Per several visitors’ suggestions, FoxNewsBoycott.com will soon start a Boycott Of The Month, which will likely provide a greater impact with a more narrow focus. Rather than inundate visitors with the huge list of Fox News Sponsors, which will remain in place, a couple/few sponsors will be selected, at random, on a monthly basis. The goal will be to have a concentrated effort sending a massive message that their support of Fox News and its personalities will not be tolerated.

The BOTM companies will be listed on the left side of the front page of the site and will be updated around the first of the month.

The following ad was on the Fox News web site… I didn’t feel it portrayed Bill O’Reilly accurately enough. I mean, we want them to be “fair and balanced,” so I fixed it for him…

The Fox News web site and Fox & Friends featured a story about a San Diego pastor and his family who were paid a visit by a San Diego County employee. Apparently they were in violation of county code, specifically “unlawful use of land,” and that they need a “major use permit.” The family claims that they were simply having a bible study, but the article is unclear about how many people were in the assembly.

Unfortunately, for those of us who like to know both sides of the story, including the truth, Fox News failed to provide any statements, or facts, from San Diego County. Apparently, Fox News will stand up for martyrs being persecuted, as long as they’re Christian…

Just when you think the Barack Obama birth certificate conspiracy nuts have put away their tin foil hats, Fox News brings the non-issue back to the forefront with an above-the-fold mention and graphic on their FoxNation web site.

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This issue has been repeatedly debunked and dismissed. But for those of you “truthers” who still don’t get it, this probably won’t convince you… FactCheck.org, Politifact.com and FightTheSmears.com all provide evidence fo the Certification of Live birth, which has been validated by the State of Hawaii and is as good as the “long form birth certificate.”

Apparently, the server FoxNewsBoycott.com is hosted on experienced a drive failure and the site had to be moved to a new server. Unfortunately, the last backup did not include the posts and comments made yesterday. Today, I’ll have to spend some time redoing what I can… I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Kasich, has been spending time on the Fox News Channel as a host, guest host for The O’Reilly Factor and guest of Sean Hannity. Kasich has filed the necessary paperwork with the Ohio Secretary of State to run as a Republican Gubernatorial candidate in the 2010 election.

While in Congress, Kasich was the Chairman of the Budget Committee. He oversaw the only U.S. budget surplus since  1969, when the defecit was -$163 billion in 1995. When he concluded his time as Chairman, the defecit had grown to $236 billion. Kasich has also been a managing director of Lehman Brothers, which he joined in 2001.

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A month after Sean Hannity said he would be waterboarded to show his support for our troops, Erich “Mancow” Muller took up the challenge. Mancow called it off after six seconds and stated, emphatically, that waterboarding is “absolutely torture.” He made an appearance on Countown with Keith Olbermann and said that it’s worse than drowning and that he would have said anything to make it stop, thus proving that it’s an unreliable method of obtaining accurate information.

After the initial offer to be waterboarded, after Mancow “manned up” and took the challenge, and after Mancow declared that it is, in fact, torture, Sean Hannity still insists that it’s not. He called Mancow and told him, “It’s still not torture.” Mancow replied, “Sean, it is torture.”

Mancow also praised Olbermann and called him a “stand up guy” for donating $10,000 to the Veterans of Valor.

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Ralph Peters is a former soldier turned special contributor to Fox News. He recently posted an essay titled, “The Killers Without Guns,” in which he states that future wars may require censorship, blackouts and military attacks on the media in order to curb what he considers abuse that kills our soldiers. Peters also believes that the United States is entitled to do anything to win, even if it means winning dirty.

“Pretending to be impartial, the self-segregating personalities drawn to media careers overwhelmingly take a side, and that side is rarely ours. Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants. But freedom of the press stops when its abuse kills our soldiers and strengthens our enemies. Such a view arouses disdain today, but a media establishment that has forgotten any sense of sober patriotism may find that it has become tomorrow’s conventional wisdom…

“The point of all this is simple: Win. In warfare, nothing else matters. If you cannot win clean, win dirty. But win. Our victories are ultimately in humanity’s interests, while our failures nourish monsters.“

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Last week, Bill O’Reilly mistakenly took on the ACLU for objecting to the use of racial profiling by the NYPD. It was actually the Center for Constitutional Rights that filed a class action law suit against the police department, but that’s not the real issue here…

O’Reilly cites a RAND study that, he says, concludes that 69% of New York’s violent crime victims describe the assaliant as black and 5% described the assaliant as white, which justifies his racial bias. What the study actually found is that, in 2007, cops arrested only 5.8% of the 472,096 people they stopped, 80% of whom were black or Latino.

Bill-O argues that the police are targeting people who are up to no good, or are acting suspicious. That would mean that over 80% of those stopped were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they’re up to no good. But, 90% of the time the police is wrong, according to O’Reilly’s guest, Fox News Analyst Dr. Marc Lemont Hill.

Civil liberties be damned, Bill O’Reilly sums up his thoughts with more fear mongering diatribe: “If you’re going . . . you and the ACLU and all of your other left-wing friends are going to object to all of the measures that keep Americans safe . . . you’re going to have more dead people.”

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How “fair and balanced” does Fox News look when their Fox Nation web site has the following headlines devoted to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor:

• What Do You Think of Obama’s Supreme Court Pick?
• Sotomayor: ‘Court Is Where Policy Is Made’ …Is That in the Constitution?
• Exclusive Video: Sotomayor’s Most Controversial Case
• Liberals Make Case Against Sotomayor
• Rush: GOP Must Go to the Mat Over Sotomayor
• 1992 Sotomayor Nomination Was a Backroom Deal
• Limbaugh: Sotomayor a ‘Reverse Racist’
• Sotomayor: Wise Latinas Better Than White Males
• TOMMY DE SENO: Conservatives Should Hold Their Fire and Confirm Judge Sotomayor
• S.E. CUPP: Sotomayor — Obama’s Nominee Spouts Biased Views on Race and Gender
• KEN BLACKWELL: Obama Declares War on America’s Gun Owners With Supreme Court Pick
• Conservatives Prepare for Supreme Court Fight
• Hannity investigates Sonia Sotomayor’s most controversial case!

That is a lot of front page space, many of which were main headlines, devoted to smearing Sonia Sotomayor.

I’d like to point out an example of Fox News bias and unfair reporting, specifically the “Wise Latinas Better Than White Males” headline made to look like a quote with the “Sotomayor:” preface. The actual quote is, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

What happens when a reporter repeats an unsupported, anonymous and completely subjective opinion from an anonymous source? You get Fox News.

An important part of Journalism is the use of anonymous sources. Journalists fight to protect the identity of those sources, usually in whistleblower cases. But, when a media outlet like Fox News echos the opinions of some anonymous sources to characterize Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a “bully,” or being “domineering,” it does little to provide credence to that reporting. To make matters worse, it wasn’t even Fox News that originally obtained these opinions from the anonymous sources. Fox News simply repeated, without verification, a piece from The New Republic. TNR simply attributed the quotes to a “former Second Circuit clerk for another judge.”

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Not surprisingly, Fox News is trying to pick apart Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Also, not surprisingly, Fox News commentator, Mike Huckabee, follows suit and expresses his disagreement with the choice and, in doing so, incorrectly calls her by the wrong name.

The appointment of Maria Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is the clearest indication yet that President Obama’s campaign promises to be a centrist and think in a bipartisan way were mere rhetoric.

If you’re going to dislike someone, you might have more credibility if you’re able to get their name right.

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Obviously, Bill Maher is not a popular guy around the Fox News studios, and Sean Hannity recently stated that he thinks Maher had become an “angry, bitter guy.” Maher, known for not pulling punches, responded by saying Hannity was “projecting,” that “he’s a repressed, typical Republican” and that he’s “terribly sexually repressed.”

“No, he’s an angry, bitter guy. That’s called projecting.

That’s called taking what you feel and giving it to somebody else. I’m a happy, single guy. He’s a repressed, typical Republican.

I’m sure just terribly sexually repressed and it comes out in all their sorts of hatred and vile and bile — why would I be bitter? First of all, our side won. You know, their side is in a wilderness like there’s been before.”

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It made big news yesterday when Erich “Mancow” Muller was waterboarded live on his radio show. It happened to be on the one month anniversary of Sean Hannity‘s offer to do the same to support the troops. Of course, Hannity has not followed through on his word. Keith Olbermann, showing what charity and support looks like, withdrew his offer to donate $1,000 per second to charity in Sean Hannity’s name, calling him “unnecessary.” Instead he decided to give $10,000 to charity in Mancow’s name, even though Mancow only lasted around six seconds.