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Foreigners Run Fox News

It seems that one of the 9/11 conspirators has named a Saudi prince as a major player in the attack — the same prince who is one of the owners of Fox News, along with Australian Rupert Murdock.  1506991_787180068041716_6786631590963988121_n

Well, that’s just silly.  Why, if he had an influence at Fox, they’d be using their network to undermine American interests by constantly attacking our President, lying about our accomplishments, encouraging the destruction of our environment, building dissent among our citizens, and trying to pit religions against each other.

Wait a minute…

In all seriousness, while it is true that this guy was the second-largest stockholder at Fox (and still owns some of it), you need to be cynical about this new allegation.  After all, this 9/11 conspirator is unreliable. He’s said a bunch of other things in the past that weren’t true, and now he’s suddenly remembering that Waleed bin Talal is involved?  Yeah, I’m unconvinced.  This guy suffers from all kinds of paranoid delusions (as his own lawyers pointed out during his trial).  Prosecutors don’t believe he is credible, so it’s doubtful this will go anywhere.

Still, it is kind of ironic that the “news” network that rails against Muslims and warns of Sharia Law is partially owned by a Muslim who enforces that law in his own country.

 

Editorial cartoon: Comparisons

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Brian Williams and the Double Standard

Brian Williams’s story about what happened to a helicopter  he was on changed over the years, and become more exciting each time.  He finally admitted that he had exaggerated and apologized, and has taken a leave of absence from his job as host of the NBC Nightly News.  As he should.Brian-Williams-cc-565x318

His job requires him to be believable.  It’s a requirement.  We expect our news to be true, and if we cannot believe the newscaster, it puts all of the rest of the news in question.

But what really makes me angry is the response from the right, and Fox News people especially, who are about ready to storm Rockefeller Center with pitchforks and torches.  Really?  Come on now, Fox News lies purposely constantly, and is called out for it on many legitimate and unbiased media watchdog sites.  They even lie about being “fair and balanced.”

If Brian Williams was on Fox instead of NBC, he’d still be secure in his job.

No, all lies are not the same.  “That dress doesn’t make you look fat” is not the same thing as “There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and therefore we should go to war.”

The lies told by Williams are not equivalent to Fox telling its viewers that Obamacare has killed jobs, or that Obama never called ISIS a terrorist organization, or that the vast majority of climate scientists think climate change is a hoax, or that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii, or … geez, I could just go on and on.  They’re documented pretty fully in plenty of places for anyone willing to check.

If you don’t believe that Fox lies, then I guess their propaganda has worked pretty darn well, hasn’t it?  There’s one born every minute, and Fox is more than happy to take advantage of your gullibility.

And that’s what makes me angrier about this than just being misled by Williams.  It’s the blindness on the right to the meaningful, easily disproved lies that come from their preferred news source.

Most of the left is upset with Williams and want him to leave over this minor infraction (me included).  Not one person on the right has called for the removal of any of the liars on Fox.

 

Editorial cartoon: Republican logic

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Latin? As in “Latin America”?!!

Damn ferners taking over our country.  They should just learn English!

Vermont is the latest hotbed of illegal immigration, being right on the border like it is.  (Oh, it’s the Canadian border?  Yeah, well, them ferners will find a way to get in, even if it means traveling across the entire US from Mexico to get into Canada to cross the border!).  vermontAnyway, it seems that in Vermont, they done passed a law making the state motto “Stella quarta decima fulgeat” which means in real language “May the Fourteenth Star Shine Bright,” ’cause they’re the fourteenth state and all.

When right-minded folk complained, the traitor who proposed it defended himself by saying “It’s Latin.”  Well, we don’t need no Latin Americans taking over our language!

The complaints from real Americans has dominated that small state of Vermont these last few days, as all the pointy-headed libruls defend the motto.

I mean, come on!  We’re one nation!  Our forefathers knew we were the land of English!  Doesn’t anyone believe in E Pluribus Unum any more?

Geez, the next thing you know, our math class will be using numbers designed by Arabs.

Editorial cartoon: Huckabee was right; it’s exactly like that

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“To Kill a Mockingbird” Sequel Suggestions

Man!  Slow down, lady, I haven’t finished the last one yet!  Harper Lee has announced a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” will soon come out, 55 years later.  Below are some suggested titles that I and my Facebook friends came up with to help her … although it seemed primarily we came up with ideas for the kind of sequels Hollywood would do:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird 2:  Electric Boogaloo
  • 2 Kill 2 Mockingbird
  • To Mock a Killingbird
  • Walk Hard:  The Boo Radley Storypvcategoryimage280220140516421605
  • How the Finch stole Christmas
  • Fifty Shades of Mockingbird
  • Hunger Games 5:  Mockingbird
  • Atticus Shrugged
  • Mockingbird:  Resurrection
  • Mockingbird 2: How Scout Got Her Groove Back
  • Faster, Mockingbird! Kill! Kill!
  • To Lame a Starling
  • To Aggravatingly Assault a Woodpecker
  • To Kneecap a Redwing Blackbird
  • Mockingbird 2:  Scout Goes to Ferguson
  • Dude, Where’s My Mockingbird?
  • I, Mockingbird
  • Mockingbird 2:  Mock Harder
  • Abbot and Costello Meet the Mockingbird
  • Come Back to the Five and Dime Boo Radley, Boo Radley
  • One Flew Over the Mockingbird’s Nest
  • Boo Watches the Watchmen
  • Those Incredible Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Crazy, Mixed-up Mockingbirds
  • Mockingbird: The Next Generation
  • The Revenge of the Undead Rabid Dog
  • Finch/Off
  • Don’t Tell Mom the Mockingbird’s Dead
  • Tinker, Tailor, Mockingbird, Spy
  • Tequila Mockingbird: Atticus’ Problem (ABC Afterschool Special Version)
  • The Desolation of Mockingbird
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Mockingbirds
  • Mockingbird 2:  Tom the Zombie
  • Mockingbirds Are Go!
  • Mockingbirdnado

Thanks again to all my Facebook friends who assisted in this list!  (You can go to my Facebook page to read them all and see who submitted each one.)

 

Editorial cartoon: McCain’s Guide to Speech

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Christie dumbs himself down in order to win Stupid Party nomination

I may disagree with Chris Christie over politics, but he always seemed like a fairly smart guy.  I’ve even complimented him in the past.

Then he decided he wanted to be President.   

In order to be a Republican President, you have to win the Republican primaries.  chris-christieAnd in order to do that, you have to be a member of the Stupid Party.  Primary voters are always at the extreme end of the political spectrum (Democrats, too) — so in the Republican primaries, that means you need to appeal to the anti-science, anti-immigrant, anti-women’s rights, anti-gay rights Tea Party types.

Christie began by ignoring the fact that a majority of the people who elected him in New Jersey favor gay marriage, by coming out against it and even vetoing the bill to allow it in his state.

Now he’s siding with the anti-science crowd over vaccinations.  Vaccinations!  I still can’t believe this is even an issue.  “Medicine is the work of evil scientists who want to cure everyone!”  WTF is wrong with these people?

Admittedly, the anti-vaccination people also include many stupid liberals who believe in crystals and magic and other nonsense, but Christie is using this issue to side with the anti-government crowd.  He says he vaccinates his kids but he doesn’t like the fact that the government forces him to do so.  You know, the stupid position.

Some politicians like Bobby Jindal are frustrated by this, literally telling his fellow Republicans “We have to stop being the ‘Stupid Party.'”   But then even Jindal is toning up the stupidity in order to appeal to the base, by allowing creationism to be taught in the schools and otherwise appealing to the stupids.

And it really doesn’t help that Christie’s campaign committee is “Leadership Matters For America.Org” — or LMFAO.

Editorial cartoon: Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated