NEW YORK — Fox News hosts today openly lamented the network’s hiring of one-term Congressman and tea party favorite Allen West to be an on-air contributor, expressing concerns that it endangered the network’s reputation as a source for “fair and balanced” news and information.
“Quite frankly, I don’t see how this does anything but allow people to question our integrity,” said Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. “He’s not a serious journalist. He’s not even a pundit. He wasn’t even a successful congressman. This is a man who said that liberal women ‘have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness … we are not going to have our men become subservient … then the debt will continue to grow … deficits will continue to grow.’ What the Hell does that even mean?”
Fox News host Sean Hannity agreed, saying, “The guy’s a quack. He once called for censoring American news agencies. Maybe if he’d left it at MSNBC and CNN, he’d have a point, but he lumped us in there as well, and that’s just nuts.”
“Here at Fox News, we have a journalistic standard to uphold,” explained former FOX & Friends anchor Gretchen Carlson. “We have to remain impartial so as to remain relevant and trustworthy. West is a total right-wing nut case. Here’s a man who said, ‘I’m very concerned about this very divisive rhetoric the president is using when he continues to talk about ‘equality’ and ‘fairness,’ and this thing that I think is really contrary to the principles that I mentioned, as far as life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.‘ You just can’t spin that as anything other than bat-shit insane.”
Regardless, Fox News President Roger Ailes defended the move. “Allen West is a voice of the people, insofar as the people are a bunch of raving lunatics lost in conspiracies of their own creation. Since that’s a good share of our demographic, I see this as a no-brainer,” he said.
Former Fox host Glenn Beck was saddened at the news of West’s hiring. “Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” he crooned. “To hire a man who, while a sitting congressman, claimed to know that 80 members of the Democratic House Caucus were communists without having the stones to name them represents a new low for my old network. How can anyone take him seriously, with all the conspiracies he spews out and the way almost everything he says is a factual lie? I weep for Fox. I truly do. That man is clinically insane.”
64 Comments
Randall E. Winn
I love the “show facts” button. Nice job folks!
Jo Hargis
It’s hilarious watching them turn and eat one of their own.
Donna McLean
Damage Fox New’s credibility? LOL This is the funniest thing I’ve read all morning!
Jenine Castigan
Fox News is the most credible of them all Donna. You guys don’t like Allen because he’s not your typical follower, but you love obummer.
girl
“FOX News is the most credible of them all” BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! *Gasps for breath* BAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
Jenine Castigan
@disqus_F3jEGgq0FP:disqus what’s your source? The Lamestream media. Just wait! PALIN 2016 to the rescue.
Kevin Cameron
Sarah Palin to the rescue, now we know you are a fucking retard.
Frank LaFerriere
Sarah Palin to the rescue? You are just as insane as the rest. Go drink some more of their koolaid….but this time put cynaide in it.
baystater
If there is a god, Palin will be the GOP nominee and we can watch Hillary mop the floor with that nasty reich wing witch at the debates! By the way, are you still a teenager? To be a Palin fan and use the term “Obummer” in one post? Pathetic.
girl
No, no, I was laughing at the quote, gasping for air, then continuing to laugh at it. Come on, it’s hysterical 😉 I was certainly not saying Fox news is credible in any way. Because, as we all know, it’s not.
fliteking
“girl” is really Randy . . . in the basement . . . dressed in his mom’s clothes.
Jenine Catigan
What is wrong with Palin? You don’t like her because she tells it like it is, and not part of the washington elites. Go back to the northeast you elitist fools. When was the last time you’ve ever been hunting? Prolly never!
fliteking
Re-read my post, I am clearly on your side. hunt fish trap all the time.
the unc
Tells it like it is hell that women can’t say any thing with out you betcha.
mike
jenine, palin is a whore,plain and simple,.. she will sell it all to the hihest bidder,…if u cant see that ur blind,…how can she tell it like it is when she don’t have a clue what IT is ? or where IT is ?. or how IT is ?,….remember she could see Russia from her back door ?..lmao,.. omg you are amusing jenine,.. like watching retatded kidsplay with scissors, you know you should stope em but you cant wait to see what will happen…lmao
girl
No no I thought the quote was ridiculous, hence the uncontrolled laughter followed by gasping for air followed by continued laughter. And, who FUQ is “Randy”?
Kevin Cameron
wow, you really beLIEve that fox news is the most credible. Feel so sorry for you.
heenan73
Nice to see Jenine is here, searching for her sense of humor.
OH, wait – “Palin for 2016”? She’s found it!
Jenine Castigan
@heenan73:disqus you’re an idiot! You probably think Obama is smarter than Hannity. Hannity/Palin 2016: Real Americans for A REAL AMERICA! Not that socialist garbage!
Cantwaitfortherepubstosink
I sure hope they run……so we can watch them sink!!!!
the unc
Hannity/Palin in your bed room in 2016. Gona get there asses kicked Jenine baby. gona make a great comedy team.
Phillip
The president with the highest IQ were, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and President Obama…did you read the article the other day that showed fox and fools watchers are dumber than someone that doesn’t watch news at all. Jenine you prove the point….
eric
Are you including the American Indian when you say “Real Americans”?
mike
rotflmao.. Hannity is dumber than a box of retarded rocks…lmao.. he s the anti Christ didn’t you know ?…lmao.. Hannity..lol. Obama would get a big kick outta that..jenine,.. you are aware that Obama was editor of the law review at Harvard, right ?, and that he TAUGHT constitutionallaw ?, mean while Hannity was caught playing with himself at the theater….lol….hey guys, guess what Hannity is smarterthan Obama….lmao….im dyin here,….I bet jenine creams over Hannity and his max headroom hair plastered to his head as he lies and smiles all the way to the bank,.. laughing at all the stupid ass people who watch his show, I d bet 10 bucks HE voted for Obama…lol
eric
You like him as long as he’s not president otherwise you’d be calling him names too.
moke
you are afflicted..
mike
fox is the biggest joke on tv,.. jenine,.. did you not see roger ailesreferring to you and peoplelike you as raving lunatics ?..lol.. and yet u stillput your hand on the remote and swear by fox ?..lmao.. you have serious problems,..the least of which not being your political affiliations,…if ur a woman and a repub,.. well that tells mpost of us everything we need to know,….bat shit crazy don’t even come close to covering it, …but if your being raped,.. be sure to “shut that whole thing down” and don’t get pregnant, ok ?…..lord help us all from these dumbasses
Jane Claymore
Fairly hilarious.
Irwin B. Platzner
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Grant Devereaux
FOX News has no credibility left to damage.
klhayes
Good one!
nick
this has got to be a joke right? fox news impartial hahahahaha
Frank LaFerriere
Holy crap. I saw this posting on Facebook and had to check it out myself because I thought it was a satire piece. Then I read it and realized it was not. (jk)
heenan73
Hey, go study Troll #101 – you are supposed to keep your sad insults on topic …. otherwise we have no clue when to laugh at you, and when to cry for you.
fliteking
Hey sheenan , not sure how even your pea-brain would call my post off topic, but then again the assumption is 22% of libs can think for themselves. Perhaps your in the 78% ( do the math ) .
At some point you should either take down the Sharpton poster or surprise him at the studio and propose on air.
It’s funny, although not in a humorous way, that liberals find value in the “Reverend Al Sharpton” who uses cue cards containing mostly pictures with a few single syllable words intermixed – – – -while someone like the Honorable Allen West is given the “Uncle Tom ” treatment by stunted leftist hobgobblers such as yourself.
Highlighting your own intellectual deficits is something most intelligent people avoid . . . but clearly liberals in the 78% (say “heenan” here) seem to insist on it.
Michael Hill
Fuck you. Inbred moron.
fliteking
Tell me you had help with your post . . . no way would I want to take credit for such a stunted response.
Like every good liberal you should openly blame someone else while partaking in the name-calling ritual.
Hey, who helps you find your way home at the end of the day? I bet it is challenging for you
Here’s to betting you sit alone at lunch . . . or with someone whose IQ is
< 65 .
klhayes
“Here at Fox News, we have a journalistic standard to uphold,” explained FOX & Friends anchor Gretchen Carlson. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
the unc
Crazy as. as crazy is. gotta love fox an nuts.
One of them too
It feels good to laugh, doesn’t it? Thanks, Faux!
karen
Lol!!!! Damage FOX news credibility. . Lol they are serious journslists with integrity! !! Lmao!!! Aaawwww shit.. let me wipe the tears away…
Gregory Randolph
to dumbass Allen West, Just like I told you, they don’t care about you and will turn on you. typical maggot fox maggots like Hannity and the dinosaur oreilly, just out to use you so called black conservanuts.
John Sheets
West was facing a court marshal and possibly 11 years in prison. It was wither that or he leave the military. Even knowing that… the idiots still elected him to congress. No one expected to last more than one term. Fox is proof positive that if you are a bottom of the barrel ass crack wing nut, Fox can be a home for you, at least for awhile. Lets face it, if Sarah Palin can get a job there, anyone can. All you have to do is feed the (((vegetable base))) their audience, the psychodrama red meat they want to hear, and keep the lemmings attention long enough to vote, and you have done your job. Hannity is proof of that. Yes I know (((Newslow))) is parity…but this sounds to close to what Fox might do.
Homero Delgado
West fits right in with all the wacko liars on Fox News.
Homero Delgado
Jason Gray, I’m more american than you that’s for sure, and am retired military, just happen to be democrat. Did you serve in our military?
Jason C. Gray
Is a Satire site..god you liberals are the most retarded formscof life on this planet
Nigel Wiggins
This is a group of stray rabid dogs saying a wolf isnt fit to join them.
Jason C. Gray
Considering you get your news from sites like this says it all
Jason C. Gray
You socialist democrats wish you had one iota of the Patriotism running through your veins that Mr. West has. You ALL want big government. …please explain to me why? And this article is fake along with the quotes from the different anchors they supposedly interviewed. You unAmerican nut jobs
Mark Siracusa
I didn’t know Fox News had any credibility to begin with
Bev Doan
Well this is funny. They have a journalistic standard to uphold? So they’re admitting that they could go even lower than they already have? I think they should hire Allen West. He fits in perfectly with Hannity, the falafil guy, and the freaky blonde chic. He’d even fill the giant hole of wackiness left behind by Glenn Beck. Fox just gets more and more bizarre.
Eric VanSickle
Now when did Fox News had ANY credibility at all outside of the Republican and Tea parties? I mean what the heck is Grechen Carlson saying? . “We have to remain impartial so as to remain relevant and trustworthy”? Everyone in the WORLD knows that Fox News is the media arm of the Republican National Committee. Impartial my rear end!
Adam Donald Bach
Fox News…You all can GARGLE my NERTZ!
Jarold Foriest
Sean Hannity in Glenn Beck have the nerve to use the word journalist they both are talk showhost maybe West should be a talk showhost frist
Denise Mower
Pot calling kettle black…
David P. Turnbole
Fair and balanced! ROTFFLMFAO! Hysterically! Allen West does bring a certain flair to Faux Non News. He’s a traitor. He refused an order by the President of the United States during wartime. He SHOULD have been shot. So instead, he fired his weapon next to the ear of a prisoner causing deafness in that ear. That’s against the Geneva Convention, which we DO subscribe to as a nation. That makes him a war criminal. He should have been tried for it. And yes, I’m sure O’Reilly and Hannity want him gone. Why take stupid to a new level?
Robert Marcus
The statementby Roger Ailes is the first thing I’ve heard that ever contributed one iota to Fox’s credibilty!
Malcolm Damali Mills
LMAO!
I think Roger Ailes is making a GREAT move!
We have an Uncle Tom in the Supreme Court and now Fox simply would like to have an Uncle Tom in their newsroom.
Look, we need all the help we can get in the 2014 elections. Having this crazy ass, shuck and jiving, self loathing, Uncle Tom pontificating endlessly and insanely about his Area 51 conspiracy theories and cold war wet dreams from within the Fox newsroom is just what we need to urinate all over Fox’s credibility as they attempt to throw their support behind some dim witted conservative sociopath, they call a candidate.
Jack Boardman
[…]Fox News President Roger Ailes defended the move. “Allen West is a voice of the people, insofar as the people are a bunch of raving lunatics lost in conspiracies of their own creation. Since that’s a good share of our demographic, I see this as a no-brainer,” he said. <~~~'Nuff said.
Doug Munn
You have to have a reputation that could be hurt….
Bob Judware
Yeah, like Megyn is so fair and balanced.
Bob Judware
Yeah, like Megyn is so fair and balanced.
Cynthia Coley
I read several months ago that Fox News was inching more to the left. This proves it. Glen Beck’s comment is the pot calling the kettle black.
Cynthia Coley
I read several months ago that Fox News was inching more to the left. This proves it. Glen Beck’s comment is the pot calling the kettle black.
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