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‘Fox & Friends’ suddenly against wiretapping they supported under Bush
Thursday morning on the Fox News Channel’s morning show “Fox and Friends,” the three hosts responded with alarm to news that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of millions of cell phone customers wholesale and with no regard to accusations of wrongdoing. The trio were clearly…
Ted Cruz pushes for flat tax but wants to abolish the IRS
Monday on Fox News Channel, Sen. Tex Cruz (R-TX) said that the U.S. should abolish the Internal Revenue Service and charge everyone in the country a “flat tax.” “We ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax, where the average American can fill out our…
Glenn Beck: I left Fox to save my soul
Never one to shy away from portraying his struggles in the most melodramatic terms, conservative commentator Glenn Beck said on Friday that he left the Fox News Channel because he was afraid of turning into Norma Desmond, the faded screen siren from the 1950 noir film “Sunset Boulevard,” and that…
Bush attorney general disappoints Hannity: Obama’s executive orders are legal
Former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” Wednesday night with a message that left the host looking rather disappointed. Rebutting the Republican talk show host, Mukasey said that President Barack Obama’s executive orders so far have been legal, as much as he finds them…
O’Reilly: Asians not liberal ‘by nature’ because they’re ‘industrious and hard-working’
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly and producer Jesse Watters engaged in a discussion of the changing demographics of the U.S. and noted, with puzzlement, that many Asian-Americans are voting Democratic. According to Media Matters, O’Reilly suggested that this is surprising because “Asian people are…
Ricks scuttles claim by Fox that he apologized privately for remarks
A Fox News Channel (FNC) vice president has told the Hollywood Reporter that author Tom Ricks apologized privately for his comments on Monday that the network has been “operating as wing of the Republican Party.” But Ricks denied ever making any such apology. On Monday, Ricks alleged that Fox and…
Fox News covers Mourdock for 2 minutes in 24 hours after rape comments
In the day after Republican Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said that pregnancy from rape “is something that God intended to happen,” the Fox News Channel only covered the scandal for about 2 minutes, even though Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney refused to rescind his endorsement of Mourdock. “I believe…
Coulter: Republicans should nuke ‘selfish swine’ Todd Akin
The fallout from Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) comments on “legitimate rape” is so severe that right-wing author Ann Coulter thinks conservatives have no choice but to drop an electoral “nuclear bomb” on him in the form of a write-in campaign. “This is a problem,” Coulter said during an appearance on…
Fox News host accidentally calls RNC chair ‘free pussy’
Appearing on the Fox News Channel talk show “The Five” on Monday night, co-host Bob Beckel tried to insist that he would never stoop so low as RNC Chairman Rince Priebus. Instead, he called the chairman “free pussy.” For Beckel, the slip, though apparently accidental, could be costly. “I’m going…
Roger Ailes: Jon Stewart ‘basically’ told me he was a socialist
Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes on Monday claimed that The Daily Show host Jon Stewart privately admitted to him that he was a socialist. “Jon Stewart is a comedian. He wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist,”…
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