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FOX Network Won't Air Prez Health Care Address

So You Think You Can Dance kicks speech

Sep 7, 09 3:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Fox Broadcast Network won't carry President Obama's congressional address on health-care reform Wednesday, and will instead run So You Think You Can Dance, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The Fox News cable channel will carry the address. The Fox network also skipped Obama's July 22 speech. ABC, CBS, NBC,... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • NBC • CBS • MSNBC • ABC • Fox News • PBS • So You Think You Can Dance? • Fox network

Wash. Mayor Under Fire for 'Glenn Beck Day'

Critics slam decision to offer controversial pundit key to the city

Sep 3, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mayor of Mount Vernon, Wash., has taken a stand on the controversy over Glenn Beck calling President Obama a “racist.” He plans to give the Fox News lightning rod a key to the city and proclaim Sept. 26 “Glenn Beck Day,” the Seattle Times reports.... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington • mayor • Fox News • Glenn Beck • ceremony • honor • racist remark • Mount Vernon, Wash. • Bud Norris

OPINION

 Time for Beck to Back Up 
 'Racist' Jab or Apologize 

As advertisers flee, the facts become taboo

Sep 2, 09 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The boycott of Glenn Beck by America's biggest advertisers has reached unprecedented levels, writes Eric Boehlert for Media Matters. "All of Beck's big-time advertisers have fled. All of them." And yet Beck and Fox News seem to have a collective case of amnesia and won't acknowledge the reason—... More »

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politics • Fox News • Glenn Beck • racist • advertisers • President Obama

Cheney: Learn From CIA, Don't
Investigate Interrogators

Probes are 'outrageous political act,' says ex-VP

Aug 30, 09 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration should be asking CIA interrogators how they managed to ward off terrorist attacks for 8 years rather than investigating possible breaches of law while doing so, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News today. Investigating interrogators is an "outrageous political act" that will do long-term... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • Fox News • harsh interrogation • Eric Holder • enhanced interrogation techniques • special prosecutor

 Beck's Latest Rant: 
 Obama Like 
 Hussein, 
 Hitler 

Host isn't suggesting Americorps plan makes him a fascist, but...

Aug 28, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck may have reached a new low last night when he implied President Obama’s plans to use AmeriCorps make him the equivalent of a fascist dictator, Gawker reports. One guest, Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia, fanned the flames by saying, “I’m not comparing my... More »

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Saddam Hussein • television • Barack Obama • Adolf Hitler • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • right-wing media • Obama administration • President Obama • AmeriCorps • David Bellavia • Vets for Freedom

 Beck's Ratings Surge 
 as Ad Boycott Continues 

Six more firms to refuse to run ads on host's show

Aug 27, 09 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The audience for Glenn Beck’s Fox News show continues to swell even as more advertisers decline to run commercials on the program in the wake of the talk-show host's assertion that President Obama is a racist, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beck’s Monday night show attracted 2.81... More »

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Republican • advertising • conservative • radicals • Fox News • Glenn Beck • boycott • conservative base • leftist

 Palin to Fans: Watch Beck 

Ex-governor encourages Facebook friends to find out 'who is actually running the White House'

Aug 26, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin is using her social-media soapbox to plug Glenn Beck’s Fox News show, Politico reports. In a message to her 829,000 Facebook friends, Palin says the host has been "doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining... More »

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GOP • Facebook • conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sarah Palin

 Hannity Guest: 
 I'm No Nazi—Obama Is 

Gov't practicing Nazism 'almost line for line'

Aug 25, 09 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a congressman compared health care protesters to “brown shirts,” a disabled Marine vet appeared on Sean Hannity’s show to refute the claim, saying the “Nazi” label was better placed on the Democrats, Gawker reports. “I don’t think it’s acceptable language that he’... More »

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Fox News • Sean Hannity • health care reform • Marine • Nazis • Obama administration

After Beck Flap, Advertisers Leery of Politics

Boycott may go beyond Fox host to other 'inflammatory' shows

Aug 24, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s antics could just kill the entire political talk show genre, Advertising Age reports. Beck will return to the air tonight 33 advertisers lighter, after calling President Obama a “racist." But the fallout could spread to other talk shows, too—Clorox has already announced... More »

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advertising • lefties • Fox News • Glenn Beck • pundits • TV industry • right wingers • punditry

 O'Reilly: 
 Stewart's 
 Off the Rails 

'Secretly liberal' Fox News strikes back

Aug 21, 09 4:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly hit back at Jon Stewart last night, saying the Daily Show host had gone "off the rails" with recent jokes about Fox News. Stewart Wednesday night sarcastically called Fox "secretly liberal," because commentators like O'Reilly are now doing all the things they attacked liberals for... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals

(Newser) - Meghan McCain will sit in for new mom Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the View in September, the New York Post reports. The daughter of John McCain and one-woman youth movement in the GOP has proven popular on the chatfest, and will tape 3 episodes. Also filling in for Hasselbeck... More »

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The View • Fox News • daytime talk show • Meghan McCain • maternity leave • Elisabeth Hasselbeck • E.D. Hill

 Surprise! 
 Fox News 
 Is Liberal: 
 Stewart 



They are, after all, doing all the same things they used to complain about

Aug 20, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Stewart made a discovery on last night's Daily Show: Fox News has turned into a big, fat liberal! As proof, Stewart showed a series of clips, including one of Bill O'Reilly praising conservative town hall protesters ("We don't describe the protesters as 'loons,'" he says) contrasted... More »

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entertainment • media • Fox News • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • liberals • liberal

 Fox News Set 
 for Best Year Ever 

Ratings soar with Dems in office

Aug 17, 09 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives may not have their preferred president, but they do have a preferred network: Fox News is on a roll, set for its best ratings year ever, the AP reports. Viewership is up 11% over last year—though the boom hasn’t come without controversy, with some critics suggesting that... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • Fox News • CNN • Glenn Beck • TV ratings

OPINION

 Fox Is Killing the GOP 


Aug 8, 09 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News and the Republican Party are locked into a cycle that will make a fortune for the network while dooming the party to further defeats, John Cook writes at Gawker. Fox viewership is up a whopping 45% over the last year as "frightened, paranoid, enraged, nativist zealots" ... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • GOP • Fox News • Republican Party • Fox • Glenn Beck • independent voters • cable news

No Joke: O'Reilly Pens Essay Praising Obama

Fox host calls president an inspiration to
young Americans

Aug 7, 09 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly has written a glowing tribute to President Obama that will run in this Sunday's Parade magazine, Politico reports. The Fox host, who doesn't pull any punches when blasting the president's policies, holds Obama's life story and achievements up as an inspiration to young Americans in the essay, titled... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • President Obama

(Newser) - Glenn Beck's assertion that President Obama is a racist is rattling at least a few advertisers. Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, and Lawyers.com have stopped running ads on Beck's Fox show, reports the TV Newser blog on Mediabistro. The network itself isn't hurting, however: A spokesman says the... More »

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advertising • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Fox network • Procter & Gamble • Progressive Insurance

 What Truce? O'Reilly, 
 Olbermann Back in the Ring 

Olbermann calls O'Reilly 'worst'; O'Reilly attacks GE

Aug 6, 09 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The feud between Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann continues, despite word of a peace deal: On Monday Olbermann said there was no truce and awarded O’Reilly the silver medal for “World’s Worst Person.” Then he gave the gold to Fox News honcho Rupert Murdoch. O’... More »

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media • Rupert Murdoch • Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • SEC • feud • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • television news • President Obama

OPINION

 Beck to Audience: 
 Nobody Flip Out, 
 Kill a Bunch 
 of People 

Gawker wonders what prompted this bizarre request

Aug 4, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck took it down a notch last night, adopting an “unusually subdued” manner to close his show by “imploring his audience not to murder innocent people,” writes the Cajun Boy for Gawker. Beck’s thoughts included, among other things, the warning that “Just one lunatic... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative media • right-wing extremism • Timothy McVeigh

(Newser) - It took the intervention of a PBS peacemaker to halt the bitterest media fight of the decade, insiders tell the New York Times. Bosses at Fox and at MSNBC owner GE were fed up with Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly's long-running feud—especially after they started savaging each other's networks—... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • talk show • Charlie Rose • Jeffrey Immelt • Countdown

 Beck Wins It All 
 in Stewart's 
 Jackass Derby 



Beck crowned king in new segment

Jul 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Apparently, any jackass in a suit willing to go on television and criticize the president can make a pretty hefty living,” Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show. To crown the biggest jackass of all, Stewart trotted out a new segment: "So You Think... More »

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entertainment • comedy • celebrity • Fox News • CNN • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Lou Dobbs • Fox network • birther

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