It’s no secret that Fox News’ political coverage isn’t always quite “fair and balanced.” But emails obtained by Media Matters show that Fox News’ Washington managing editor Bill Sammon urged his staff to actually echo Republican talking points on the health care debate. From TPM LiveWire Fair and balanced.
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Yeah, OK, OK. Well, I think – I mean, I think Gore would have been a disaster as president. We’d have been living in the Dark Ages. I think he’s fundamentally hostile to human civilization. And a phony. From Media Matters – Carlson: If Al Gore were president, “[w]e’d … be living in yurts in […]
Mr. Savage, I recently saw your letter to Media Matters where you threated them with legal action for posting what you said, over the public airwaves or in publicly accessible forums. I was wondering if you will also ask your mommy to make them stop? Perhaps holding your breath would help. I know it would […]
Time blogger Andrew Sullivan said “when I see [Clinton] … all the cootie vibes sort of resurrect themselves.” Sullivan added that he considered Clinton a “very sensible senator,” stated that it was “hard to disagree with her on the war,” and admitted that he “actually [found] her positions appealing in many ways.” Nevertheless, he concluded: […]
On the January 3 edition of Fox News Live, during a segment that featured Newsweek contributing editor Eleanor Clift and former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY) discussing the Democrats’ “100 Hours” plan, the onscreen text read: “Are Congressional Democrats killing spirit of bipartisanship?” – referring to the Democrats’ reported intention of placing, as The New York […]
As pathetic, desperate efforts to spin an electoral loss of historic proportions go, this line of thinking makes the kind of faux intuitive sense that is pure talking point gold. The concocters of this poppycock deserve some credit. They were ready and waiting to unleash the conservative Democratic mandate and we’ll hear no end of […]
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Yet more proof that Bill O’Reilly is stark raving mad. Keith Olbermann, Howard Stern and Al Franken are all following O’Reilly’s day by day meltdown. O’Reilly isn’t just acting weird, he is acting downright unstable.
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Head over to Media Matters and be amused by Bill O’Reilly, lunatic.
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Palace Revolt
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president’s power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation. From MSNBC.com With Bush’s poll numbers in the high 30s and low 40s; it looks like the administration is aiming lower. And […]