June 2012
83 posts
“Here are the psychological ramifications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on ObamaCare: an individual mandate can make citizens see themselves as serfs who actually have no right at all to the money they earn… Every human being knows in his or her heart that the ability to earn a living and make decisions about the money that flows to him or her is one of the hallmarks of an autonomous life… Seen through this “We the Parents” lens, rather than “We the People,” it should be obvious that ObamaCare is a terrifying trap. Under the guise of “helping” and “healing” and “caring” for Americans, it reminds them how vulnerable they are to illness. Under the guise of “fairness,” it takes away their financial decision-making capacity. In true Progressive fashion, it makes people regress and feel as though they don’t know best how to manage their health or their affairs. It renders them weak. Deep inside, people despise being weak. It is an affront to their God-given rights to SELF-determination and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, the stance of federal government as parent that sits so well with President Obama opens the door to depression and all manner of ills (including drug abuse) that afflict those who feel disempowered.”
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Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News’ resident psychologist and APA discredited quack, on the “psychological ramifications” of SCOTUS’ healthcare ruling.
Funny, Dr. Ablow and his associates seem to have no problem telling women how to “best manage their health and affairs” despite their “God-given rights” to self-determination and the pursuit of happiness,” or the psychological ramifications of these restrictions.
“Our job is to share the news as we learn it. As we were hearing it, and as we were reading it, we let our viewers know about it. You don’t have to wait until the conclusion of the Yankees game to give the score.”
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Michael Clemente, executive vice president of news-editorial at Fox News, on their disastrous Obamacare coverage in which they reported that the individual mandate was ruled unconstitutional. CNN, on the other hand, issued a regretful apology for their bad reporting.
You don’t have to wait until the conclusion of the Yankees game to give the score. Except when it’s the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded, a full count and a tie game, Fox.
“NO. IT. HAS. NOT. YOU. SUCK. AT. NEWS.”
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The Colbert Report re: CNN and FOX, “The individual mandate has been struck down!” (via notnadia)
Fox News: Fair and Balanced NO. IT. HAS. NOT. YOU. SUCK. AT. NEWS.
Stay turned for a pretty sweet and multi-item RFN giveaway in the near future...
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“The Fox News Channel, that shining beacon of right wing propagandist pseudo-journalism has now been official labeled as “entertainment” by its own Board of Directors. It is the equal of Charlie Sheen’s new series, Anger Management…just another dumb sitcom.”
—Linda Carbonell of Lez Get Real, in It’s Official - Fox News isn’t News
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this is not what feminism looks like.
“See the problem here is that you’ve become the Fox who cries wolf. Your outrage repertoire has been so overused as to render justified outrage meaningless. ‘They did Watergate!’ (with project Fast And Furious.) Right. And what was it when second-graders sang a song about Obama in their classroom? (Plays footage of Fox commentators and hosts calling the 2009 episode ‘indoctrination’ and Tucker Carlson calling it ‘pure Khmer Rouge stuff.’) ‘Khmer Rouge stuff.’ Yes. Who could forget the Khmer Rouge and the dreaded singing fields of Cambodia?
I mean Khmer Rouge is worse than Watergate. So if those kids singing is the Khmer Rouge, Fast And Furious has gotta be the Death Star taking out Alderaan just to maintain your outrage exchange rate!” —JON STEWART, on Fox “News” Channel’s faux outrage over Fast and Furious and, well, just about anything related to President Obama, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
I mean Khmer Rouge is worse than Watergate. So if those kids singing is the Khmer Rouge, Fast And Furious has gotta be the Death Star taking out Alderaan just to maintain your outrage exchange rate!” —JON STEWART, on Fox “News” Channel’s faux outrage over Fast and Furious and, well, just about anything related to President Obama, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
“I kiddingly said to Gretchen something about men and women and she playfully walked off the set and every headline for the next two weeks was, ‘Kilmeade made a sexist remark.’ They didn’t understand we were having fun.”
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Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade, defending his recent sexist remarks that caused co-host Gretchen Carlson to walk off set. Kilmeade contended that “Women are everywhere. We’re letting them play golf and tennis now. It’s out of control.”
Fox News: Fair and Balanced Playful Sexism Just Having Fun!
Watch the original video here.
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Fox News Magazine understands that you’re having troubles with your boner. But don’t fret—they’ve cracked the case and figured out why! It’s because of your oral hygiene:
“Men who forget to floss their teeth increase the bacteria in their gums, and this bacteria can travel through the bloodstream, combine with plaque and clog blood vessels which make getting an erection difficult.”
Yes. That sounds like a COMPLETELY LOGICAL and common problem. But if you’re flossing like crazy and things still aren’t working down there, have you considered that you might have a violent and traumatic penis injury? … You know what else is a major source of erectile dysfunction? Getting your penis chopped off by a sword. Check back next week, when Fox News Magazine outlines “11 Surprising Ways to Spice Up Getting Your Penis Chopped Off By a Sword”.
” —From Jezebel’s hilarious new article, The Five Stupidest Articles in Fox News Magazine
“Presuming that Dottie Sandusky is not a pedophile herself, who enjoyed listening in on the suffering of rape victims (something that would require extensive investigation of Mrs. Sandusky, criminally and psychologically), then she lived with a serial rapist and never consciously suspected him of wrongdoing. How can that be? One possibility is that Dottie Sandusky’s entire life story has been one of burying the facts, again and again, in order to preserve some semblance of normality… Of course, there is another possibility: There are people in the world who have horrifically violent and abusive fantasies, but may swear to themselves and others that they do not. Such individuals may “recruit” destructive people into their lives, in order to vicariously enjoy their aggression. In this way, they are assailants “by proxy.”
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Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow in a new and very offensive opinion piece for Fox that basically (and completely groundlessly) accuses Jerry Sandusky’s wife, Dottie, of being a pedophile, rape enthusiast, or rape enabler.
How long will Fox News keep promoting this man’s warped (and APA rejected) theories?
Fox News ironically and publicly accuses NBC of "journalistic malpractice" | Mediaite →
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Editor’s note: Irony aside, NBC’s doctoring of the Sandusky footage is pretty shady.
Recently, Fox used images and footage Gov. Mitch Daniels during a segment on the Sandusky trial.
“Emperor Obama obviously could not care less about helping the Latino population. When Democrats had control of both houses of Congress he did absolutely nothing for them. Now he’s doing to Latinos what Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly did to the children of Pennsylvania — using and abusing them. With his short-sighted politicking, Emperor Obama has hurt the Latino cause in the long run.”
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Michael Reagan, resident Fox News Ronald Reagan expert, comparing Obama’s immigration policy to Jerry Sandusky’s crimes.
Today in tasteless, oddly compounded by the fact that Michael Reagan recently wrote a piece for Fox News about his own sexual abuse.
How much PayPal funds would I have to give you to delete your blog?
“Perhaps more than any other show on the Fox News Channel, “Fox & Friends” has become a powerful platform for some of the most strident attacks on President Obama. Conspiracy theories about Mr. Obama’s religion once found an uncritical ear on the show’s set. Assertions that Mr. Obama leaked national security secrets for political gain are accepted as fact. And its hosts recently took time on the air to congratulate one of their producers for making a four-minute video that painted Mr. Obama as a failure. That incident points to the question that hangs over Fox News as the presidential campaign moves into full swing: How far can it push its coverage of Mr. Obama without sparking another war with the White House?”
—Jeremy M. Peters for the New York Times.
“That’s why you can appreciate the genius that is Fox News. That, my friends, is how its done. That is how you take a few seconds of an Obama video and turn it into a rich soup of decontexualized imagery designed to bypass the prefrontal cortex and go straight to the amygdalas of old people, triggering cascades of dopamine and gving them all a giant Reagan boner. It’s why [Fox] is number one.”
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Jon Stewart, praising then “genius” of Fox’s Obama and Putin G20 coverage.
The History of Abortion Illegality in America, Simplified.
“In the early 1800s, when a woman stopped menstruating she was not considered to be pregnant until she could feel the fetus moving inside of her. Before this movement, she was thought of as having blocked menses. Even if she felt something was growing inside her, it was not considered to necessarily be a potential child. [I]t was considered normal and right for a woman to do whatever she could to expel the burden blocking her menses, if she so chose. This view was so common that even religious newspapers carried advertisements of people who would help restore your menses” (Crabb 2011, 24-25).
So, basically, there were doctors trained at these upper-class, prestigious and few medical schools in the 1800s. Then women started getting together and starting health collectives, training midwives and other sorts of health “healers.” The fancy, upper-class doctors didn’t want to be associated with those people, nor did they want them taking their business and profession, so they all got together and demanded medical licensing.
These laws didn’t really do anything at first, but they made people really mad so the home-health movement grew bigger. Cindy Crabb writes, “this movement was inseparable from feminist and class struggles” (2011, 25). This movement stood against the increased medicalization of bodies and demanded that women in particular should be taught and learn about their bodies as well as retain responsibility over them. Supporters advocated for women to have control over how many children they birthed, as well as created groups of women who taught each other reproductive medical procedures. DIY contraception and abortion kits were made at home and even mass-produced and sold in the mail by companies.
The abortion rate rose, and for the first time, it was publicly evident that white, married, Protestant and middle-class women were having abortions (and still are). Now, the regular doctors, already mad that these women were having abortions in violation of the Hippocratic Oath (Hippocrates held a minority anti-abortion view) and were taking medicine into their own hands, were also lots of white guys! So, these white doctors living in America in the age of increasing immigration were concerned that “their women” were aborting fetuses at too high of a rate and threatened racial hegemony. They were also concerned by women moving into their field (the professional field), when they should have just been home making cookies.
So, as Cindy Crabb (2011) writes, “Basically, the regular doctors were racist, sexist, money hungry, status and power seeking fucks, and they were friends with the rich guys who tended to get into political office and the rich guys who owned newspapers” (26). Together, they launched a campaign to sway public opinion on abortion (gotta get those ladies under control ya’ll) and after a while, they got the first anti-abortion laws passed under the guise of protecting women from bad doctors. Women were no longer allowed to induce a miscarriage, despite the fact that only a few years before, everybody (even the religious folks) were encouraging women to buy new ways to evacuate their menses!
This wasn’t enough for the regular doctors, who continued their campaign with a whirlwind of misinformation and sensationalized stories of “horror abortions.” Then, still not powerful enough, these regular doctors formed The American Medical Association! Yeah, that’s right. The AMA. They succeeded too. After a long, hard, road, they successfully became the only ones dictating the control of bodies and denied individual people the right to do it themselves. Increasing medicalization of bodies (not just reproductive care!), denial of women’s spaces for home healthcare and the elite secrecy of medical knowledge has led us to an age where we don’t know anything about our bodies, despite the fact that we live in breathe in them every day.
The more you know.
Adopted from:
Crabb, Cindy. 2011. The Encyclopedia of Doris. Minneapolis: Bolger Printing
Other sources/similar reads:
Abortion in America- Momr
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - Ehrenreich and English
Experiencing Abortion- Kushner
Abortion Wars- Solinger
Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America- Brodie
http://magazine.foxnews.com/ is actually a thing. →
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Apparently, it’s for the ladies. The ladies who are interested in
- 8 Steps to Really Clean Windows,
- How to Keep Mealybugs Out of Your Flour,
- 3 Ways to Spot Your Future Ex-Husband, and
- Easy Solutions to Any Wardrobe Malfunction.
Fox News. The “W” is for “women”!
Don’t forget about:
How to Get Rid of Your Dreaded Turkey Neck
and
Is Your Frozen Dinner Making You Fat?
It’s all I’ve ever wanted! Thanks, Fox!
“Motherf*ckers. You almost had me, Fox News, but then, reverse gotcha!”
—Jon Stewart, after playing the unedited version of a tape of President Obama speaking about his power in relation to immigration policy that Fox cut to make it seem like the President had stepped beyond his legal boundaries.
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Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And the world won’t end.
And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
Audre Lorde (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
So relevant to my life right now,
“I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.”
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Rupert Murdoch, News Corp CEO, 2001
Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow Touts Widely Debunked Anti-Gay Parenting Study in New Column | Media Matters for America →
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Fox News’ resident anti-LGBT pop-psychologist Dr. Keith Ablow published a column on Tuesday defending a flawed new study that found that children raised by married, heterosexual parents are better off than children raised by a variety of families that include a gay parent. Praising the study for its objectivity and scientific rigor, Ablow wrote:
The “no differences” theory that children of gay parents — married or not — do not substantially differ from the children of married, heterosexual parents has now been called into question.
In reality, the study — authored by associate sociology professor Mark Regnerus — has already come under widespread criticism for its misleading comparisons, arbitrary population samples, and generally abysmal methodology. Regnerus himself has spent a good chunk of this week attempting to explain away his study’s glaring shortcomings. And he even admitted that none of his data can actually be used to make a judgment about whether same-sex parents are better or worse than heterosexual parents.
I love Eric he's smart when it comes to money.Why does tumblr hate so many people who have diff opinions than them?
I assume by “Eric” you mean Eric Bolling, RFN’s Most Misinformed Person of the year. I don’t “hate” Eric Bolling by any means, but I also don’t think that being smart when it comes to money excuses racism, sexism, bigotry, and rape humor passing as news reporting.
Female Fox Anchor Walks off Fox & Friends after Co-Host's Sexist Joke | Think Progress →
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Thursday morning, Steve Doocy interviewed members of the U.S. Navy Band about the band’s recent inclusion of women. Reacting to the segment, Brian Kilmeade remarked, “Women are everywhere. We’re letting them play golf and tennis now. It’s out of control.” Visibly upset, Gretchen Carlson, the only female host, walked off of the set. “You read the headlines. Since men are so great. Take them [women] away,” she said. Kilmeade responded, “All right. Finally.” Then, as she walked further off of the set, Kilmeade jeered, “Leaving an all male crew” and added “she needed a shower.”
Study finds Fox News to be considered the most "uncivil" news network | Huffington Post →
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Fox News is considered the most uncivil network by Americans, according to a new survey.
Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC Research polled 1,000 people in April for their annual “Civility In America” study. Thirty-five percent of participants said that Fox News is “uncivil,” while 53% described it as “civil.”
CNN and MSNBC fared slightly better. Thirty-one percent considered MSNBC “uncivil” and 49% “civil.” Thirty-one percent of respondents thought CNN was “uncivil,” and 53% “civil.” PBS was considered most civil of the networks.
“Fox News, I mean, you have a network that basically is different from the establishment network that Mr. [Chris] Matthews was talking about. Takes a much more traditional approach. It has conservative hosts on that have programs. That’s unheard of in the other precincts. Never happens, never has happened, all right — I don’t think anyone would disagree with that, that description.”
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Bill O’Reilly’s strange and syntax-strained description of the Fox News Channel on his show last night.
