In honor of Black History Month, Jon Stewart said it was time that some people got their facts straight on how history really went down.
Stewart called out Fox Business Network’s “tribute” to Black History Month Monday night by playing a clip of Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano claiming that President Lincoln hurt the nation by leading “the most murderous war in America” rather than letting slavery die a “natural” death. Napolitano argued that Lincoln should have tried “purchasing the slaves and then freeing them.”
Here’s how Stewart responded:
“Compensated emancipation, why didn’t Lincoln think of that!? What’s that? Oh, he did think of that? Oh! He spent most of 1862 trying to convince the border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and West Virginia to free their slaves in exchange for money and everybody said f*ck off…because it wasn’t economically feasible and the slave states had a deeply vested socio-political interest in maintaining a two-tiered culture based on cheap forced labor.”
Although 97 percent of climate experts agree that “humans are causing global warming,” the Fox News cast is still dragging its collective knuckles, criticizing the President for “declaring” climate change a fact.
And they did shows about it too.
In a recent Fox News’ Special Report, host Chris Wallace did a segment on carbon emission regulations and stated that “President Obama has declared climate change a fact,” despite “objections from many dissenters.” In a Special Report presented by Doug McKelway, the case was made that climate change is not happening, and it contained an interview from a noted climate change denier Marc Morano who, as fate would have it, has ties with the fossil fuel industry.
Of course this fact was not disclosed to their audience that the report they presented had information from a lobbyist for fossil fuel industry.
You know this was going to happen. Yesterday, CVS announced that it will no longer sell tobacco products. Now, CVS is a business, a Corporation. You’d think that its freedom to make whatever decision it sees fit for their brand would go over pretty smoothly with the corporate freedom lovers over at Fox News? But you’d be wrong again for harboring that thought.
On on Fox’s The Five, co-host Dana Perino tried to use the decision to attack President Obama’s signature health care law, saying, “I just wonder, is this President Obama now saying that corporations are allowed to have values and express them? Because if that’s the case, maybe corporations then don’t have to provide contraceptive care to their employees or their health plans. And the Supreme Court justices might want to think about that.”
Ah, for the record, Healthcare is the law. Providing cigarettes is not.
Shmuel “Shmuley” Boteach, a conservative rabbi who ran for office as a Republican and was endorsed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), on Tuesday blasted Duck Dynasty reality star Phil Robertson for doing “tremendous damage to religion” with his anti-LGBT comments.
During a religion panel on Tuesday, Fox News host Gretchen Carlson asked CBN’s Wendy Griffith if she approved of a Bible study curriculum that was being branded with the “Duck Dynasty” name.
“I think it’s perfect,” Griffith replied. “They are just being who they are. They are people of faith. They realize that their fame could be short-lived and they’re making the most of it. They’re saying, you know, ‘We want to take a lot of people to heaven with us when we go so we’re going to do this, we’re going to bring it into the churches.’ I think it’s great.”
While Giffith seemed to have forgiven the recent remarks comparing homosexuals to terrorists, Boteach clearly had not forgotten.
“Amanda’s comment is very telling,” Boteach said. “The religious person hears a calling. It’s not career, it’s not about them, it’s about the wider contribution they can make to society in general. And that breeds humility.”
“But on this with Duck Dynasty, they’ve done tremendous damage to religion,” he added. “We have to stop making religion in America about bashing gays. They just have to forswear that stupid comment about comparing homosexuality to bestiality.”
And Boteach was just warming up: “You see the problem in America is we overlook all the heterosexual guys who are raping women, one in five, on the campus. We saw this terrible statistic that in Alaska…”
The rabbi was probably going to make a point about Alaskan women being raped at a rate three times the national average, but Carlson and Griffith cut him off.
“I don’t think that’s what they’re about,” Griffith argued.
“Bashing gays is not religion!” Boteach shot back. “What is religion is family dinners and combating the divorce rate.”
“If Christians want to buy this from somebody who’s made very bigoted and very stereotypical and very awful comments about women and African-Americans that’s their choice,” American Atheists Managing Director Amanda Knief pointed out. “But I am certainly going to find my moral leanings from someone else, not from reality TV characters.”
“Well, if people are interested, this church curriculum comes out in May,” Carlson said in conclusion.
Well this shouldn’t come as a surprise, so I wouldn’t spend too much time talking about Fox News and the role they’ve played in dividing this country, putting whites against blacks, rich against the poor, citizens against immigrants, straight folks against ‘The Gays’ and everyone against women and their right to make their own choices.
I will go straight into the present controversy – an inclusive Super Bowl ad by Coke that caused racists people in their mom’s basement all over this country, to rush to their keyboard and tweet their disgust. Fox News is following these people, warning Coke that their inclusive commercial will not be tolerated!
Eric Bolling from Fox apparently had a problem with Coke and their attempt at diversity, what he called “this diversity thing,” explaining that ‘America The Beautiful’ was “the wrong song” to use for their inclusiveness.
“For whatever you gain in this diversity thing you’re going for, Coke, you blew it with a lot of people who are very, very patriotic about that song.”
“The problem here, and it’s not even bad if you have all the different cultures singing a song, showing America is a mix of different cultures, but don’t put it to ‘America the Beautiful.’ You used the wrong song. You ticked off a lot of Coke drinkers, you ticked off a lot of Americans.”
Shhhhh. Let’s not tell them that the song was actually written by a lesbian.
Fox News is hemorrhaging young viewers, but last week, things hit a new low for Fox. Rachel Maddow beat Fox News for the entire week with viewers age 25-54.
According to TVNewser, “The Rachel Maddow Show” averaged 325,000 A25-54 viewers for the week, topping Fox News’ “The Kelly File,” which drew 305,000, and “Piers Morgan Tonight,” which had 159,000. It was MSNBC’s best 9pmET performance since the week of the Boston Marathon bombing (4/15/13). MSNBC’s coverage of the Chris Christie bridge scandal propelled MSNBC to#1 in the primetime demo on both Thursday and Friday of last week. Maddow won the 9pmET timeslot among younger viewers both nights.”
Moving Megyn Kelly to 9 PM was supposed to lure young viewers to Fox News. That move has failed as Kelly isn’t drawing the younger demographic that Fox News desperately needs for the future. The Maddow victory comes on the heels of Fox News seeing a 30% drop in young viewership in 2013. These numbers are also a huge victory for Maddow. She broke the Bridgegate story, and it is nice to see her being rewarded for some excellent reporting.
A Fox News contributor is perplexed. He is demanding that Republicans stand up and fight against extending unemployment benefits for the unemployed. Contributor Steve Hayes even went as far as calling congressional Republicans “a little too wimpy” for not forcefully standing up against Democrats on the issue.
While Democrats have always been for extending unemployment insurance, most Republicans have steadfastly been against it. These Republicans are demanding that any extension in benefits must come from cuts in other social programs. Steve understands their reasoning, but thinks they’re being “wimpy.”
“They make a very pragmatic, practical argument about deficit neutrality,” Hayes said. “I think that’s a fine argument, as far as it goes. But I think Republicans are being a little too wimpy on this. I think it’s time to make a moral argument against extended unemployment insurance forever.”
Like a majority of Republicans, it is Hayes view that extending unemployment benefits for these out of work Americans is in essence, holding these Americans back. Hayes, and others like him think providing this temporary assistance to those in need will lead to a society of lazy Americans depending on entitlements, thus, making unemployment a “way of life.”
“We’ve been hearing that it’ll be cut off now for the better part of five years,” Hayes said. “There used to be widespread, bipartisan agreement in Washington that unemployment insurance was sort of the last place to go, the last place that somebody who was down on their luck could turn. Now, it’s increasingly becoming a way of life.”
“What’s surprising to me is that Republicans aren’t making a moral case about how often unemployment insurance that goes on forever leads to more unemployment.”
Got that? Considering that a minimum of three applicants apply for every one job opening, it is the Republican’s opinion that any help to these people is wrong. The apparent believe is if an unemployed cannot bully his/her way into getting that one job opening, then they and their family need no help.
Remember North Dakota congressman, Rep. Kevin Cramer? He tried to justify his vote to kick veterans, the elderly and children off of food assistance by misrepresenting and misquoting a passage in the Bible, saying ‘If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.’ Well that same ideology is being played out here in the unemployment insurance fight – if they don’t work, they shouldn’t eat.
Yes folks, Santa and Jesus are white… according to the brains at Fox News!
Sidenote: I don’t know why we waste time with these airheads, but we do. And again, more time-wasting.
So earlier in the week, the brains at Fox News concluded that Santa Claus was a white man. Needless to say, this caused quite a stir in our shortsighted, cannot report real news… news media. So much attention came because of this statement, that the smart ones like Jon Stewart felt the need to put things in perspective.
Stewart pointed out the fact, based on Vatican’s findings, that St. Nicolas has his roots in a part of Greece that actually belongs to Turkey today. And with that fact, Stewart shows his rendition of what St Nicolas could have actually looked like – a dark-skinned man with a white beard.
“So who exactly is changing the facts to make themselves more comfortable here?” Stewart asked. “Actual St. Nicolas, well, my guess is there would be no Christmas if he looked like that dude, because he’s probably still on the no-fly list.”
Maybe that’s why he never came to the hood. I’m from the hood and I can’t remember ever seeing the jolly white guy or his reindeer trotting down the streets of East New York, Brooklyn.
But wait… we celebrate Christmas in the hood? We sure did. We had a tree, decorations, the whole nine yards.
So if Santa bypassed the hood, exactly who was responsible for all those gifts under the tree? Come to think of it, I’m sure I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus one night, right by the tree, and I’m sure he wasn’t white.
With that said, I beg to differ Fox. Santa is not a white man… at least not the Santa I knew.
Fox News conveniently created this fake “War On Christmas.” claiming that people are taking “Christ” out of Christmas and using “Happy Holidays” instead. Well it seems Fox News is also waging a war on Christmas.
In this 2010 picture, Fox News dropped the “Christ” from their Christmas party announcement and proclaimed the Fox News “Holiday Party.”
Where are the War On Christmas policemen, Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin when you need them?
Jon Stewart looked at the new era in Obamacare reporting – From Medical Experts! He looked at the different cable news networks, and showed clips from their medical expeerts giving their professional opinion on Obamacare and its implementation… until he played a clip from a so-called expert on FOX!
Watch, as Stewart dissect the partisan bull coming from the Fox News experts.
Stewart’s conclusion? That medical advise is not the focus of Fox’s medical experts. These experts, as Stewart correctly summarized, “serve as a much more important purpose… to agree with Fox News talking points.”
Stewart later added, “these guys seems less like doctors and more like the shady expert witnesses paid by the defense, to say that the bullet hole, exit wound… I don’t know maybe that’s a third nipple!”
In other words, Fox so-called medical experts are full of it… with the ‘sh’ added in front of the ‘it.’
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