Fox’s in-house BABOON Glenn Beck has found “Communist Art” at NBC Headquarters at Rockefeller Center — Beck took shots at the titan of American capitalism, John Rockefeller, accusing him of having been a secret communist. Beck “knows this to be true” because he has discovered all sorts of “communist” and “fascist” art on NBC headquarters at Rockefeller Center, as well as on land behind the United Nations that was donated by Rockefeller. [ READ MORE ]
Columnist – John Sammon How would you like to be the kind of person who appeals to the worst in people, most of them small angry white men? How would you like to make oodles of money spreading malice and falsehood under the guise of righteousness, and contribute to the Balkanizing of America?
You too can work for Fox News and become a reactionary zealot, using television and radio. Here are some simple rules that if you follow, you can reach the top…..of the dung heap.
1. First of all, you have to be white. You can’t be a black or a Mexican and become a right wing radio TV zealot for Fox News. You must be white, the whiter the better. So white, you practically glow in the dark.
2. Next, you need to be chubby. You need to have the kind of face that looks like chipmunks are storing acorns in your cheeks. In a medium that stresses slimness, beauty and glamour, you need to be pudgy. Don’t ask why. Just over-eat.
3.You must never serve in the military. In the history of Fox, no right wing zealot commentator has ever served in the military. You don’t need to, after all, you’ll be accusing everybody else of treachery and subversion, while at the same time promoting war, the ultimate perversity. Time in the military is time wasted, a sucker game, not for you, making it harder for you to work your way up from that obscure radio station to the big time as a professional broadcast fanatic on Fox News. Instead, stay in college and get started broadcasting over the college radio, spewing lies about the alleged perverted sexual practices of fellow students. This will develop in you a thick hide and a disregard for the suffering of others and the truth, necessary attributes to be a right wing zealot commentator at Fox.
4. Next, learn to ignore history, while twisting the little you actually know. I didn’t say study history. Just twist it to suit your ends. This is simple to practice in your college dorm room. Simply stand in front of a mirror, and verbally rehearse disagreeing. Have someone say to you, “the sun came up yesterday.” Now say, “No it didn’t.” Now say, repeat after me, “black is white, square is round, up is down.” Look if not forceful, then mean. This will scare some people in your future audience and convince them you know what you’re talking about.
5. Develop a prospectus, a list of lightning rod issues where it’s legitimately one argument against the other, but that you can exploit to whip up fear and hatred, like abortion, or gun control. Write out and memorize mindless statements that condemn the opponents of your position by idiotic inaccurate historical comparisons that seem profound, but really aren’t, such as, “Hitler believed in gun control, and so does Obama, so Obama is Hitler.” The more of these moronic parables you can commit to memory, the better.
6. Never agree to appear on any TV or radio show that is not your own and with someone you know to be intelligent, glib and in opposition to your views. Never, but never.
7. Practice looking smug. Fat white cheeks, and smug. Look in the mirror. Are you smug? Remember, as smug as you think you are, you’re not that smug on camera. You have to be really smug. Practice it over and again.
8. Even though you feel like it, never use the N word to refer to African Americans. Instead, call them the safer “socialist, communist, Al-Qaeda-lover, traitor, subversive, liberal, Bush-Cheney-hater.” Constantly be on the lookout for new smear labels. This deflects from the issue at hand and keeps the focus on you and your personality.
9. Once you become a success, if you reach a saturation audience rating, in other words, a lot of angry 22-year-old white men named Billy Bob Ray Floyd are listening to you, ask Rupert Murdoch for a raise.
10. These are but a few of the principles I outline in my new CD kit and booklet, You Too Can be An Asshole. Only $79.95 while supplies last.
Republicans have called President Obama almost every name in the book, and NONE has stuck! What will they do when they finally realize that the Name-Calling, Racist Smears and Fear-Mongering is all for nothing.
From MediaMatters: On the March 9 edition of Fox News’ Special Report, host Bret Baier reported: “Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been under fire for saying he wants President Obama to fail. Limbaugh has since explained he was talking about the president’s policies and not the president specifically or the economy.” In fact, on February 13, responding to a caller’s question about whether Limbaugh wanted the economic recovery package to fail, Limbaugh said, “I hope it prolongs the recession.” Limbaugh has also repeatedly said he wants Obama specifically to fail. [ READ MORE ]
Baier ignored Limbaugh assertion that he hopes stimulus “prolongs the recession”
From MediaMatters: On America’s Newsroom, Megyn Kelly claimed that “the Democrats and the country’s biggest unions today [would be] kicking off an effort to kill a worker’s right to a private ballot” and later asserted that the Employee Free Choice Act could be called the “Kill the Private Ballot Doctrine.” In fact, EFCA would not eliminate employees’ rights to a secret ballot; as The New York Times reported, “Business groups have attacked the legislation because it would take away employers’ right to insist on holding a secret-ballot election to determine whether workers favored unionization.” — [ READ MORE ] [ Fox News repeatedly echoes only opponents of Employee Free Choice Act ]
Fox News’ ‘ACTRESS’ Kelly falsely suggested Employee Free Choice Act would eliminate secret ballot elections
CNN Also Not Vetting LYING Right-Wing Republicans
From MediaMatters: On the March 10 edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, syndicated columnist Tony Blankley and host Wolf Blitzer mischaracterized President Obama’s call back to The New York Times following his March 7 interview. After Blankley stated that “the fact The New York Times asked President Obama a few days ago, ‘Are you a socialist,’ suggests that the idea that he’s for big government is obvious,” Blitzer responded, “He later called them back and said he’s not a socialist.” Blankley then asserted that Obama originally “answered and didn’t like his answer and called back,” to which Blitzer replied, “To clarify, to clarify.”
In fact, as Media Matters for America has noted, according to the audio posted on the Times’ website, in his post-interview follow-up phone call with the Times, Obama did not call back “to clarify” that he is “not a socialist” — he had explicitly made that point during the initial interview. Rather, in his follow-up call, Obama criticized the Times’ question, stating, “It was hard for me to believe you were entirely serious about that socialist question.” Obama later said during his phone call, “I think that it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that is entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word socialist around can’t say the same.” — [ READ MORE ]
Blitzer, Blankley falsely claimed Obama was calling NY Times back “to clarify” he’s not a socialist
