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Tucker Carlson’s three-part series, Patriot Purge, which aired on Fox Nation in November, stirred controversy, ruffled feathers inside Fox News, and reportedly “troubled” Lachlan Murdoch.Lachlan Murdoch, who serves as the CEO of Fox Corp., is the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox Corp.As Washington Post’s Sarah Ellison reported on Thursday, “Lachlan Murdoch was troubled by the incendiary trailer for the series, according to people who spoke with him. Yet the series continued to air on Fox Nation, which further lent Carlson an air of untouchability inside Fox.”Ellison’s report noted that when Brian Nick, a spokesman for Lachlan...

Frustrated with the White House and a key Republican, supporters of Rep. Katherine Harris' (R-Fla.) 2006 Senate campaign lashed out at the administration yesterday for seeking to convince another prominent GOP official to enter the race. "It's unimaginable that the White House folks and the National Republican Senatorial Committee would be so disloyal to Katherine Harris, especially after all she has done for the Bush family and the Republican Party," a Florida political operative who supports Harris said. "It's unconscionable and a stab in the back." Harris backers are irritated that State House Speaker Allan Bense met with White House...

RighTalk.com's "The Inquisition" will interview two guests today on the red hot topic of Sen. Dick Durbin's appalling comparison of Guantanamo Bay to "Nazis, Sovients in their gulags or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others" Joining Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler at the top of the hour will be Brian Nick of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee. During the second half of the show we will talk with former POW Paul Galanti of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, whose recent letter excoriating Durbin as "having aided and abetted the enemy in time of war" has been posted...