Sarah Palin’s Own Words Describe Her Perfectly: Proudly Intolerant

Who knew that Sarah Palin’s own words could describe her as well (or better than) her toughest critic.

From Fox News (Fox Nation), her media relations organizations:

In tonight’s episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the former governor showcases the Alaska tundra while caribou hunting with her father. Beyond proving she’s a great shot, the episode is giving Palin an opportunity to “proudly” take aim at “anti-hunting hypocrisy.”

“Tonight’s hunting episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska ‘controversial’? Really? Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather couch or eaten a piece of meat, save your condemnation of tonight’s episode. I remain proudly intolerant of anti-hunting hypocrisy. ” Palin posted on Facebook and Twitter today.

Palin’s pro-hunting posts began on Friday when she urged fans to tune in to “see how we fill our freezers and feed our families with home-grown tundra-roaming Alaskan wild game. We’ll show you how Alaskans hunt. As my friend Sue says, ‘the tundra is the type of landscape that will make a man out of anybody.’ And, PETA…” she wrote on Facebook.

When I think of Sarah Palin I think of proudly intolerant. She was speaking of hunting, but I see it as ideally descriptive of her as a person and as a politician.

Fox Nation Readers Viciously Attack Stevie Wonder Using Race, Joke About His Blindness

The great Americans who post comments on Fox Nation’s Web site, the blogging cesspool that is a product of the Fox News empire, have a new target: entertainer Stevie Wonder.

Here is what is written to get things started:

Grammy award-winning musician Stevie Wonder said President Barack Obama’s popularity has been decreasing because “people are afraid of change.” Regarding health care reform, Wonder said people are “bickering over something that we should have had a long time ago.”
 
“I think as far as his [Obama's] popularity decreasing, I think it’s because people are so used to, they’re so afraid of change and I think you have politics playing too much a role in what should be a natural, given that health care in this country needs to be improved and that’s just a reality,” Wonder told CNSNews.com in an exclusive interview before his performance at a benefit concert for the Maya Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit group that raises money for special education programs in private schools

Now, let us take a look at some sample comments from some of the readers:

Obama Approval Down ‘Cause People “Afraid Of Change”
Is he blind or something? He sure can’t seem to see the damn truth. If he could see whats happening around him he’d have a different view about how things are.

Here’s another:

Stevie should just stick too singing, otherwise shut up.
All ya gotta do is open your eyes and look around at what’s happening.

More classy words from Fox Nation:

Another black entertainer/sports star that doesn’t know what he’s talking about and should keep his mouth shut.

There’s more:

Stevie, I love your music, so, shut up and sing.

Lets keep it going:

I AM NOT stevie………………….I heard your music and Smokey Robinson and Ray Charles and the Commadors and on and on and on.
I was NEVER afraid of change. WE faught for the right to have change when we defeated Germany and Japan and Korea and so on…………….I have NEVER been afraid of change.
Change is ALL around us….around us ALL!
Maybe stevie it’s because you have NEVER seen our FLAG wave in the wind….sung God Bless America or shed tears when a Flag covered coffin passes
by.
ONE thing we the people are NOT afraid of is change………………………………………
BUT
when we are given the choice to be SOLD out vs being PROUD…GIVE me the PRIDE in country over the offering of our gov now.
YES……………stevie…..we can HAVE change…….even in music…….or do YOU NOT remember that hit YOU had that ALL of us loved.
BUT……………………..this change is UN FIT for human consumption!
NOT even good music can MAKE us hum along!
I ……………… WISH…………………you could see what I wrote about above…but until that changes for you………give me WAHT I know and WHAT I LOVE!

And the last few:

Since Stevey wonder is blind, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s only physically blinded, not ideologically blinded, as is all the Obama-ites are..

Poor Stevie blind as a bat in all ways.

Too bad Stevie can’t see what Obama is doing to this counttry…

Well, by now you get the picture.

You can see how viciously these good Americans who love Fox News attack a blind man.

More Anita Dunn Attacks From Right-Wing Nuts With Distortions

The right-wing nuts, led by Fox News has been on the attack against White House communications director Anita Dunn due to her strongly-worded criticism of the conservative network for its obvious right-wing bias (that includes both opinion and news content that leans heavily to the right). The righties have been working hard to falsely portray her as an admirer of former Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-tung and now the latest is a disgraceful and sloppy attempt (a “Hail Mary” to borrow a football analogy) by Fox News to grossly mischaracterize Dunn’s comments about the campaign strategy of Team Obama during the presidential election of 2008.

Media Matters has been leading the charge to correct Fox News misinformation on this issue:

DUNN: A huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to, you know, why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was, that we — we had a huge premium both on message discipline, on people in the campaign not leaking to reporters and people in the campaign not discussing our strategy, and also on making the press cover what we were saying.

So we, you know, one of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters; we just put that out there and make them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it, as opposed to the press controlled it.

That is what Dunn said, but here is how Fox News mischaracterized her comments to put them in the most negative light possible (remember that this is coming from a “legitimate news organization”) in an ongoing retaliation effort:

The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute “control” over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year.

In a video of the event, Dunn is seen describing in detail the media strategy used by then-Sen. Barack Obama’s highly disciplined presidential campaign. The video is footage from a Jan. 12 forum hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic.

“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” Dunn said, admitting that the strategy “did not always make us popular in the press.”

This is, of course, a gross and irresponsible mischaracterization of what Dunn said. Fox misleads readers into thinking that Dunn was saying that the Obama campaign controlled the media which is false and irresponsible on the part of people at Fox News.

Notice how Fox takes single words quotations and frames them based on their own right-wing bias (an effort that is even more powerful considering its ongoing vendetta against Anita Dunn).

Here is how Media Matters boiled it down:

WorldNetDaily, followed by the Drudge Report and Fox Nation, falsely claimed that during a January 12 speech, White House communications director Anita Dunn boasted about the White House’s “control” over the media. In fact, Dunn was discussing the Obama campaign’s strategy for controlling the campaign’s message, not the media; moreover, her comments were made before Obama had taken office and before she became communications director.

So, the campaign was not controlling the media, but making sure its own message was controlled and consistent. This distortion by Fox News is done purposely and, I believe, maliciously simply to attack Anita Dunn in retaliation for her strong comments about what she perceives as bias on the part of Fox News.

Fox News, of course, responds like an elementary-school child would … with attacks, lies, gossip and essentially name calling.

Check out the Media Matters research to see the depth and breadth of the lies coming from the far right in a desperate attempt to attack Anita Dunn.

Media Matters Chronicles What Some Far-Right Nuts On Fox News Are Saying About President’s Talk To Students

Media Matters for America has done good work to bring together samples of some of the nutty, out of touch and hypocritical talk coming from those far to the right of what mainstream Americans really feel. When you look at the names on this list (Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, etc.) you can see just how dumb the comments and the thought behind the comments are when you break it down. The hatred of these individuals on the far right, for President Obama, has clouded their judgement and destroyed any pretense of objectivity related to anything this president does.

Check out some of the foolishness going out on the airwaves.

Hannity: “It seems very close to indoctrination.” During an interview with conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity said on his show that the president’s speech “seems very close to indoctrination.” Malkin replied in part: [T]his is not merely a morale-boosting speech that he’s giving. He’s giving it in the context of his Obamacare plan completely under siege. We know that the left has always used kids in public schools as guinea pigs and as junior lobbyists for their social liberal agenda.” Later, Malkin said Obama will “actually deliver a very innocuous speech. I can guarantee you that. But in these classrooms, which are living laboratories for left-wing activism, what you’re going to get are overzealous teachers, teachers’ union brass who are in the hip pockets of the Democrat Party, urge their kids to write letters, to demonize Obamacare opponents, and to call them opponents of change.” [Fox News' Hannity, 9/2/09]

COMMENT: You expect this kind of stupidity from Hannity and Malkin.

Crowley: “This is what Chairman Mao did.” On Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Laura Ingraham said the speech is “just another slick attempt to brand Barack Obama” and that “it’s a message being sent out by the Department of Education with these questions that without a doubt lead to the further branding of Barack Obama as a savior of our school children.” Also during the segment, Fox News commentator Monica Crowley said, “[J]ust when you think that this administration can’t get any more surreal and Orwellian, here he comes to indoctrinate our children,” and, “[T]his is what Chairman Mao did, Laura. This is like Max Headroom, this is going into every single classroom. There is no escape from him.” [Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, 9/2/09]

COMMENT: Chairman Mao … this is so stupid and ignorant of past presidential speeches it’s almost chilling.

Beck connects Mussolini to purported Obama “indoctrination next week.” Discussing a bas-relief supposedly representing Benito Mussolini, Fox News host Glenn Beck said: “Gee, who is having indoctrination next week? Oh, yeah, that’s right, the president, completely unrelated. This represents, at the time this was made, Mussolini. This was Mussolini. By the way, the artist that made this — his son, ironically and tragically died fighting the army of Mussolini years after this was made.” [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 9/2/09]

COMMENT: It’s Glenn Beck … enough said.

Tantaros: “They do this type of thing in North Korea and the former Soviet Union … very cultish.” Fox News contributor Andrea Tantaros responded to host Martha MaCullum’s comparison of the treatment of Ronald Reagan’s funeral and Obama’s inauguration in schools by stating: “This isn’t a historic moment. I mean it’s historic in the sense that it’s unprecedented. They do this type of thing in North Korea and the former Soviet Union.” Tantaros later added: “I would argue it’s a very fine line. You argue it’s propaganda. It seems very cultish, very sort of get in the minds of the kids.” [Fox News' The Live Desk, 9/3/09]

COMMENT: More efforts from the far right to try and portray the President as someone who is an evil dictator. It’s laughable coming off of so much of what we saw from Bush and Cheney.

Fox & Friends hosted parents who plan to “keep kids home” from Obama stay-in-school “indoctrination” speech. On September 3, Fox & Friends hosted two parents who, in the words of host Steve Doocy, “are concerned [Obama's] message is less about education and could be more about teaching the ideals of a liberal presidential administration.” Onscreen text during the segment read: “Education or indoctrination?”[Fox News' Fox & Friends, 9/3/09]

COMMENT: Using words like indoctrination show how idiotic some of these people are and how they are attracted to Fox News like metal to a magnet. Steve Doocy has no credibility.

Fox Nation asked: “Will You Keep Your Kids Home the Day Obama Speaks to Schools?” On September 3, the Fox Nation website featured a headline asking, “Will You Keep Your Kids Home the Day Obama Speaks to Schools?”

COMMENT: Fox Nation is a safe haven for far-right hatred. It’s a place where conservatives can come in and anonymously spew their right-wing hatred as they hide in cowardly fashion behind their anonymity while laughing hateful and often racist rants against President Obama.

News Hounds Continues To Be Watchdog For Biased, Hateful Fox Nation

Fox Nation, the Fox venture into blogging, has been particularly hostile toward President Barack Obama and has been about as far from fair and balanced as possible. But, like Fox News, Fox Nation has a habit of lying about being fair and balanced when they clearly are not.

Here is part of the News Hounds piece:

The latest example of blatant anti-Obama hate mongering on Fox Nation (Fox News’ website that boastsabout its tolerance and love for civil discourse) is its latest top headline that encourages parents to “sound off” about Obama’s upcoming address to school children. You’d think that conservatives who care about family values and education would be pleased that Obama plans to speak to our country’s young students about staying in school and the importance of education. But when you’re dedicated 24/7 to undermining every thing the opposing Party’s president does, you’ll grab anything and not just oppose it but turn it into incendiary rabble rousing. Predictably, the Fox Nation article offers one side, the anti-Obama side, only. Its one quote is inflammatory suggesting Obama’s address is about “socialism” and “indoctrination.”

Same language from Fox Nation trying to demonize the president from people who have no interest in trying to bring people together.

News Hounds Points Out More Hate At Fox Nation

The Fox Nation Web site has become a safe haven for the trafficking of racist ideology since its inception. News Hounds is again on the case as it people have spotted yet another instance of racism from individuals leaving comments being tolerated on The Fox Nation Web site.

This time, the target appears to be U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles).

Hateful Fox Nation Now Compares President Obama To Don Corleone

The hatred erupting from Fox News and Fox Nation is only growing with time.

Check out this image to see the latest hate coming from this right-wing propaganda machine of anger.

Fox Nation Should Take Down Homophobic Comment About Barney Frank

Here is a disgraceful comment left by a poster at Fox Nation. Hopefully the right wingers who run this blog will take it down. The story is about ESPN’s Erin Andrews being victimized by a person who filmed her naked or with very little clothing on. The story had nothing to do with Rep. Barney Frank, but here comes a close-minded conservative launching an attack based on hatred.

A poster named “Out of the Blue” writes: Just cover the “Peep Hole” when you get to your room. Especially if you are in the same hotel with Barney Frank, then cover all holes guys.

Barbara Boxer Playing With Race, But Why?

I saw this video on Fox Nation (which usually makes me skeptical). But, as I watched the video, I was a little puzzled by the exchange between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce during an Environment and Public Works Committee (Boxer is the committee chair) hearing (this turned out to be probably the most exciting one of these committee meetings ever), according to a POLITICO article:

Boxer was speaking to panelist Harry C. Alford, the president & CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.

They first started talking about where he lived, which led to Boxer telling him, “Let me talk to you, this is friendly.”

That didn’t last too long.

Boxer then quoted a NAACP resolution that passed and put it in the record.

ALFORD: “What does that mean?”

BOXER: “Sir, we’re going to put that in the record…” Alford: “What does that mean, though? The NAACP has a resolution, what does that mean?”

BOXER: “Sir, they could say the same thing about what do you mean…”

ALFORD: “I’ve got documentation.”

BOXER: “Sir, they passed it. They passed it. Now, also, if that isn’t interesting you to we’ll quote John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta.” [She goes on to read quote.]

ALFORD: “Madam Chair, that is condescending to me. I’m the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you’re trying to put up some other black group to pit against me.”

BOXER: “If this gentlemen were here he would be proud that he was being quoted.”

ALFORD: “He should have been invited!”

BOXER: “…just as he would be proud..” Alford: “It is condescending to me.”

BOXER: “…he’s proud, I’m sure, that I am quoting him.”

ALFORD: “All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I don’t like it. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that!”

BOXER: “… offense at the fact that I would quote …?” Alford: “You’re quoting some other black man. Why don’t you quote some other Asian … or … you are being racial here. And I think you’re getting to a path here that’s going to explode.”

Boxer reviews what she had been doing and then mentions that “there is definitely differing opinions in the black community. Just as there are in my community.”

ALFORD: “You’re speaking on behalf of the black community?”

BOXER: “No. I am putting in the record a statement by the NAACP.”

ALFORD: “Why?”

BOXER: “Because I think it is quite relevant.”

ALFORD: “… Why are you doing the Colored People Association study with the Black Chamber of Commerce?”

BOXER: “I am trying to show the diversity of support that we have.”

ALFORD: “Diversity?”

BOXER: “And I will go ahead and do one more diversity of support…”

Eventually Alford declares, “We are referring to the experts regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here — this has nothing to do with the NAACP and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We’re talking energy and that road the chair went down, I think, is god-awful.”

I guess I find it puzzling that she was emphasizing race as much as she was during this exchange. Some of it seemed out of context. I didn’t get her reason for emphasizing race and, based upon what I saw, Alford had a legitimate beef.

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/barbara-boxer-accused-of_n_236242.html

The Hill Blog:
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/16/black-chamber-head-slams-boxer-words-as-racial-condescending-and-god-awful/

Say Anything Blog:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/wow_senator_barbara_boxer_gets_scolded_for_racial_condescension

Freedom’s Lighthouse:
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/07/black-chamber-of-commerce-ceo-blasts.html

Sarah Palin Can’t Answer Questions She Should Be Able To … Fox Nation Blames Questioners

Gov. Sarah Palin struggles to answer questions that a vice presidential candidate should be able to answer (or at least look decent dancing around it) and who gets the blame: interviewers like Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. It’s not Sarah’s fault, she didn’t know what the “Bush Doctrine” was, couldn’t name U.S. Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade and couldn’t (or wouldn’t) name newspapers she reads … it’s that darned mainstream media according to the good Americans at Fox Nation. Gibson is being nominated for am Emmy for his interview with Palin and Fox does not like that.

Emmy Nominations for Palin Hatchet Jobs

Nominations for the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced today. PBS picked up the most nominations with 41. CBS News followed with 23; ABC News has 13; NBC 10; CNN 8; BBC America with 3; and MSNBC has 2.

Here is part of the story Fox Nation links to:

Nominations for the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced today. PBS picked up the most nominations with 41. CBS News followed with 23; ABC News has 13; NBC 10; CNN 8; BBC America with 3; and MSNBC has 2.”60 Minutes” leads all shows with 15 nominations. “World News with Charles Gibson” has the most nominations for the evening newscasts with 7; “Nightly News with Brian Williams” picks up 5, including for Breaking News coverage of the death of Tim Russert; and the CBS “Evening News with Katie Couric” has 3 nominations, including for Couric’s “Campaign Questions” series during the 2008 election.

• CNN has two Breaking News-Long Form nominations — for coverage of the Democratic National Convention and for Election Night.

• NBC News is the only broadcast network nominated for its Election Night Coverage.

• Charlie Gibson is nominated for his interview with Sarah Palin.

Media Bistro:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/awards_accolades/news_documentary_emmy_nominations_announced_121533.asp

Newsday Reports President Obama Was Booed

There were some mixed reactions when President Obama came out to throw the first pitch during the Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday night.

This is from Newsday.com:

ST. LOUIS – He didn’t quite invite comparisons to the game’s starting pitchers. But President Barack Obama reached home plate, just barely, as the nation watched.

In the jacket of the White Sox, his favorite team, Obama unleashed a shaky ceremonial first pitch to Albert Pujols to kick off the All-Star Game last night at Busch Stadium. The crowd displayed its political leanings with a smattering of boos as Obama took the mound; in comparison, President George W. Bush, appearing in a pregame video, received a thunderous ovation.

It’s worth noting that President Obama was in St. Louis and he was wearing a Chicago White Sox jacket (in a rival city). Chicago is not going to be too popular in St. Louis when it comes to baseball (ask the Cubs).

Biased Fox Nation Takes Shot At Kerry, Leaves Palin Alone

Conservatives have been trying to portray (outgoing) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as some kind of victim of media bias since the early stages of the presidential campaign of 2008. Fox Nation, the blog wing of the Fox News conservative empire, took a shot at Sen. John Kerry, calling him “Long Face” in a headline of one of its entries:

‘Long Face’ Takes Another Swipe at Palin

Call it Kerry vs. Palin, Round 2.Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, a longtime Obama ally, and Alaska’s Republican Gov. Sarah Palin are sparring again, this time over climate change and energy policy.

Well, nothing like the “fair and balanced” people at Fox. You see, to Fox, it’s OK for Palin to rip on anyone, but heaven help you if you say anything critical of her.

It’s Funny Watching Republicans Go Overboard Trying To Slam President Barack Obama

It’s laughable reading about the morons who pollute Fox Nation exploiting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game to take a weak cheap shot at President Obama. This is just another example of how pathetic some of the right-wing dummies are to criticize his throw of the first pitch on a night when everyone else was coming together and saluting everyday heroes (including President George W. Bush, President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton and President Jimmy Carter). While everyone else was coming together, the Neanderthals in the GOP (beginning with the idiots on Web sites like Fox Nation) continued to bash with impunity).

I guess this reach is only natural since the GOP is striking out in its effort to smear Judge Sonia Sotomayor in her confirmation hearings. By now, the GOP had hoped she would live up to their prejudice beliefs that she was not intelligent and that she had a bad temper. Sotomayor has proven them wrong on both of those counts while also proving to be perhaps more charming and engaging than they had anticipated.

I would encourage people to go visit the Web site and see the hatred coming from those on the far right of the political spectrum coming off an event when the rest of us were coming together.

It’s just the same old thing from those great Americans turning Fox Nation into the toilet bowl of right-wing propaganda on the Internet. I only say that because Fox Nation, like Fox News, is dishonest about its right-wing bias.

Fox Nation:
http://www.thefoxnation.com/president-obama/2009/07/14/lefty-throws-change-0

Huffington Post Right To Remove Nasty Comment Directed At Sarah Palin, But …

I never saw the original post that took a shot at Sarah Palin and her son, Trig. But, by all accounts it was nasty. I found this from the Web site Free Republic (which, of course, found a way to take a cheap shot at President Obama for no apparent reason other than to be stupid and political). Much as Sarah Palin might do, Free Republic had the moral high ground and blew it (in a fashion so moronic it is almost incomprehensible) by taking an irrational shot at President Obama (who has nothing to do with this):

The Huffington Post, an official arm of the Obama administration, published an article a few minutes ago on the resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin with the following headline: Palin Will Run in ’12 on More Retardation Platform

It just shows how much Republicans hate President Obama and how much they hated him when he was Sen. Obama running for president … back when they only knew a few things about him.

Back to the topic.

Here is what Free Republic captured before writer Erik Sean Nelson’s nasty post was rightly removed.

In Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That’s a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people. To me, it’s kinda like saying the world needs more cancer patients because they teach us such personal lessons.

Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a Large HEAD-START Program.

She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40′s just to mix up some chromosomes.

She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job.

Look, she says she’s resigning as governor because people are making attacks on her and Trig. If she ever did become president, all Osama bin Laden would have to do to defeat the United States is Photoshop a picture of Trig and she’d surrender the country that night. As she said, “That’s not politics as usual.” It isn’t. Politicians don’t usually quit for so stupid of reasons.

Clearly, this is reprehensible and well out of bounds and I think reasonable people have a right to be outraged. It never ceases to amaze me the shots that people take at other people without thinking about what they’re doing. News Hounds, however, correctly points out that Bill O’Reilly, America’s Daddy, unleashed on Huffington Post while remaining silent about hate on Fox Nation (which operates right under his nose).

The writer did sort of make an attempt to apologize, but it’s a day late and a dollar short (as the saying goes):

I wrote a piece making fun of the fact that a Trig Palin joke was given as the reason that Sarah Palin left office. I wrote jokes that were offensive but my intent was for them to be ironic and therefore not offensive. I was wrong. Within ten minutes of my post I received some emails from the loved ones of the retarded and I saw that my piece was hurtful. Therefore, I removed the post right after receiving the first 2 emails.

I removed it immediately because I saw that it did not come across as I intended. I apologize to all of those who were offended.

This is not a particularly moving apology.

Unfortunately for Nelson, the damage was done and you can’t unring the bell … not when the mess is this extensive.

Fox Nation Cleverly Piling On Michael Jackson

This is one of the oldest partisan tricks in the book.

You want to use a headline to attack someone (in this case Michael Jackson) so what you do is you take something that someone else said, put single quote marks around it and run with it. Then, if someone calls you out on it, you say you were quoting someone else (when you could have simply said that in the first place and avoided the controversy.

But, if you’re Fox Nation, you thrive on controversy and partisan attacks on anything that is not (basically) ultra conservative.

Notice the headline does not read: “Congressman calls Michael Jackson a pervert”

Whoever posted this story was posting it to show how he or she feels about Jackson.

Fox Nation Seems To Mischaracterize Ron Reagan’s Statement About Rush Limbaugh

Leave it to those good Americans at Fox Nation to mischaracterize a comment Ron Reagan made smacking down negative comments about President Obama having an adviser on domestic violence.

Here is how the headline reads: Air America’s Ron Reagan Accuses Rush of Domestic Violence

Here is a line below the video: Ron Reagan: Domestic violence marred Rush’s marriages

Well, I didn’t hear anything along those lines in the video. That leaves opinions up to interpretation. Naturally, Fox Nation makes the worst-possible interpretation and seems to assert that Reagan was saying domestic violence marred Limbaugh’s marriages.

Fox Nation is free to interpret whatever way they want (almost exclusively from a pro-right wing perspective), but I believe Reagan was referring to Limbaugh’s insensitivity to women and women’s issues (something he has turned into a science over the years).

Fox Nation:
http://www.thefoxnation.com/ronald-reagan/2009/07/02/air-americas-ron-reagan-accuses-rush-domestic-violence

News Hounds Picks Up On Fox Nation Racism

Normally, I would not spend a whole lot of time commenting on the comments that (usually) anonymous people leave on blog sites. Fox Nation, the blog arm of the Fox News empire, has had continuing issues with hateful language on its blog site (as posted by readers). News Hounds has a blog entry about a series of racist comments directed at Roland Martin who, probably most notably, is a CNN commentator. Martin was critical of Sarah Palin in a column he wrote. As David Letterman discovered, not much gets the righties tighties in a bunch more than virtually any criticism of Sarah Palin. For the record, Martin is black (but you will see that quick when you see some of the racism directed at him by some cowardly and racist Fox Nation visitors).

Here is a screen shot captured by News Hounds:

Over the years, I’ve heard Bill O’Reilly be very critical of blogs like Daily Kos and Huffington Post for nasty comments posted by visitors. But, it seems people like O’Reilly are very silent about O’Reilly (unless he has done a segment that I’ve not seen criticizing Fox Nation).

Here is the other screen shot from News Hounds:

Is this what Fox is all about?

Where is the outrage from people like Bill O’Reilly?

Excellent work by News Hounds to catch this.

More Fox News Lies To Paint President Obama As A Muslim

The following is from a story Media Matters for America put together. The story, from the Fox News Web site “The Fox Nation” maliciously mischaracterizes comments from President Obama and plays upon the post-9/11 paranoid fear some people in this country have of Muslims.

A Fox Nation headline stated, “Obama Says U.S. Is a ‘Muslim Country.’ ” However, the blog post to which the headline linked noted that President Obama said, “[I]f you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

President Obama does not say the United States of America is a Muslim country. He is merely explaining that if you look at the number of Muslims in the U.S. that the United States would be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. It’s an intentional smear designed to play up fears of Muslims and anti-Muslim sentiment coming off the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

This is another good catch by Media Matters.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200906030002