Update: Fox News claims airing deceptive footage was just a ‘mistake’ Fox News’ Senior Vice President of News Michael Clemente told Mediate that the network simply made a “mistake” when it aired old footage of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) being booed. “We made a mistake with some of the video…
WASHINGTON — The “war on terror” prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is “one of the finest prison systems in the world,” former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. Rumsfeld, who is promoting his autobiography titled “Known and Unknown,”…
A former Republican Senator considered to be a candidate for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination was recently confronted by a blogger with a perplexing question: Being pro-life, if you found yourself in a fertility clinic that was burning down, and you had a choice between saving a 2-year-old girl or…
Discussing Democratic leaders during a June broadcast for the Republican Fox News Channel, conspiracy host Glenn Beck told his followers they would have to “shoot them in the head” in order to bring an end to an alleged “communist” agenda. “They believe in communism,” he said. “They believe and have…
Sarah Palin’s new TLC reality show Sarah Palin’s Alaska is finding critics in an unlikely place: the Fox News Channel. Leaked video shows a panel of contributors taking shots at the former governor during a commercial break on the show Fox News Watch. Conservative commentator Liz Trotta brought up a…
What started out as a rather dull conversation between Fox News’ Chris Wallace and radio host Mike Gallagher turned creepy Friday when the two began discussing escort services and how to “satisfy a woman.” “Do you like looking at yourself on television?” Wallace asked Gallagher. “Sometimes if I’m a little…
Karl Rove says a reporter who was the victim of a beheading joke should lighten up. The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank called out Bill O’Reilly Wednesday for asking if sharia law would allow for his head to be cut off. Writing about news coverage on election night, Milbank seemed to…
Fox News Channel and ABC News have projected Rand Paul as victor in Kentucky’s open Senate race, where the son of Texas Republican Ron Paul will replace Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY). Of Paul, ABC News wrote: “The libertarian-leaning ophthamologist won on the back of strong anti-President Obama sentiment in the…
It wouldn’t have been hard to predict who who would top Keith Olbermann’s ‘World’s worst’ list Thursday night. Bill O’Reilly may have become Thursday’s most talked about story after his comments caused two hosts of ABC’s The View to walk off the set. Over a year ago, an alleged “truce”…
“Don’t hit anybody, OK?” O’Reilly jokes to NY gubernatorial candidate Paladino Despite what many conservatives claim, The New York Times and liberal blogs don’t always see eye to eye; and despite what many liberals claim, FOX News Channel hosts don’t always ignore controversies involving conservatives. While ‘The Gray Lady’ claimed…