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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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the big plan

Beck Will Host Conventions
to Educate America

He's shifting toward political organizer, plans big DC rally

HE'S GOT A BOOK OUT, TOO

 Beck to Unveil 
 'Big Plan' at 
 Saturday Rally 

Righty pundit OK with destroying Dems and GOP

 Fox News Lets 
 Jon Get Under 
 Its Skin, Again 

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

PILING ON

 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 

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



 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

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

 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

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

DETENTE?

 Fox News Lands 
 Obama Interview 

Prez will sit down with Garrett in Beijing

 Dobbs: CNN Didn't Want 
 Obama Criticism 

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

 CNN Paid Dobbs $8M to Leave 

Bosses objected to reporting on immigration, 'birther' movement

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

updated

 Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN 

Longtime anchor announces move on tonight's show

WATCH IT

Hannity to Daily Show:
Yep, We Screwed Up 

Fox host calls protest footage mixup 'inadvertent'

Drew Peterson Wants to Sell His Home—to the Media

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


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

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

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

Fox host suggests motive for US strategy

STAND BY YOUR MAN

 I Agree With 
 Beck—Obama's 
 Racist: Murdoch 

Asked about Beck brouhaha, News Corp. chairman is unrepentant

FIRST AMENDMENT 1, GLENN BECK 0

Beck Loses Fight Against Satire Site

Owner gives up domain name suggesting rape, murder anyway

feud? what feud?

 White House 
 Warns Dems 
 to Avoid Fox 

Strategist reports intimidating phone call after appearance

WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

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

 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

OPINION

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

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Rush: Obama 
 Doesn't Care 
 About War in 
 Afghanistan 

Furthermore, prez is intentionally killing economy, says Limbaugh

 White House, Fox News 
 Reach a 'Truce' 

Analysts skeptical about how long it'll last

ANALYSIS

 Where Bush Was 
 Bashed, Obama 
 Gets Free Pass 

GOP faithful can't fathom why press goes so easy on new president



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar

7
Nov 24, 09 | 10:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Microsoft is a company that Rupert Murdoch understands. When he talks about the technology business or about the Internet or Google, which, on at least one occasion, I’ve heard him call Gadget, he invariably reverts to talking about Microsoft, which, on at least one occasion, I’ve heard him call IBM. What is Microsoft going to do? he asks, oddly echoing—indeed anticipating—Jeff Jarvis’ book, What Would Google Do? Murdoch’s question... More »

Books Are Bad for You

28
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

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