The title of the post is the Fox headline, copied verbatim from their front page, it was the main article. The short paragraph that appeared below the headline was:

THE FAA lifts a travel restriction prohibiting US carriers from flying into and out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport approximately 35 hours after it went into effect following criticism from Israel and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

Does it sound to you like Fox are trying to make it sound like Ted Cruz had something to do with the lifting of the restriction?

Well, here’s the detail buried in the article itself that tells the real story (emphasis mine):

In a statement, the FAA said that the Notice to Airmen restricting flights into Ben Gurion Airport officially expired at 11:45 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday. The agency had instituted the prohibition shortly after noon Eastern Time Tuesday in response to a report that a rocket fired by Hamas had landed less than a mile from the airport. The restriction was renewed earlier Wednesday.

Yup, the restriction were not simply a blanket, it had a limited life span. And even though the restriction has now, expired, it seems that there is some concern.

The CEO of Delta Air Lines, which diverted a jumbo jet away from Tel Aviv before Tuesday’s ban, said earlier Wednesday the airline would not necessarily resume flights to Israel even if U.S. authorities declare the area safe.

Maybe Fox and Ted Cruz would like to accuse Delta of attempting to persecute Israel.

The CEO of Middle East carrier Emirates said after the shoot-down in Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines jet last week that global airlines need better risk-assessment from international aviation authorities.

I cannot help but agree with that. It’s not been very long since MH17 was shot down with all souls lost. I have to wonder what Ted Cruz and Fox would have had to say had there been a number of Americans on MH17. I imagine that quite possibly they’d have been castigating the FAA for not being more cautious. Of course, ultimately, it would have been Obama’s fault.

And you know exactly what tune the wingnut chorus would have been singing.

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Fox just don’t stop. Again they’re making front page news out of Murrieta. This time, some 200 protesters which includes those for and against. Fox says Murrieta has a population of roughly 106,000. And a couple of hundred protesters makes it a flashpoint?

It’s so blatant that surely even Fox addled idiots should be able to see through it, surely. Sadly, I doubt it, any semblance of logic, went out the window years ago.
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I posted in the past about Todd Starnes from Fox, who I think is, to put it politely, scurrilous. He’s most often to be found reporting about religious issues, and that usually means persecution of Christians, well at least they think so. About as real as the war on Christmas generally.

And then this article appeared by Todd appeared, about the condition of children (illegal aliens), being held at an air force base in Texas. It’s complete with phrases like “the contagion threat” and the alleged security staff refereed to as the “Brown Shirts”. Please do read the article to understand quite what kind of people have been telling Todd stories.
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The medical issues these kids are effected by (according to Todd’s sources) include measles, scabies, chicken pox, lice, strep throat, mental and emotional issues. The article’s concern is apparently not for the welfare of children, it’s that these children may spread these diseases to…..Americans.

It was only today when I saw one of the protest signs (saying save our children from diseases) at the Murrieta protests that the article made any sense. It’s little but scaremongering, trying to further demonize illegal immigrants.

I have to say, if there’s any “Brown Shirts” involved, It’s Todd and Fox News.

Fox News, the Republican party’s primary PR company, won’t be reporting on this any time soon.

But in a twist, the Wall Street Journal reported last week that federal regulators and law enforcement officials have now focused their attention on a Republican health policy staffer in the House. A lawsuit filed on Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, first reported by the Journal, said investigators believe the staffer “may have been” the source of the leak. It also sought to force the staffer to turn over records to investigators, something he and the committee have reportedly refused to do despite being handed subpoenas.

But wait, there’s more…..

The SEC lawsuit alleges that the House staffer, Brian Sutter, spoke with a lobbyist — identified by the Journal as Mark Hayes, who happens to be a former aide to Grassley — on the day of the leak. The suit alleges that Sutter was in touch with Hayes by both email and phone and that they discussed the upcoming Medicare policy change.

Well, what a surprise indeed.

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The one thing that surprises me about this is that it wasn’t Jim Hoft, the dumbest man on the internet who said it. You’ll think the same thing when you hear how the “Center for Accuracy In the Media” Is trying to convince us that Jarad and Amanda Miller were “progressives.”

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Fox News topped off its week of negative coverage surrounding the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl by suggesting on Friday that America’s only prisoner of war in Afghanistan is a jihadist.

Pointing to a Fox News report, which claims that Bergdahl “converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a ‘mujahid,’” the network’s morning hosts bantered about Bowe’s comfortable experience in captivity and his noticeable good health, implying that he did not deserve to be rescued or exchanged for five Taliban-linked prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay. Then, Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy asked, “did we trade five Islamic warriors for one Islamic warrior?”

Fox “News” went full metal wingnut long ago, now they’re going full metal Pamela Geller!

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I knew this had to happen sooner or later. Never mind that Neil Degrasse Tyson has done far more than just complain about his lot in life ( After all, he’s an astrophysicist who’s the head of the Hayden Planetarium, at American Museum of Natural History, not to mention his Cosmos reboot. ) Plus the discrimination he talks about was and is very real. Off course none of that matters to racists, including the ones at Fox “News.” I’m personally ashamed I ever took that channel seriously as a source for “news.” Shauna Theel has more on this disgusting stupidity,

A frequent Fox News guest who has contributed to a white nationalist website attacked Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and host of FOX’s Cosmos, for speaking out about racial profiling he has experienced.

Gavin McInnes, who co-founded Vice but left the company in 2008, reportedlyreportedly because he was a “liability,” said he “hate[s]” Tyson and complained about Tyson stating that he has been racially profiled in stores on the June 3 edition of Fox News’ Red Eye:

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More: Watch: Shep Smith Rebuts Fox News’ Rush to Judge Bowe Bergdahl

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As details emerge from the Friday shooting near the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus, one question has remained unanswered: Did the shooter act out because he was secretly attracted to men? Thankfully, Fox News has you covered.

On Saturday night, the channel’s Justice With Judge Jeanine invited Dr. Robi Ludwig, a licensed psychotherapist and psychologist, to speculate on whether 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, the alleged shooter, was acting upon “homosexual impulses” when he targeted his victims, several of whom were men. You can watch a video of the exchange above.