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The Muppets Strike Back at Fox News
Ms. Piggy and Kermit the Frog joked about Fox News’ accusation that the latest Muppet movie was socialist propaganda.
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Fox News Forces Candidate to Defend Reality
When politicians hit the campaign trail and make sweeping policy statements, it’s the press’s role to call them out when their comments stray too far from reality. Basic questioning forces the candidates to stay honest. Fox News, though, reversed that traditional press role during an interview with Jon Huntsman this morning. They brought up Huntsman’s […]
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Inside the Fox News Bubble
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Yesterday, Jon Stewart did an extraordinarily revealing interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Stewart’s critique of Fox and of the rest of the media, particularly for their preference for sensationalism, isn’t particularly new. What was so interesting, however, was the way Wallace tried to make his own case. He […]
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Fox News and bin Laden Denialism
Whether or not Obama wins reelection in 2012, the death of Osama bin Laden is a big success story of his presidency, and that puts conservatives in a tight spot. So far, conservatives like Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post have been working hard to give Bush some of the credit; and as Patrick Caldwell […]
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Fox News Veep Admits Lying About Obama ‘Socialist’ Charge
Media Matters has acquired of audio from a cruise in 2009 in which Fox News Vice President and Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon admits to knowingly pushing a false narrative that Barack Obama is a socialist. Sammon says, “At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly […]
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Fox News As Enabler.
Last week, I wrote at Greg’s place that British radical Anjem Choudary “who draws attention to himself by loudly praising terrorists,” gets airtime on Fox News because he’s a “cartoonish buffoon who can be counted on to confirm every stereotype about Islam and Muslims.” He talked to Justin Elliott basically confirming that he’s just a […]
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Fox News: For All Your Islamophobic Needs.
Greg Sargent points out that a new public opinion poll from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that a majority, 56 percent of Americans, support Congressional hearings into Islamic extremism. Rep. Peter King‘s approach of singling out American Muslims for scrutiny is less popular. Seventy-two percent support broader hearings while only 22 percent say it […]
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Fox News’ Minority Outreach Fail.
Jorge Rivas at Colorlines shows us that Fox News, the communications arm of the Republican Party, is as good at minority outreach as the side that runs candidates for office: Rivas notes that Fox News Latino is meant to be aimed at a Latino audience. I’m trying to imagine what a Fox News site ostensibly […]