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O'Reilly: Give Strippers BP Cash

Just not the 'mobster' strip club owners

(Newser) - Say what you will about Bill O’Reilly, but he has nothing against strippers. BP set up a $20 billion fund to compensate Gulf coast workers who have lost wages, and the Fox News host and two female guest panelists discussed administrator Ken Feinberg’s recent statement that he was...

Fox Anchor: My Job 'Same as Being Prez'
 Fox Anchor: 
 My Job 'Same 
 as Being Prez' 
jon stewart responds
Jun 24, 2010 8:53 AM CDT

Fox Anchor: My Job 'Same as Being Prez'

Gretchen Carlson has an inflated view of news anchors

(Newser) - The president has to make many important decisions, like firing Stanley McChrystal—Obama’s job is almost as difficult as, say, the job of a morning program anchor. Wait, what? Yes, Fox & Friends’ Gretchen Carlson made that comparison yesterday, insisting that the president’s “tough, huge, monumental decisions”...

Who Gets Helen Thomas' Front-Row Seat?
 Who Gets 
 Helen Thomas' 
 Front-Row Seat? 
burning question
Jun 7, 2010 6:30 PM CDT

Who Gets Helen Thomas' Front-Row Seat?

Opening in White House press room ignites speculation

(Newser) - Fox News and Bloomberg have already called dibs on the front-row seat in the White House briefing room held for decades by Helen Thomas, but will either one get it? The White House Correspondents Association will make the call, and Thomas, who retired in disgrace today , isn't talking. Pretty much...

Critics Blister O'Reilly for Linking Gays to Al Qaeda

Will 'inclusive' McDonald's ads include terrorists?

(Newser) - If one of McDonald's new series of "diversity ads" involves gays, can one featuring Al Qaeda be far behind? That's what Bill O'Reilly wants to know after viewing a French ad featuring a gay teen and his dad, and now furious critics are demanding he apologize. "Bill O'Reilly...

Sarah Silverman: Fox Is a 24-Hour 'Racism Machine'

'It's all coded, all implied'

(Newser) - Racists in today's mainstream media don't go around praising the Klan, they appear on Fox News saying President Obama was born in Africa, according to Sarah Silverman. "The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it’s all coded, all implied," she writes in her...

Woman Sues Airline—for Not Waking Her Up

Fox News' Jane Skinner not too impressed with case

(Newser) - Ginger McGuire's lawsuit is weird—she's suing United Airlines for failing to wake her up and leaving her inside a plane after landing—but her follow-up interview with Fox News is possibly even weirder. Interviewer Jane Skinner seems to think McGuire should "buy an alarm clock and STFU,"...

Greta Van Susteren to Internet: Am I Dumb?

Internet to Fox News anchor: Yes

(Newser) - Ask the Internet a stupid question, it’ll give you a stupid answer. Greta Van Susteren got an angry email from Brian in Tahlequah, Okla., complaining that her “brain is empty” and she has “a mind like a seive,” and decided to post it on her blog...

New York Times 'Hurting the Nation'

Bill O'Reilly guest Lt. Col. Ralph Peters condemns story

(Newser) - Lt. Col. Ralph Peters thinks the New York Times is hurting America. OK, so lots of conservatives think that all the time, but the Fox News strategic analyst has a particular bone to pick with the yesterday's front-page story about the US' expanded ground operations in the middle east, and...

Transgender People Are Like Ewoks: O'Reilly

Fox News host also implies they're scary

(Newser) - From the unfortunate comparisons department: Bill O’Reilly has likened transgender people to Ewoks. Yes, you read that right. The Fox News host was discussing a lawsuit against American Eagle, which allegedly discriminated against transgender employees by not allowing them to dress like the opposite sex, Gawker reports. He asked...

Porn Battle Rocks Wiki
 Porn Battle Rocks Wiki 
May 11, 2010 2:55 AM CDT

Porn Battle Rocks Wiki

Co-founder axes images, complaints erupt

(Newser) - Wikipedia's founders are battling against contributor objections to ax images they believe are pornographic from Wiki sites. Wikimedia Commons, a media file used by Wikipedia, last week deleted hundreds of images after co-founder Jimmy Wales said many of them appealed "solely to prurient interests." The action followed estranged...

Fox News Still Loves Beck, Even If Advertisers Don't

Beck gives 'terrific kickoff' to Fox News evening shows

(Newser) - Glenn Beck may be scaring away advertisers, but Rupert Murdoch still thinks the controversial personality gives a "terrific kickoff" to the Fox News evening lineup. That's what Murdoch said when asked how long Fox News would subsidize Beck's show, which has been losing advertisers since Beck said last year...

CNN, Fox News America's Most Trusted Sources

'New York Times' far down the list

(Newser) - Apparently cable news reigns supreme in America—and it's deeply partisan. In a new 60 Minutes / Vanity Fair poll, respondents named CNN and Fox News their most trusted news sources by a wide margin, with CNN in the No. 1 slot with 32% and Fox close behind with 29%....

Obama: 'At Some Point, You've Made Enough Money'
Obama: 'At Some Point, You've Made Enough Money'
Gotcha Quote?
Apr 29, 2010 9:07 AM CDT

Obama: 'At Some Point, You've Made Enough Money'

Fox: President's 'outed himself' as a socialist

(Newser) - The right thinks it's found a new killer soundbite to drive home how socialist Barack Obama is. Stumping for financial reform in Quincy, Illinois, Obama said, “We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I do think at a certain point you've made...

Glenn Beck Audience Plunges 30%

Bloom is off the mouth, but Fox still sitting pretty

(Newser) - Glenn Beck's TV audience has plunged nearly 30% since the beginning of the year—but his Fox News home is still sitting comfortably on top of the ratings heap. Beck's continued viewership slippage was revealed in the latest audience figures on cable news operations. Fox News averaged some 1.9...

Glenn Beck Delivers Weird Train Rant

See if you can make sense of this

(Newser) - There are mixed metaphors, there are tortured metaphors, and then there's the heaping pile of crazy Glenn Beck unloads in this clip Mediate snagged from last night's show. OK, let's see if we've got this straight. Europe is on a (metaphorical) socialist train track that leads to Nazi-ism and Communism,...

Ask a Tea Partier: Why Do You Hate Obama?
 Ask a Tea Partier: 
 Why Do You Hate Obama? 
'umm, see, well...'
Apr 22, 2010 7:52 AM CDT

Ask a Tea Partier: Why Do You Hate Obama?

Most can't exactly explain

(Newser) - Why does the tea party hate Barack Obama? For a vast number of reasons—most of which apparently aren't rooted deeply in reality. New Left Media asked protesters at the National Tax Day demonstration to explain their motivations, and perhaps predictably gathered some less-than-well-thought-out answers in this video, picked up...

Goldberg: 'Clearly, I Got to' Jon Stewart

Bernie isn't even mad! At all!

(Newser) - As Bernie Goldberg’s nightly war with Jon Stewart continues, let him make one thing clear: “I’m not looking to continue any war with Jon Stewart,” he insisted last night on the O’Reilly Factor …while discussing his war with Jon Stewart. Goldberg doesn’t even...

Stewart— and Choir— Tells Fox to F Itself

Oh, Bernie Goldberg, look what you've started

(Newser) - Pity the man who crosses Jon Stewart. This week that dubious honor goes to Bernie Goldberg, who fired back at Stewart on Monday after Stewart told Fox to go F itself. "It takes a tough man to walk into O'Reilly's lion's den and criticize liberal elites," acknowledged Stewart,...

Fox Pundit to Stewart: 'You're Just Leno With the F-Bomb'

But first, Bernie Goldberg admits Jon 'was right'

(Newser) - Fox News pundit Bernie Goldberg said the unthinkable last night: “I was wrong, Jon Stewart is right.” Goldberg was responding, via the O’Reilly Factor , to Stewart’s claim last week that Fox News makes generalized slams against liberals then hypocritically derides anyone who makes generalized claims about...

Tea Partiers' Common Thread: Glenn Beck
 Tea Partiers' Common 
 Thread: Glenn Beck 
nate silver
Apr 16, 2010 10:24 AM CDT

Tea Partiers' Common Thread: Glenn Beck

Talking head, Fox News provide the movement's 'water cooler'

(Newser) - Of all the data points from the recent mega-poll of tea party members , one stands supreme to Nate Silver: They really like Glenn Beck. "Do the math, and you'll find that 59% of those who do think highly of Beck consider themselves a part of the tea party. This...

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