Two really big scandals have plagued FOX during the past week and put the lie to their fair and balanced nonsense. Sean Vannity was caught shilling in a Cinninnati Tea Bagger Fund Raiser and was yanked out by furious executives who bowed to pressure from various real news organizations and industry watch dogs. http://mediamatters.org/research/201004150087?lid=1110501&rid=45253750

 

And Bill O’Reilly continued his ongoing prevarications denying that no one on the FOX network said that jail time was the penality prescribed in the new health care legislaiton for refusing to buy health care insurance.

 

O’Reilly spent last week reminding us of his willful ignorance by repeatedly falsely asserting that "no one" on Fox promoted the falsehood that "jail time" was a penalty for not buying insurance under the health care reform bill. As Media Matters reporterd, he "was outrageously wrong."

But the worse thing that these FOX personalities and their fellow GOP sychophants do is actvely promote events, causes and fundraising for the RepubliCant Party. You can read "the  massive scope of Fox’s fundraising for the GOP" yourself.

I actually wrote the following poem several weeks ago, but it is as true today as it was then:

Says Roger Ailes, who’s crowing like a cock,
"I’m in ratings. I’m winning." Winning what?
The most biased news in any time slot,
Makes of Sarah Palin a laughing stock
As buyers withdraw ads from Glen Beck’s schlock
While those FOX and Friends turn back the clock
And RepubliCons put their souls in hock.
In politics, Roger Ailes says he is not,
He’s right, he’s not. Deception’s all he’s got
And fools too dumb to know it’s all a crock
And that they’re sheepish tools in Murdock’s flock.