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FOX Calls MSNBC "Biased" and "Political" — Irony Meter Explodes, Injuring Three

2008-07-09T13:14:59Z

After having the irony neurons successfully removed from their “brains,” the breezy FOX & Friends team were simply shocked—SHOCKED!—that NBC and MSNBC act in a way that they (and the White House) consider to be “biased” and “political.”

That’s right, people on FOX attacked an actual news network for being biased and political, and did it with a straight face. This from a network that was established with the sole focus of having more Republican bias than all the networks combined in an attempt to “balance” the "liberal media" in a way that they and they alone considered to be “fair”? Gretchen Carlson went on to decry how Keith Olbermann dared to tell Bush to “shut the hell up,” claiming that she would never show such disrespect to a president. This from FOX, who owes its very existence to the fact that they were willing to attack, lie about, mock, and demonize Bill Clinton 24 hours a day during his presidency, then continue doing it for years after? This from FOX, the home of Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, John Gibson, and every right wing whackjob who can string together a few syllables?

After 9/11, it was declared that irony was dead. But clips like this makes it clear that irony is alive and well and has a happy home wherever a Republican feigns outrage.

P.S. Any chance that FOX’s attack has something to do with the escalating feud between FOX and NBC/MSNBC after executives at MSNBC refused to stop Keith Olbermann from making fun of FOX? Oh, how the self-righteous have fallen…

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FOX Race Wars: Brian Kilmeade Fights Infection

2008-07-26T06:28:49Z

Last Friday sure was a tough one for the unflappably sunny, democrat-bashing folks at FOX & Friends. In my previous post, I talked about Chris Wallace’s unexpected critique of his F&F comrades, taking them to task for their unfair, dishonest attempt to create more racial division and animosity following Barack Obama’s courageous speech that attempted to explain then bridge America’s sad history of prejudice. But before Wallace’s appearance, things got so heated between the F&F co-hosts that Brian Kilmeade (the dark-haired one) got so pissed off with fellow hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson that he couldn’t even look at them. Kilmeade said:

You know for a fact that he doesn’t want to diminish white people, and if you don’t believe him, he’s half white! And he’s trying to say my [Obama’s] grandma grew up probably maybe in the 30s and there was a different view of whites, and this reverened [Wright] was growing up during the 60s where there was white-only bathrooms and water fountains…and that’s what he was trying to say in the speech!

Kilmeade was referring to the topic that apparently was the only thing FOX thought was worth talking about that morning: Obama saying in an interview that his grandmother was a “typical white person” in regards to her ingrained prejudices against black people. Even Kilmeade knew that Obama wasn’t attacking all white people (especially since Obama is half white), and Obama’s campaign clarified that Obama was talking about generational differences, which everyone agrees exists. But Kilmeade's co-hosts kept hammering away at it until Kilmeade couldn’t take it anymore — though it might have been Doocy’s dig about sports guys (Kilmeade has covered a lot of sports) that put him over the edge.

So what the hell is going on at FOX? In my opinion, I think there’s some soul searching going on amongst some at FOX about their relentlessly racist, divisive, and dishonest strategy to take down Obama by playing to their audience’s ugliest prejudices. This country is way overdue for racial unity, and Obama’s speech is the most gutsy attempt I’ve ever seen by any politician to speak frankly about the resentment and bitterness felt by both the black and white sides of the racial divide. So what would you do if you saw Obama’s speech repeatedly, cynically and dishonestly used to exacerbate racism? Hopefully you’d do what Brian Kilmeade did — walk away and refuse to be a part of it. Hopefully more at FOX, as well as other networks, will do the same.

Kudos to you, Kilmeade.

h/t Crooks & Liars

PS FOX ATTACKS! Obama 2 has passed 520,000 views. Let’s hope truth is contagious…

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FOX’s Kilmeade Calls for More Car Bombs — Y’Know, the Good Kind

2008-07-09T15:53:39Z

Back in August, FOX & Friends Brian Kilmeade said that we should arm groups willing to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran. Because it’s not that all terrorism is bad and morally reprehensible. It’s only bad when it’s the wrong kind of terrorism. I’m sure nothing bad could happen if we arm good terrorists.

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