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Fox News hosts scoff at 102-year-old woman’s 3-hour wait to vote: ‘What’s the big deal?’

Three Fox News hosts on Wednesday dismissed the long three-hour wait a 102-year-old woman in Florida endured by saying it was no “big deal” and “she was happy.” During his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called on Congress to protect voting rights and noted that 102-year-old…

Roger Ailes: Obama ‘is busy’ getting ‘blacks to hate whites’

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes believes he can help Republicans win over Latinos because he says that President Barack Obama “is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other” and “we need to get along.” In an interview with the New Republic that was published on Monday, Ailes explained…

Pelosi: GOP’s insistence on more spending cuts a ‘false argument’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pushed back against the assertion that deep spending cuts are necessary to pare down the federal deficit and avoid the looming sequestration, saying on Fox News Sunday that such a policy would harm job growth and ultimatley expand the deficit. Host Chris Wallace led…

McCain chides Republicans on immigrants: ‘What do you want to do with them?’

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday challenged Republican lawmakers who oppose a bipartisan agreement to give legal status to undocumented immigrants as a part of comprehensive immigration reform. “The are 11 million people living in the shadows, I believe that they deserve to come out of the shadows,” the Arizona…

Fox News psychiatrist offers to run for Senate if he doesn’t face a primary

Psychiatrist Keith Ablow, a Fox News contributor, on Monday said he would run for the Senate seat being vacated by John Kerry (D-MA) if he didn’t have to a face a primary challenger. “We face an unprecedented assault on the Constitution and our individual liberties,” he said in a statement.…

Maher: ‘Con men’ like Beck and Limbaugh ‘don’t care about winning elections,’ just making money

Maher discussed Sarah Palin’s parting with Fox News during his New Rule segment on Friday. “New rule: liberals have to stop gloating about Sarah Palin getting dumped by Fox News, even though it happened less than a day after Bobby Jindal told his fellow Republicans to ‘stop being the stupid…

Teenager shot in head at Atlanta middle school

A 14-year-old male student was shot in the head Thursday at a school in Atlanta, Georgia, according to US media, with the victim reportedly being treated in hospital. Fox News reported that the victim was hospitalized after being shot at Price Middle School, which was placed on lockdown, as was…

Fox News guest: Immigrants don’t want citizenship because they are ‘enjoying all the benefits’

A conservative radio host is arguing that many undocumented immigrants would not even apply for citizenship if they had the chance because they want to “continue living illegally” and they are “enjoying all the benefits.” Mary Walter on Wednesday told Fox News that lawmakers were wrong to work on comprehensive…

January Fox News ratings lowest since 2001

The Fox News Channel, the largest conservative media outlet, suffered its worst month since 2001 in January among the most coveted viewer demographic, according to the latest ratings figures. A press release from the NBC Media Center reported that Nielsen ratings for the month of January showed Fox News viewership…

Fox News interviews Dick Cheney for gun control advice

Dick Cheney may have accidentally shot a man in the face while he was vice president, but that didn’t stop Fox News from flying to Nevada to get his advice on recently-proposed gun control laws. Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins caught up with Cheney over the week at the Safari…