats have lost some yardage in the polls. Four for four, Brit.

June 1, 2007: John Gibson (who I probably loathe more than the rest because his background makes him completely unqualified to be a commentator) is on a tear about Winners and Losers. He calls Cindy Sheehan, a grieving mother campaigning for an end to a ridiculous war, a loser. What a scumbag Gibson is. He also gives credit to a stupid fat kid for shooting a pet hog, as if it was some macho accomplishment. Right-wingers always like people who shoot other people or things.

May 27, 2007: Fox online reports that the speaker of the Texas legislature is under attack from both parties. They all want him ousted. The story mentions the party affiliation of the Dems who want him out. It doesn't mention the fact that Speaker Craddick is a Republican. It's a glaring omission. Also, Brit Hume, who for now has given up his relentless attacks on John Edwards, has now jumped on Hillary Clinton. It's always Dems, never the GOP candidates. Meantime, the idiot sitting in for O'Reilly hosts a couple of pundits talking about Rosie O'Donnell, and he brings up Jane Fonda's trip to North Vietnam a million years ago, as if that somehow is related to O'Donnell right now. He asks their opinion on Fonda. Holy shit, how's that for bait and switch?

May 24, 2007: Brit Hume is on a roll. He relentlessly, ridiculously hammers on John Edwards. Picks on his haircuts, his business dealings, even his charity work. Won't let it go. All the candidates, especially the GOP ones, have foibles, but Hume is obsessed with Edwards. Meantime, he feebly makes the case that the military action in Afghanistan is going well, despite news to the contrary. 

May 4, 2007: Fox "News" polls indicate the Rudy Giuliani has the highest favorability rating among all '08 contenders, even though every other poll indicates that any Dem front-runner beats any GOP guy.

May 2, 2007: O'Reilly starts off with "Will the radical left doom the Democratic party?" which is rather ridiculous since right now it's Bush's legacy and the surge that are doomed. Brit Hume follows with "Liberal magazine takes the Democrats to task over Iraq." Right-wing whore and budding white supremacist John Gibson rips on U.S. border policies, but doesn't bother putting the blame for those policies on Bush, who truly is to blame.

April 28, 2007: Their columnists are the most blatantly biased bunch of bufus in the world. Gibson asks "What do Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere, and Sheryl Crow have in common?" Of course, those are all people he describes as "liberal." Then Neil Cavuto babbles "Why is it Republicans will go anywhere to debate the issues, but Democrats won't?" And in Brit Hume's space, "Hillary Clinton under fire for her blogging." Not a word about the GOP guys who just got caught for patronizing a "sexual fantasy" escort service or doing naught shit involving Jack Abramoff. They ONLY pick on Dems. The very next day, Sean Hannity joins in, with "How far will Democrats go to appease left-wing bloggers?" With campaign season prematurely started, Fox is more partisan than ever.

April 27, 2007: Ex-CIA chief George Tenet puts out a book ripping Cheney for coaching the evidence on Iraq's WMD, and for deciding in advance to invade Iraq regardless of the evidence or lack thereof. This is THE huge news of the day. But FOX selectively reports that Tenet's book talks him worrying more about possible Al Qaeda presence in America. So they promote the bit that fosters the fear-mongering which the administration loves, but neglects the real meat of the matter, that the White House wanted war no matter what.

April 13, 2007: Bill O'Reilly, who has been fond of the word "wetback" over the years, and who invited terrorists to strike a particular building in San Fran because it's a liberal town, had the nerve to dump on Don Imus. Hannity and Colmes interview well-known bimbo Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who gained her fame through her appearance on a reality show. WTF does she known about politics? Nothing. She's blindly Republican and can barely speak coherently on any subject. White supremacist wannabe John Gibson called Nancy Pelosi and Don Imus "losers," but Pelosi actually came out the winner in recent sparring with Bush. And Brit Hume's "Grapevine" section asked "Will the firing of Don Imus be bad for Democrats?" It never ends. Always on the attack, and yet O'Reilly is always bitching about OTHER people being on the attack. Hypocrites, liars, mouthpieces.

April 4, 2007: Brit Hume, who's lost all humanity it seems, has these two lovely tidbits. First, he quotes the Washington Post in lashing out at Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria, and like all rightwing "news" outlets, neglects to mention the GP delegation that had already visited, and the Republicans who in fact accompanied Pelosi. He also pokes a hole in a "liberal" attack story on Rove. Hypocrite.

March 22, 2007: Brit Hume seems to be the company whore these days. Today it's another smear piece on Al Gore and global warming, in which Hume quotes that scientific beacon, the president of the Czech Republic. Wow, we're stretching here, Brit. Then he tears on Democrats trying to put together a vote on troop funding. Then he wants to make sure the Democrats look like they're bickering by pouring more speculation on who put out an anti-Hillary ad, and again without evidence he links it to Barack Obama. And THEN he puts out a piece about how some college Republican group was cleared of any complaints for pulling some anti-Arab shit. All in the same breath. Republicans good, Democrats all bad.What a rightwing whore. But nothing on the 16-day gap in emails turned over by the Administration on the attorney firings. Not a word. 

March 21, 2007: Brit Hume strikes again. He attacks global warming, says Barack Obama is the most liberal guy running for president, and goes after a NASA scientist who says he (like many other scientists) was muzzled by the Bush administration in discussing global warming.

March 20, 2007: Brit Hume cites a poll that does not agree with any other polls in the universe in suggesting that Iraqis think their lives are better now, and that they're not in a civil war. The majority of other polls of Iraqis indicate that they think the future will suck worse than now, they want Americans out, and many of them think it's okay to attack U.S. troops. There's also a story about how Virginia gun dealers, several of whom were found guilty of allowing straw buyers to purchase guns in a sting operation, are fighting back against New York City, which performed the sting. John Gibson keeps picking on Minnesota in a racist, anti-Muslim rant that just goes on and on.  And the "Beltway Boys" make a big production out of observing that the Senate "rejects" a Democratic plan for a troop pullout. Actually, nobody "rejected" anything, it was essentialy filibustered by Republicans. 

March 16, 2007: I wrote John Gibson, that rightwing whore, and pointed out that he couldn't say that Alberto Gonzales hadn't done anything wrong when the administration, Gonzales' staff, Gonzales himself, and most of Congress said he HAD done something wrong. So a day later, he says, okay, Gonzales screwed up, but it wasn't that bad, and the "far lefties" had made a target out of him. Far lefties? How about all the GOP members on his ass too? Gibson conveniently forgets about them. This guy's such a "far righty" tool. His very next column rips Rosie O'Donnell (of whom I'm not a fan) for not believing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lengthy confessions to having performed or planned scores of terror plots. Actually, Gibson, even the authorities think he couldn't possibly have pulled off all that shit. Gibson also gets in a cheering plug for waterboarding. He actually promotes the use of torture. I thought we were better than that in the USA.

March 15, 2007: So sad, so sad. Brit Hume keeps walking away from the light. Of the four items in his "Political Grapevine" today, one is a weak shot at Rudy Giuliani, for the appearance of impartiality, but the other three are strong shots at Al Gore, John Edwards, and Harry Reid. All are non-stories that nobody else is bothering with, because they're so ridiculous.

March 14, 2007: John Gibson is just a rabid GOP whore. After the president, the US Attorney-General, a whole bunch of Republicans, and a whole bunch of Democrats all agree that Alberto Gonzales screwed up the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, Gibson says that nothing wrong happened. Gonzales' chief of staff even resigned over this. So even the people who screwed up say they screwed up. But not Gibson. And he blames the uproar on the Democrats. What a shithead.

March 9, 2007: John Gibson never quits. All he is, is an attack dog. Today it's "Would Bush-hating Democrats have impeached Abraham Lincoln?"  Hey, Gibson, it's getting old.

March 8, 2007: Victory, of sorts. On a day when John Gibson is looking for any stupid reason to overturn the Scooter Libby verdict, and Bill O'Reilly is still trying to look like he understands the problem of child molestation, and the FoxNews.COM site continues defending media whore Ann Coulter, John Edwards has declined to debate on Fox News. MoveOn.ORG has collected hundreds of thousands of petition signatures urging the Nevada Democratic party to drop Fox News as a partner.

March 6, 2007: Sadly enough, it's formerly credible Brit Hume who's most offensive lately. Today, he says "John Edwards speculates on jesus' thoughts about poverty while living in a mansion." Yesterday, he was picking on Al Gore and other Dems, and ignoring anything remotely involving the stupidity of Republicans, including the current scandal over GOP congressmen screwing with federal prosecutors.

March 3, 2007: Media whore Ann Coulter calls Dem candidate John Edwards a "faggot." Fox reports on "Dem Outrage Over Coulter Slur." Actually, it's more than just Dems who are upset at this bimbo. In the body of the article, Fox actually runs an ad for Coulter's column. UNBELIEVABLE.

March 1, 2007: John Gibson, that right-wing whore, writes a ridiculous column in which he says there's no proof that Hilary Clinton's people put out some muck about Barack Obama's dad, but that it's quite a "coinkydink," as he says, that Obama's campaigning and so is Hilary, and that this muck came out. Hmmm. Maybe the "coinkydink" is that it's campaign season, and EVERYBODY rakes muck. How about those Swift Boat Veteran scumbags? Those right-wing lying assholes who tried assassinating the character of a man who actually served his country and was wounded? The other ridiculous thing here 

February 15, 2007: Idioticially and hypocritically enough, Foxnews.com today has a teeny tiny little link to a story titled, "Why the Scooter Libby trial matters," and yet they haven 't covered it for DAYS. However, they did find space in their top three headlines for a story about a Democratic congressman who complained about a GOP congressman's cigar smoke. They made a headline story out of THAT. That was the best they could do today, to pick on Dems. Cigar smoke. No shit.

February 14, 2007: John Gibson asks "Why Congressional Dems might be hoping al-Sadr is still in Iraq." This tool says if the radical Baghdad cleric has NOT fled to Iran, it means the surge will run into more problems, will fail, and will make Bush look bad. In other words, this Fox asshole is saying that members of Congress WANT our troops to have even more trouble. What a f___g asshole. Typical of the Fox and Bush mentality of, "if you're not with us, you are unpatriotic." And for DAYS now, the Fox website has completely ignored the Scooter Libby trial, because the testimony is embarrassing to the Bush administration. It looks bad for Bush, so they don't cover it. Incredible.

February 9, 2007: The Defense Department inspector general releases a report ripping on pre-war intelligence, with their sharpest criticism for Douglas Feith, who cooked the data to manufacture a link between 9/11 and Iraq. All the other news organizations report this as a shot at the Defense Department itself. But Fox "News" reports this as the Democrats ripping on the Pentagon, which is defending itself against a "smear."  WHAT? They've also made a headline out of a non-story, John Edwards hiring some bloggers who've posted some unpleasant shit.

February 8, 2007: Even poor Brit Hume, who used to have a conscience, is not immune. In his column about Nancy Pelosi's desire for a plane to do her speaker's business, he quotes the virulently wacko rightwing Washington Times, which is not really a newspaper at all (and even the White House has defended Pelosi on this one). And for several days now, all the columnists have been lined up against the Democrats, despite some of the stupid GOP shit going on right now. 

February 1, 2007: Despite Bush's ongoing stupidity, and the fact that the GOP is completely splintered over Iraq, on Fox it's all lined up against the Democrats. Bill "Phone Sex" O'Reilly picks on Nancy Pelosi for calling Iraq a "disaster." Last time I checked, John McCain and Chuck Hagel were saying a lot worse. Right-wing whore John Gibson says that with Democrats back in power, it will be a "circus," completely ignoring all the outrageous crap the GOP did all those years in power. Brit Hume, the saddest case (since he used to have credibility), picks on Pelosi's desire for secure flights, the same thing Dennis Hastert always got. And so on. ALSO, the big story on 2/2 is the fact that Bush left out all the support troops he'll need for his troop surge, but nary a mention on Fox "News."

January 27, 2007: A massive anti-war demonstration in DC, including tens of thousands, is front page news for every legit paper and website. Foxnews.com instead headlines some perverts, and buries the huge demonstration down the page, in a tiny font, below other items of little note.

January 25, 2007: The Scooter Libby trial is in full swing, opening with nasty charges against Cheney and Bush. But Fox wants nothing to do with that. The only mention of it on their website is John Gibson blaming Valerie Plame's husband, in a weird twist of logic. And yet they make one of their three large headlines the fact that Cheney told Wolf Blitzer he was out of line for asking about Cheney's gay pregnant daughter. A complete non-story took the place of a completely relevant story.

January 10, 2007: Bush gives a speech about a troop "surge" in Iraq. ALL the other sites have headlines to the effect that "Bush admits mistakes, will send more troops." On Foxnews.com, it's "President sets course for Different Victory in Iraq" and "Bush details troop surge, benchmarks; calls on Americans to renew commitment to fight for democracy."  It sounds like they're reinforcing his message, not reporting it. Another high-up tagline: "Democrats Blast Escalation of War." They leave out the MANY quotes from leading Republicans, including a couple of highly conservative ones, who agree with Dems and the 60-plus percent of Americans who also oppose more troops for Iraq. Only a day later, they abandon coverage on their website of the surge story, but they find space to repeat attacks on Jimmy Carter in two different places on their front page.

December 7-8, 2006: It's the day after the Baker-Hamilton Iraq study group delivered its scathing report. Naturally, because it disagrees with just about everything W has done in Iraq, it's gotten scorched by people who know a lot less than Baker and Hamilton. This includes Fox News. The morning after this monumental report, the headline on Foxnews.com is "Toxic Tacos Spread to PA," about some bad onions at the Taco Bell. The only mention of Baker-Hamilton is way down the page in the commentary section. Hey, you clowns, it's NEWS. Oh, that's right, you guys AREN'T. The dumb John Kerry flubbed joke was news on Fox for four days, when it was worth maybe 12 hours. But THIS thing, important as hell, isn't even news to them for a single morning.

Later the same day, Fox's web site features a complete non-news item, because it involves Jimmy Carter, whom they hate. Seriously, it's not news, it's a smear story. Apparently a Carter aide quit the ex-prez's book project, citing differences on the history of the Palestinians. Holy shit, let's look for obscure detail, to smear a guy we have a vendetta against. This is news? They even carried this Carter non-news into a second day's headlines. And STILL nothing on the Baker-Hamilton report.

November 2006: Ted Haggard, the disgraced former president of the National Evangelical Association (with 30 million members) got caught having been banging and doing meth with a gay prostitute, who gave the guy up after Haggard's anti-gay agenda pissed him off. Fox News literally BURIED the story on this guy on their web site, barely giving it any visibility. And when the Army Times and its peer publications for the other military branches all put out an editorial calling for the canning of Donald Rumsfeld, same thing, no visibility. Major freaking news, but it's not good for their party.

Also in November, John Kerry fouls up a joke about Bush, which Bush disingenuously interprets for his own purposes. Fox News runs stories on it endlessly, on cable and the web. After it pretty much dies on its own, Fox continues to beat it to death.

Halloween 2006: Lots of bad shit going on in Iraq, crime is rampant, the economy is slowing, but Fox "News" has to feed its right-wing mojo. So when John Kerry and White House shill Tony Snow get into an argument over Iraq, Kerry is labelled on Fox's website as a "Failed Dem presidential candidate" instead of as a senator. Ancient history, assholes. 

October 2006: Brit Hume's online column capitalizes the word "Republican" throughout, but does not do the same for "democrat," throughout. Huh? This is pretty damn dumb. "Look, they're the party of the lower case letters."

September 2006: One of their mini-headlines is that "Clinton's braggadocio" might be dangerous to Americans. What they're referring to is Bill Clinton saying how he'd tried to kill Osama Bin Laden. It's an op-ed piece by that well-known law-breaker and contra stooge Oliver North. He conveniently forgets Bush's boast about wanting Bin Laden "dead or alive," and that everybody knew his preference.

September 2006: THE GREAT BIG NEWS ON 9/25 is the release (after months of embarrassing delay) of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that confirms what everybody already knows .... that the war in Iraq actually encourages more terrorism, by acting as a recruitment cause. The sixteen disparate intelligence outfits in the USA came up with this thing. This directly contradicts all the bullshit Bush has been trying to sell to his followers. But this story, which is being covered by EVERYBODY, is nowhere to be found on the Fox News web site.
 

September 2006: Hugo Chavez of Venezuela insulted Bush at the UN. Instantly Fox has on their website a poll: "Should the US stop funding the UN?"  Also, it's finally revealed just how much access a bunch of Abramoff-controlled scumbags had to the White House, which is big news everywhere else, but Fox doesn't touch it.

September 2006: Typical Foxnews.com right-wing rant-fest .... what's in the commentary block on their website?
O'Reilly : How Bush-haters are hurting America (right now, that's a majority)
Cavuto : What does Bill Clinton's tardiness say about his character? (Oh, shit, this
    idiot is saying that Clinton is a bad guy because he was late for something)
Gibson : So much for frog-marching Karl Rove across the White House lawn (ignoring the
     fact that Rove and others were secret sleazy sources to columnists in a White
     House smear campaign)
Hume: Former CBS producer Mary Mapes reunites with Dan Rather (Fox once again not only
    going after a rival, while constantly bitching that this is what other outlets do to THEM, but also going after those they think manufactured crap about draft-dodging GW Bush)

This was a magnificent collection of belly-crawling attack fodder. They outdid themselves on this particular day. Foxnews.com also had a link at the top of their homepage, labeled "Dems Bankrupting America?"  You gotta be shitting me. The GOP has been spending money like crazy, putting the USA into unimaginable debt, and they're saying that DEMOCRATS are bankrupting the country?

August 2006: Bill O'Reilly and Michell Malkin (the idiot who said that John Kerry shot himself in Vietnam) claim that Hezbollah blew up the Lebanese village of Qana in order to embarrass the Israelis, even days after the Israelis admitted the bombing and apologized for it. Malkin said the wreckage looked staged, and that the weeping and wailing was all "manufactured." Uh, yeah, by bombs, you f***g idiot.

August 2006: Bill O'Reilly says the the New York Times editorial board is "sitting out" the Israeli-Lebanon conflict because they're afraid of upsetting "their liberal Jewish base." Actually, phone-sex-boy, they published four editorials on it, which is why you ended up having to back off that claim.

July 2006: Idiot GOP Congressman Rick Santorum, who can't say a thing without looking like a dickhead, went nuts a few weeks ago and said that WMD had been found in Iraq. Actually, what was found was old artillery shells with very old, no longer useful mustard and sarin gas. NOBODY else seized on this story, and it was quickly dropped. But Fox still keeps this thing on its website, saying that these shells "show that Saddam Hussein was lying," and that weapons inspectors couldn't find them. Yeah, well, I've got a very old switchblade in the dresser, too, and it doesn't prove that I'm a mugger.

June 2006, the Supreme Court rolls back some of the Tom Delay-sponsored redistricting of the Texas voting map. The important part of the story is the fact that the map got partially changed back, because by default, it would stay favorable to the GOP. All the news services report this partial rollback, except Fox "News" whose headline reads "Supreme Court Keeps Most of Texas Redistricting Map." So instead of the slap on the wrist it really is, Fox portrays it as a victory for the GOP.

June 2006, the Academy of Sciences comes out with a whole new slew of evidence regarding global warming, that thing the GOP doesn't want to admit exists. Fox News barely touches it. On their web site, it gets a bullet point. One of the big-font lead stories: some guy who shot his wife and a judge weeks earlier in Reno.

Rick Santorum, noted gay-bashing GOP senator, jumped all over a report (late June 2006) that WMD had at last been found in Iraq. Turns out it was all just some old artillery shells with chemicals in them, dating to the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. Santorum and Rumsfeld and others tripped over themselves trying to say that these were indeed the dreaded WMD for which the USA invaded Iraq. But the story was a dud. John Gibson, right-wing whore, was quick to also repeat this nonsense, without checking his facts.
 


John Gibson, right-wing whore

John Gibson, right-wing whore, takes issue with a former head of the New York Times, who has lambasted Fox News for its slavish attention to the Bush administration. Gibson brings up a whole bunch of very old nitpicks with the Times, ignoring the fact that Fox's old Bill O'Reilly, phone sex meister, is regularly caught with his own facts down. John Gibson kisses Bush's ass so bad, he has red, white, and blue lips. Bush finally came out and said that we torture prisoners. He didn't use the word "torture," but he did call it "alternative" interrogation methods. Meaning torture. He also finally admitted to the secret prisons. Gibson accepts, without question, everything that comes out of Bush's mealy mouth. Gibson is certainly no journalist, only an apologist and propagandist.

Gibson got his start as a muck-raker. He worked for a gossip outlet. He even subbed for Geraldo. He refused to give up on the story that Barack Obama had attended a Muslim school, a story repeated by various rightwing nutjob sites, even after it had been debunked. When confronted about this false story on his radio show, Gibson said that the CNN reporter who had shot holes in the story "probably went to the very madrassa" that Obama had allegedly attended. In other words, Gibson was condemning a guy for doing the background work he didn't bother doing. 

Gibson said he was hoping Paris would get picked for the 2012 Olympics over London, so it would be threatened by terrorists. He's compared the nutty president of Iran with Democrats. He says that Caucasians should have more children so they don't become a minority.

May 2006, John Gibson, right-wing whore, says that whoever outed Valerie Plame should "get a medal." He also says that he's often misinterpreted, "but most often it's confined to the left-wing blogs that hate FOX." In other words, if you disagree, you must be left-wing, rather than just disgusted with their propaganda masquerading as truth.

September 2006, John Gibson, right-wing whore, has a piece about how election shenanigans are starting already, and lists, naturally, ONLY attacks by Democrats, completely ignoring the sleazy attacks by Republicans, including Bush. How convenient. 


October 2006, John Gibson, right-wing whore, ragging about the North Korean situation, invokes Jimmy Carter's failed initiative to keep nukes away from Kim Jong Il. Uh, DUMMY, that's ancient history. That's 12 years ago. Bush has accomplished NOTHING by midway through his second term. What about HIS failures? The situation has gotten WORSE under Bush. Why the hell are you mentioning Carter except to deflect blame?

Brit Hume is obsessed with pointing out every trivial little fact that might reflect badly on Democrats. The word "Democrats" is likely to show up in every lead for his section of the Fox website. In trying to offset Bush's disastrous poll numbers, he points out a few "who-cares" Democrats and says their numbers are bad too. But nobody cares about THEM. THEY aren't the ones who started a useless war, you dolt. He also brought up a story nobody else cared about, how the Dems were missing some members at some policy meetings. Then it was "Which Dem is defending Lieberman's views on Iraq."

Brit Hume, in fact, seems to make it his vocation to go after Democrats only. June 2006, Democrats look for a way out of Iraq. GOP calls it "cut and run" and pushes through a resolution against it. Then an American general talks about a pullout. Democrats say "See, even the military is agreeing with us." Brit Hume trips over himself trying to parse the differences between the general and the Democrats. August 2006, Hume has his entire website article filled with trivial attacks on Democrats.

The whole USA is screaming about oil prices, and aside from Bill "phone sex" O'Reilly, Fox is blaming everybody except the greedy oil companies and the greedy White House administration that's in bed with those oil companies.

April 2006, there's more news about the White House ignoring good intel and encouraging bad intel about Iraq, before the invasion, and Fox News has not one story on it, on TV or the web. Not one.

April 2006, Fox's own poll numbers have Bush at an all-time low of 33%, but they start hiding the daily poll numbers on their site.

The whole USA is up in arms about immigration policy. Massive protests. The GOP is split down the middle. Conservative commentators across the country are saying the president is nuts with his "guest worker" program. And Bill O'Reilly pust out a column about how Hillary Clinton has flip-flopped on immigration. Holy crap, we're not sweating HILLARY's take on immigration, we're sweating Bush's!

Fox News seemed obsessed with the gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain." They continually printed stories about how it was doing badly at the box office. Why? Because they wanted to push the notion that a movie about gay cowboys wasn't generating any interest. In fact, the movie did pretty damn good at the box office as well as with the critics. But Fox had to make shit up, to play to the rightwing faithful.

The big story of the day is Scooter Libby saying Bush authorized the leak of classified info. Even Arlen Specter and other prominent Republicans are calling for full disclosure. And Fox News barely mentions it. Their web site has NO MENTION OF IT AT ALL.

They keep their own poll results. Instead of a random sampling of Americans, they poll people who visit their site. Bill "phone sex" O'Reilly does the same thing at his own site. Bush is always several points higher on their site, and his. Well, DUH. Only hardcore rightwing screwups visit their sites regularly.

Fox wackjob John Gibson blames high gas prices on "enviros" who won't allow new refineries to be built, or more drilling done on American soil. Not a word, of course, about Bush and Cheney, who literally sneered at the idea of conservation, until that very sensible notion came back into vogue for them (out of sheer embarrassment), and nothing about alternative fuels, which have been pushed by everybody EXCEPT Bush and Cheney, until partway through their second term. Also not a word about the fact that the dickless wonder known as GW Bush didn't say a word about his buddies in the oil industry, who are making record profits off of consumers' misery. Not a word from Bush and Cheney, UNTIL enough members of Congress finally embarrassed the president into agreeing to an investigation into possible (probably) price gouging. Another Gibson bias giveaway: he condemns music artists singing songs against Bush's Iraq war, saying these singers have obviously forgotten about Al Qaeda. But that misses the point: they're talking about the unnecessary Iraq invasion, which he is wrapping up in the war on terror (just like Bush and Cheney have done all along), which are two different things. Iraq wasn't a haven for terrorists until the invasion MADE it that way.

In a so-called "news" story, Al Gore is accused of "raving" while  discussing Bush's poor performance. Gore spoke in front of a group, and Fox described him as "raving." I saw Gore's talk on the tube, and rather than "raving," I only noticed him, in a calm voice, "talking." 

Members of the ACLU showed up at the Mexican border, to check on the behavior of the Minutemen, those volunteers who are patrolling the border while they wait for the White House and Congress to get their shit together. The Fox "News" lady literally hounded the ACLU folks clear back to their truck, asking all sorts of loaded questions, and treating the ACLU guys like they were criminals. She acted like she was working for the Minutemen. Now, the correct opinion is that the Minutemen are doing a necessary job, and are to be highly commended for their volunteer efforts. But without people like the ACLU (even though they CAN get on the wrong side of an argument at times), people like the Bush White House would trample everybody's rights in a heartbeat.

Neil Cavuto, another Fox "News" blowhard commentator,mentioned in his slot  that Democratic Congressman Chuck Schumer has called for an investigation of gas price gouging, and says that Schumer should instead investigate the gummint taxes on gas. He lays pretty much all the blame on Schumer. The stupid thing is, LOTS of people in Congress are calling for such an investigation, and Bush obliged. The Senators who started the whole call for an investigation are Republicans. So why did Cavuto single out Schumer? Because Schumer IS a Democrat.