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Damn people, Reporting 101, you would think they would be camped outside of his home. If Ayers’ wife had disappeared wouldn’t Fox News and Greta/Geraldo be pitching a tent in his backyard. I mean Fox News is supposed to be conservative leaning, get someone over there and get Ayers on the record right now. What is your current relationship with Obama? What was your role in Obama getting on the Annenberg project board? How closely did you work together in the use of the 50 million dollars that Annenberg gave you? Did you know Obama when he was at Columbia...

The coverage of the financial crisis has been helpful in demonstrating that many of the “conservatives” in the media are not so conservative after all. When the going gets tough, they are quick to abandon their principles. Several commentators on the Fox News Channel joined Senators Barack Obama and John McCain and most congressional Democrats in supporting the socialist-style bailout scheme.  Exhibit number one is Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, who declared on “Special Report with Brit Hume” on Fox News on October 2 that conservatives in the House of Representatives opposing the plan were crazy, nuts, and idiots. This...

A man who decided to take home a fox he hit on the road wrecked his SUV after the animal he thought was dead revived. Tommy Fox ran over the fox last Wednesday near Dover, Tenn.... Thinking the animal was dead, he decided to take the animal home to cut off its tail as a souvenir... (snip) he flipped his GMC Jimmy trying to keep the fox — that had awoken in the backseat — from biting him, Grandstaff told the paper. Fox suffered minor injuries and bruises, the Leaf Chronicle reports. The fox died, though it was unclear if...

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Fox Guarding the Wolf House   By Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Fox News has long been considered a beacon to those that distrust televised liberal media, meaning every channel other than Fox. One of the indicators of the station’s right-leaning bent is that it has, for the most part, gotten the ‘War on Terrorism’ correct. However, with the undue influence of a Saudi Prince related to militant causes and with this month’s acquisition of Beliefnet, a religious resource website that proudly promotes radical Islam, signs show that the war coverage may soon be taking a turn...

Watching Fox News the last few days, boy, am I the only one seeing Fox turn liberal and jumping on the Obama bandwagon? Fox is repeatedly reporting that McCain's Ayers strategy is desperation, and the reports focus heavily on Obama's response. They just did a report on the AZMAT (sp) military aptitude test, rather the report was on a pretty high schooler and her dad who are opposing the test being given to high schoolers. The report was 95% from the anti-military recruiting viewpoint, and apparently this test is a major military recruitment tool. I'm guessing the powers behind Fox...

As if Palin hasn't had to deal with enough, Major Garrett just completely smeared Palin a little while ago on Hannity & Colmes. He basically mocked Palin as needing to be more prepared because she couldn't even cite McCain's request for more regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when Katie Couric asked her to cite examples. Well, Mr. Garrett who gets paid lots of money to cover the election campaign (he travels with the Obama camp), how about you actually have a clue what you are talking about before you open your mouth. Hold your self to the same...

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Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced on his Web site that he has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel. The show is simply titled "Huckabee" he said. "I'm sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it," Huckabee wrote on his political action committee's blog. Fox News Channel spokesman Richard White said that Huckabee's new show would air on the channel but referred all questions about the show to Huckabee's agent. Sarah Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor's daughter and head of his political action committee,...

Barack Obama has recaptured the lead — 45 percent to 39 percent — over John McCain in the presidential race, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday. As majorities of each party's faithful back their party nominee, the battle stays focused on that most sought-after group of voters: independents. These voters, evenly divided between the candidates in August, swung to McCain earlier this month, which gave him his first lead over Obama since April. In this latest poll independents give a slight edge to Obama, though many have moved back into the undecided column. Click here to see the...

In a week of records surrounding the Republican National Convention, Fox News Channel earned another one with its weekend documentary on vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "Sarah Palin: American Woman" averaged 2.7 million viewers in its debut at 8 p.m. ET Saturday night, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday afternoon. That included 673,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 cable news demo. Nielsen said it was the highest-rated primetime documentary ever in the 12-year history of the channel, surpassing high-rated ones recently about Barack Obama and Palin's running mate, John McCain. "Barack Obama: Character & Conduct" averaged 2.3 million viewers for its...

I didn't know where this might be appropriate to ask...but did anyone video the just ended interview on FOX with Bob Bechel? It was so revealing! He showed he is scared silly about Palin. He was stuttering. Called her a Rotweiller (didn't know she said Pit Bull), called Wasilla..."Walissa," and when corrected still couldn't say it. But the jist of it was...he couldn't stop comparing Sarah Palin to Obama, and couldn't get the message that his opposing commentator (I am sorry, I forget who she was) kept trying to make: Sarah is running for VP, Obama for Pres - so...

FoxNews just finished a special on Obama, just as they did a few hours ago on McCain (which included much time devoted to McCain's connection to Charles Keating and the Keating 5 scanda). Bill Hemmer hosted the Obama show and I did not hear Billy Ayers' name mentioned once. However, I was working on the kitchen sink plumbing and running back and forth to the garage.

Despite repeated attempts to destroy her and her family's reputation since her selection as John McCain's Vice-Presidential running mate, Americans appear to be embracing Sarah Palin's nomination. This weekend will give voters yet another opportunity to meet Sarah Palin as Greta Van Susteren will host a 2 night documentary on the life and career of Palin. The documentary will be an accurate portrayal of Palin relying upon interviews and footage taken well before Palin was selected as the vice presidential nominee. The documentary will air Saturday and Sunday Night at 8pm eastern on Fox New. The announcement of Palin has...

Senator Barack Obama will appear on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" tonight, a Democratic source tells Politico. The move is timed to counterprogram the Republican National Convention, which is likely to drive Fox's ratings sky-high and to give Obama access to a conservative audience. It's Obama's first appearance on the widely viewed cable show, and is a sign of what Vanity Fair today reported is a "tentative truce" between Obama and News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. Obama clashed with Fox News during the primary after it aired early reports suggesting he had been a Muslim in Indonesia. The relationship warmed in...

Rupert Murdoch helped broker a "tentative truce" between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and key News Corporation lieutenant Roger Ailes, the boss of Fox News Channel, earlier this year, according to the media mogul's biographer. Murdoch, the News Corp chairman and chief executive, was forced to court Obama after the rising star of US politics rebuffed his initial approaches, it is believed because of what he saw as the derogatory coverage of him and his wife, Michelle, on Fox News, according to Michael Wolff.

The Democratic National Convention hasn't even begun, and the protestors are out trying to Recreate 68. For those unfamiliar, the group "was created for all the grassroots people who are tired of being sold out by the Democratic Party," and are gathering in Denver to "resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained." High profile activists such as Cindy Sheehan and Cynthia McKinney have already joined the festivities. On Sunday, Fox News's Griff Jenkins tried to speak to these folks as they marched in Denver, but was instead verbally assaulted

God bless Griff Jenkins and keep him from harm.Leftist protesters marching in Denver on the day before the start of the Democratics' national convention attacked Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins and cursed Fox News during Jenkins' live on the scene reports.Jenkins was roughed up earlier by protesters for attempting to interview leftist agitator Ward Churchill at the Recreate '68 rally.Later, as the march proceeded through downtown Denver, Jenkins attempted to interview marchers. The protesters, many of them wearing bandanas that covered their faces, unleashed a barrage of profanity at Jenkins and Fox News.They struck up a chant of "#### Fox...

SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico -- Eighteen months after leaving office, former President Vicente Fox is taking a page from Jimmy Carter's playbook and engineering his legacy as a champion of democratic values and government transparency at home and abroad. In a wide-ranging interview at his ranch near historic Guanajuato, Fox discussed his new projects and chided the United States for abdicating its role as global leader, questioned presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's position on free trade and dismissed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as ``a loudmouth.'' The United States no longer initiates ambitious projects such as the Marshall Plan that rebuilt...

Prior to joining FBN, MacDonald was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine, where she covered stock market and earnings news. She was also a regular guest on the FOX News Channel (FNC), appearing on "Forbes on Fox¿ and "Your World with Neil Cavuto." Before Forbes, MacDonald covered stock market, earnings and accounting abuses for The Wall Street Journal's Money & Investing section, with front page stories and ¿Heard on the Street¿ columns. Prior to that, she was a financial editor for Worth magazine and covered the IRS and taxes for Money magazine. Recognized as one of the top prize-winning business...

Please grade Barack Obama on his campaign so far. A B C D F

New details have emerged in the case of missing Caylee Anthony - The family has now hired a 'psychic detective', Gale St. John, in hopes of finding Caylee. It's also been revealed that Casey Anthony, the mother of missing Caylee and a person of interest in her disappearance, stole gas cans from her father's garage shortly before her daughter went missing. Let's start with case facts (Scroll down for latest updates): The mother of a missing Florida toddler is a "person of interest" in a possible homicide. Casey was formerly charged with child neglect and other charges involving alleged lies...

Discussing John Edwards is the first topic. Ann was so saddened by the news.

Compare and contrast: Earnings Decline at the Times Company The New York Times Company reported net income on Wednesday of $21.1 million in the second quarter, down from $118.4 million in the quarter a year ago, when it recorded revenue from the sale of the company’s television stations. That's an 82% decline in earnings folks. Now from the folks who bring you Fox News: News Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on profit from asset sales and higher operating earnings in most businesses ... Higher ratings and ad revenue at Fox News Channel lifted the cable networks unit to...

Obama’s and MoveOn.org’s Left-Wing Allies also talk about “Fox Jews” 1. 8 JEWS RUN U.S. MEDIA Today, eight Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following eight individuals: …Fox News, which is of course owned by Rupert Murdock - also a jew. So says a posting on MoveOn.org’s now-disgraced Action Forum (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/sideshow2.html), over which MoveOn.org exercised editorial control. Another posting proclaimed that “Jews control all the media.” (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/sideshow1.html) A...

The following was posted to MoveOn.org's now disgraced Action Forum, with the sanction of the moderators who exercised editorial control over the site. Perhaps this, and not MoveOn.org's false accusation of racism, is the organization's real problem with Fox News. But I can see why you might think you OWN! the media,or are entitled to: 8 JEWS RUN U.S. MEDIA Today, eight Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the...

A Levy County man accidentally shot his wife Friday morning when he tried to fend off a fox that had attacked the woman, deputies reported. The animal was killed and will be tested for rabies due to its unusual behavior, said Levy County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Evan Sullivan. Test results won’t be available until next week, but authorities are advising anyone who comes in contact with a wild animal exhibiting strange behavior to leave it alone and contact law enforcement. Officers were called to an accidental shooting in the 3000 block of SE 18th Ave. in the Morriston area...

MoveOn.org, whose endorsement Barack Obama solicited and accepted (http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html), recently posted a petition with the following content. “FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.” This is quite an audacious and hypocritical statement from an anti-Catholic (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/catholic.html) (and anti-Semitic) hate group whose now-disgraced Action Forum welcomed statements like “Catholic Pedophiles of America” and “The Catholics are raping your children” while publishing an official anti-Catholic hate cartoon that could have come directly from the pen of 19th century cartoonist...

Now that MoveOn.org is back in the news because of its outrageous accusation of “racism” against Fox News, it is time to revisit MoveOn.org’s own track record of promoting anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, racism, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and worse (http://www.stentorian.com/MoveOn/sideshow1.html). Barack Obama solicited and accepted MoveOn.org’s endorsement (http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html). In a resounding vote today, MoveOn.org Political Action’s members nationwide voted to endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President. ... Senator Obama accepted the endorsement… Barack Obama’s solicitation and acceptance of an anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic hate organization’s support is entirely consistent with his entourage of racists and/or anti-Semites like Jeremiah Wright,...

In this incredible piece of video, Obama complains that FOX / FNC is on TVs at all military bases he visits. When told that FNC is available, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CW and others on Armed Forces TV so troops can chose what to watch, Obama then asks with a smirk "Well, isn't that the Commander In Chief's choice?" clearly implying that if he is elected president, FNC will be off Armed Forces TV and troops will not be able to watch it! Of course the message to the reporters was, "You had better be good, too." He already...

The following is quite a mouthful from an organization that welcomed the most vicious imaginable anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Evangelical, and even racist hate speech at an Internet forum over which it exercised editorial control, and which published an official anti-Catholic hate cartoon that shows the Pope waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. PETITION AGAINST FOX’S RACIST & HATE-FILLED SMEARS: “FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.” In 2006, we and others forced MoveOn.org to...

FROM THE TRANSCRIPT, HERE IS EVAN BAYH: And even President Bush now is coming up with a variety of euphemisms — aspirational goals, time horizons. I mean, it's starting to sound pretty much like a timeline to me. So it's common sense, Chris. Any important enterprise, certainly something as important as a war — you want to have a plan. And a plan has to have some idea of what it's going to cost, what the adverse consequences are going to be and how long it's going to take. So 16 months seems to be a reasonable goal. Let's work...

Continuing Fox News' war of words with MSNBC, "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace accused its rival of being "in the tank" for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, while further pressing the news channel's case that the mainstream press exhibits a liberal bias.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long have come on board Fox's "Family Guy" spinoff "The Cleveland Show," which is scheduled for a midseason berth. Lathan ("Raisin in the Sun") will voice a single mom and the love interest of Cleveland Brown (Mike Henry), the henpecked neighbor of the Griffins. Long ("Big Shots") will voice her rebellious teen daughter.

GLOBAL media group News Corp (parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au) has completed the sale of eight Fox network affiliated television stations for $US1.1 billion ($1.14 billion). The stations were sold to Oak Hill Capital Partners and include WJW in Cleveland, KDVR in Denver, KTVI in St Louis, WDAF in Kansas City, WITI in Milwaukee,KSTU in Salt Lake City, WBRC in Birmingham and WGHP in Greensboro. "News Corporation continues to be one of the country's strongest and most successful station groups,'' the company said.

Less than one month after signing on as a Fox News commentator, Mike Huckabee is working aggressively to expand his media presence. This week, Huckabee is meeting with Fox officials about plans to host his own show on the network. Plus, he’s subbing for Paul Harvey on ABC Radio Network and appearing on a number of existing Fox shows. A former Arkansas governor who upended the Republican presidential race with his upset victory in the Iowa caucuses, Huckabee continued campaigning for the nomination after it became mathematically impossible for him to catch John McCain in the delegate race. That prompted...

Fox News correspondent Molly Henneberg, 34, married Marine Captain Chris Nagel, 30, in her hometown of Falls Church on Saturday. According to the DC Post, they met at a Christmas party seven months ago and got engaged three months later. She's covering the 2008 campaign. He's a military lawyer. First marriage for both.....

Clayton was talking to Rush yesterday about Barack Obama's ears. Clayton said "What do we gain by talking about his ears?" Rush explained that Maureen Dowd originally wrote a column about his ears and that Rush was responding to it. Clayton just kind of blew his answer off. Then again this morning Clayton again brings up the ears thing. "What does Rush gain by bringing up his ears?" BUT HE DIDN'T INCLUDE RUSH'S ANSWER! UGH! THAT'S SO ANNOYING! The other hosts didn't work the weekend so they didn't even know Rush had responded. Then he later called the Treasury Secretary...

During the early hours of July 12, 2008, at Georgetown Medical Center, we lost a friend, writer, articulate commentator, father, husband, and an American Patriot, Tony Snow. Over the years, I have watched more talking head shows than I can remember, and most likely care too remember. Tony Snow was different because he created a fresh approach to discussing politcs. His pull no punches, combative exchanges that were not cutting, along with his wonderful sense of humor would always captivate his audience. Tony was articulate, charming, and eloquent. Tony's personality came across as honest, strong, but far from cocky, hateful,...

The news that the Rev. Jesse Jackson took a crude swipe at Sen. Barack Obama this week put renewed scrutiny on the relationship between the veteran civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender. But Jackson's vulgar criticism of Obama came close to going unreported. Jackson made the comments to a guest before an interview on Sunday's "Fox & Friends," whispering that Obama was "talking down to black people" and that Jackson wanted to "cut his nuts off." The comments went unnoticed in the control room, Bill Shine, Fox News' senior vice president for programming, said Thursday. //snip// O'Reilly told viewers...

In a remarkably short time the public has changed from supporters of environmentalism to advocates of drilling for oil and natural gas in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and/or in the ocean. For the first time since the 1970s liberals in both parties have found themselves responding to significant demands for drilling.

Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel. The network is expected to announce as early as Tuesday that it has signed Mr. Wolfson as a contributor who will appear regularly on its programs. Mr. Wolfson is joining a network that Democrats shunned for a time, complaining that its coverage was unfair. But aides to Mrs. Clinton came to view Fox News as distinctly fair to her in a news media...

7/3 - DCRTV hears that Fox News has decided to end its 5 PM Laura Ingraham experiment after just three weeks. The DC-based right-leaning host has already returned to her national radio show and will continue to fill-in on Bill O'Reilly's TV show. Fox will return to "America's Election HQ" at 5 PM, with rotating hosts. DCRTV has reported that Citadel talker WMAL wants Ingraham for its late morning slot. She currently airs on talker WTNT, which was just bought by Redskins owner Dan Snyder.....

...It has been rumored that in one year [CNN] spent about 27 million dollars in advertising of Anderson Cooper...the President of CNN told me that Anderson Cooper has a staff of nearly 60. We beat them with our staff…of about 12.

Considerate liberals on The Huffington Post are outraged that Geraldo Rivera (and Fox News) broadcast long shots of the body of supermodel Ruslana Korshunova shortly after the nine-story fall to her death. Is Korshunova's death news? Of course — but it doesn't need to be so graphically illustrated. A sustained shot of Korshunova's face, her face pale in death, clearly visible in profile with what appears to be blood at the side of her mouth — that adds nothing to the story other than a horrific, shocking image to gawk at. HuffPo didn't embed the offending Geraldo video segment, but...

Is it because Dick Morris never leaves the building? Last week or so the papers (NY Times) reported that Fox News, while still number one, was losing ground to its rivals, like CNN. I was not astonished. The news at Fox is straight, the anchors are terrific and the hosts are equally good, but, so far as guests, why do they all have to be Dick Morris? Dick Morris for breakfast, lunch and dinner and often for a late-night snack. This is no knock on that man, he is smart, but is that all we have in this country? Surely...

Fox News Channel took out a print ad in this week's Advertising Age specifically promoting The O'Reilly Factor, while taking a Fox-esque shot at their competition. They crossed off several 8pmET shows sent to the cable graveyard, and boldly, partially crossed off the two competing shows still on the air.

"FOX Report Weekend" "Covering the globe — fair and balanced — it's the day's top stories. Hosted by Julie Banderas." Julie Banderas just finishes a report appropriately exposing the bad racial taste over someone's manufacture of sock-monkey puppets in suits named for Barak Obama. The very next story (paraphrased): "And you're gonna love this one -- this is funny -- someone is manufacturing condoms with the two presidential candiates depicted on the wrapper!"

Fox News anchor ED Hill has lost her show a week after suggesting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle's on-stage victory gesture could be seen as a "terrorist fist jab". Hill, the anchor of Fox News show America's Pulse, made the comment last Friday after Obama and his wife affectionately bumped fists before his victory speech on becoming the Democratic candidate for president. "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently," said Hill in her show. "We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says." According to...

For the third time in less than three weeks, Fox News Channel has had to acknowledge using poor judgment through inappropriate references to Senator Barack Obama. The network has released a statement saying it should not have referred to Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, as “Obama’s Baby Mama,’’ as it did on Wednesday in an on-screen headline commonly called a “chyron.” “A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,” Bill Shine, a Fox News senior vice president, said in a statement. The chyron appeared during a discussion between the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin and...