Hannity: Palin smarter than Obama — When a viewer suggested that Fox News’ Sean Hannity only liked Sarah Palin for her looks, he responded that it was her intelligence he admired.
“This is about the people,” as Palin repeatedly put it last weekend while pocketing $100,000 of the Tea Partiers’ money. “It would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country,” Palin said, “so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again.” That pretty much sums up her party’s economic program, at least: divine intervention will achieve what government intervention cannot. Republicans are getting away with their populist masquerade, and Democrats are not convincing the country that they offer anything better.
The Palin shtick has now become the Republican catechism, parroted by every party leader in Washington. Their constant refrain, delivered with cynicism but not irony, is this: Republicans are the anti-big-government, anti-stimulus, anti-Wall Street, pro-Tea Party tribunes of the common folk. “This is about the people,” as Palin repeatedly put it last weekend while pocketing $100,000 of the Tea Partiers’ money.
This G.O.P. populism is all bunk, of course. Republicans in office now, as well as Palin during her furtive public service in Alaska, have feasted on federal pork, catered to special interests, and pursued policies indifferent to recession-battered Americans. And yet they’re getting away with their populist masquerade — not just with a considerable swath of voters but even with certain elements in the “liberal media.” The Dean of the Beltway press corps, the columnist David Broder, cited Palin’s “pitch-perfect populism” in hailing her as “a public figure at the top of her game” in Thursday’s Washington Post.
That Republican leaders can pass off deceptive faux-populism as “pitch-perfect populism” is in part a testament to the blinding intensity of the economic anger and anxiety roiling the country. It also shows the power of an incessant bumper-sticker fiction to take root when ineffectually challenged — and, most crucially, the inability of Democrats to make a persuasive case that they offer anything better. [ READ MORE ]
Why the mainstream media loves Sarah Palin — For Palin, the benefit is the exposure she needs to maintain her public profile and stir up chatter about a potential presidential candidacy — both of which help her continue to rake in millions of dollars in speaking fees. She also gets a villain with which to further energize her supporters: The more she convinces them “the MSM” hates her, the more they love her. [ READ MORE ]
Kurtz: “Doesn’t Sarah Palin exploit the media fascination with her, especially from her new perch at Fox News?”
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” – John Stuart Mill
Media Matters For America: On the February 1, inaugural edition of Fox News’ America Live, host Megyn Kelly claimed that “polls don’t really look good for Obama on” terrorism, specifically citing a mid-January Pew Research poll. However, the Pew poll concluded that “terrorism stands out as a strong suit” for President Obama; further, Kelly ignored numerous other polls — including one from Fox News — finding that a majority of the public approves of the Obama administration’s handling of terrorism issues. [ READ MORE ]
Fox’s Kelly claims polls don’t “look good for Obama” on terrorism, but her own evidence and Fox poll disagree
On Hannity, O’Keefe repeats false suggestion that Landrieu took $300 million bribe
Meanwhile, Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Alisyn Camerota seized on a recent Recovery.gov jobs report to falsely claim that the stimulus funded 600,000 jobs, which Fox & Friends then attacked as being inconsistent with other Obama administration officials’ estimates of jobs having been saved due to the stimulus. But that 600,000 jobs figure is reportedly only for the jobs funded by the stimulus in the fourth quarter of 2009; the White House still estimates that the stimulus’ overall impact has been about 2 million jobs funded, and that number is in line with other economists’ estimates. [ READ MORE ]
Fox & Friends falsely claims government says stimulus “has only created the 600,000 jobs“
O’Reilly’s math blunder: 4-year trial at $200 million a year equals “almost a trillion dollars“
Bill O’Reilly of The O’RACIST FACTOR on singing of America the Beautiful at Grammys: Some watchers “confused because there was no rapping“
Kinky Dick FAT Morris says, “I want to do a paid commercial here,” before soliciting GOP candidates for U.S. Senate
O’Reilly puts on South Asian accent to ridicule idea of international support for NYC terror trial
Laffable: Fox News gives platform for former Reagan adviser to push dubious claims*
State of The Union: 85% of Republicans Disagreed With Obama’s Speech ….Which They Did NOT Listen To! FAT Dick Morris: “Obama Hates Fox News.” Racist AssholeRoger Ailes: “I’m not in politics, I’m in ratings. We’re winning”
The most biased and bigoted name in “Fixed News” — Fox, lived up to it’s reputation for slanted and thoroughly prejudiced coverage of Obama’s smothering of the Tea-bagging Republican congressional lawmakers, last Friday. For the record, they barely covered the BLACK TRAGEDY in Haiti too, instead some of them like Bill O’Reilly engaged in spewing covertly racist rhetoric.
Meanwhile, the walking heart-attack, FATRoger Ailes, the Fox CEO — duck walked to ABC’s “This Week” program, today, to defend his goofballs. Ailes defended the fraudulent Glenn Beck as “accurate.” [ SEE VIDEO BELOW ]
Roger Ailes — defending a neo-nazi lunatic who has repeatedly incited his sick Republican followers to ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT.
MediaMatters: During President Obama’s question and answer session with Republican members of Congress at the GOP House Issues Conference, Fox News Channel was the only cable news network to cut away and not show the exchange in its entirety. However, Fox News subsequently aired all of the “Republican response” press conference held by House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) after the question and answer session with Obama. [ READ MORE ]
UGLY Roger Ailes defends Beck as “accurate,” adds “he did say one unfortunate thing which he apologized for, but that happens“
Roger Ailes’ History of Race-Baiting, Bigotry, Prejudice and Racism
The Need To De-FOX America
Ailes: “I’m not in politics, I’m in ratings. We’re winning”
Krugman confronts Ailes with Fox News’ “deliberate” health care “misinformation” documented by Media Matters — Krugman Cites Facts; Ailes Responds With Irrelevant GOP Talking Points…
