Fox News Pundit Reaction to DOJ DOMA Stance: "This Is Mubarak Obama"

The Department of Justice's announcement that DOMA is unconstitutional and President Obama's decision not to defend it in federal court have prompted one Fox News pundit to compare the United States to a Middle Eastern dictatorship.

Moments after the Department of Justice announced it would not be defending the Defense of Marriage Act in the Second Circuit, Fox News pundit Monica Crowley declared the end of democracy, comparing President Obama to deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. She went on to suggest that the president is guilty of an impeachable offense, saying that had President Bush decided not to enforce laws protecting gay people, he would have been impeached.

Newsflash Fox: When President Bush was in office, there were no federal laws protecting gay people from discrimination. More to the point, President Bush stopped enforcing some major civil and human rights laws that protected all people, gay and straight, including the Geneva Convention and the Fourth Amendment. And there were calls for his impeachment. But Bush didn't decide those laws were unconstitutional violations of civil rights. He decided he was more powerful than the Constitution and that he could violate civil rights. There's a difference.

Reposted in part from The Power.

 

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Comments

[tedmore123]

05:01 PM on 02/28/2011

Fox must be a great place to work; you can lie with impunity, you never have to check facts and all the female anchors wear short skirts, tight sweaters and none have an I.Q. over 70.

[CommodoreP]

03:46 PM on 02/28/2011

Why has FOX not proclaimed the end of democracy due to the fact that healthcare passed and the GOP is refusing to fund it? How is that democratic?

[Jeffrey Campagna]

02:09 PM on 02/28/2011

Check out my latest post about how attorneys are using Obama's new DOMA position to change the immigration battle. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-campagna/obamas-doma-turnaround-pr_b_828867.html

[pita143]

04:01 PM on 02/27/2011

Does anyone remember when Fox News ran a story about how the LAPD were going to spend over $100,000 each for 10,000 one person Jet Packs for their Police Department? The fact is that the Jet Pack is not even in production, they took that story off a Check Out counter tabloid and ran with it as if it was a fact. They ran it for over 6 hours during the day until the designer of the packs notified them that it was false. So much for checking facts before you take it to the air.

[innesents]

07:28 PM on 02/27/2011

Yes, but this is more sinister. She and Newt BTW, are missusing the terms "enforce" and "defend." They are applying the wrong word to obfuscate what the administration is doing. Journalism used to be an honorable profession. The FCC used to ensure that facts were the basis for news reporting both on radio and television. Those airwaves are ours' and the privlage to use them can be withdrawn. Well the could until Reagon gutted the FCC.

[CommodoreP]

03:47 PM on 02/28/2011

FOX news was a pioneer in lawsuit that argued that they should not be liable for giving disinformation and that freedom of speech covered a news agency being able to lie to the public!

[BocaMom]

12:16 PM on 02/27/2011

Fox News is starting to act more and more like MSNBC with it's non-bias reporting.

[Cthulhu On Call]

05:59 AM on 02/27/2011

Over the last few years Fox has made the transition from right wing extremists, to just plain not even making any sense. It's obvious that they couldn't care less about losing any last shred of credibility they might have had. This is precisely the kind of rhetoric that works the people up that watch their channel into a frenzy. It scares people and it leads to situations like that goofball asking that legislator when someone was going "shoot Obama".

They really need to put a stop to this kind of crap before people get hurt. When is that station going to take some responsibility for the disgusting things that they air?

[Jamal Spencer]

11:44 PM on 02/26/2011

Are we getting to the point that Fox News is becoming a one trick pony. Anything that Obama does,they try to find anything to make him look bad,but they have Glenn Beck and he is making Fox News look bad every single day. That is what I call fair and balanced.

[TigerBoxer]

11:29 AM on 02/26/2011

If President Obama would say that the grass is "green" and the sky is "blue" FOX NEWS pundits would find fault in it.

[ESerafina42]

06:42 PM on 02/26/2011

If he were to say tomorrow that he thought Mom and apple pie were the greatest things in the world, they would have a real quandary - agree with Obama or attack Mom and apple pie. :)

Anyway, weren't they (or some of them, at least) DEFENDING Mubarak?

[CommodoreP]

03:50 PM on 02/28/2011

I picked up on that too. When the network was following Beck they trended to the initial reaction that the protests were bad. When they saw everyone calling it a win for democracy, they changed their tune.

Much like Sarah Palin. After the 2008 election they bad mouthed her to the extreme. She LOST the election for McCain. NOW she's the second coming! Of course they don't remember the year before, how can we expect them to remember 15 yrs ago and the government shutdown crisis and personal hypocrisy of the GOP? No, they'll advocate reliving the whole ordeal.

[caseyblab]

09:33 AM on 02/26/2011

Crowley needs to take a chill pill and let someone else talk for a while. Her one-note responses to every topic are beyond stale.

[swabby01]

08:34 AM on 02/28/2011

that's ugly and not funny at all. there are lots of us rape survivors out here and we don't appreciate rape 'jokes'. try harder.

[Highball]

06:54 AM on 02/26/2011

Honestly, people have totally lost it. There's absolutely no reason for everyone to be so vitriolic and exaggerated, but they are, on a daily basis. It's incredibly sad.

[GabeSmall]

12:22 AM on 02/26/2011

So much fail I don't know where to begin.

[FantasticFourFan]

10:38 PM on 02/25/2011

Not enforcing a law that serves no purpose is impeachable but ignoring and outright breaking laws isn't huh? Nice to see they have a consistent philosophy.

[Farsha]

08:39 PM on 02/25/2011

And Obama is trying to please this kind of people ditching the middle class

[Ptama]

05:24 PM on 02/25/2011

Ok so the new Health care LAW, which will help millions of people, is unconstitutional and its OK for right wing judges to rule against it; but not OK for the left to rule against DOMA that discriminate against millions of people?

[diamondeyes83]

10:13 PM on 02/26/2011

The right wing, for the most part, only care about what benefits the Republican, straight, white, Judeo-Christian individuals of this country and no one else.

[pita143]

04:03 PM on 02/27/2011

NO ONE has ruled against DOMA. The Administration evaluated the Law and came out and said that they will no long defend the law. The Administration DID NOT change anything with the law, despite what Fixed Noise wants people to believe. The President DID NOT exceed his authority and strike down the law, he ONLY instructed the Justice Department to stop defending the law.

[BobVADemHawk]

05:00 PM on 02/25/2011

OK, Ms. Crowley, find the votes for impeachment. We'll be waiting, and waiting, and waiting....