Inevitable Allen West-Fox News Partnership Is Sealed
Outgoing members of Congress are rarely hard-pressed for jobs. Tea Party star Allen West just accepted the one that was perhaps the most predictable.
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The government will use any and all information at its disposal to find journalist sources, as shown in The Washington Post's report this morning on a Department of Justice investigation into Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen, who may face criminal charges for reporting government secrets.
Outgoing members of Congress are rarely hard-pressed for jobs. Tea Party star Allen West just accepted the one that was perhaps the most predictable.
Congressional Republicans have had little luck convincing anyone other than Fox News and its viewers that there's something scandalous about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazie. But to keep the story's momentum going a feedback loop has emerged in which Fox reports something, the House holds hearings on it, and then Fox reports on those hearings.
Fox News reports that "at least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency" have retained lawyers after being threatened by the Obama administration.
It's generally understood that in the Fox News and Glenn Beck breakup, Fox was the dumper and Beck the dumpee. But, in most breakups where the couple shares a social circle, neither party wants a reputation as the dumpee. Beck says he's the one who wanted to leave — because the network was so depressing so amazing.
We've gotten so used to the idea that conservative media parrot official Republican Party talking points that even Luntz — king of the on-air focus group, prompter of Fox News teleprompters — is surprised when they fail to do so.
On The Daily Show last night, he explained how Fox has gone all willy nilly on the Constitution at the beginning of the controversial prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He also peppered his entire opening segment with spot-on pop culture references, Star Wars included.
Former Bush adviser Dana Perino made America cringe by rapping a response to Jay-Z's rapped defense of his trip to Cuba, following in the footsteps of many conservatives who have rapped before. They have never not made us cringe.
Rupert Murdoch wanted Fox News to air The Bible, the hit miniseries on History with an Obama-esque Satan. But Murdoch and Survivor bigwig Mark Burnett couldn't come to an agreement on the money or the rights. This is an unsettling revelation.
After a day full of criticism in the media, both of the situation and the coverage, Colorado district court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. decided to delay making a decision that would force Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal her anonymous sources or face jail time.
Fox News has hired Tucker Carlson to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend, even though the two are on opposite ideological trajectories -- Fox is getting more moderate while Carlson is getting more fringe.
When Fox News chief Roger Ailes found out a reporter was writing mean biography about him, he commissioned a glowing one to counter it, Roger Ailes: Off Camera. It's only been out for a day, but both Ailes chief and favored biographer Zev Chafets are quite pleased with the result.
Forget Roland Martin. How about Wolf Blitzer? Hell, maybe Jeff Zucker should fire literally everyone and start from the ground up, firmly reinventing the network as the go-to place for Poop Cruise coverage and other newstainment. Why not?
Roger Ailes, president of Fox News and maker of sinister expressions, shows his true colors in a new biography, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, by Zev Chafets. We've seen them before.
You can blame CNN all you want for its reporters feeling sorry for the now convicted rapists in the ongoing case in Steubenville, Ohio, but MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN all just outed a 16-year-old rape victim to millions.
Fox News has a tendency to worship the Founding Fathers as not pretty-cool-but-flawed revolutionaries, but demi-gods. And yet, when Fox & Friends brings on an actor to pretend to be Thomas Jefferson, co-host Gretchen Carlson talks to him like he's an idiot child.
There are plenty of zingers in a new excerpt from the first of competing books on the Fox news boss. That appears to be the point — when Ailes is in charge, the Ailes book is about everyone else's fatal human flaws.
His day-to-day activities, as captured in photographs leading up to his big post-election interview this weekend, bear the scars of his vertiginous fall from presidential candidate to private citizen.
The acclaimed filmmaker makes the liberal's case for watching Fox News
During a televised shouting match over guns, Bob Beckel — the token liberal on Fox News' roundtable show The Five — expressed his own ignorance about rape by asking, "When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?"
During the 2012 Republican primary, several candidates were criticized as unserious hustlers who cared less about America's problems than getting more famous into order to sell books — or get a Fox News contract like the one Herman Cain landed on Friday. Well, it's a year later. How did everyone do?
Fox News and the Republican Party, while still technically distinct entities, are moving to purge figures who are so controversial they're damaging the conservative brand. Even Dick Morris says he was wrong.
Yes, it is possible for a pundit to lose his job for being very, very wrong. Dick Morris, one of the most spectacularly wrong pundits of the 2012 election, has been fired by Fox News.
Now that Palin and Fox News are broken up, Smart Politics wanted to measure whether or not the network got its money's worth by calculating how much Palin was paid per word. We wanted to see how much she made just for mentioning the president.
Given the increasingly public spats between Palin and the network, you have to wonder if Palin's camp is trying to control the post-split spin.
This morning Fox and Friends claimed that today — the date of Obama's second inauguration — is the most depressing day of the year. They're wrong.
Today in show business news: American Idol's premiere ratings were significantly lower than hoped, a good actress gets a good gig, and Karl Rove will be back for more.
The last batch of data available in 2012 show Fox News suffering a dramatic ratings decline — and Sean Hannity's viewers in particular keep disappearing, while Rachel Maddow's continue to tune in over at rival MSNBC.
We've collected visual evidence of Westboro's severe left-wing behavior to back up Fox News's bold assertion.
You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong.
Today in showbiz news: Fox is top of the cable heap once more, Tyler Perry bails out Oprah, and an embarrassing thing happens to Barbra Streisand after the Golden Globe nominations.
As Jon Stewart sees it, the only thing worse than Bob Costas's awkward sermon on Jevon Belcher and gun control are Fox News talking heads talking about how terrible Bob Costas is.
The Fox News host continued his misguided fight Thursday night. When will he see the light?
Less than two days after the new pundit rules at Fox News surfaced, with special permission suddenly required for Karl Rove to appear on-air, Special Report with Bret Baier has booked him for Monday's show.
Tom Ricks has nothing on this: Ed Henry tells the AP today that a few of the network's shows have been harping on the topic more than has been necessary.
You have to give credit where credit is due: In a world where there are few consequences for appallingly bad pundit predictions, Fox News — not The New York Times, not ABC News, not CNN — is taking the lead in pundit accountability.
Less than a month after his strange, dramatic and sort of sad election night meltdown on air, Fox News is distancing itself from Karl Rove.
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward today offers a fascinating look into how Roger Ailes doesn't just reflect so much as try to shape the Republican Party. But the question remains: Does Fox's behind-the-scenes political power actually work?
What a world it would have been had Roger Ailes gotten his way last year, when he recruited one of his Fox News lieutenants to talk David Petraeus into running against Obama in 2012.
With his presidential aspirations dashed, Rick Santorum has started writing for the birther friendly site World Net Daily. One commenter wonders if Fox News thought Santorum was too fringe friendly for their famously fair and balanced approach.
The Foreign Policy blogger now says Fox News is "making it up" when it claims he apologized for going on the network live and saying its coverage of Benghazi was hyped because it was operating as a wing of the GOP.
The fight between Fox News and Foreign Policy reporter Tom Ricks has escalated, with Fox News claiming Ricks apologized off air for saying on air Monday that the network hyped the Benghazi attacks because "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party." Ricks says no such apology happened.
Last week's election remains on the minds of Fox News correspondents who still can't figure out why Republicans lost. Now, it seems, they're looking for someone to blame ways to broaden their base. Jon Stewart is here to help them figure out how to woo single women.
After seeing how well feelings and hunches worked out in that landslide of the election, Republicans are now putting the Petraeus scandal to the same test. And just like the election, Jon Stewart is here to crush those feelings.
Brian Stelter of The New York Times reports that MSNBC is finally starting to catch up to Fox News in the ratings game, mainly by becoming the left-wing answer to Fox's conservative cheerleaders.
Noreen Malone on Megyn Kelly, Seth Mandel on Republican governors, Margaret Carlson on female senators, Jay Ulfelder on forecasting world politics, Damien Ma on China's last ten years.
We've all been waiting four years that special night in November—no, not the election. We're talking about The Daily Show's morning (well, evening if you want to be specific) after show: the night when we get to watch Jon Stewart watch Fox News implode: it's here, and it's delicious.
To add insult to conservative injury, the right can't even say that its television network won last night. But we shouldn't revel in that too much.
The best moment on television Election Night was when Karl Rove picked a fight with the usually nameless and faceless Fox News guys who crunch the numbers and call the winners—and lost. Why'd he do that?
Fox News went to war with its own decision desk on Election Night.
So far, Bill O'Reilly is in the lead for the Controversial Election Day Rant Award with his bold statements on Fox News about how "the white establishment is now the minority."
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