LGBTQ news and entertainment
I just, can’t. Seriously? As if the only murders that occur are by “illegals?”
And they happen “all the time?”
Watch Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy below. His name really should be “Steve Douchey.”
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Last night, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar (of 19 Kids and Counting fame) spoke with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly about the ongoing scandal regarding their son’s admission of sexually molesting several young girls (including his sisters) when he was in his mid-teens.
The Duggars came armed with statements like:
“He said he was just curious about girls and he had gone in and just basically touched them over their clothes while they were sleeping; they didn’t even know he had done it.”
“This was like touching somebody over their clothes. There were a couple instances where he touched them under their clothes. This was not rape or anything like that.”
The parents explained that Josh gave a full account of his actions to an Arkansas State Trooper. Although no charges were filed, the teenager received a “stern” talking-to from the officer.
That officer, Joseph Hutchens, now serving a decades-long prison sentence for child pornography. “We had no idea what that officer was going through,” Jim Bob said.
When asked about robocalls Michelle Duggar recorded opposing transgender rights that suggested transgender folks were just trying to get into girls bathroom for sexual reasons, Jim Bob Duggar told Kelly that his wife “actually said pedophile in that robocall. And actually a pedophile is an adult that preys on children. Joshua was actually 14 and just turned 15 when he did what he did. I think the legal definition is 16 and up for an adult preying on a child. He was a child preying on a child.”
Josh Duggar, himself, has not commented on the scandal since it broke two weeks ago. At the time he issued a short statement saying he had “acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends.”
View the full interview with Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar below:
Entertainment Tonight reports that the Duggars, Jim Bob and Michelle of 19 Kids And Counting fame, will appear on Megyn Kelly’s show on Fox News.
More than a week after they responded on Facebook to the under-age molestation allegations against their oldest son Josh Duggar when he was 14 years old, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar announced that they are giving their first sit-down TV interview to Fox News.
News anchor Megyn Kelly landed the highly sought-after interview with the 19 Kids and Counting parents, which she’ll conduct on Wednesday, June 3, from the family’s Arkansas hometown.
“Next week we will sit down with Megyn Kelly on Fox News to share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given,” the Duggars wrote in a statement. “We appreciate the outpouring of love and prayers for our family at this time.”
I’m sure we can count on this interview to have hard-hitting questions… (sarcasm intended).
According to Media Matters, Fox News pretty much ignored the Josh Duggar/child molestation allegations that dominated much of last week’s news cycle.
As many now know, last week In Touch magazine reported that in 2006, Jim Bob Duggar – patriarch of TLC’s reality show 19 Kids and Counting – waited over a year before telling police that his son, Josh Duggar, had confessed to molesting several female minors, including his sisters, when he was a teenager.
In the aftermath of the revelations, TLC pulled 19 Kids from its schedule.
From Media Matters:
The revelations drew widespread criticism in the media, with many outlets pointing out the Duggar family’s reputation as a torch-bearer for conservative values and strong involvement in Republican politics and anti-LGBT activism. The revelations look to many like hypocrisy from a family that’s become a political powerhouse in socially conservative circles in recent years by wielding its reality show influence to stump for “family values,” Republican politicians, and the repeal of legal protections for LGBT people.
But while MSNBC and CNN have reportedly heavily on the Duggar scandal, Fox News has largely ignored the story. According to a Media Matters analysis, Fox News spent less than two minutes covering the story between May 21 and May 25, compared to almost an hour of coverage from the other cable news networks.
Bolding is mine.
No big surprise here, although to see the actual disparity is telling. The Duggars are held up as bastions of morality by Fox News, so it’s no wonder they don’t want to highlight the clear hypocrisy in play here.
Fox News has announced a plan to limit to ten the number of candidates to take part in the first 2016 GOP debate announced for August 6.
As of today, it looks like there could well be 18 likely Republicans running for the 2016 nomination.
In a statement by the network, officials said that to be allowed on stage, candidates “must place in the top 10 of an average of the five most recent national polls, as recognized by Fox News.”
It said that “such polling must be conducted by major, nationally recognized organizations that use standard methodological techniques.”
Fox News did not elaborate on which polling organizations would be considered credible.
The debate will be moderated by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, all of Fox News.
Fox News contributor Sandy Rios told her radio show audience today that the engineer of the fatal Amtrak crash was a supporter of gay rights and may be gay himself, saying it was likely “a factor” the crash.
“Now I am not saying, I am not inferring to those of you that are gay rights activists and like to monitor this show, I’m not inferring that this accident happened because he was gay, but I do think it’s an interesting part of the story and you can bet it would be edited out.”
Rios went on to say the engineer could have possibly been “going through some confusion that has to do with the very core of who they are.”
I have no idea how this all boils down to being gay means you can’t be a train engineer.
I’m surprised she didn’t note the man is a ginger. We all know how crazy gingers are.
It’s probably a media conspiracy to protect gingers…
(sarcasm intended)
When even Fox News anchors can see a law doesn’t work, you know the jig is up.
Bret Baier, appearing on Happening Now today, told host Eric Shawn that the law is NOT like the federal version, and that it will “have to be tweaked, if not changed.”
Check this transcript from the segment:
ERIC SHAWN: You know, the law was intended to protect personal religious liberties against government overreach and intrusion. So what happened?
BAIER: Well, Indiana’s law is written a little differently. It is more broad. It is different than the federal law that it’s close to, but different than, and also different than 19 other states and how the law is written. In specific terms, Indiana’s law deals with a person who can claim religious persecution but that includes corporations, for profit entities and it could also be used as a defense in a civil suit that does not involve the government. That is broader than the other laws. This is where it’s a little different in Indiana’s case. You saw governor Mike Pence try to defend the law and say it’s just like the 1993 federal law where it’s just like 19 other states, but as you look in the fine print, it’s not really, and it may be something that Indiana deals with in specifics to line up with the others.
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SHAWN: Obviously, it had good intentions. What do you think happened to make it kind of go off the rails this way?
BAIER: Well, how it was structured, Eric. And I think that, you know, there may be good intentions behind it but how it’s being interpreted is being a little bit more forward leaning than any other Religious Freedom Restoration Act on the books. What this does politically, obviously Mike Pence has been talked about as a governor thinking about a 2016 run. We don’t know if he’s going to do it or not. But that interview with Stephanopoulos over the weekend was obviously not a great back and forth in defense of this law that likely is going to have to be at least tweaked, if not changed. [emphasis added]
Further discussions about SB101 continue to circle back to the federal law with conservative Hoosier lawmakers saying their law is “exactly” like.
But as Bret Baier and many others can now attest to upon closer evaluation, there is a major difference between Indiana’s version of the law and the federal government’s version.
From Media Matters:
Indiana’s RFRA is categorically different from other “religious freedom” laws, because it includes for-profit businesses under its definition of “persons” capable of religious expression.
The Indiana law also allows private individuals and businesses to claim a religious exemption in court “regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.”
Those differences — which the ACLU has called “virtually without precedent” — expand the scope of Indiana’s RFRA and provide a legal defense for businesses and individuals who refuse service to LGBT residents.
Sean Hannity took some of his free time at CPAC today to throw red meat to the crowd in the form of insults about liberal Americans:
“Let’s say I had a bees nest at my house. If I was stupid, like a liberal, and I took a baseball bat and I knocked down the wasp nest and the bees sting me, it wouldn’t be my fault, it wouldn’t be the wasp’s fault.”
But this guy would tell you he’s ‘fair and balanced.’
He then followed up with a strange joke – “I have x-ray Fox vision and I can see some young women — you don’t even know it yet but you’re pregnant. But it’s not your fault!”
The insults start around the 7:15 mark.
Former Arkansas Governor (and Fox News show host) Mike Huckbee on Des Moines radio show “Mickelson in the Morning” on the staff at Fox News:
“In the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting. In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women. My gosh, this is worse than locker-room talk. As we would say in the South, that’s just trashy.”
Huckabee ended his Fox News show just last month to prepare for a possible run for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
Mediaite shares this clip of Fox News anchor Shepard Smith announcing the news that SCOTUS will take up the issue of same-sex marriage.
Apparently, Tea Baggers are up in arms that Smith points out some of the strongest opposition to marriage equality comes in the same states that opposed integration.
“Not in every case, but in most cases, the same states which were fighting integration are fighting this as well,” Smith said. “Those states which always seem to be behind the curve for reasons which are explainable and understandable. Those are the places where this is going to turn out to be the most difficult, especially if the Supreme Court stays with what has seemed to be a trend toward inclusion and away from discrimination.”
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…