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Ed Henry to Fox News (was CNN)
Politico ^ | 6-20-11

Posted on 06/20/2011 5:47:13 PM PDT by STARWISE

Ed Henry, CNN’s senior White House correspondent, is leaving to take the job of chief White House correspondent at Fox News, a source close to Henry confirms to POLITICO.

He’ll be taking over the beat that’s been without a permanent reporter since Major Garrett jumped from Fox to National Journal last August.

“He’s got a lot of wonderful experiences at CNN, and he appreciated his time there, but in the end, they gave him an offer he couldn’t turn down,” said the source.

He’ll be leaving CNN at the end of the week.

Henry left college early to go to work for legendary muckracker Jack Anderson, working as a correspondent for Anderson’s syndicatd column while finishing his degree at night. His first newspaper job was for Roll Call, as a senate correspondent and a later a senior editor. At CNN, which he joined as a congressional correspondent in 2004, he won the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress and the Merriman Smith Award for excellence in White House coverage.

During his first month on the job at CNN’s White House correspondent in 2006, he shouted a question to President Bush in the Rose Garden about Donald Rumsfeld’s handling of the Iraq war that prompted the famous retort: “I’m the decider.”

UPDATE: TV Newser has Henry’s full goodbye memo to colleagues.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; edhenry; foxnews; lib; whcorrespondent
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To: Keith in Iowa

It was during O’Reilly on FOX News Channel.


21 posted on 06/20/2011 6:34:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

>>>Wouldn’t it be nice to have just one Conservative news network for a change ?

I’d rather have a news entity that only cared about one thing: Reporting facts.


22 posted on 06/20/2011 6:35:13 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>>It was during O’Reilly on FOX News Channel.

Cable systems are capable of inserting local advertising... and they probably inserted that promo.


23 posted on 06/20/2011 6:39:07 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: lonevoice

>>>Geeze...it sounds like Fox News is going to become even harder to watch than it already is.

Turn it off. I’ve not watched FNC or any other cable news net for 5+ years.


24 posted on 06/20/2011 6:41:38 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That commercial will be Olbermann’s biggest rating.


25 posted on 06/20/2011 6:47:26 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Patrick1
We will see how Mr. Henry responds to the pressure of actually having a audience.

LOL and indeed. . .

26 posted on 06/20/2011 6:48:13 PM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: SE Mom
But- I can’t stand Ed Henry- he’s weasely.

Maybe he and "Puddin'" Shep Smith will get to swap Weiner tweets.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

27 posted on 06/20/2011 6:48:45 PM PDT by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com)
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To: STARWISE
Fox has been making a long sweeping left turn for about 2 years now and at this rate the only conservative “news” will be Glenn Beck TV. Looks like we are.stuck with each other again.

It is getting as bad as when there were only 3 networks. The leftist journalism schools have been churning out these propaganda readers for more than 3 decades. Axlerod must be licking his chops. Roger Ailed is losing it and Rupert Murdoch seems to be taking the safe route and not opposing the administration any where nearly as hard as he use to. Looks like they each were made an offer they couldn't refuse.

28 posted on 06/20/2011 7:23:41 PM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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To: STARWISE

So FNC hires another Obamabot to cover the White House during an election year. I need a drink....


29 posted on 06/20/2011 8:23:58 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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To: STARWISE

Does Fox News not care about its viewers??? What the hell has been happening over there the last few years? What happened to “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” If I wanted two watch CNN, I would turn the channel TO CNN. Oy.


30 posted on 06/20/2011 10:04:29 PM PDT by peggybac (In the contemporary world, they pulled a Pearl Harbor. We need to pull a Hiroshima.)
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To: peggybac

I’m just thinking .. maybe it’s the opposite. Maybe Roger Ailes is stealithy reducing the competition’s most visible onscreen talent.
Hmmm ..


31 posted on 06/20/2011 10:22:55 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE
The ratings at FOX News have seriously dropped. This won't help.
32 posted on 06/20/2011 10:32:10 PM PDT by kara37
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Just saw an ad for Bedwetter Olbermann’s new show on the Algore Channel being advertized during O’Reilly’s show on FOX.

Don't get too worked up...It was probably a simple cross-media buy. It happens all the time on cable.

33 posted on 06/20/2011 10:43:02 PM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: STARWISE

Fox is seriously screwing up what made them so successful with this lurch to the left. Ed Henry is one of the worst Obots out there!


34 posted on 06/21/2011 3:22:55 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: STARWISE

Media Matters Instantly Declares War on Ed Henry

John Hudson

Jun 20, 2011

That was fast. Hours after Ed Henry announced his move from CNN to Fox News as chief White House correspondent, the liberal media watchdog Media Matters has begun painting him as a right-wing nut job.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/media-matters-instantly-declares-war-ed-henry/39047/


35 posted on 06/25/2011 4:34:08 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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