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A Brief History of Fox “News” Harassment Scandals

August 6, 2017Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine, Charles Payne, Fox News, Jesse Watters, Loofah Lad, Roger AIles, The Falafel KingHeadly Westerfield

A Brief History of Fox “News” Harassment Scandals

On Friday it was reported that Fox News host Eric Bolling was accused of sending unsolicited explicit pictures to three female colleagues. The women who received the messages allege they were sent from Bolling’s number, reported Huffington Post, citing 14 sources. Below, Newsweek takes a look at the scandals that have rocked the station in recent… Continue reading A Brief History of Fox “News” Harassment Scandals →

Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday August 9, 2014

August 9, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Payne, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Johnny Dollar, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Racism, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, The Mighty Hannibal, TrollsHeadly Westerfield

Howdy again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to R&B singer-songwriter The Mighty Hannibal, whose biggest hit, “Hymn No. 5,” was banned from radio due to its Vietnam War subject matter. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.

1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.

1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

Without any further delay, here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

This is NOT Johnny Dollar,
just an incredible likeness

PAID INTERNET TROLLS:

Political blogger outs herself
as paid troll for big telecom

Is Johnny Dollar a Paid Internet Troll?

The Smoking Gun

Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?

FREE THE WEED!!!

D.C. Residents Will Vote On
Marijuana Legalization This November

Medical Marijuana User
Sues Company That Fired Her

In most states, marijuana is
a bargain compared to beer

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Agrees: There’s A War On Whites

Bill O’Reilly Goes Off On Juan Williams

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

People Are Crowdfunding To Put “Sean
Hannity Is An Idiot” Billboards In US Airports

Colbert Takes A Hilarious Dig At Hannity

The Foxy Friends
at Fox & Friends

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Steve Doocy Thinks ‘In God We
Trust’ Speaks To All Americans!

CHARLES PAYNE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Business Host Calls Walgreens ‘Shameful’
for Not Using Loopholes to Avoid Paying Taxes

IN INNER SPACE:

Ancient fossil haul from Wyoming cave is a paleontologist’s dream

IN OUTER SPACE:

Rosetta Probe’s First Photos Of Comet Reveal A ‘Scientific Disneyland’

White Dwarf That Survived Supernova, Detected by Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxy’s Huge Black Hole Puts On Awesome Fireworks Show

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014420, Charles Payne, Climate Change, DNA, Fox News, Free the Weed, Glenn Beck, Global Warming, Gregg Jarrett, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Megyn Kelly, Outer Space, Religion, Steve Doocy, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Herman Poole Blount, who the world better knew as Sun Ra. The Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.

1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.

1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.

1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas“).

1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine“.

1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.

1945 – Operation Paperclip
– United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S.
evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.

1964 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.

1969 – Apollo 10 ‘s lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon‘s surface.

1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.

1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.

1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.

1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

Now today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Adam Carolla: Gays Should
Just Shut the F–k Up Already

Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is
Gay Marriage Unstoppable?

Gay marriage mania,
and more to come

Gay marriage legalized in Pennsylvania by Santorum’s judge!

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Crazy Tea Party Congressman Suggests Only Property Owners Should Be Allowed To Vote

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Calif. man says ‘the Lord’ grabbed him and compelled him to attack a kid on a skateboard

FINALLY!!! A SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING:

The Latest Right-Wing
Solution For Sea Level Rise:
Move Southern Florida