Sullivan on Hannity and Fox News:
At the core of real conservatism is a distinction between theory and practice, a deep resistance to ideology, a respect for free inquiry and the philosophic spirit, a respect for social stability and coherence, a moderation in governance and a deliberation in action.
It is really time to point out that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Fox News'
Vandalizing conservatism
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Hannity · Conservatism · Fox News
Hannity apologizes
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
After being nailed by Jon Stewart, for showing footage to suggest last week’s “Super Bowl of Freedom” was better attended than it was.
Will Bunch on why it’s important:
For Fox News, which has stepped up its partisan cheerleading for the right wing since Barack Obama became president, size — of anti-administration protests, that is — matter. […]
Tags: Teabaggery · Hannity · Fox News
The big question
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
…is how long before Lou Dobbs shows up on Fox News?
The last of the original CNN hosts, Dobbs told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show — effective at the end of the hour — to pursue new opportunities.
What those are is still unclear, though he vowed to be a leader in […]
Why teabaggers have to love Goldman Sachs
November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Dean Baker:
McClatchy Does Its HomeWork on Goldman Sachs
They have some good investigative work here, here, and here. If Fox went over Goldman with the same energy it pursued Acorn, no one in Congress would go within a mile of its lobbyists.
But Fox won’t go after Goldman, because Fox is ideologically committed to free markets, which […]
Tags: Goldman Sachs · Fox News
Way to be, Shep Smith
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Apologizes on air for the “lack of balance” in a Fox Report.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGefbh2osMQ
Tags: Fox News
Obama and Fox win, conservatives lose
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Scalzi hits the same pitch we’ve been batting around here for a while:
Fox News isn’t the number one cable news channel because it has a broad spectrum of viewers or because the quality of its news reportage is better than those of other cable news networks or organizations. It’s the number one cable news network […]
Running at their strength
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Sullivan, an interesting comment from Brit Hume in an L.A. Times piece about the Obama-Fox war:
“We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News. And that’s kind of our attitude: ‘Hoist a Jolly Roger, pull out our daggers and look for more throats to slit.’
The question, of […]
Tags: Obama · Media · Fox News
But that doesn’t indicate bias or anything
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Roger Ailes - president of Fox News - mulling a run for president in 2012.
As a Republican, of course.
Fair and balanced!
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Fox is smarter
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
And then, as if on cue, we get this:
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make […]
Fair and Something
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments
In most news organizations there’s a line between reporting and opining.
Then there’s Fox News.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx5ethd8JU
Tags: Fox News
Murdoch’s strategy
October 21st, 2009 · No Comments
From comments over at Balloon Juice, and I think this is exactly it:
Murdoch has a pretty obvious plan, IMO.
News is pretty fungible in the US, and that makes it difficult to extract real money out of viewers. Murdoch is trying to change that by making his news (Fox, WSJ, etc.) ‘different’, adding value to it. […]
Tags: Fox News
Fox rises to the bait
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Said it in the vid and the print edition: Obama is baiting Fox, and Fox News will rise to the bait.
It has:
Take a look at Fox’s own Web story on the episode. …
<snip>
Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong […]
Tags: Fox News
The Propagandized
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Hooooo-boy…
So DemocracyCorps, the firm run by James Carville, among others, and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research has just completed a study titled “The Very Seperate World of Cosnervative Republicans: Why Republican Leaders will have Trouble Speaking to the Rest of America.” It shows, among other things, that the Republican base’s dislike of Obama dwarfs the left’s hatred of […]
Tags: Glenn Beck · Conservatism · Fox News
What if the tea partiers were gay?
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Ah, but I suppose it’s only when you have 75,000 straight people marching on D.C. that it’s the BIGGEST NEWS STORY EVAH!!!
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Queer and Loathing in D.C.
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Tags: Fox News
The Alamo of Truth
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Whew. Glenn Beck:
Corruption tops our list of concerns because we believe that government is here and it’s not helping, it’s making things worse. And you have to ask yourself: Is it intentional?
I’m not a journalist. I’ve joked that I’m a rodeo clown, but you know what? I’m not. I am a dad and I’m frankly […]
Tags: Glenn Beck · Fox News
When does Fox News get an ombudsman?
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments
This is actually a fantastic call:
As a proprietor of Big Government and Big Hollywood, part of the team that runs The Drudge Report, and a regular guest on Fox News, especially Sean Hannity’s show, [Andrew Breitbart] is a leader among folks who complain that the Times is a pernicious force in American life—that it ignores stories that cut against […]
Another thing we ‘feel’ to be true
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Did you know you can’t even say the pledge of allegiance in school anymore!
It’s true - Fox News tells me so!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbrXLSiyy1U
And so you see how this works, when conservatives “know” something in their “gut” to be “true.”
Fox tells us that kids are being prevented from saying the pledge! And this comports with your “gut feeling” that […]
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Fair and balanced and keep out
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Hm. Via Will Bunch: A couple of activists/volunteers hand out a New York Post parody issue right outside News Corp. headquarters (News Corp., of course, being the parent firm of both the Post and our beloved Fox News).
Cops detained them and confiscated the papers - after they’d succeeded in giving one to Rupert Murdoch himself:
Lockwood says she […]
Tags: Fox News
Rick Sanchez is my new hero
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments
“We covered the event. We didn’t promote the event.”
“That’s not what real news organizations are supposed to do.”
“We covered the event. I would invite you to look into the distinction between those two words.”
Come on, Rick. Fair and balanced!
CNN fell down on the job because it didn’t declare the teabag march TEH MOST IMPORTANT PROTEST […]
Tags: Teabaggery · Fox News
Teh Truth
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Only one source, you know.





