Fox News dismisses Todd Starnes after bonkers accusation that Democrats worship pagan god of child sacrifices

Todd Starnes and Fox News have parted ways

I'm not one for rejoicing when people lose their gigs, but this turkey had it coming for a long time.  It's just been announced that Fox News radio show host Todd Starnes has been dismissed. And a recent bonkers interview with Trump-supporting religious right pastor Robert Jeffress  (who at the time accused the Democratic party of worshipping a pagan god associated with child sacrifice) may have been the final nail in his coffin.

According to The Wrap:

 . . .  Todd Starnes’ contract at Fox News is not being renewed. The host will no longer be working at the network, its website, or its premium subscription service, Fox Nation. His removal comes a few days after he said on his radio program on Monday that Democrats do not believe in the Christian God and instead may worship Moloch, a pagan god often associated with child sacrifice. When asked for comment, Fox News confirmed the news that Starnes is no longer working at the network but did not elaborate on the reasons behind Starnes’ departure. . . .In the place of his “Fox News & Commentary” radio program, Fox News Radio will broadcast “Fox Across America.” The opinion show will rely on a rotation of various Fox News personalities until a permanent host is named.

Actually, it was Jeffress who made the accusation. However, Starnes did nothing to refute it. In fact, he practically egged on Jeffries' rhetoric by claiming  that the Democratic party will be "targeting Christians" if they succeed in impeaching Trump.


The Daily Beast adds:

The conservative talking head is best-known for his incendiary anti-LGBT, xenophobic, and racist remarks both on-air, across Fox News programming and on his Fox Nation and Fox News Radio shows, and in his FoxNews.com columns. Perhaps most famously, Starnes compared migrants to Nazis and declared that America is being “invaded by a horde.” 

 . . . Starnes also has a long history of erroneous reporting, having once been fired from Baptist Press over “factual and contextual errors” and “misrepresentations.”

The Daily Beast article only scratches the surface. This is what I said about him in 2014:

For the benefit of those who are not aware, Starnes is known for spinning false, unchecked "articles" of anti-Christian persecution. His lies has been corrected numerous times but unfortunately by the time that this happens, the communities and schools he accuses of being anti-Christian are generally targeted with outrage and threats. Starnes' lies has gotten so bad that evangelical writer, Alan Noble, blasted him for deliberately spinning phony tales of anti-Christian persecution.

In 2015,  I pointed out 10 controversies Starnes created with his sloppy reporting.

In that same year, The Atlantic wrote a huge expose on his history of sloppy work and propaganda journalism.

Today, Mediaite also pointed out:

Starnes has made sparse appearances on Fox News in recent months, mainly on Fox & Friends. His controversial comments have mostly been confined to his radio show. In July, Starnes told Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to take a “one-way plane ticket back to whatever third world hellhole you came from.” The radio host has also compared abortion to the Holocaust, called for anti-Kavanaugh protesters to be “tasered, handcuffed and dragged out of the building,”

It's nice to know that no matter how many errors you  get away with in American journalism, folks still draw the line at accusing political parties of worshipping pagan gods who get off on child sacrifices.

In case you couldn't tell - THAT was sarcasm.

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Dame Helen Mirren

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  The Oglala Sioux just became the first tribe with an inclusive hate crimes law - Good for them! 

1 in 5 LGBTQ youth identify as other than gay, lesbian or bisexual - This is why it's so important to for us to talk about LGBTQ issues to children. 

With Sanders a 'yes', 10 presidential candidates to appear at CNN's LGBTQ town hall - About time Bernie showed up.

Anti-LGBTQ right blame George Soros, secular left, and 'pagan god-worshipping' Democrats for Trump's scandals

One would think that during this turbulent time of Donald Trump's possible impeachment, Americans would be able to count on some spiritual comfort.  We probably would, but don't count on it coming from right-wing evangelical leaders. They've decided whose camp they are putting their stakes in. And it's with the man causing all of the negative drama.


The Family Research Council just sent out a fundraising letter, complete with a bookmark, asking that folks pray for Trump:

Not to be undone, the American Family Association came out with its own prayer initiative:

Both FRC and AFA conveniently ignore the problem that Trump's present troubles are self-inflicted because they are both too busy blaming others and spinning plots about the "secular left" or George Soros.

And then there is Trump advisor Robert Jeffress who really took the proverbial cake.

On a recent right-wing show, Jeffress claimed that Trump's recent problems with impeachment and scandal are simply because Democrats worship Moloch. Just who is Moloch you ask? According to wikipedia, Moloch is a pagan god associated with child sacrifice.



The sad fact is that there are people who believe this mess. But a saving grace is that more people do not believe it and not only that, they are very disturbed by the hysterical paranoia of Jeffress, AFA, and FRC.

And they are equally disturbed about who these religious right entities chose to align themselves during this time of chaos.

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Here we go again with THAT lie.

Old right-wing tropes about the LGBTQ community somehow "recruiting" children die hard. Or in the case of the Family Research Council, refuses to die at all. Taking time out from its shameless defense of  Trump during his latest scandal, the group is claiming that the LGBTQ community will be "forcing" school children to "celebrate sexual politics" at least 15 times this school year:

Powerful forces are pushing your child’s public school to celebrate sex politics this year—15 times! 

How many of these events have made it onto your school’s calendar? Find out today. 

For the 2019-2020 School Year:  

1. Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) – Includes books that have never been banned, but have been the subject of parental concern because of age-inappropriate sexual content. 

2. Ally Week (September 23-27, 2019) – Pressures students to declare themselves “allies” of students or teachers who identify as LGBT. 

3. Bisexual Awareness Week (September 16-23) 

4. LGBTQ History Month (Month of October 2019) – Labels historical figures as LGBT, even when they never identified as such. 

5. National Coming Out Day (October 11, 2019) 

6. International Pronouns Day (October 16, 2019) – Ignores the fact that forced declaration of one’s own pronouns, or false pronouns for others, violates free speech and religious freedom. 

7. Spirit Day (October 17, 2019) – Encourages students and teachers to wear purple, and highlights LGBT bullying (even polite dissent can be characterized as “bullying”). 

8. Transgender Awareness Week (November 12-19, 2019) 

9. Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20, 2019) 

10. No Name-Calling Week (January 20-27, 2020) 

11. Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31, 2020) 

12. Day of Silence (April 24, 2020) – Known as the “high holy day” of LGBT activism. 

13. International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (May 17, 2020) 

14. Harvey Milk Day (May 22, 2020) 

15. “LGBTQ” Pride Month (June 2020) 

Parents: You have the legal right to withhold and refuse consent for your child to participate in school events, assemblies, classes, or activities that violate your beliefs.
Your family’s faith and beliefs deserve respect. Demand it. 

Remember, LGBTQ lobbyists are getting their “high holy days” on the school calendar even while many school districts are scrubbing Christmas Break for “Winter Break,” Easter Break for “Spring Break,” and Columbus Day for “Indigenous People’s Day.”
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: The philosophy of the public school in one generation will be the philosophy of the culture in the next. 

Imagine what could happen if government schools just focused on providing an excellent education!

It's always amusing when FRC goes on this sort of tangent; creating the narrative of nameless, faceless homosexuals hordes with grasping claws out to yank children into dark closets where we supposedly transform them into sexual zombies and then send them out to snag us "new victims."

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Three LGBTQ Cases Are Set to Put the Supreme Court's Conservative Principles on Trial - Next week. . . next week . . .

Celebrate October with 31 LGBTQ Historical Icons

While a lot of other things are happening - ie impeachment, upcoming SCOTUS cases - let's not forget that October is LGBT History Month. The Equality Forum has come out with its annual list of LGBTQ historical icons. From government, to entertainers, to activism, to journalism, the LGBTQ community continues to make a positive mark on American history.