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October 13, 2011

President Obama Calls Out Fox News’ Ed Henry’s Use Of Romney Talking Points

We’ve repeatedly noted how Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry promotes Repubican or anti-Obama talking points as news. Now President Obama has called him out on it. During his press conference today, Henry dredged up some past Romney’s criticisms of Obama on foreign policy and “asked” for a response. Obama’s retort: I didn’t know you were the spokesperson for Romney. Later, on America Live, Henry bristled, pretending he was merely asking a question.

Reported by Ellen at 3:30 PM

November 29, 2010

Bill Kristol Urges Regime Change In North Korea

You’d think that by now someone on “we report, you decide” Fox News might be challenging Bill Kristol for sounding like a broken record urging regime change as the panacea for world problems. But don’t hold your breath. Although Fox News Sunday panelists Mara Liasson and Juan Williams argued pretty forcefully yesterday against Kristol's latest regime change candidate - North Korea - nobody pointed out what a disaster “regime change” turned into in Iraq. Nor did anyone note that this was at least the third time Kristol was urging the U.S. to topple a head of state.

Reported by Ellen at 12:51 AM

November 28, 2010

While Fox News Pundits Clamor To Attack North Korea, News Corp Is In Bed With The Regime

Fox News pundits such as Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol and Michael Scheuer have been salivating for the U.S. to attack North Korea but behind the scenes the parent company of News Corp is not only doing business with the regime but the kind of business that could bolster North Korea's cyberwarfare capabilities.

Reported by Ellen at 2:40 PM

September 8, 2010

News Corp. Doing Business With North Korea

According to Bloomberg News, two mobile-phone video games developed by programmers from North Korea's General Federation of Science and Technology are raising cash for the impoverished dictatorship - thanks to a division of News Corp which publishes games for mobile phones.

Reported by Ellen at 1:47 AM

August 5, 2009

Fox News Conservatives Gripe Over North Korea’s Release Of Journalists

Self-styled “Great American” Sean Hannity and his guest, Fox News contributor Dana Perino, claimed to be happy last night (8/4/09) about the release of Current TV’s two journalists from imprisonment in North Korea, but everything else said and unsaid indicated otherwise. There was no joy from Hannity or Perino about two young ladies being pardoned from their sentence of 12 years of hard labor, no curiosity about how they had been treated during their five months in captivity, whether they were well and how their friends and families had coped during the ordeal. Instead, Hannity and Perino took swipes at Obama and Clinton by whining that foreign policy may have been compromised, though they never offered any evidence that it had. Elsewhere, Fox News contributor John Bolton also sneered at the release as did Fox News producers and editors. With video.

Reported by Ellen at 12:41 AM

April 12, 2009

Cavuto Suggests We Should Attack North Korea In The Interests Of Good Business, reported by Ellen,

February 20, 2009

After comparing Obama To Castro And Kim Jong Il, Hannity Complains About Rev. Wright Being Too Divisive, reported by Ellen,

June 27, 2008

After FOX News Suggests That The Press Will Not Report North Korea As “A Clear Foreign Policy Victory” For Bush, Their Own Expert Blasts It As Colossal Failure, reported by Ellen,

September 19, 2007

FOX All-Star Panel Ratchets Up the Rhetoric. Fatalistically Accepts Full-Scale Mideast War, reported by Marie Therese,

January 8, 2007

Hang 'Em High! It's Good for the Economy!, reported by Marie Therese,