Fair and balanced and insane

Faux News' Chris Wallace (his father must be so proud) opines that Barack Obama may not actually be President of the United States because Chief Justice John Roberts fucked up the oath of office.

Oi matey - your bleeding fifteen minutes are over already!

In an age of meaningless celebrity he is the ultimate meaningless "celebrity". It is clear that (not) Joe the (non-)plumber is a self promoting prat with no ideas to articulate and no talents with which to entertain us which makes him the perfect prop for the self-proclaimed pundits of the right and the "fair and balanced" folks at Faux News but one would think that even the Faux idiots would have the common sense to show him the door when he questions Senator Obama's patriotism and status as an American says that his "ideology is something completely different than what democracy stands for". One would of course be wrong because if (not) Joe the (non-)plumber says it it must be true.

Well what do you know?

Watch Faux News' Megyn (couldn't her parents spell?) Kelly melt down and then suggest that the Faux-workdoesn't tolerate sarcasm!

Oh the Faux-ness!

All credit to Joe Biden as he treats this "journalist" with the scorn and incredulity that she deserves. It would seem that Faux New has finally dropped any pretense of be a news channel.

Can't someone please make it stop????

No really. I mean it this time. Over on one of Faux News' websites some geezer named James Pinkerton works out that there are less than six degrees of separation between Barack and Beelzebub. Really. I'm fairly certain he's not being ironic!

In which I prove the existence of God...

...or at least Jesus and Mo do. I hope it makes you smile; it worked for me!

Even The Guardian has noticed...

...that Bill-o O'Reilly has lost his mind.



Having watched this again I am starting to wonder if Bill-o didn't lose a bit of money on Fanny Mae and her brother....

Won't someone please make them stop??

Just when it seems that Rupert Murdoch's Faux and Balanced coverage had reached its nadir they manage to outdo themselves once again. Watch in amazement as Megyn (couldn't her parents spell?) Kelly points out that if you take Michelle Obama's speech, take out the words she actually said and put in some others she didn't actually say she obviously hates America!

At some point can't we just take their licence away?

Why I like Pelosi's big idea!

Surrounded by brainless right wing protesters outside the Democratic Convention who were chanting "Drill here now" Ms. Pelosi suggested that we could make a good start by drilling in "their brains".

I have a better idea. Maybe we could start with whatever brains this lot has!

Today in Schadenfreude

The only news of any import that I have found to come out of the Democratic national convention so far is that one luxury box at the convention center was flooded by a "faulty" sprinkler. The box in question housed the Faux News contingent.

Oh, the Faux-ness

Thanks to the good folks at 236.com I haven't had to sign up to Sky just to get Faux News so I could watch their carefully researched hatchet job "Fair and Balanced" documentary on Barack Hussein Obama. They've captured all the important bits in only 60 seconds.

Imagine if you will

Imagine that a Muslim had launched a gun attack on an American church because of it's religious beliefs. The rabidly right wing American press, bravely led by Rupert Murdoch's Faux News would be screaming about the terror attack on American soil. Curiously however when a white Christian gunman attacks an American church because of its religious views the word "terror" barely gets a mention. I am sure that this does not represent, in any way, a double standard.

Oh, and if they had found even one page of writing by anyone to the left of centre the pundits would be decrying the "politics of hate" and demanding their imprisonment. However when it turns out the suspect is a fan of extreme right wing TV "journalists" again hardly a mention.

I am certain that there is a logical explanation!

A marriage made in heaven!

McDonald's corporation, who has been bringing nutrition to America's youth for generations has a deal with Faux News in La, who has been bringing a peculiar version of the truth to America's voters for far too long, that will see product placement coming to your local newscast. With the introduction of digital one can only assume that one will be able to push the red button to supersize your news.

Faux and (un)balanced

The American airwaves are alive as one network accuses another of bias and, to our immense amusement, the accusations are coming from the home of Fauxness!

We don't call it Faux News for nothing

Shame that the aren't very good with PhotoShop!

Shorter E.D. Hill

"If you believe this you are a complete and utter moron!

Out-Fauxed!

A producer from Bill-O O'Reilly's show tries, and fails, to ambush Bill Moyers. The young, eager and annoying Porter Barry* was trying to fight well out of his class.



*Is it just me or does "Porter Barry" sound like a name that could only come from a family deeply immersed in the East Coast, old money, intellectual elite that Bill-o and those of his despicable ilk so like to scorn?

It's official

One can't sue Faux News just because they're blithering idiots.

Bill-O loses (what was left of) his mind

I think Mr. O'Reilly has stopped taking his medication. I imagine that you will agree with me after watching this clip from Crooks and Liars where he rants on and on about the "hard left" NBC. (I suspect that Mr. O'Reilly has never met anyone from the "hard left" or even the "soft left" or the centre if he thinks NBC is anything but right of centre!) He also says that he would resign from any network that "went in the tank" for one candidate. Bill I hope you spent the weekend working on your resignation. You're going to need it and soon I should think.

Because it's your bloody job lady!

Crooks and Liars has a clip from one of those truly horrible Faux News shows in which the presenters decide to express their deeply not thought out positions that volunteer soldiers don't deserve the benefits that they will get from the new GI Bill (as opposed by Captain Codpiece and John McCain). The bit I find of most interest is when one of the MILF-like presenters of which the Faux Network is so fond, whose identify I don't know, proves totally incapable of pronouncing the word "vitriolic". We all like to have a bit of fun when a politician stumbles over a word or two, fifty in Captain Codpiece's case, but this woman pretends to be a professional broadcaster. Time she found a job that she is qualified for I should think.