Updated: Today
Topic:

Fox News

Bill O'Reilly is very afraid of San Francisco

The drug- and homeless-infested city portrayed in a Fox report shows what the whole country will become under Obama. Video

Here in San Francisco, the lines to buy pot at our many neighborhood cannabis clubs are even longer than the lines to vote for socialist Barack Obama were on Nov. 4.

Homeless people, high on drugs, freely roam the streets, escorted by police officers who know everyone by first name and distribute special Cracker Jacks with actual crack as the prize.

If you think I'm kidding, then you haven't seen this segment from Bill O'Reilly's show, which was first spotted by the Huffington Post. Yes, people, Bill wants his viewers to know what Obama is going to do to the country. He's going to destroy "traditional America" and turn it into "secular progressive America" -- just like San Francisco, the capital of drugs, homeless, hippies and degenerates of all shapes and sizes.

Unfortunately, as hilarious as it is to see O'Reilly's contorted Reefer Madness vision of San Francisco, it's also offensive. Fox used blacks and Latinos, transgenders and gays, and poor people to represent the progressive Obama nightmare that his "radical left" government is supposedly going to unleash. And the good "traditional" America? Yup, white mothers with strollers.

Right-wing San Francisco-bashing is hardly new or even notable. But O'Reilly has taken it to new extremes of paranoia in this little production. You gotta see this for yourself. 

Fox News in the news

Loading...

Recommended Reads

Out-Foxed
How Rupert's red-state cable channel waved the flag and beat CNN.
By Geraldine Sealey, Salon

Fox News: the inside story
A former Fox producer describes the ways -- both subtle and blunt -- that top executives impose a right-wing ideology on the newsroom.
By Tim Grieve, Salon

The "Dark Genius" of Fox News
Biographer Kerwin Swint explains how news honcho Roger Ailes has pushed the country to the right for the past four decades.
By Vincent Rossmeier, Salon

I watched Fox News for five hours last night
As Obama's victory became undeniable, Brit Hume moved beyond grief and anger with Karl Rove. And Juan Williams justified his existence.
By Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

The real Fox News Democrats
How the "Fair and Balanced" network pits Democrats against their own party.
By Alex Koppelman, Salon

Naked Launch: Prologue
Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes to brainwash America into thinking right-wing ideology is actually the political center. And he did. And, I'm ashamed to tell you, I helped him.
By Dan Cooper

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
The official website for the hit documentary.

Currently in Salon