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Jon Stewart destroys Fox News for jettisoning the Bill of Rights after Boston bombing

On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart illustrated how Fox News personalities feigned love of the U.S. Constitution, but quickly abandoned it when it conflicted with their opinion. In particular, Stewart observed that various Fox News hosts and pundits trashed the Bill of Rights following the…

Fox News host shocked by bulletproof whiteboards: ‘I cannot believe it’s come to that!’

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday was shocked to find out that bulletproof whiteboards were being distributed to some schools because “we assume a shooter is coming.” Following the failure to pass any type of new gun control legislation after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut,…

Fox News host proposes putting ‘listening devices’ in mosques after Boston bombing

After falsely painting the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing as frequent visitors to a local mosque, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for authorities to spy on mosques, despite evidence such tactics did not help any criminal investigations. “I think that we should be able to put in listening…

Feinstein calls out Peter King’s Islamophobia and ‘hatred’ for Muslims

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) on Sunday lashed out at New York Rep. Peter King (R) for creating “disdain and hatred” for Muslims following last week’s bombing in Boston. Fox News host Chris Wallace asked King in a Sunday interview if he agreed that “political correctness be damned, we have to…

Ex-CIA deputy director: Boston bombing ‘more like Columbine than al Qaeda’

Former CIA Deputy Director Phillip Mudd on Sunday told Fox News that Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev should be charged as a murderer because the crime looked more like the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado than an attack planned by al Qaeda. During an interview on Fox…

Peter King: Treat bomber as enemy combatant because ‘battlefield now in the U.S.’

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev should be treated as an enemy combatant and does not deserve to be informed of his Miranda rights to remain silent because the “battlefield is now in the United States.” In an interview on Sunday, Fox News host…

‘Solid leads’ but no arrests in Boston bombing case

Government officials said on Wednesday that they had “solid leads” in the investigation into who was behind the Monday bombings at the Boston Marathon. Both Fox News and CNN were told that surveillance video surveillance video from the Lord & Taylor department store near the second bombing location was being…

Fox News’ Ablow: Tea partiers ‘enslaved’ and ‘slaves always revolt’

Fox News’ resident psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow told a group of tea partiers over the weekend that they had been “enslaved” by taxes and “slaves always revolt.” At a Saturday “Tax Day Tea Party Rally” in Boston, Ablow explained that the government wanted to take away guns because “having firearms…

Tucker Carlson denies working for Fox News when caught fly fishing in Central Park

Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson had his peaceful fly fishing outing in New York City’s Central Park interrupted over the weekend by contributor to Howard Stern’s show. The Hollywood Reporter on Monday reported that Joey Boots posted video of his confrontation with Carlson that first seemed like it could become…

Howard Kurtz refutes Fox News pundit: ‘Conservative media didn’t do much’ on Gosnell case

CNN media critic Howard Kurtz on Sunday pushed back against a Fox News pundit who slammed the “deafening silence of too much of the media” over coverage of a Philadelphia doctor accused of killing seven babies and one woman while performing late-term abortions. In a USA Today column last week,…