Fox & Friends
Limbaugh: Miss America Contestants Know More About Politics Than Elect
February 3rd, 2010 4:12 PM
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes that many of the Miss America contestants he met last week know more about politics than elected officials he's spoken to."I've really been impressed with all of them," Limbaugh told Fox News's Gretchen Carlson in a segment that aired on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday.In his first interview since being rushed to the hospital in December, Limbaugh…
Fox Business Host Stuart Varney: Obama's Losing 'Ally' Warren Buffett
January 21st, 2010 2:43 PM
Liberal billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been very popular among the news media, but that might not hold if Buffett continues to dissent from President Barack Obama. On Jan. 20, Bloomberg reported that Buffett opposed Obama's proposal to tax a number of large banks supposedly to pay for losses from the bank bailout. "I don't see any reason why they should be paying a special tax," said…
Media Reported UN Accusation Israelis Killed Truck Driver, Ignored Isr
January 8th, 2010 11:44 PM
A year ago today, when U.N. officials accused the Israeli military of killing the driver of a vehicle delivering relief aid to Gaza during the Israeli campaign against Hamas, all the broadcast and news networks reported the accusation on January 8, 2009, noting the U.N.'s resulting cessation of relief aid deliveries. But, after the Israeli military conducted an investigation and charged that…
Olbermann’s Conniption: 'There is No Liberal Media'; Insists Corpora
December 15th, 2009 2:24 AM
Perhaps there is something obstructing the view overlooking Rockefeller Plaza, where MSNBC broadcasts "Countdown" nightly because the show's host, Keith Olbermann fails to see the existence of a news media with a liberal bias. On MSNBC's Dec. 14 broadcast of "Countdown," Olbermann came to the defense of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" executive producer and noted left-winger Dick…
CNN Catches Up On Baucus Scandal & Labels as Dem More Than Other Nets
December 7th, 2009 1:41 PM
While it has been documented that CNN's Howard Kurtz chided his own news network for ignoring the recently-revealed scandal involving Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominating his girlfriend for a U.S. attorney position -- after the CNN anchor had monitored CNN on Saturday -- it turns out that on Sunday morning, even before Kurtz's Reliable Sources show had begun, CNN had already started…
FNC Reports Plight of Navy SEAL Heroes Charged with Prisoner Abuse
November 29th, 2009 7:25 AM
In the past several days, FNC has given attention to the plight of three Navy SEALs who helped capture one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq – a man named Ahmed Hashim Abed who is believed to have planned the savage murder of four Blackwater security guards in Fallujah in 2004. Due to accusations of prisoner abuse by Abed, these American troops are now facing the possibility of court-martial…
FNC: Sarah Palin Tops Hillary Clinton in First-Week Book Sales
November 27th, 2009 1:10 AM
Wednesday’s Fox and Friends on FNC passed on a piece of information not likely to receive much attention from the mainstream media – that Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is so far outpacing Hillary Clinton’s Living History in sales. Co-anchor Alisyn Camerota relayed that "now there's a comparison between how Sarah Palin's book has done in the first week and how Hillary Clinton's memoir did the first…
Olbermann Suggests FNC Discriminates Against Non-White or Muslim Emplo
November 6th, 2009 10:03 PM
On Friday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann suggested that Fox News is a racist organization that would hold race or religion against its employees in awarding promotions, as he used the show’s "Worst Person" segment to slam Fox and Friends co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson, and Peter Johnson, for raising questions about whether Muslims serving in the military should be treated…
MRC-TV: Brent Bozell Double Feature: 'Hannity' and 'Fox & Friends
November 6th, 2009 12:27 PM
Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell appeared on "Hannity" last night and talked about the Fort Hood shooting as well as the conservative rally at the Capitol yesterday which drew thousands on short notice. [see video embedded at right]Regarding the latter Bozell quipped, "Spontaneous combustion! This wasn't an instant tea party. This was a coffee urn exploding…
Gaffe Video: FNC's Rivera Confuses Most-wanted Terrorist with Commande
October 30th, 2009 12:39 PM
No bias, just a Joe Biden moment. FNC's Geraldo Rivera inadvertently called Barack Obama "President Osama bin Laden" on the October 30 "Fox & Friends" program. The video's embedded below the page break. Enjoy (h/t NB commenter Blonde):
The Obsession Continues: Olbermann Condemns George Will’s Praise of
October 28th, 2009 1:14 AM
Want to be noticed by any one of the hosts that have a primetime show on MSNBC's weeknight lineup? Just figure out a way to make Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. the subject matter, and there's an excellent chance either Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow will take a shot at it, or her, during their shows. In the Oct. 25 Washington Post, George Will penned a column about…
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow: Nothing Wrong with Off-the-Record Obam
October 23rd, 2009 1:17 PM
Throughout the previous administration, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann would nightly attack President George W. Bush and members of his administration and regularly bash some conservative personalities for being too cozy with Bush. However, when he and his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow engage in the same brand of coziness, meeting with President Barack Obama earlier this week, it's no longer an…