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Breaking News: Qaddafi Dead; Obama To Make Live Statement At 2 PM ET

A Fox News expert just called the death of Qaddafi "a big win for the French" and criticized Obama as having done "too little too late."

24 hours of FOX News watching difficult for sane person; try four years of it!

Check out Nathan Robinson's synopsis of his experience of watching FOX News for 24 hours straight. Some summations from his summation:

Greta - Missing White Women - Van Susteren Suits Up for Fox's Bash-Obama Campaign

I dipped into Greta Van Susteren's show three times today (March 17, 2008). The first time she was interviewing Al Sharpton. They were talking about Barack Obama and Rev. Wright. The second time she was talking to Bill Clinton about Hill's (supposedly good) chances of winning. The third time she was quoting a Fox online poll that showed roughly 70% of the respondents thought there was nothing Obama could do to redeem himself of Rev. Wright's comments. (Fox has spent roughly the last five days cutting and pasting what Wright said so it's understandable they'd be anxious to show the results of their, ah, propaganda work.)

Drew Peterson Walks Out On Interview With Shepard Smith & A Fire, That's The National News Today

Today on Studio B with Shepard Smith they spent the first half hour of the show on the fire in the hotel in Las Vegas. The fire was contained and no one was hurt but Fox thought it was worth 30 minutes of coverage.

Smith then went ahead to a scheduled interview with Drew Peterson, the man who is the prime suspect in the (what the police are calling) murder of his fourth wife, Stacy.

Video here.

Greta Van Susteren Reported "Breaking News" That Wasn't

Fox as a whole, and Greta Van Susteren, the anchor of its purported legal news show specifically, has followed the Natalee Holloway case since Day One. Van Susteren has devoted hours and hours (and hours and hours) to the case, to the extent that she couldn't find time to spend one second -- literally -- on the Scooter Libby trial. Van Susteren has a close personal relationship with Holloway's mother; she has made many trips to Aruba to interview the locals; and she frequently boasts about the "contacts" who feed her "breaking news."