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John Stossel Leaves ABC to Join Fox News and Fox Business
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/09/john-stossel-leaves-abc-to-joi.php ^ | 9/10/09 | TVNewser

Posted on 09/10/2009 1:26:56 PM PDT by Granny Rudd

After decades as a reporter and host on "20/20" and other ABC News shows, John Stossel is leaving the network for a multiyear deal with Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, according to TVNewser.

Stossel reportedly is going to host a weekly show on Fox Business and a quartet of hourlong specials for Fox News. He's expected to make regular appearances on Fox News Channel during daytime and primetime


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcnews; fbn; foxnews; sourcetitlenoturl; stossel

1 posted on 09/10/2009 1:26:56 PM PDT by Granny Rudd
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To: Granny Rudd

Wow, what took him so long?


2 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Granny Rudd

Already posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336509/posts


3 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Granny Rudd

Good for him......although it was kind of nice to have him give the real story on things on the mainstream channel...


4 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:22 PM PDT by estrogen (time to fight)
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To: Granny Rudd

Yeah!


5 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:22 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Granny Rudd

I’m shocked he managed to stay that long.

He has long been the only voice of sanity at ABC.


6 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:30 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Granny Rudd

This is a rather interesting move!


7 posted on 09/10/2009 1:29:46 PM PDT by Granny Rudd
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To: Granny Rudd

Long like the wolf crying out, Stossel leaves the wanderings of the desert.


8 posted on 09/10/2009 1:30:07 PM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: Granny Rudd

Awesome!! I love the guy!


9 posted on 09/10/2009 1:30:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Liberals have an inability to value good character or to desire it for themselves.)
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To: TBP

Sorry, I checked but didn’t see anything. Granny


10 posted on 09/10/2009 1:30:56 PM PDT by Granny Rudd
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To: Granny Rudd
I have been wondering when this would happen.

ABC has not been able to figure out what to do with him since he refuses to parrot the leftist garbage to which the lamestream networks adhere.

11 posted on 09/10/2009 1:30:56 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Granny Rudd

Did he get fed up and quit, or was his “contract not renewed”?


12 posted on 09/10/2009 1:32:09 PM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Jewbacca

Jake Tapper.


13 posted on 09/10/2009 1:33:39 PM PDT by benjibrowder (For Neda. May God bless those fighting for freedom.)
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To: shooter223

ABC has become the American Propoganda Company, with Diane Sawyer replacing Charlie Gibson. He’s like Glenn Beck. Nowhere else to go and he never fit in with Diane, et al.


14 posted on 09/10/2009 1:34:48 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Granny Rudd

This is great; I hadn’t seen the previous thread!


15 posted on 09/10/2009 1:35:06 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Granny Rudd
He's been a thorn in the left's side since he did the show on the fallacy of gun control.

I was wondering when he would jump to Fox f/t. He's been a guest a few times.

16 posted on 09/10/2009 1:36:05 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: Granny Rudd

Excellent!! Thanks for posting.


17 posted on 09/10/2009 1:37:33 PM PDT by khnyny (Too much power in too few hands is always a problem.)
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To: Granny Rudd

Thanks. I had not seen this either. Maybe he will have some tales to tell at some point.


18 posted on 09/10/2009 1:38:02 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: Granny Rudd

John Stossel going to Fox is good news. I’m sure it got to the point where he felt like “Glenn Beck at CNN”. No doubt he will do some great reporting.


19 posted on 09/10/2009 1:39:06 PM PDT by radioone
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To: Granny Rudd

Glad you posted, first I’ve heard of it


20 posted on 09/10/2009 1:40:35 PM PDT by RDTF ("I'm pretty sure this is a 2 man job once the shooting starts")
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum
He's been a thorn in the left's side since he did the show on the fallacy of gun control.

And a keynote speaker at the recent NRA convention in Arizona!

21 posted on 09/10/2009 1:40:40 PM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: Granny Rudd

He was believed when on ABC...they will think he is lying now on FOX.


22 posted on 09/10/2009 1:41:05 PM PDT by oust the louse (This Country now has a smelly BO problem.....)
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To: estrogen
...although it was kind of nice to have him give the real story on things on the mainstream channel...

I agree. Him and Glenn Beck on DBM channels would reach people otherwise brainwashed to hate FOX.

23 posted on 09/10/2009 1:45:16 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Jump You F**kers!)
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To: Granny Rudd

Stossel is a long standing Libertarian. Like Glen Beck, when he was on CNN, Stossel has been largley ignored by the left during his time on ABC.

I expect that to change.


24 posted on 09/10/2009 1:45:30 PM PDT by MCCC
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To: Jewbacca

Jake Tapper gives Robert Gibbs headaches all the time.


25 posted on 09/10/2009 1:46:59 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Awesome!! I love the guy”

Me too (but not in the typical Massachusetts way).


26 posted on 09/10/2009 1:46:59 PM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: Granny Rudd

Great news!!! Now can they dump Geraldo (look in the safe) Rivera?


27 posted on 09/10/2009 1:50:10 PM PDT by kenmcg (THE)
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To: Granny Rudd

Stossel to FOX, let’s celebrate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwEMxYggoKQ


28 posted on 09/10/2009 1:50:24 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: oust the louse

He was not believed by the alphabet media lovers in fact they hated him. ABC has even pulled some of his shows over the years because his reporting did not mix with the brass and sometimes the advertisers.

Welcome aboard John! The first story I remember of his was a very objective piece about the Dioxin scares.


29 posted on 09/10/2009 1:50:38 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: Granny Rudd

Fox is slowly but surely gathering up all the best that is left in the MSM. Fox will rule the ratings for many years to come.


30 posted on 09/10/2009 1:51:05 PM PDT by kempo
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To: khnyny

Sweet! They can have Geraldo in trade! And Juan Williams.


31 posted on 09/10/2009 1:53:02 PM PDT by Darth Dan
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To: mazda77

Fox just gets better and better... now if my cable company would just carry Fox Business.....


32 posted on 09/10/2009 1:54:18 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Granny Rudd

About time. One wonders if they were about to can him for telling the truth about the socialist democrat Nazis.


33 posted on 09/10/2009 1:54:27 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: DManA

You said it! I wrote to him years ago to get out of that hellhole so I could watch his show. I guess the game they played on him by blacking out his show against socialized medicine, pushed him over the edge.

Also the Left might be doing a final cleansing of anti-communist reporters at the networks. Only Fox will be remaining to say anything against communism and then the Left can hone in on targeted one remaining voice.


34 posted on 09/10/2009 1:56:30 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Granny Rudd

Well well well. After I heard he was giving a special on the Healthcare Debate on ABC last week I wondered how he manages to stay on with them.


35 posted on 09/10/2009 1:58:49 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: Granny Rudd

Thanks for the post!!

BTTT !!


36 posted on 09/10/2009 2:00:16 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Granny Rudd

Welcome home John!


37 posted on 09/10/2009 2:09:45 PM PDT by bigjoesaddle ("Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play" -- Joseph Goebbels)
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To: Granny Rudd
I'm going to be a contrarian here and say that I wish he
had stayed at ABC or some other MSM outlet. At Fox, he will be preaching to the choir. At least when he was on ABC there was a chance that some tuning in to his segments might have been persuaded to change their views.
38 posted on 09/10/2009 2:14:07 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

Agree. I wish that he would still be on ABC to reach people who will never watch FNC.


39 posted on 09/10/2009 2:19:24 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: Granny Rudd

Some on this thread have commented on the theme that Mr. Stossel was likely not particularly welcome at ABC and that is likely true. I am thinking that he may have left because he was weary of being surrounded by liberals with whom he himself was not comfortable. Maybe he just wanted to get away from them.

I am sure that that was not the only reason, just a contributing one.


40 posted on 09/10/2009 2:20:06 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Granny Rudd

I’m sure ABC will fill Stossel’s spot with some hard-hitting journalism concerning the Bush twins, Watergate revisited, and “Mission Accomplished - The Iraq War and other Failures of President Bush”.


41 posted on 09/10/2009 2:33:58 PM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: Granny Rudd
Have't watched Babwa wa wa and 20/20 for years, caught Stossel's stuff on the web.

Those of us here that would watch just because of him are now gone.

Fox will be the last man standing as the others loose all credibility.

42 posted on 09/10/2009 2:36:40 PM PDT by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: DManA

Wow, what took him so long?

Probably got to thinking after Jake Tapper woke up next to that horse’s head....


43 posted on 09/10/2009 2:37:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Granny Rudd

Thanks for posting.


44 posted on 09/10/2009 2:41:24 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: kempo

...unless Obama and company shut them down.


45 posted on 09/10/2009 2:51:17 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: DeweyCA
Agree. I wish that he would still be on ABC to reach people who will never watch FNC.

Probably true, but his excellent rep will draw many ABC watchers to FOX.

46 posted on 09/10/2009 3:39:45 PM PDT by bigjoesaddle ("Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play" -- Joseph Goebbels)
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To: All

YEAAAAAAY!!!!


47 posted on 09/10/2009 5:00:29 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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