MORE EXAMPLES OF FOX & THE GOP: THEY JUST DON’T GET IT!

…The conservative author and talker, Ann Coulter

Here are more reasons that fewer Americans are referring to themselves as “Republican”.

And the hits just keep on coming……………………….

The Fox News pundits are becoming a liberal American's best friend by being so ridiculously out-of-sync with the American public in general.

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly really stepped in it when he sent his jerk of a reporter, Jesse Watters, out to stroll around Penn Station, shoving his microphone into homeless people's faces and asking them where they slept and whether they had drinking problems. 

 

Obviously, being that it was coming from Bill O’Reilly, Watters wasn’t asked to do this for humanizing a population that needs help. It was instead about exposing these unfortunates as the con artists that O’Reilly and Fox see them as today.

After viewing over five minutes of forcing various down-on-their-luck individuals with very rude questions, Watters then got some mostly white commuters to state how scary the homeless people seemed to them.  But Watter’s almost blew it as he had to ask one young girl repeatedly the same question to finally get the answer he wanted.  That was because she had initially expressed compassion for the local homeless.

Watters then returned to the studio to discuss his findings and how this homeless issue was all New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fault.  You see, according to O’Reilly, homeless people knew their place under Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg, but they don’t today.

O’Reilly also agreed that criminalizing homeless people was an excellent use of NYPD cops’ time. “People should not sleep in Penn Station, he reasoned, “because there are homeless shelters where people can go in New York City.”

The eager, young O’Reilly disciple Watters totally agreed saying, “Why can’t they get these guys in the really plush homeless shelters?”

Yep, he really said. “Plush homeless shelters”.

Amazing!  But it doesn’t stop there……

 

 

Did you know that the anorexic author/pundit Ann Coulter calls Fox’s Megyn Kelly: “the sane, smart one at Fox!”

Well here’s a conversation Megyn Kelly, had with Howard Kurtz and Geraldo Rivera:

KURTZ: What a lot of people hear, when Trump goes over the top, they like the fact that he doesn't apologize. They like the fact that he doesn't parse his words like most politicians.

The average politician would have backed off and clarified many times by now. But Trump gets away with it because he strikes a chord.

KELLY: Well, Ann Coulter has a whole book out right now that makes this same point. Now granted, she's not running for president. But she…..

 RIVERA: Nor would she ever be elected with that point of view—

KELLY:  But she cites data that does support the fact that some, obvious, immigrants who come across the borders do turn out to be criminals, and that's…

RIVERA: I researched it tonight and…..

KELLY: None? No immigrants turn out to be criminals?

RIVERA: I never said that. Undocumented immigrants commit crimes "at a lower rate than the general population of the United States".

So, in conclusion please note: You know you are in uncharted territory when Geraldo Rivera sounds that reasonable.

 

 

Now the another latest item from Fox News that was presented with a straight face, is that “overtime pay actually hurts workers. “.

Despite the obvious fairness and decency of the Obama administration's proposal to extend overtime protections to five million workers, not everyone was celebrating.

Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt said this is a bad idea!  A bad idea because, personally when she was younger, she loved being exploited and being paid zero for overtime work.

 

“I was making $20,000 with my first job as a reporter, and I always said yes to everything that they asked me to do,” Earhardt recalled this on her trip down memory lane. She said she especially loved working until 2AM because it’s what enabled her to climb her ladder of success!

Fox co-host Sandra Smith chimed in that former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi had told Fox News that “these jobs are not careers.” 

 

The McDonalds's CEO was distorting the reality of his own workforce and the fact that many of them support families on McDonald’s meager wages. Then it got bizarre when he said, “Giving people overtime raises will “encourage them to stay as an hourly employee flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s.  No one wants that.

High turnover is what everyone wants.” 

Huh…?

 

 

Moving on, Fox Business Network’s, Wall Street stocks editor, Elisabeth MacDonald is worried that paying overtime would create a “permanent minimum wage club” in America.

Only a Fox talking-head could come up with a bazaar statement like that.

 

Finally, a truly off-the-wall comment came from a fairly new Wisconsin Republican congressman.

Wisconsin Republican Representative Glenn Grothman told a local radio host that the decision by the Supreme Court for legalizing same-sex-marriage was "an offense to those killed in the American Civil War". 

Yep, that was his comment.

In this individual's mind, the Civil War was a religious war.  It was, “A strong religious war to further a Christian lifestyle by getting rid of slavery.”

So, apparently in Rep. Grothman’s mind, the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, based as it actually was on the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, was a total affront to the Civil War’s dead.

Another, huh…?

As I said, from Fox and the GOP: “...the hits just keep on coming1”

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