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How much does “fair and balanced” Fox And Friends hate Obama?

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Typically I start my morning watching Fox News’ Fox And Friends. Network morning shows are mostly light fare with a little bit of news mixed in. Fox And Friends is sort of like that except it’s far more heavily weighted towards red meat conservative politics.

It won’t take a viewer very long to realize the three co-hosts and most of the guests on Fox And Friends’ curvy couch hate President Obama. One regular Obama hater is billionaire Donald Trump. Brilliant self-promoter? Egomaniac? Take your pick or say he’s a lot of both. There’s no doubt he’s conservative. You don’t have to believe his repeated flirtations with running as a Republican presidential candidate to accept his conservative cred. Just catch a couple of his Fox And Friends visits where trashing President Obama is one of his favorite topics.

Like his last visit yesterday morning where him and his Fox And Friends buddies enjoyed his tweet smearing President Obama with blame for the Seahawk’s Super Bowl loss.

Trump tweet

Mocking any president is fair game. However, good luck finding any video of Fox And Friends similarly mocking, say, Obama’s predecessor President Bush. In fact, the Fox And Friends curvy couch crowd routinely bristles at the run-of-the-mill Bush isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack jokes which were very popular during his presidency and linger to this day.

The saddest part of all of this is this sort of hypocrisy is lost on Fox And Friends and Fox News programming in general. The dye in their wool is so deep red Republican I’m starting to think hating President Obama is what they view as a “fair and balanced” approach to news coverage and analysis. Witness habitual Obama critic Bill O’Reilly’s constant claim he’s fair to President Obama. Which is correct in the context of how tolerant can any Republican be of our president?

All I Want For Christmas Is A Brand New Gun. Fox News Fox And Friends Edition.

25 Thursday Dec 2014

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Christmas is a time for friends, families, the spirit of giving, and for Christians celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace. Just kidding. If you’re Fox News Fox And Friends it’s the season to spin right-wing politics. Brainwashing viewers is a 365 day a year operation.

So what’s the gift women Fox News targets are craving for Christmas? A new car? A diamond ring? guns for Christmas A trip to Hawaii? A Nordstrom’s shopping spree? Just kidding again. They want a shiny new gun. What else to get people who celebrate Christmas from their fear bunkers? Well, I guess you could purchase some ‘food safety.’

Now you see why I don’t hang out with right-wingers when they’re unwrapping presents. My luck, they packed the gun with bullets in it all ready for the gun-grabbing Obama adminstration’s ATF agents who are liable to kick down their door any minute and the one lib in the room accidentally gets it.

Well, Merry Christmas everyone!

Is Fox News’ Ed Henry a Real Reporter? I Don’t Think So.

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Since Fox News isn’t so much a real news network but just a loud conservative messaging megaphone it logically follows their reporters are merely the tools speaking into said microphone. Enter Ed Henry.

Fox News Fox And Friends, 12/24/2014

Ed Henry and friends. Fox News Fox And Friends 12/24/2014.

I haven’t posted here in a long, long while. The issue hardly is having nothing to post about Fox News. If nothing else, Fox News is a reliable conservative propaganda factory. I’m also not sure why this minor point of bias by Ed Henry is a tipping point to get me to post something again because by Fox News’ outrageous standards it’s the mole hill casting the shadow of a mountain.

So it’s Christmas Eve which is naturally a slow news day. Fox News’ morning propaganda kick-off show, Fox And Friends, is reduced to 2nd and 3rd string co-hosts on the curvy couch. Ed breaches the cliché end of the year news retrospective networks use to plug the hole of little interesting news during the holidays. Only this is Fox News so it’s got to be immersed in politics. It’s Fox News so the spin must be hard right.

What Ed serves up is a softball interview of some pundit to reflect on the worst political stories. Didn’t catch her name. It’s not really important. I suspect it’s the typical Fox News set-up where a conservative spin doctor is peddled as an objective analyst but since I have no proof let’s say she’s truly non-partisan. Her selection wasn’t random in any case as she dives immediately into slamming Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats over Jonathan Gruber.

The punch line? Ed Henry realized what’s up. He’s playing propaganda charades. Deep down inside there’s a shred of guilt. His byline lists him as a “reporter” dagnabit! So he interjects his analyst is “fair and balanced” (yes, Ed used Fox News’ cynical tagline). The proof? She ‘criticizes’ the GOP Congress. That’s “fair and balanced.” Right? Wait for it….

One tiny little crack in the “fair and balanced” mirror. Her criticism of the GOP Congress is they didn’t stop President Obama. Seriously, Ed?

Fox And Friends’ Steve Doocy Busted Taking Obama Completely Out of Context on Business Remarks

28 Saturday Jul 2012

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Steve Doocy “Worst Person in World” again?

The Propaganda Factory’s inspiration is the conservative agitprop channel Fox News. Posing as a news channel, Fox News is largely a megaphone for right-wing talk radio, red blogs and conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation. Fox News feeds a willing tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear partisan audience slam dunk half truths proving pure conservative ideology is infallible good. Everything else is liberalism and, if you’ve watched much Fox News, you quickly realize liberalism isn’t just a misguided policy failure, it’s a moral one as well.

Kicking off Fox News’ propaganda spew each morning is Fox And Friends. Lightly camouflaged as your run of the mill fluff morning show, Fox And Friends focuses heavily on politics. It’s all about constructing conservative narratives so you’ll rarely see a Democrat on the show unless they’ve crossed the aisle to join the Republicans. Fox And Friends is so overtly biased I usually find it quite funny. However, Fox And Friends’ bovine excrement isn’t always so obvious. Jon Stewart, who also often finds Fox And Friends quite funny, provides this telling example:

– Jon’s skit starts around the :50 mark.

This is classic “fair and balanced” Fox News participating in a tag team event with right-wing pundits and team Romney.

Fox News Wishes President Obama a Happy Birthday or Maybe Not

07 Sunday Aug 2011

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President Obama turned 50 on Friday. So did – could – partisan Fox News lay off him about it? Apparently not. It’s like asking a skunk to give up its stink.

Famously (it’s been Tweeted alone over 1,300 times!), their web propaganda organ, Fox Nation, posted the article “Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs.” Note Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder performed, according to their write-up. Neither are known for their hip-hop acts.  DJ Cassidy did play some hip-hop tunes but mixed with a wide variety of musical genres. If the deliberately misleading title wasn’t enough of a conservative race-baiting dog whistle, the accompanying photos might clue in the denser fanboys. All of the photos of attendees are of blacks even though many guests weren’t. Fox Nation doesn’t do subtle.

We found many of the comments to be offensive and inappropriate and they have been removed. We also shut down further comments on this piece.

Bill Shine, Fox News

 

If that were all. Fox Nation also posted some b-day whacks from their Tea Party pals, Michele Bachmann and Allen West. And what trashing of President Obama by Fox News would be complete without Fox & Friends getting their b-day digs in too?

I’ve compiled the complete collection for your viewing displeasure. TPM compiled their own video from which I stole 2 brief clips.

Put ‘The President Does Not Have A Plan’ Meme to Bed

29 Friday Jul 2011

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Weekly “fair and balanced” Fox and Friends trot out Brent Bozell to expose media bias. Which is to say the arch conservative data-mines topics to keep alive the notion the media, except trusted conservative sources like Fox News, is in the tank for liberals.

Today his topic was the liberal media blaming the Republicans for the debt negotiation impasse. My personal observation is rival CNN isn’t bashful about spreading around the blame – often expressing opinions I don’t agree with – but you don’t hear me whining about it. Yet, I digress.

He propped up his argument with the tired talking point President Obama hasn’t written down a plan. Countless conservative Fox News guests have parroted this point. Not to mention Greta Van Susteren beat this topic to death last night on her GOP TV show as did Sean Hannity in his slug-fest with Juan Williams (who put on his liberal hat for a while).

So the conservative Fox News partisans finger-point to a failure of leadership on the President’s part. What’s overlooked is President Obama couldn’t get any practical movement from Speaker of the House Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor regarding general principles. Nor was this the first Democratic attempt as Vice President Biden saw the Republicans walk out on him too. If you can’t reach agreement on broad issues like revenue enhancenents and defense cuts being on the table wasting the President’s time drilling down into the weeds of details is foolish.

I fundamentally don’t understand how such a dumb idea gets so much mileage on Fox News. Oh wait, I did say it was Fox News.

Laugh of the Day

26 Tuesday Jul 2011

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So I’m driving to the grocery store listening to Fox News’ Fox and Friends morning show on XM satellite radio. We all know Fox News proudly declares itself “fair and balanced”. Fox and Friends daily proves their slogan bull crap with its ceaseless attacks on President Obama which contrasts nicely with them reflexively apologizing for President Bush.

Putting the two things together – their slogan and their hypocrisy – it strikes my funny bone as highly ironic Fox and Friends ran a segment attacking President Obama’s heavy use of the phrase “balanced approach” in last night’s speech as transparently political.

I suppose a pot calling a kettle black would know these things.