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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Fox News SLAMMED by Fox Employees Over Pro-Trump Propaganda
The Trump Administration keeps on churning out scandals, and the news media keeps on reporting them to a horrified public.
Fox News, however, has been doubling down on its unwavering support for Trump.
Creators of some of the Fox television network’s most successful scripted shows have had enough, and are voicing their outrage.
Recently, one of Fox News’ most outlandish personalities, Tucker Carlson, told his viewers to simply believe the opposite of whatever other news sources tell them.
Carlson has voiced white supremacist conspiracy theories and other abhorrent material in the past, but this instruction crossed a line with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.
On Twitter, MacFarlane characterized Carlson’s segment: “In other words, don’t think critically, don’t consult multiple news sources, and in general, don’t use your brain. Just blindly obey Fox News.”
That about sums it up.
“This is fringe s–t,” MacFarlane tweeted, referring to Carlson’s clip. “And it’s business like this that makes me embarrassed to work for this company.”
He doesn’t directly work for Fox News, but … close enough.
We’ll explain in a moment.
Modern Family creator Steve Levitan chimed in.
“Let me officially join Seth MacFarlane,” Levitan tweeted. “In saying I’m disgusted to work at a company that has anything whatsoever to do with @FoxNews.”
It sounds like these sentiments had been building up for months or even years.
“This bulls–t is the opposite of what #ModernFamily stands for,” Levitan added.
He does intend to see this series through to the end, but he suggested that he might not choose to continue working with the network after that.
Time will tell.
Paul Feig, a producer, has similar sentiments.
“I have made two films for 20th Century Fox and love the people in the movie and TV divisions,” Feig tweets.
Feig continues: “But I too cannot condone the support their news division promotes toward the immoral and abusive policies and actions taken by this current administration toward immigrant children.”
Filmaker Judd Apatow makes it clear that, while he knows that many people need to keep their jobs, he believes that those who can should choose to avoid working for Fox in any capacity.
“We all choose who to work with,” Apatow writes. “I understand why that is easier for some than others but many powerful people are powerful enough to speak up to their bosses at a moment like this.”
The whole world is watching. And so is history.
And so, by the way, are advertisers. Many of whom are reportedly growing uneasy with not only Fox News, but other Fox properties.
We know that entangled corporate holdings can be a little complicated and that the average person probably doesn’t think about them all that much.
(Aside from the occassional line of “Nestle is monopolizing vital water resources like they’re James Bond villains? Don’t they make chocolate?”)
Fox News, 20th Century Fox, and everything within the Fox Entertainment Group is owned and controlled by 21st Century Fox.
(So while MacFarlane and Levitan don’t work for Fox News, they work for the same people … and clearly, that association has gotten to them)
21st Century Fox is owned and chaired by Rupert Murdoch.
During the mid-1990s, Murdoch created Fox News. He hired Roger Ailes, a former Republican Party media consultant, to run it.
Ah, the infamous Fox News.
The self-described news network has been broadly criticized for a perceived conservative bias.
During the Presidencies of George W. Bush and Donald Trump, the network has been criticized by many as functioning as state-run television.
During the Obama administration, in contrast, the network aired segments in which various mouthpieces criticized President Obama’s choice in mustard and the color of his suit.
Now, various Trump administration scandals seem to get little to no mention on Fox News while every other network covers them.
Many blame Fox for working to warp the views that older Americans hold about the world and the country.
Tucker Carlson telling his viewers — most of whom are white, conservative, and noteably old — to simply disregard other news sources is deeply toxic, even for Fox News.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Pro-Trump Pastor Darrell Scott Invites Kaepernick to Kanye Summit
A famous Trump-friendly pastor says Colin Kaepernick and others with a voice on the subject of race are cordially invited to a proposed White House summit, with the centerpiece being Kanye West. We got Darrell Scott…
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
MLB"s Bruce Maxwell: Pro-Trump Waiter Wouldn"t Serve Me Over Kneeling Protest
Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell — the only MLB player who took a knee this season — tells TMZ Sports he was confronted by a pro-Trump waiter at an Alabama restaurant who refused to serve him. “He was like, ‘You’re the guy who took the knee? I…
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupt "Julius Caesar"/Donald Trump Play in Central Park, One Arrested
A pro-President Trump tag team of protesters disrupted the production of “Julius Caesar” — where Caesar is portrayed as Donald Trump and stabbed to death. Laura Loomer, who works for an alt-right website, crashed the stage Friday night and shouted…
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Under Fire for Pro-Trump Statement!
During the unbelievably nightmarish, totally traumatic election season …
Sorry, let’s just take a quiet moment to ourselves to practice some breathing exercises and gather ourselves after remembering the election season.
… OK, are we good now? Have we healed?
Let’s move on.
During the unbelievably nightmarish, totally traumatic election season, the Duggars were mostly very quiet about which candidate they were voting for.
Derick Dillard did reveal that he was voting for Donald Trump, but other than that, the family kept their picks for president to themselves.
Normally we’d just go ahead and assume that the Duggars would be voting for the Republican candidate, given their conservative views, but things were a little different this time around.
Mostly because the Republican candidate was a gross, vulgar monster who, despite his many claims, went against everything the Duggars have always said they believed in.
But if the election taught us anything, it was that you can always count on people to surprise you. And not in a good way.
And so judging by this new Facebook post on the Duggar Family Official page, it looks like the family really was on Trump’s side all along.
As Jim Bob and Michelle wrote in the post, “Evangelicals played a huge role in Donald Trump becoming our new President this week. We all know that we need to see our country turn back to God.”
We’ll take another moment here for your head to stop spinning, and if your brain exploded, go ahead and take some time to clean that mess up.
The notion that Donald Trump could turn the U.S. back to God is just so massively wrong in so very many ways, isn’t it?
But still, the Duggars insist that “As a new president takes office, we need to take advantage of this opportunity to teach our kids about God’s grace on our nation.”
And here’s the point of all this mess …
“It’s why Mike Huckabee’s team at Learn Our History created the kids DVD, One Nation Under God, and right now they’re giving it way for free at [insert Duggar propaganda link here].”
The Duggars are pushing these DVDs because “too few children know the story of God’s role in American history,” and the DVDs are free because “every child has a right to know.”
Jim Bob and Michelle call these productions “positive, patriotic and faith-based lessons that your children or grandchildren will learn.”
And hey, “Whether you choose to place an order or not, please be sure your kids are learning about God’s role in American history.”
So there are a couple of issues with this.
One, the previously mentioned hilariously misguided thought that Trump will somehow turn the U.S. into some theocracy.
And two, the fact that this whole DVD operation seems to be a bit of a scam — it’s one of those “give your credit card information and get something for free, but figure out how to cancel our we’ll charge you forever” deals.
And people are here for none of it.
“If you are hoping Trump will bring the country to God you are going to be disappointed,” one fan wrote. “You need an actual Godly Christian witness to do that, and Trump is a blasphemy of Christ’s teaching.”
“What do you mean, ‘turn back to God"” another asked. “An administration under Trump will NOT teach children to ‘turn back to God.’ He built his campaign on racism, sexism, and violence.”
About those DVDs, one person wrote “It’s awesome. But their dvd has never been free. Wish they were and I’d get one for kids. Wish Christians especially wouldn’t spread falsities like that, cause people trust you.”
The shade of it all!
And the crushing disappointment and the all-encompassing fear. Don’t forget those.
Friday, January 6, 2017
Vladimir Putin Ordered Pro-Trump Cyber Attacks on US, Report Claims
For nearly two months now, President-elect Donald Trump has consistently denied that the Russian government had any involvement in the hacking and release of private emails pertaining to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
A total of 17 intelligence agencies have stated that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the cyber-attacks originated in Russia and were most likely carried out with the goal of helping Trump win the presidency.
Rather than heed the intelligence community’s warnings, Trump has assured his followers that fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has assured him that the emails stolen from the DNC and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta did not come from Russia.
Today, Trump is finding it more difficult than ever to make the case that he knows more than the CIA, FBI, NSA and Department of Justice combined, thanks to a newly declassified 25-page report that claims Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the cyber-attacks against the US.
The report indicates that the attacks were part of Putin’s attempt to improve Trump’s chances of getting elected and “undermine the U.S.-led liberal democratic order.”
The findings were presented to Trump at a meeting with intelligence officials Friday afternoon.
Following the meeting, Trump dialed back his earlier statements about the leaks in a statement issued to the media.
He no longer claims that the Russia is not responsible for the hacks, but he continues to maintain that the attacks had “absolutely no effect” on the outcome of the election, a
US politicians and foreign leaders alike have been critical of Trump’s continued defense of a foreign power that has been openly hostile to the United States, but the former real estate mogul shows no signs of changing course.
“Sr Trump, the intelligence report is devastating. Losing election by more than 3M votes and in addition this.Are you a legitimate president?” former Mexican president Vicente Fox tweeted moments ago, reflecting the sentiments of much of the global community.
Trump has been silent about the findings on his favorite communication platform, Twitter, which has long been his preferred means of addressing his supporters.
Instead of addressing the allegations against Putin, Trump has chosen to once again attack the intelligence community and carry on his bizarre feud with NBC.
“I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it,” he tweeted just after this afternoon’s meeting.
Earlier today, the president-elect attacked both NBC and Arnold Schwarzenegger, arguing on Twitter that The Celebrity Apprentice had higher ratings when Trump was hosting.
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