{"id":30208,"date":"2012-09-11T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/fox-news-americas-religious-police.html"},"modified":"2012-09-11T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:42:38","slug":"fox-news-americas-religious-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/fox-news-americas-religious-police.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: America&#39;s Religious Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, that&#39;s all I can think of, if they think one of their key jobs is criticizing (dubiously) whether the president is invoking God and religion and prayer enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100967976499158577452'>Media Matters for America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox News remembers 9\/11 by attacking President Obama for not mentioning God in his presidential proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Co-Host Gretchen Carlson noted that Obama has &quot;called for a moment of silence, but has not called for the word God.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#39; Steve Doocy added: &quot;On this most somber of days, get this. Does the President of the United States call on people to pray for those lives lost? No.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For starters, Fox News&#39; claim is blatantly false&#8230;a lie, if you will: Obama&#39;s proclamation actually calls on &quot;God&#39;s grace.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And, to add a bit of hypocrisy to this latest Fox News lie: George W. Bush didn&#39;t include the word &quot;God&quot; in his 2006, 2007 and 2008 presidential proclamations on 9\/11. But, you didn&#39;t hear Fox attacking him for &#39;ignoring God.&#39;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fstatic%2Fimages%2Fitem%2Fgivingboot-fb.JPG' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/bit.ly\/RCh2Sk'>Fox Omits The Facts To Politicize 9-11 Moment Of Silence<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/X5km4GinN6L' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, that&#39;s all I can think of, if they think one of their key jobs is criticizing (dubiously) whether the president is invoking God and religion and prayer enough. Reshared post from +Media Matters for America Fox News remembers 9\/11 by attacking President Obama for not mentioning God in his presidential proclamation. Fox Co-Host &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/fox-news-americas-religious-police.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox News: America&#39;s Religious Police&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,99,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/fox-news-has-the-faux-vapors-over-the-president-using-that-word.html","url_meta":{"origin":30208,"position":0},"title":"Fox News has the faux vapors over the President using THAT word","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Jun-15 2:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, of course, rather than talking about the substance of Obama's interview about racism in America, it was far more distracting to talk about how Obama used the \"n-word\" (and then to dub him \"rapper in chief\").I mean, if there is a legitimate occasion for the someone to use the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25146,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/stay-classy-fox-news.html","url_meta":{"origin":30208,"position":1},"title":"Stay classy, Fox News!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Jan-12 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"How does Fox News treat First Lady Michelle Obama? Let's go to Google ... (Note: I'm not necessarily suggesting that the wife of the President should be immune to criticism. I would suggest a modicum of respect for the position, regardless of who is holding it, as well as that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41017,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/i-cant-get-no-fox-distraction.html","url_meta":{"origin":30208,"position":2},"title":"I can&#39;t get no &#8230; Fox distraction","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Feb-14 9:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lovely Jon Stewart segment on Fox News' obsession with how Obama distracts everyone from everything they want to accuse him of by distracting them from everything else. Except, of course, that everything he actually talks about is a distraction from everything else that they want him to be talking about,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/when-your-fox-interviewer-says-that-may-be-a-bit-of-a-stretch.html","url_meta":{"origin":30208,"position":3},"title":"When your Fox interviewer says that\u00a0may be a bit of a stretch","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Jan-13 4:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... then maybe you ought to reconsider your doltish metaphor, Rep. Stockman. Embedded Link Texas congressman likens Obama\u2019s gun control efforts to Saddam Hussein\u2019s use of children as human shields As Todd J. Gillman reported earlier, U.S. Rep. 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