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Miss Piggy: Attack on Muppets movie ‘as laughable as Fox being news’
In a staged press conference following the debut of their new film, two of puppeteer Jim Henson‘s most famous characters, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, took questions from reporters about recent criticism lodged by commentators on the conservative Fox News Channel. “It’s a funny thing, they were concerned about…
Robert Greenwald slams Fox News over ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald appeared Thursday night on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to discuss how the Fox News Channel has been covering the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” protests. Pundits on Fox News have routine blasted the protests, labeling them anti-capitalist and anti-American. “It is pretty clear what is going on,” Greenwald…
Fox Business memo to staff: Stop copying Fox News
NEW YORK – Here’s a novel idea: Fox Business Network should focus on covering business news. At least that’s what Kevin Magee, executive vice president of the News Corp-owned cable news network, is urging his staff to do. Unhappy with Fox Business’ focus on politics, Magee fired off a memo…
Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at media in new song
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) – Country singer Hank Williams Jr., whose theme song was pulled from “Monday Night Football” after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the media on Monday with a topical song called “Keep the Change.” The track, which borrows its title and certain…
Political storm brews over disaster relief
WASHINGTON — In a prelude to ugly autumn budget fights, the White House and its Republican foes battled Wednesday over whether disaster relief for Hurricane Irene’s victims must be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. The feud, the latest in a running US political war over the role of government, flared…
GOP Rep. falsely claims ‘revenues’ had ‘nothing’ to do with U.S. downgrade
Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a favorite among tea party Republicans, insisted Monday during an appearance on the conservative Fox News Channel that a refusal to increase government revenues through taxes had “nothing” to do with Standard & Poor’s dropping America’s credit rating last week. Unfortunately for West, that’s patently false,…
Glenn Beck to launch Internet TV channel at GBTV.com
Glenn Beck plans to create his own web-based television channel after he leaves his current position as a Fox News host, according to sources familiar with the matter. TVNewser reported that Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, is developing a channel to be based at GBTV.com and has filed for a trademark on…
Gore: Murdoch banned Current TV in Italy because we hired Olbermann
An Italian cable provider owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has kicked the Current TV network off the air following the channel’s announcement that former MSNBC liberal news host Keith Olbermann would be joining their lineup. Current TV founder Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States,…
Former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh to join Fox News
Fox News Channel announced Monday that it has signed former Indiana Governor and Senator Evan Bayh, a moderate Democrat, to its list of contributors. “Senator Bayh’s decades of experience in the political arena and his participation in key decisions in Washington will lend a valuable point of view to the…
Fox devotees twice as likely to fear Sharia law in US: poll
WASHINGTON – Four in ten devotees of the Fox News Channel fear that American Muslims want to establish Islamic Sharia law in the United States, according to a new survey. A survey released this week by the Public Religion Research Institute found that viewers who trust Fox News as their…
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