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safaiagem asked: Whoa whoa, you got a hug from Mark Ruffalo?
I GOT TWO.
I was at the Avengers premiere in London, and a friend of mine won the costume contest so I was his plus one, they put us in a little...
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TV Guide: If you sat on the Iron Throne, what would be your first edict?Natalie Dormer: Worldwide emancipation for women, equality for the sexes in all areas.
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karkles-the-adorabloodthirsty:
apparently fox news specified for their confused viewers at home that “chechens are not caucasian”, which is perhaps the most succinct summary of why it’s a stupid term I have ever seen in my life
#chechnya is literally in the caucasus #that’s the joke.jpg #keeping the tags
Are you SERIOUS
so basically fox is trying to literally rewrite what “Caucasian” means by virtue of lying their asses off so that their viewers can rest assured that the boston bombers are “not white”
is that what you’re telling me
are you fucking kidding me
Crack Fox reporter Todd Starnes accuses President Obama of not mentioning Good Friday in his Easter statement.
It’s in the first line.
Journalism is hard.
That’s why we call them Fox “News”.
With Faux News, everything is in sneer quotes.
Remember when conservative comedian and Fox News contributor Steven Crowder was punched in the face by a union activist outside a Michigan protest? Crowder made a big deal about it, even going so far as to challenge the protester to a “legal, sanctioned mixed martial arts bout.” Then came the unsurprising revelation that the video was misleadingly editedto make Crowder look like an innocent, if obnoxious, victim.
That heavily edited video, which Fox News themselves released, is the reason why, on Monday, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced he will not press charges against the protester, who Dunnings said was trying to defend himself.
Fox edited video footage to fit an anti-union agenda? Unheard of.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*gasp*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
A Colorado high school principal is defending his decision to allow students from a cultural club to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic — and denied that it was attempt to push an Islamic agenda.
Tom Lopez, the principal at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, told Fox News he has received a number of telephone calls and emails from outraged parents – but he stands by his decision.
“These students love this country,” he said. “They were not being un-American in trying to do this. They believed they were accentuating the meaning of the words as spoken regularly in English.”
The school recites the Pledge of Allegiance once a week and on Monday a member of the Cultural Arms Club led the student body in the Arabic version of the pledge.
The club seeks to “destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures” that exist within the high school.
(1) For Fox, every Arabic speaker is Muslim and has an “Islamic agenda.”
(2) For Fox, Islam is un-American
(3) I learned the pledge in Spanish in school. Not just one day, but many, many days. In Catholic school! It was great.
(4) This is exactly what we’re talking about when we point out Fox’s fear-mongering and hate-inducing rhetoric.
i love that parents are “outraged” that the students are “allowed” to recite it in a different language
not forced, mind you, but just the fact that the answer to “can i recite it in arabic” was answered with “yes that’s fine” is enough to stir people to genuine anger
what a weird country
I was going to write a shit ton of commentary
but
I think just AMERICA works
(via seenthecolorsfade)
This is definitely one of the best Fox News headlines v. real headlines of the year thus far.
Fox 5 Anchor Announces The “N*gger Inaugural”
There’s a list of words that TV reporters should never say, and it must be racing through their heads whenever the camera’s on. Don’t say it. Don’t say it.
Well, Fox 5’s Holly Morris said it. In a morning broadcast yesterday on extravagant inauguration deals, Morris fell over herself and declared the Willard Hotel the spot for the “n*gger inaugural.”
[via @wcp h/t @SkinnyPockets]
Hmmm
I know someone who used to be a reporter in Ohio who used to say “don’t say ‘Osama’” in her head whenever she talked about Obama. It happened within three weeks of taking the job. Now, tell yourself not to think of a white polar bear. Did it pop into your head?
Wonder if that’s the case here… anyhow, good lord. I don’t know how you can possibly cock that up so terribly. I’d say it’s pretty inexcusable.
WOW.
WOW.
And watch how the apologists come out in full force
I hope she got fired for that shit.
Trust me, not an apologist. She should be canned.
Not you. I wouldn’t be following you if you were. I meant the number of Fox news pundits who will come out in full force and try to be on some bullshit about ‘she just made a mistake!!! Stop making this about race! You’re being the real racist!!!’
Can you hear their screeching? They are coming….
Oh God… in the distance. Like a pack of steroid-infused hyenas…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year ♫
Fox News’ Eric Boiling, RFN’s Most Uninformed Person of the Year, is not impressed by this super awesome 9 year old girl running circles around the boys on her football team. Kimberly Guilfoyle did take excellently take him down, though.
(via reallyfoxnews)
“but if you have a girl playing on a boys team, what are you gonna do if she gets hurt?”
“she can play better than the boys!”
“yeah, but what if she gets hurt?”
“i’m all about opportunity. if she wants to play on the boys team, and she’s good at it, i figure why not let her?”
“yeah, but. she’s a girl. what are you gonna do when one of the boys tackles her and she gets hurt?”
(via vondell-swain)
Dear Fox News,
As someone who trained and competed in karate, a sport dominated by men (with far less padding and a lot more contact than football), I think the men on this show are on crack. When girls compete with boys, there’s a reason they are often better. While I didn’t have the height advantage of the guys I trained with (by the time we were sixteen, I was only about 5’4” and they were all at least 6’) or the brute physical strength, it didn’t mean I couldn’t hold my own in a fight. I was quicker, more agile, and far more flexible than most of my teammates. And while we were supposed to have women’s and men’s divisions, there were a lot of competitions where there weren’t enough girls to have a separate division.
I got hurt all the time. I’ve injured almost every muscle in my body. I’ve had to go through physical therapy because of a neck injury. Even though I stopped a couple years ago, I still have problems with my wrists from the self-defense moves we used to do.
But here’s the thing, Fox News: the guys had the same injuries.
We would spend time after training icing bruises and sharing tips on how to stretch sore muscles. We would check up on each other when someone was injured, in case it got worse. We knew which injuries should be mentioned to the coach and which ones you could treat with ice and pain meds. We knew what we were doing. We were all athletes. And when you were on the mat, it didn’t matter if your opponent was a guy or a girl. You sized them up for their technique, their height, their preferred moves. And when I heard shit from my opponent about having to fight a girl, I made sure he understood that I didn’t give a shit about his ego. I was there to win and to support my team, no matter who I was up against.
And as long as the team is following proper procedures and everyone is wearing the proper safety equipment, there is no reason why the awesome girl on this football team would get hurt anymore than the boys. Football is dangerous, but it’s dangerous for everyone.
I think the real problem here is that there is a belief that women are weaker than men. Trust me, that’s fucking false. Sure, there are some women who wouldn’t last five minutes playing tackle football. But there are a hell of a lot of men who also wouldn’t last two minutes playing tackle football. It’s all about the training, skill, and determination of the athlete.
Fuck you, Fox News.
Sincerely, a woman who could kick any of your asses
p.s. That girl is fucking awesome.
p.p.s. How dare that dick on Fox News suggest that the only reason the other broadcaster was on an all-guys soccer team was because she was hot! SHE SAID SHE WAS TEN! WHAT THE FUCK???
(via superwhofflepuff)
Because EVEN TEN YEAR OLDS are capable of using their feminine wiles to weasel their way into man’s sphere. How dare women upset the delicate domestic ideal?
The whole mess just reeked of desperation. At issue was a speech Obama delivered in 2007, as a presidential candidate, not at some secret fundraiser, but in front of a large audience at Hampton University. Reporters covered the speech, which wasn’t seen as especially controversial, and all the major networks told the public about Obama’s remarks at the time.
In other words, Drudge, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity formed a strange sort of triumvirate to hype a five-year-old video that everyone already knew about, and which doesn’t include anything interesting anyway.
Perhaps my favorite part of this silliness came when Carlson proudly boasted to Hannity on the air last night, “People will say this has already been reported. Well, actually, it hasn’t been reported. And I know because I reported on it the first time.”
Let that quote roll around in your head for a minute.
“People will say this has already been reported. Well, actually, it hasn’t been reported. And I know because I reported on it the first time.”
(via diadoumenos)
Why.
Just why.
(via stfuconservatives)
Fox News headlines v. real headlines, part 2425183.
The brunette part is really important.
Fucking vital information, that.
Fox is pushing a Romney campaign falsehood that President Obama rather than Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) plans to gut Medicare as we know it.
Ryan has received strong criticism for his plan to transform Medicare into a voucher system. Trying to deflect the attacks on Ryan’s plan, Fox contributor Angela McGlowan claimed that the Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare.
In fact, the savings the ACA makes to the Medicare program would not cause a decline in quality of care under Medicare, and Ryan has proposed identical savings. But Ryan’s plan goes much further, ending Medicare as we know it by transforming it into a voucher plan.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
How can they blatantly lie about this shit??
How is this not illegal??
They’ve been sued, but they are officially a news entertainment network and all their lies can fall under the umbrella of “entertainment.” Legally, they’re just as reputable a news organization as Stephen Colbert, except they don’t present their news as humor - they present it as fact, and then hide behind the “entertainment!” label to legally lie.
Speaking to an audience at the University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last night, Fox News boss Roger Ailes reportedly claimed that “[In] 15 years we have never taken a story down because it was wrong. You can’t say that about CNN, CBS or the New York Times.”
Like a lot of what Roger Ailes claims, this isn’t true. Just a few examples:
In 2004, FoxNews.com posted a story with fabricated quotes from Sen. John Kerry, then the Democratic presidential nominee. Fox pulled the story from their website with an editor’s note claiming, “We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice.”
Fox host Steve Doocy had to issue an on-air retraction in 2007 for repeating as fact an online news parody. At the time Fox News Vice President John Moody warned staff that “seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC.”
Doocy, along with co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson on Fox & Friends also promoted the false report in 2007 that Barack Obama was educated in a madrassa. Doocy later aired the Obama campaign’s denial of the story.
Twice in 2009 Fox reported a fake story that President Obama had watched an HBO documentary about himself instead of election returns. The second mention of the false story came afterreporter Major Garrett had issued an on-air retraction.
In August 2011 Fox Nation posted a YouTube video with the headline “Democratic Senator Lautenberg: We Got to Eliminate the Rich.” It turned out that the graphics on the video had misquoted Lautenberg, and he had actually said, “We’ve got to eliminate the waste.” Without noting their error, Fox Nation simply pulled the story.
Not to mention Fox’s deceptive and repeatedly mistaken graphics department.
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post noted the false report in the aftermath of last year’s D.C. earthquake from Fox’s Megyn Kelly that “The Washington Monument may be tilting. They are concerned that the Washington Monument may be tilting.”
At the time the National Park Service told Wemple that Fox had never called them to verify the story. And it is still on a Fox News web site.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik pointed out two stories: Fox reported on a fake story that claimed People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ”is trying to protect [deer] by adorning them with bright orange vests.”
Fox also aired a story where correspondent Geraldo Rivera claimed he had prayed over “hallowed ground” in Afghanistan where servicemen had been killed in a friendly fire incident. It turned out that Rivera had never visited the site.
In 2009 an internal memo from Fox News management addressed the issue of “quality control,” discussing “the latest in a series of mistakes on FNC in recent months.”
Maybe it’s time for another memo.
