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Limbaugh on torture of Iraqis: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow[ing] some steam off"
Hours before President George W. Bush announced plans to address the Arab world to condemn the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison, Rush Limbaugh justified the U.S. guards' mistreatment of the Iraqis, stating that they were just “having a good time,” and that their actions served as an “emotional release.” As reported by Wonkette.com, Limbaugh's comments can be found on his website.
O'Reilly to Jewish caller: "[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel"
FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly responded to a Jewish caller to his radio show who objected to “Christmas going into schools” and explained that he “grew up with a resentment because I felt that people were trying to convert me to Christianity.” O'Reilly told the caller that America is “a predominantly Christian nation” and that “if you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel.” O'Reilly labeled the caller's concerns “an affront to the majority” and insisted that “the majority can be...
FOX hypes stories to claim "Christmas Under Siege"
FOX News is aggressively hyping several small controversies involving public holiday displays that don't explicitly mention Christmas in order to depict a widespread and sinister “attack on Christmas” by “secular progressives.” Led by hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, FOX News anchors have returned continually to several minor stories whose theme is the purported marginalization or persecution of Christians.
O'Reilly: "Even Jewish people like Christmas"
FOX News Channel host Bill O'Reilly touted a group's complaint that department stores Macy's and Bloomingdale's have replaced their “Merry Christmas” greetings with “Season's Greetings” and “Happy Holidays” and declared on the December 1 edition of FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor, “Even Jewish people like Christmas.” * The newly formed group, which calls itself Committee to Save Merry Christmas, has produced no evidence of what it calls “intentional and deliberate exclusion of 'Merry Christmas'...
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FOX's O'Reilly fabricated evidence of success of purported boycott
Host Bill O'Reilly threatened Canada with a boycott like the one he advocated against France, then cited a phony statistic about the success of the French boycott. The threat came during O'Reilly's April 27 debate with Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick about Canada's harboring of two deserters from the U.S. military who have fled to Canada.
Limbaugh on torture of Iraqis: U.S. guards were "having a good time," "blow[ing] some steam off"
Hours before President George W. Bush announced plans to address the Arab world to condemn the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison, Rush Limbaugh justified the U.S. guards' mistreatment of the Iraqis, stating that they were just "having a good time," and that their actions served as an "emotional release." As reported by Wonkette.com, Limbaugh's comments can be found on his website.
FOX's Barone said Kerry audience was "silent" on military-strength line -- but they cheered
Following FOX News Channel's live coverage of Senator John Kerry's (D-MA) acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 29, U.S. News and World Report senior writer and FOX News Channel political contributor Michael Barone, who was reporting from the convention floor, asserted that during the speech "they cheered when he [Kerry] zinged Bush and when he called for military strength, they were silent." In fact, the crowd repeatedly cheered when Kerry appealed to military...
FOX's Carl Cameron: Kerry quotes poet who "praised communism"
On the June 15 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, the network's chief political correspondent, Carl Cameron, noted that a line Senator John Kerry frequently uses on the campaign trial was written by award-winning Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who, Cameron claimed, “often” attacked religion and God and made pro-communism remarks.
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