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Fox News shifts towards center, plays up GOP's 2012 conflict

(NEWSER) - Is Fox News going moderate? Not exactly, but Roger Ailes has consciously made a “course correction” from hyper-partisanship back toward the center, sensing that the public has grown weary of the Tea Party, he tells Howard Kurtz of Newsweek . Glenn Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric in particular “became a bit of a branding issue for us,” he says, as did Sarah Palin's use of her Fox platform to promote herself as a possible GOP savior. More»

Fox News chief also explains why Glenn Beck is off the network

(NEWSER) - Roger Ailes is probably the last guy Anthony Weiner expected to rally to his defense. But in a new interview the Fox News chief does just that. “The media’s had enough giggles over Mr. Weiner and his name,” Ailes told Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast . “Sometimes the families take a bigger hit than the person that people are trying to destroy.” Ailes had good things to say about another Democrat, too: “I’d like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She’d get ratings.” More»

No, she's not ruining the GOP, writes Matthew Continetti

(NEWSER) - How well do you know Sarah Palin ? The former governor of Alaska is more than the caricature dreamed up by Saturday Night Live, argues Matthew Continetti for the Washington Post . "The real Sarah Palin is a complex woman who has risen in no time from obscurity to the stratosphere of American politics, fusing celebrity and populism in novel ways." His list of some common Palin myths, debunked:

• Palin cost McCain the 2008 election: Not so. McCain suffered from an "enthusiasm gap" well before Palin was on the scene, Continetti says. "With her by his side, McCain's fundraising and support from conservatives improved."

He wakes up and smells the tea, despite 'nutty' candidate

(NEWSER) - Karl Rove has apparently heard his master's voice and flip-flopped on his support for anti-masturbation candidate Christine O'Donnell. He now endorses the Delaware candidate without hesitation, even though he was very concerned just two days ago about her "nutty" ideas, iffy character, tax dodging, and misrepresentations. Rove apparently saw the light when Sarah Palin chided Rove on Fox to "buck up" and get with the new party program. More»

Fox personality keen on 'commonsense conservative principles of liberty'

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin is buoyed by the Republicans’ “truly amazing” win in Massachusetts yesterday, and is prepared to stump for GOP candidates in this year’s midterm elections. The erstwhile Alaska governor singles out particular candidates in a Facebook post, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, and her former running mate, John McCain. “I’m going out and campaigning,” Palin writes. More»