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February 9, 2010

Fox News Goes To Bat For Palin Over Her Hand Notes

It’s been less than a month since Sarah Palin joined Fox News and she has already gotten egg on her face thanks to the crib notes on her hand she was caught with on Saturday during a Q&A session after her Tea Party Convention speech. Predictably, Fox News went all out to defend her yesterday (2/8/10). Sadly, even the Democrats pulled their punches. But the fact that there was not a coherent message – which seems to be a specialty of the right – suggests that the incident was more damaging than anyone at the "we report, you decide" network wanted to let on. The question is, how many more “get out of jail free” passes will Palin get at Fox? With video.

UPDATED WITH CORRECT VIDEO

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Reported by Ellen at 9:07 AM

February 7, 2010

Best Western Drops Beck Over His Comments About Obama's Name

Guest blogged by Aria

\Glenn Beck must be a really slow learner. Case in point: on Thursday, February 4th, 2010, Beck said this about President Obama on his radio show: “He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America.. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical? Really? Searching for something to give him any kind of meaning, just as he was searching later in life for religion.”

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Reported by Guest Blogger at 12:38 AM

Fox News' Tea Party Double Standard

Guest blogged by Brian

CNN and MSNBC both aired President Obama's address to the Democratic National Committee today. Fox News aired its business block. Fox aired Sarah Palin's speech to the Tea Party convention tonight, in full, and also aired the interview following the speech. Double standard? You betcha!

Reported by Guest Blogger at 12:09 AM

February 5, 2010

Cavuto Forgets How Fox News Was Blaming Clinton For Bush’s Problems

Co-authored by Brian

For the second time in three days on Wednesday (2/3/10), Neil Cavuto focused on President Obama referring to the Bush 43 years as a context for where we are today. Cavuto acknowledged to his guest, Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian, that Obama might have “a legitimate case” for “play(ing) the blame game.” But then Cavuto immediately added, ”I just don't think it sounds Presidential."

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Reported by Ellen at 5:45 PM

Oliver North Calls Efforts To Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell a “Stunning Assault On… The Military,” Says Admitting NAMBLA Members Will Be Next

Oliver North appeared on Hannity last night (2/4/10) and blasted President Obama’s efforts to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Predictably, North didn’t just oppose the repeal, he used the issue to smear Obama with the now-familiar Fox News taglines: He’s a “radical” who’s endangering our national security. There was no guest to balance North. Nor did Hannity or the Fox News producers think it necessary to report that the majority of Americans and the majority of servicemembers now favor repeal. With video.

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Doocy nepotism on FOX, reported by Chrish,
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