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Jon Stewart highlights Bullsh*t Mountain’s history of hysteria to mock Benghazi hearing
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Wednesday mocked Fox News for over-hyping yet another congressional hearing on the attack in Benghazi. Fox News pundits and Republicans alike had promised Wednesday’s hearing would be a bombshell. But like the hearings before it, the Oversight Committee hearing failed to turn up…
Fox News host on Benghazi: ‘We’re getting a little lopsided’ by favoring Republicans
Fox News host Megyn Kelly admitted on Wednesday that the conservative network’s coverage of that day’s Benghazi hearings had been a “little lopsided” after Democratic lawmakers were repeatedly cut off for commercial breaks. Following opening statements, Fox News aired all of the questions House Oversight Committee Chair Darrel Issa (R-CA)…
Fox News shuts down Dem rep.: Talk of Republican Benghazi hypocrisy is ‘getting off track’
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday told Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) that he was “getting off track” when he suggested that Republicans were hypocrites for continuing to attack President Barack Obama’s administration over last year’s attacks in Benghazi after pressuring the State Department to cut funding for security personnel…
Fox News guest: Obama ‘encouraging’ statutory rape by supporting birth control
Republican strategist Brad Blakeman on Friday said that President Barack Obama was complicit in encouraging criminal activity because he supported contraception for young women. Last month, a federal judge ordered the Obama administration to make emergency contraception available to girls as young as 15 without a prescription. The Justice Department…
Fox News guest: Scientific ‘enlightenment and reason’ led to the Holocaust
A Fox News guest on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama’s transportation secretary nominee, connecting him to an 18th century scientific movement that embraced reason, which she said was partially to blame for the Holocaust. Fox News host Steve Doocy asked Penny Nance, CEO of the Christian activist group Concerned Women…
Rove: How can Obama close Gitmo if detainees didn’t get Miranda warnings?
Former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove is warning President Barack Obama that he might have difficulty closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay because detainees imprisoned by the previous administration were not read their Miranda rights. At a White House press conference on Tuesday, the president said that he would…
Fox News host: Denouncing violence against Muslims ‘could be perceived’ as offensive
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s denunciation of violence against Muslims during a speech to the Anti-Defamation League could be seen as offensive, according to Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Though the vast majority of his speech focused on the ADL’s importance in fighting hate crimes, some conservatives have become outraged…
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera: GOP crippled by right wing radio hosts
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Monday criticized the power that conservative radio show hosts wielded over the Republican Party. On HuffPost Live, Rivera described those who listened to conservative hosts like Rush Limbaugh as “absolutists” who were fond of the 1950s. He said Republicans could never hope to regain…
Former Fox News pundit: ‘Fox waging a campaign’ to link ‘radical’ and ‘Islam’
Former Fox News contributor Jane Hall says that her ex-colleagues at the conservative network have been “waging a campaign” to link the words “radical” and “Islam” following the bombings at the Boston Marathon earlier this month. In a Sunday discussion on CNN, host Howard Kurtz noted that after briefly coming…
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