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Fox News stories: 194 news summaries

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HE'S GOT A BOOK OUT, TOO

 Beck to Unveil 
 'Big Plan' at 
 Saturday Rally 

Righty pundit OK with destroying Dems and GOP

27 minutes ago
(Newser) - Glenn Beck has got a “big plan” for 2010, and he’s going to let us in on it tomorrow at a Florida rally that coincides with the beginning of his book tour, insiders tell Politico . The Fox News host’s new direction is likely to involve his 9.... More »

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Florida • Fox News • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • Democratic Party • conservative media • Glenn Beck book tour • Glenn Beck Arguing With Idiots • Glenn Beck's 'big plan' • 9.12 Project

 Fox News Lets 
 Jon Get Under 
 Its Skin, Again 

Stewart's "go bleep yourself" to Goldberg gets O'Reilly's attention

12 hours, 10 minutes ago
(Newser) - Fox News commentator Bernard Goldberg is just so sad that Jon Stewart doesn’t like him anymore, and he made a point of saying so on last night’s O’Reilly Factor . Stewart slammed Goldberg the night before on the Daily Show for Goldberg's comment that liberals don’t “... More »

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entertainment • Bill O'Reilly • celebrity • Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sarah Palin • Bernie Goldberg • Bernard Goldberg

PILING ON

 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 

This-just-in Palin video actually from '08 campaign

Nov 18, 09 7:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The incident isn’t on par with Jon Stewart catching Fox News host Sean Hannity passing off old video as new, but lefty blogger Faiz Shakir found the network doing something similar today. Noting huge crowds for Sarah Palin’s book tour, host Gregg Jarrett alerts viewers to “pictures... More »

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Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sean Hannity • Sarah Palin • Huffington Post • liberal media • conservative media • Fox News misleading footage • Gregg Jarrett • Sarah Palin book tour



 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

Pres tells Fox's Major Garrett prison will close after Jan 2010

Nov 18, 09 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Guantanamo Bay • Fox News • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Gitmo • guantanamo deadline • closing guantanamo • obama fox news

 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

He's offering 'platform to extremists,' report charges

Nov 18, 09 2:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Right-wing Fox mouth Glenn Beck is the most toxic media hate monger operating in the US today, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. "Beck has made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration," the r eport states. He "has... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • extremists • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • right-wing media • right-wing attacks • Anti-Defamation League • right-wing extremism • conspiracy theorists

DETENTE?

 Fox News Lands 
 Obama Interview 

Prez will sit down with Garrett in Beijing

Nov 17, 09 12:57 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama has apparently softened on Fox News and will grant the network an interview while in Beijing. “I will interview POTUS on camera,” tweets Fox’s Major Garrett. “4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.” Though the White... More »

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China • White House • Beijing • Fox News • Fox • Obama administration • President Obama • Major Garrett • Obama interview

 Dobbs: CNN Didn't Want 
 Obama Criticism 

'What is immutable is that I'm staying in the public arena'

Nov 17, 09 7:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Lou Dobbs guarantees "100%" that he'll be staying in "the public arena" now that he's finished with CNN, he told Fox's Bill O'Reilly last night, but he demurred on whether that means a run for a New Jersey Senate seat. President Obama "isn't the devil," Dobbs... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • CNN • Fox • Lou Dobbs • news anchor • Lou Dobbs interview

 CNN Paid Dobbs $8M to Leave 

Bosses objected to reporting on immigration, 'birther' movement

Nov 16, 09 10:30 AM CST
(Newser) - CNN was so outraged over Lou Dobbs’ conservative reporting that they paid him $8 million just to leave, an anonymous source tells the New York Post. “They wanted him out,” the source says. Dobbs still had a year and a half left on his $12 million contract,... More »

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Fox News • CNN • Lou Dobbs • right wingers • birther

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

Nov 13, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A YouTube channel that specialized in capturing Fox commentators' most outrageous moments has been shut down after copyright complaints from the channel. News1News was the favorite choice of plenty of left-leaning blogs and news sources seeking to poke fun at Fox, notes Gawker , which has been left with plenty of... More »

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updated

 Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN 

Longtime anchor announces move on tonight's show

Nov 12, 09 5:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Anchor Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN, he announced during tonight’s show—his last after 27 years at the channel. Dobbs, whose contract wasn’t up until 2011, has made waves with his anti-immigration views and his questioning of President Obama’s citizenship; he didn’t shed much light on... More »

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citizenship • Fox News • CNN • Roger Ailes • illegal immigration • talk show • Lou Dobbs • cable industry • host • news anchor • cable news • President Obama • conservative media • birther

WATCH IT

Hannity to Daily Show:
Yep, We Screwed Up 

Fox host calls protest footage mixup 'inadvertent'

Nov 11, 09 9:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted tonight that his staff spliced video from a Capitol Hill protest last week with footage from an earlier, much larger protest over the summer—and apologized to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and host Jon Stewart, who brought the creative editing to light. “... More »

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entertainment • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • apology • Sean Hannity • liberal media • conservative media • creative editing

Drew Peterson Wants to Sell His Home—to the Media

He's got a novel idea for those pesky legal fees

Nov 11, 09 3:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Drew Peterson is broke and has huge legal bills, so he’s looking to sell his home. But not to just anyone. The former police sergeant, accused of murdering his third wife, figures he’ll get a premium if he sells it to a news organization as a “base... More »

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Chicago • marriage • murder • Fox News • Drew Peterson • murder charges


 In Palin We 
 Don't Trust: 
 Fox Checks 
 Coin Claim 

GOP, not Dems, moved 'In God We Trust' to edge of coin

Nov 11, 09 7:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Even Fox News has started fact-checking Sarah Palin. Last night anchor Bret Baier responded to Palin's claim during a speech Friday that the phrase "In God We Trust" had recently moved from the face to the rim of the new dollar coin: Another case of Obama pushing a secular... More »

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Fox News • US dollar • Sarah Palin • President Obama • Bret Baier

 O'Reilly: 'We Can't 
 Kill All the Muslims' 

Fox host suggests motive for US strategy

Nov 11, 09 6:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Fox News host Bill O'Reilly believes the US wants to win the "hearts and minds" of the world's Muslims because we can't kill all of them, the Huffington Post reports. He let slip last night during a discussion with novelist and retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters about alleged Fort... More »

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television • Bill O'Reilly • Muslims • Fox News • talk show • President Obama • Ralph Peters • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Hasan

STAND BY YOUR MAN

 I Agree With 
 Beck—Obama's 
 Racist: Murdoch 

Asked about Beck brouhaha, News Corp. chairman is unrepentant

Nov 10, 09 9:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch backed his host over his advertisers in a Sky News interview last weekend, saying Glenn Beck probably shouldn't have called President Obama a racist on the air some months back, but what he said was right. Asked about the Fox host's assertion that Obama made racist comments during... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • racism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • racist • Obama administration • President Obama • Sky News

FIRST AMENDMENT 1, GLENN BECK 0

Beck Loses Fight Against Satire Site

Owner gives up domain name suggesting rape, murder anyway

Nov 9, 09 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck came out on the losing end today in his attempt to shut down a satirical website the Fox News host alleged was defamatory and infringed on his trademark. And though an arbitrator ruled that “even a ‘moron in a hurry’ would not likely conclude that Complainant... More »

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feud? what feud?

 White House 
 Warns Dems 
 to Avoid Fox 

Strategist reports intimidating phone call after appearance

Nov 6, 09 4:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The Obama administration has toned down its war of words against Fox News, but behind the scenes, it's warning Democratic strategists not to appear on the network. One consultant who made a recent appearance says he received a call afterward from a White House official who told him, "We... More »

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White House • feud • Fox News • David Plouffe • television news • Anita Dunn • political consultant

WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Jon Stewart asked the tough questions last night: Now that Glenn Beck has lost his appendix, how are we going to stop the conspiracy to harvest the rest of his organs? The Daily Show host channeled everything Beck last night, from glasses-fiddling to chalkboard to leaps of logic. “... More »

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 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

Nov 4, 09 6:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s appendix accomplished today what the nasty wishes of liberals everywhere couldn’t: It took him off the air. Beck excused himself early from his national radio show; an exec at his production company confirmed the operation. “Before going under Glenn asked the doctor to draw out... More »

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Fox News • talk show • Glenn Beck • talk-show host • appendicitis • conservative media • appendix • Premiere Radio Networks

OPINION

Beck's Silent Red Phone
Is 'a Hotline
to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

Nov 4, 09 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck likes to say that the red phone on his desk is a direct line to the White House, but of course it's a hotline to nowhere, just like the Fox host's whole schtick. Beck complains piteously that White House libbers won't call to respond to his issues, Thomas... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • tea parties • Anita Dunn

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