Faux News: Who Says the USA Doesn't Have State TV?

[AmazonGrace]

Betoscotch?

[AmazonGrace]

Fox and Friends: rape is fine if you got away with it long enough

[fraurosena]

35 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Fox and Friends: rape is fine if you got away with it long enough

Those fuckers aren't real Americans then.

 

[Cartmann99]

The Kavanaughs will be on Faux tonight:

 

[fraurosena]

Sweet Rufus! How ridiculous can you get?

 

[Audrey2]

2 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Sweet Rufus! How ridiculous can you get?

 

The scary thing is, the FOX watchers will believe this as the gospel truth and will continue to repeat that Ford was hypnotized and led to this false memory. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[Cartmann99]

9 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Sweet Rufus! How ridiculous can you get?

 

If Judge Jeanine was thirty years younger, I'd put her on the shortlist to be the next Mrs. Donald J. Trump. She'd eat her own foot if he asked her to, and she'll spout whatever bullshit helps the cause without questioning it.

[AmazonGrace]

Fox and Friends defends high school crimes 

 

Maybe Ronan Farrow ought to call some people who knew Kilmeade in high school

[JMarie]

21 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

If Judge Jeanine was thirty years younger, I'd put her on the shortlist to be the next Mrs. Donald J. Trump. She'd eat her own foot if he asked her to, and she'll spout whatever bullshit helps the cause without questioning it.

If only she were thirty years younger... and blond.  But that's easily fixed.

[Cartmann99]

5 hours ago, JMarie said:

If only she were thirty years younger... and blond.  But that's easily fixed.

Yeah, but then she'd be one of those Californians that Ted Cruz tries to scare us Texans about.

[GreyhoundFan]

Such an ass: "‘You’re part of the problem,’ Tucker Carlson says of sexual assault victims who don’t speak up"

Spoiler

There comes a moment in most Tucker Carlson interviews in which his guest, typically someone liberal who has been brought in as a foil to the Fox News talk show host, will reach a point that seems to silently indicate: He really just said that, didn’t he?

This epiphany is typically telegraphed through the guest’s eyes. And in his Tuesday night appearance on Carlson’s show, Ethan Bearman — host of a radio show in California — seemed to arrive at that moment about four minutes and 37 seconds into the interview.

The two had been engaged in a conversation about whether the two sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh should disqualify him. (Note: At the time, two women had publicly come forward to accuse the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct. On Wednesday, a third woman was identified.) A chyron appeared beneath them: “WHY SHOULD KAVANAUGH HAVE TO PROVE INNOCENCE?”

Carlson began asking why the first of those accusers, California professor Christine Blasey Ford, had not come forward earlier to make her allegation: that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a house party when they were both in high school in the 1980s. It’s a question many Republicans have asked since Ford’s claims were reported, accusing Democrats of delaying for political purposes. Democrats have denied this.

On Tuesday, however, Carlson cast blame on Ford for not fulfilling her “responsibility” of reporting the alleged assault as early as possible.

“She’s claiming that this man sexually assaulted her and altered the course of her life,” Carlson told Bearman. “She didn’t tell anybody his name for 36 years, during which time he got married, he interacted with many others in our population.”

Carlson then launched a barrage of questions at Bearman.

“Sex offenders tend to commit serial sex crimes. Doesn’t she have an obligation to tell someone?” he asked. “To stop him from doing that if he is, in fact, a sex criminal? Where’s her obligation here? What about the rest of us?”

Bearman began talking about the reasons a sexual assault victim might not feel comfortable reporting (more on that below), before Carlson cut him off abruptly.

“No, no, no, no, no, no, hold on, I’m not asking her about her reasons,” the Fox News host said. “I’m asking about the rest of us — the other 320 million people who live here. If he’s actually a sex criminal, we have a right to know that, and she has an obligation to tell us. And I know it’s hard. But why don’t we have a right to know? If there’s a rapist on the loose, if you don’t tell anybody, if Bernie Madoff rips you off and you don’t tell his other investors, you’re part of the problem, are you not? What am I missing?”

Still, Bearman continued, attempting to fact-check Carlson on his earlier claims that Ford “didn’t tell anybody [Kavanaugh’s] name for 36 years.” Ford said she had, in fact, told her therapist, as well as a few other people close to her. (On Wednesday, her lawyers submitted to the Senate sworn affidavits from four people who said Ford had much earlier either named Kavanaugh as the attacker or described him as a “federal judge.”)

As Bearman tried to explain all this, though, Carlson interrupted him again.

“I’m saying, if it is true, what’s going on here?” he demanded. “Don’t the rest of us have a right to protect ourselves from this dangerous man, Brett Kavanaugh? What’s the answer?”

And there it was. The moment. Bearman began shaking his head. His large, dark-rimmed glasses couldn’t hide the fact that his eyes were staying closed longer each time he blinked. Carlson maintained an indignant expression.

The chyron had now changed to read: “KAVANAUGH & THE DUE PROCESS DEBATE.” But this was no longer a debate. The two men’s conversation soon dissolved into a mess of crosstalk.

Bearman: “So you have a very powerful person here. A judge on the 9th Circuit of the United States of America—”

Carlson: “He hasn’t been a judge for 36 years . . . I mean, what?”

Bearman: “Hang on, hang on. Tucker, you were just talking about the privileged elite—”

And so on.

Carlson ended the back-and-forth by admonishing Bearman: “You’re missing it. You’re intentionally dodging my question, which is about responsibility to protect the rest of us. . . . It’s not just about her and her feelings. There’s a responsibility to others around you in the society at large, which we’re ignoring on purpose because we’re all terrified to say anything that’s true because we think we’re gonna be punished for doing that, and you know that’s true. Let me ask you really quickly—”

Bearman, who says he frequently agrees to appear on Carlson’s show because he feels it’s important to present another viewpoint, later told The Washington Post that they were slated to have a general discussion about whether Kavanaugh should have the presumption of innocence. He had not thought Carlson “would go there with victim-blaming,” he said.

Bearman said he started to shake his head because he was thinking “I just so fundamentally disagree with that,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday.

“We have a millennia of some men abusing all kinds of people, mostly women, and with the #MeToo movement . . . I believe it is time that we stop enabling these abusers, we listen to victims, we believe victims and we need to be empowering them,” Bearman said. “And to blame their way at all is wrong. We need to give [sexual assault victims] the space to be comfortable, to come forward and encourage that.”

He said there was no further conversation with Carlson after the show in which the Fox News host might have clarified his remarks, as they were taping the segment on opposite coasts.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Fox News provided an email statement from Carlson that insisted his remarks were “not a gaffe.”

“I meant what I said,” Carlson stated. “Seems like an obvious point: If there’s a rapist on the loose, the rest of us ought to know about it as soon as possible. Men who commit sexual assault tend to do it repeatedly. They need to be stopped. Why is it controversial to ask people to report violent felonies? It’s a way to protect women from becoming victims of sexual assault.”

Online, people also accused Carlson of “victim-blaming” and charged that, in doing so, he was part of the problem.

The segment comes as the #MeToo movement has pushed a national conversation about sexual assault and encouraged survivors to come forward. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, about 310 of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police, meaning the majority remain unreported.

There are many reasons people who have been sexually assaulted do not report it to authorities, from fearing retaliation to believing that it was a “personal matter” or that police wouldn’t do anything to help. Furthermore, statistics from the nonprofit group show that perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to be imprisoned than other criminals.

When asked about Carlson’s remarks, RAINN spokeswoman Jodi Omear indicated they can add to an environment that already makes it difficult for survivors to talk about sexual assaults.

“There is no right way to behave after a sexual assault. Reporting what happened is a decision that each survivor has to make for themselves,” Omear said. “It can be incredibly difficult for victims of sexual assault to disclose to their closest family and friends, let alone law enforcement. Because survivors are often reluctant to report sexual violence, it’s critical for institutions to make them feel comfortable doing so, and helping them find support, medical care and justice.”

 

[AmazonGrace]

Faux person is offensive 

 

[JMarie]

And he's toast....  (caution: rage inducing)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-contributor-kevin-jackson-calls-kavanaugh-accusers-lying-skanks-1147533

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Radio host and Fox News contributor Kevin Jackson referred to Brett Kavanaugh's female accusers as "lying skanks" in a series of tweets on Thursday that led to his termination.

"#ChristineBlaseyFord academic problems came from her PROMISCUITY!" he wrote on Twitter during Ford's Senate testimony. "Dang girl, stop opening your legs and OPEN A BOOK!"

On Thursday morning, he tweeted, "TO HELL with the notion that women must be believed no matter what. Lying skanks is what these 3 women are, and we ALL know more."

Jackson also said on Twitter that Ford "looks rode hard and put up wet, as we say in the country."

On Thursday evening, Fox News said it has cut ties with Jackson. "Kevin Jackson has been terminated as a contributor," a spokesperson said. "His comments on today’s hearings were reprehensible and do not reflect the values of FOX News.”

Speaking generally about liberal women, Jackson had said that "leftist women are skanky for the most part."

Back in December, Jackson had his wrist slapped when he suggested on Fox News that FBI agents who disliked President Donald Trump might have pondered "an assassination attempt."

At the time, a network spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that Jackson's comment "was addressed with him."

A spokesperson did not initially provide a response when asked about Jackson's comments on Thursday, several hours later issuing a statement about his termination.

On Sept. 20, Jackson called the Ford allegations "MeToo bullshit at it finest."

He has appeared on the Fox News channel for years, though it's not clear when he became a contributor.

 

[AmericanRose]

Browsing through his Twitter (which was as horrifying as one would expect), he quoted this:
"If you have a job other than anywhere but Fox news, where they apparently put up with this sort of mud-slinging, then I hope your other employer sees these tweets, including the ones that were deleted, & takes appropriate action. You do know nothing is ever really deleted, right?"

and responded to it with this:

"Well luckily I work for myself. I suggest you worry about your tweets"

But since Fox let him go, I'm thinking that wasn't true! At least they have some standards still.

[GreyhoundFan]

I think The Onion is now doing real news:

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

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[JMarie]

57 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Well, they are the channel that calls Michael Avenatti "creepy porn lawyer".

[Howl]

On 9/26/2018 at 11:07 AM, JMarie said:

If only she were thirty years younger... and blond.  But that's easily fixed.

I noted this over in one of the Kavanaugh hearings threads, but yesterday I watched a pro-Kavanaugh ad on CNN (immediately after critical coverage of Kavanaugh) that featured a group (with one brunette exception) of all shoulder length, Fox-blond women talking about how awesome Kavanaugh is.  These were all very attractive women in their 30s and 40s, so mom age, but not yet aging and not tooooo young; a very wholesome MILF vibe.  All were dressed nicely in professional woman dresses.

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for the content design meeting for that ad.  I'd  guess they are trying to influence and plant a seed of support for Kavanaugh in the minds of more liberal, educated, WHITE, professional, CNN watching women. 

Edited October 1, 2018 by Howl

[Howl]

23 hours ago, JMarie said:

Well, they are the channel that calls Michael Avenatti "creepy porn lawyer".

Oh, right, I remember now.  That creepy porn lawyer whose client has described Donald Trump's johnson in detail and who the owner- operator of said johnson paid her $130,000!  That guy!  Rufus H. Reindeer on a Roof. 

I really cannot imagine what will happen when Trump exits stage left, through impeachment, election loss, death, incapacity, illness, stroke or heart attack or however the hell he leaves the national stage.  I think we'll all fall over in a big heap of "what the fuck just happened?"  Was it a fever dream?  A wrinkle in the space time continuum?  

I'd love to wake up from a fever dream to learn that the Republicans have decided to nominate Merrick Garland as a way to bring healing to the country and to install a SC justice with a truly judicial temperament and not a partisan hack. 

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, Howl said:

all shoulder length, Fox-blond women

Dare I say it? All of them Arian women.

Scary.

[GreyhoundFan]

I think Jeanne needs a rabies shot: "Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro calls the Kavanaugh saga a ‘crucifixion’ of a former altar boy"

Spoiler

... < video >

Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro described Democrats as hypocritical demons, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as the former altar boy they crucified and Christine Blasey Ford as the unknowing “puppet” in their cruel quest for political power.

In an eight-minute opening screed on her Saturday-night show, Pirro said Democrats — “or should I say demon rats” — are using Ford to ruin the reputation of an innocent man and derail his nomination to the Supreme Court. And establishment Republicans, she said, have all but bowed to Democrats by agreeing to a new FBI background investigation of Kavanaugh.

“The spectacle of this week was one of the most pathetic, disheartening, saddest displays to which this nation has ever stood witness,” Pirro said on “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “It was for all intents and purposes a crucifixion of a man who has led the kind of exemplary life few of us can mirror.”

Kavanaugh is facing sexual-assault allegations that have disrupted his all-but-assured nomination to the Supreme Court and the Republicans' chance to shift the judiciary to the right for decades to come. The stunning drama that unfolded this past week — the highlights of which were Ford’s gut-wrenching account of what she said happened to her 36 years ago and Kavanaugh’s pained denial — has laid bare the hyperpartisan battle over what is supposed to be the least partisan branch of government. All of this is happening just weeks before midterm elections that could dictate which party controls Congress.

Ford, a 51-year-old research psychologist and professor from California, said Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her down on a bed, groped her and covered her mouth to stifle her screams as he tried to take off her clothes during a house party in Maryland in the 1980s, when the two were in high school.

... < another Faux video >

Kavanaugh, 53, has forcefully denied the allegations, as well as those leveled by two other women: Deborah Ramirez, who accused him of exposing himself to her when they were first-year students at Yale University, and Julie Swetnick, who said she witnessed Kavanaugh and other boys lining up to rape inebriated girls at high school house parties.

Without blatantly attacking Ford — even calling her a credible witness and a “lovely lady” — Pirro cast doubt on her allegations by recounting the missing and basic details that Ford has acknowledged she could not remember. The four people who Ford said were at the party have all said “nothing happened,” Pirro argued, though that’s not quite accurate.

Ford said three other boys, Mark Judge, P.J. Smyth and one whose name she couldn’t remember, as well as her friend Leland Ingham Keyser were at the party. None explicitly said nothing happened during that summer of 1982. Judge and Smyth, Kavanaugh’s high school friends, said that they don’t remember or know of the party in question and that they never witnessed the behavior Ford had described during the course of their friendship with Kavanaugh.

Keyser also said she has no recollection of the alleged party, but she said she believes Ford.

Pirro questioned why Ford came forward with her allegations more than three decades later and why Kavanaugh’s name was not mentioned in notes from a session six years ago when Ford talked to a therapist about the alleged assault. She also suggested that Ford might have been hypnotized into recalling “whatever traumatic event occurred,” though there has been no evidence to support that.

“I believe something happened to her,” Pirro said, mirroring Kavanaugh’s assertion that Ford may have been sexually assaulted, just not by him. “But she’s in over her head, and she is being used.”

Pirro, a former judge and prosecutor in Westchester County, N.Y., also unloaded on Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) over his 11th-hour call for an FBI investigation into the allegations against President Trump’s nominee. The decision delayed by another week a Senate floor vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Flake, one of the president’s fiercest Republican critics, had initially announced he would endorse the nominee. Shortly afterward, two women who described themselves as sexual-assault survivors blocked Flake’s elevator and tearily urged him to reconsider his position. The dramatic scene in an already dramatic week unfolded live on CNN.

Flake called for a renewed investigation after a private meeting with Democrats, angering conservatives and a cadre of Fox News personalities. Pirro accused Flake of gutlessness, of balking after two women screamed at him, though it’s unclear what exactly caused Flake’s last-minute change of heart. She also addressed one of the women who confronted the senator.

“What does your abuse have to do with Brett Kavanaugh?” Pirro said. “Hundreds of thousands of women have been abused in this country. Take your anger out on the person who abused you. Go to court, convict him, send him to jail, spit on him, I don’t care. But don’t you dare blame Brett Kavanaugh for your victimization.”

“Poor Dr. Ford,” Pirro said later, after going over grievances against certain Democrats. “This woman doesn’t know she was nothing more than a puppet on the string of Democratic politics.”

Pirro is known for her controversial remarks and fiery personality. In July, she and “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg yelled at each other on live television. Pirro is also among Trump’s most ardent defenders on cable news, which the president watches regularly. If Fox News’s Sean Hannity is the cable news equivalent to a chief of staff, as The Washington Post’s Anne Gearan and Sarah Ellison had recently put it, Pirro is the de facto attorney general who rails against the president’s real attorney general, Jeff Sessions.

 

[Cartmann99]

On 10/1/2018 at 9:06 AM, fraurosena said:

Dare I say it? All of them Arian women.

Scary.

Oh, the aryans from Darien with braces on their brains! 

For those who aren't classic movie fans, it's a reference to Auntie Mame.

 

[JMarie]

Tonight on CNN: possibly questionable methods Trump used to grow his empire in the 1990s

Tonight on MSNBC: possibly questionable methods Trump used to grow his empire in the 1990s

Tonight on Fox News: Trump rally in Mississippi

One of these things is not like the other....