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HBO plans biopic of Fox News president Roger Ailes
After taking on Sarah Palin, HBO has another Republican hate-figure in its sights. The TV network is planning a movie on Fox News president Roger Ailes, based on a forthcoming unofficial and by all accounts unflattering biography. In a turn that has already fizzed rightwing commentators, among the project’s executive…
Trump: Roberts upheld health law because he ‘wanted to be loved’
Real estate mogul Donald Trump says Chief Justice John Roberts became the swing vote and upheld Barack Obama’s health care reform law because he “wanted to be loved” by liberals and the Washington establishment. “It’s a disaster,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News on Monday. “Obviously it would…
McConnell: Uninsured people are ‘not the issue’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday pledged to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reforms and said that the 30 million Americans that the law is likely to cover were “not the issue” for Republicans. During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked McConnell how Republicans…
House Republican: We could have Attorney General Holder arrested
Appearing on a Friday afternoon Fox News broadcast, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) suggested that House Republicans may direct the House Sergeant at Arms to arrest Attorney General Eric Holder, provided they exhaust all other options for obtaining Justice Department documents that are now protected under executive privilege. “If you actually look…
Colbert to CNN and Fox: ‘You suck at news’
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert took cable news networks to task for jumping the gun and mistakenly announcing that the Supreme Court had struck down the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday morning, as the world looked on, both CNN and Fox…
Jon Stewart mocks reactions to the health care ruling
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked CNN and Fox News for falsely reporting that the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health reform bill had been struck down by the Supreme Court. Both networks claimed the individual mandate was ruled unconstitutional. “It was a…
Stewart: Fox News is ‘fox who cried wolf’ on ‘Fast and Furious’
On Tuesday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart again waded into the muddy waters of “Fast and Furious,” the pseudo-scandal currently rocking the right wing of the political world while barely seeming to exist to most people on the other side of the aisle. Republican outrage at…
Perino: Non-whites have ‘all the advantages’ at universities
Fox News co-host Dana Perino on Monday suggested that non-whites have “all the advantages” at universities and dismissed a campaign to promote racial justice in Minnesota. Earlier this year, the Un-Fair Campaign attempted to address white privilege and racism in Duluth by promoting their message on billboards, social networks and…
Vatican hires Fox News reporter as media advisor
The Vatican has hired a Fox News correspondent to help improve the Catholic church’s media relations, Reuters reported Saturday. Citing a church source, the news agency reported that Gerg Burke, a Fox correspondant for Europe and the Middle East and a member of the right-wing Catholic group Opus Dei, had been…
Chris Wallace uses ‘illegals’ slur to describe young immigrants
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday referred to young undocumented immigrants with the word “illegals,” a term that many consider to be a slur. “The president announced a new immigration policy this week to stop deporting illegals who have been brought into this country as children and who have…
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