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BP Press Release Theater

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Fox News #1 For Hundredth Month

Fox News set a milestone this week, notching their 100th consecutive month as the #1 most-watched cable news outlet. In primetime (8-11PM), Fox News averaged 1.92 million total viewers (485,000 A25-54) to take first place; MSNBC came in second with 785,000 total viewers (239,000 A25-54). CNN came in third in total viewers with 596,000, beating HLN’s 512,000; in the A25-54 …

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Fox News’ Love Letter To Scott Brown

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LA Times Profiles WND’s Joseph Farah

The Los Angeles Times yesterday published a lengthy profile of Joseph Farah, the founder and editor of World Net Daily, the most widely read wingnut site in the world. Reporting from Washington and Virginia – Sipping coffee in a strip mall, Joseph Farah looks like something out of a spy novel — suave, mysterious, bushy black mustache. He’s surprisingly relaxed, …

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Cockroaches

The following is the complete list of news organizations granted media credentials to cover next month’s Tea Party Convention: Fox News Breitbart.com Townhall.com The Wall Street Journal World Net Daily That totally spans the gamut of viewpoints from A to B, dunnit? This, from people who scream about a state-run media.

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Sarah Palin Joins Fox News

Not that everybody in the world didn’t see THIS coming when she quit Alaska. The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ms. Palin will not have her own regular program, one person familiar with the deal said, though she will …

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Fox News In Review

Media Matters recaps the lies, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia of Fox News in 2009. Watch this.

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Fox Fail Math? That Unpossible!

Fox’s graphic about a Rasmussen poll on global warming adds up to 120%. Rasmussen is surely unamused. That didn’t make the list, but go to Ranker for their Top Ten Fox News Fails Of 2009.

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Fox Staff In Hot Water Over Video Switch

In a story about Sarah Palin’s book tour, Fox News ran video of Palin at a 2008 campaign appearance, leading viewers to believe that a massive crowd was on hand. This is second such “mistake” by Fox in a week, leading network honchos to claim that staffers will be disciplined. The unwelcome mishap follows soon on the heels of another …

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Fox News Chastises Staff For Cheerleading The Teabaggers: We Are Not Performers

Embarrassed by a widely circulated video showing a Fox News segment producer exhorting a crowd of teabaggers to scream for the camera, Fox vice president Bill Sammon has issued a stern warning to all employees. We do not cheerlead for one cause or another. We do not rile up a crowd. If a crowd happens to be boisterous when we …

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Joe The Plumber Goes To Israel…

…as a war correspondent. And on his first day on the job as a reporter covering the war, he decides that reporters have no business covering wars.

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Tyson Homosexual

Oh those wacky gay-hating fundies. Check this out : OneNewsNow, the “Christian news service” covertly owned by the AFA, receives syndicated content from providers like the Associated Press and edits instances of the word “gay” to read “homosexual.” Although the site is registered to the conservative, anti-gay organization, the fact is not disclosed anywhere on the site. An article posted …

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ABC News Races Fox To The Bottom

Hillary Clinton just released her 17,000-page schedule from her days as First Lady to the National Archives. And already an ABC News “investigative unit” has pored over the pages to discover the shocking news that she was actually at home at the White House on the day of the famous Monica Lewinsky blue dress incident. Hillary Clinton spent the night …

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Mrs. Edwards: Always Quotable

“We can’t make John black, we can’t make him a woman. Those things get you a certain amount of fundraising dollars.” – Elizabeth Edwards, speaking about reasons her husband may receive less media attention and fewer campaign donations than Obama and Clinton. Mrs. Edwards continues to deliver better quotes than her husband, doesn’t she? Tuesday, on John Gibson’s Fox News …

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Lesbian Gangs Run Amok Nationwide!Space Aliens Ate My Baby!

To hear Fox News and Bill O’Reilly tell it, we’ve got us a regular national lesbian gang crime wave on our hands. Oh, brother. Meanwhile here in NYC hardcore lefties are spinning a Free Mumia-ish web of support for the Newark Four, recently incarcerated for their stabbing attack on a straight man. I’m rather disappointed to see FIERCE! (an organization …

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