{"id":103218,"date":"2014-01-04T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fox-news-5-worst-moments-of-2013\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:15:35","slug":"fox-news-5-worst-moments-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fox-news-5-worst-moments-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News&#8217; 5 Worst Moments of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/authors\/elias-isquith\">Elias Isquith<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was another banner year for Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s propaganda shop. Here are the most cringeworthy moments.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Along with death and taxes, Fox News is one of the few things we can depend on in this world. Just as the sun rises and sets, it&#8217;s a given that, over the course of 12 months, many ridiculous, offensive, stupid and bewildering things will be said by persons seated in front of a Fox News studio camera. Whether it&#8217;s from the hosts, guests or mere contributors, you can be assured that someone is going to say something that was better left unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, join us as we go through some of the lowest lows from Fox News, moments to remind us that when it comes to lizard-brained inanity, no one holds a candle to the guys and gals at Fox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Bill O&#8217;Reilly says Asians aren&#8217;t liberals because they&#8217;re \u201cindustrious and hard-working.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/192015\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly may be considerably less relevant today than he was around 10 years ago \u2013 but he&#8217;s still totally racist! While this aside about Asian people isn&#8217;t quite so outlandishly bigoted as his <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~mediamatters.org\/research\/2007\/09\/21\/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe\/139893\" target=\"_blank\">infamous recollection<\/a> of that one time he ate at a place with black people, it&#8217;s still a brain-dead comment founded entirely on a racial stereotype. And, in fact, it&#8217;s kind of doubly (or triply) racist because it implies that people who vote for liberal politicians arenot industrious or hard-working. Other than that, though, it was a totally defensible thing to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Megyn Kelly insists Santa Claus is white.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/197238\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Salon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~www.salon.com\/2013\/12\/16\/admit_it_megyn_kellys_no_different_from_bill_oreilly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel D&#8217;Addario has argued<\/a>, Kelly is basically a slicker version of Bill O&#8217;Reilly, so it shouldn&#8217;t come a surprise to find her world <em>rocked<\/em> by the possibility that a fictional character isn&#8217;t necessarily white. Yet there&#8217;s something remarkable about seeing a grown person, someone who is supposedly relatively sophisticated, so overcome with cultural panic. And while Kelly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~www.salon.com\/2013\/12\/15\/megyn_kelly_defends_white_santa_comment_accuses_critics_of_race_baiting\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-apology apology<\/a>, in which she accused her critics of race-baiting, was arguably more offensive, the original meltdown makes this list for so deftly mixing the ridiculous with the absurd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Ben Carson compares LBGTQ people to NAMBLA, bestiality supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/193282\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Ben Carson \u2013 who, in another life, was a very respected and successful neurosurgeon \u2013 2013 was a breakout year. With his <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~theweek.com\/article\/index\/240018\/the-doctor-who-slammed-obama-to-his-face-ben-carson-for-president\" target=\"_blank\">anti-Obama speech<\/a> at the National Prayer Breakfast, Carson became one of the right&#8217;s favorite new talking heads. At one point, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424127887323452204578292302358207828\" target=\"_blank\">the Wall Street Journal <\/a>even urged him to run for president. Unfortunately, Carson soon revealed himself to be more paranoid than presidential, likening LGBTQ people to all manner of sexual criminals. <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~www.salon.com\/2013\/10\/11\/ben_carson_obamacare_is_the_worst_thing_that_has_happened_in_this_nation_since_slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Subsequent comments<\/a> would make clear that this was not a one-off from Carson; when it comes to politics, he really is this terrible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Geraldo Rivera says jurors would have shot Trayvon Martin sooner than Zimmerman did.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/194852\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Geraldo Rivera is just the worst, and his coverage of the Trayvon Martin trial was him athis worst. Rarely has one man had such an extended freakout over one article of clothing as did Rivera concerning Martin&#8217;s hoodie. What makes this moment of Rivera&#8217;s life all the more regrettable, though, is the way he just blithely assumes everyone else (especially women, it seems) is as deathly terrified of young black men as he is. Extra cringe points to Steve Doocy&#8217;s \u201cWow!\u201d in response to Rivera&#8217;s assertion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Lauren Green interviews Reza Aslan, can&#8217;t figure out why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the possible exception of Megyn Kelly&#8217;s white Santa comments (delivered during a slow news day, not incidentally) no Fox News moment garnered more attention \u2013 and outrage \u2013 than Lauren Green&#8217;s brutally embarrassing and ignorant interview of Reza Aslan. Aslan was there to talk about his book \u201cZealot,\u201d a historical work about the Jesus. The whole thing is just torturous to watch, but the absolute, no doubt, rock-bottom, worst-of-the-worst moment is probably when Green compares a Muslim writing about Jesus to a Democrat writing about Reagan. Say this much for the segment, though: It&#8217;s the kind of thing you only really get at Fox News. Thank god for that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">With permission<br \/>\nSource: <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Fox News' 5 Worst Moments of 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/53378240\/0\/alternet~Fox-News-Worst-Moments-of\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Elias Isquith It was another banner year for Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s propaganda shop. Here are the most cringeworthy moments. Along with death and taxes, Fox News is one of the few things we can depend on in this world. Just as the sun rises and sets, it&#8217;s a given that, over the course of 12 months, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":103219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}