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Media critic: Fox’s ‘goddamn ratings’ won’t ever impress me to hire their employees

The Baltimore Sun‘s television critic David Zurawik offered no professional sympathy for anyone who works at Fox News or anywhere else in the News Corp empire Saturday afternoon. In an interview with Media Matters Radio, Zurawik added to his heavy criticism about the network for its Fox & Friends morning…

CNN nixes job offer to ‘Fox and Friends’ producer who made anti-Obama ad

CNN has withdrawn a job offer that it made to Chris White, the producer who created the now-infamous anti-Obama attack ad that aired earlier this week on “Fox and Friends,” according to the New York Times blog “Media Decoder.” Earlier this week, Fox News’s morning show “Fox and Friends” unveiled…

Fox & Friends airs its own four-minute anti-Obama attack ad

Update (below): Fox News pulls video, claims it was ‘unauthorized’ Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning unveiled a four-minute advertisement that attacked President Barack Obama, which was created by Fox News associate producer Chris White. “Lets talk a little bit about what the campaign slogan used to be for Obama,…

Hannity: ‘Odd that they didn’t release the birth certificate’

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday denied he was a “birther,” but found it “odd” that President Barack Obama took so long to release his birth certificate. “You know, I’ve never been a birther,” the Fox News host declared. “You know, it was odd that they didn’t release the…

Gillespie defends Romney only doing Fox News: He spoke ‘to schoolchildren last week’

Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Sunday fended off accusations that his boss had only made Sunday morning appearances on Fox News. “Do you think we’re ever going to see him on one of these Sunday morning interview shows?” CBS host Bob Schieffer…

Anti-contraception cardinal refuses to say Romney is a Christian

A Catholic cardinal who is supporting a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s mandate that all health insurance cover female contraceptives refused on Sunday to say whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was a Christian. During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace asked Cardinal Donald Wuerl if Mormons…

Fox guest: ‘Regulators are professional destroyers’

Hedge fund manager Jonathan Hoenig once again presented a strong right-wing position on the Fox News weekend show Cashin’ In Saturday afternoon, when he labeled America’s regulators as job “destroyers.” Hoenig, who is the managing member at the Capitalist Pig hedge fund, was in a panel discussion over stay at…

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,”…

Fox News psychiatrist: ‘Narcissistic’ LGBT adoptions will lead to polygamy

A member of the Fox News Medical A-Team on Thursday warned that legalizing polygamy was inevitable if “narcissistic” LGBT couples were allowed to adopt children. During a discussion about President Barack Obama’s recent “evolution” on marriage equality, psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow wandered off topic to tell Fox Business host Lou…

Bolton: ‘Israel should have struck’ Iran several years ago

Former United Nations’ American ambassador John Bolton continued his campaign to have the country of Iran bombed Tuesday evening, feeling that Israel should have accomplished the task several years ago. Appearing on Fox News’ On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, Bolton expressed to van Susteran how Israel needed to…