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As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan. And until last year, he was one. But then Fox’s treatment of the Republican primary race — the presentation of Karl Rove as a political analyst despite his having “thrown in for Romney” and Sean Hannity’s clear ties to the Republican establishment — began to grate on him. So he changed the channel.

I voted for Newt here in Florida but am thrilled by Santorum's victory. This is a victory for conservatives. In the general election, I'll support any one of the 3 conservative candidates out of the 4 in the race - just not Romney - unless you're talking about Romney for Host of Trump's Celebrity Apprentice in 2012. This Tuesday's results really exposed the fact that the Moderate Murdoch Media's manufactured, paper champion is just that. His lead is as weak as the socialistic track record he built in his governmental career in Massachusettes and has been largely driven by suggestive...

The host of Fox Business “Follow the Money,” program and one of the five co-hosts of the Fox News Channel's program “The Five” spoke to Guns & Patriots Feb. 3 about his new love of shooting. “For me there always was a stigma attached to hand guns,” said Eric Bolling, the former commodities trader, who was once signed to a minor league baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirates system. “Everyone had it. My wife had it. My son had it,” he said. But, when he and his family actually started firing handguns, they learned why so many Americans enjoy guns. “We...

Love 'The Simpsons' but hate your good health? Then Fox has cooked up an event catered specifically to you. In celebration of the 500th episode of "The Simpsons," the network is sponsoring a fan marathon of all 500 episodes of the series, in order, all at once on Feb. 8. The hope is to crown a new Guinness World Record holder for longest continuous television viewing -- a record set in 2010 by three viewers of another Fox series, "24." Kevin Coon, Victor Lopez and Farris Hodo beat out 100 other participants in the "24" marathon showing by staying awake...

Cliff Kincaid at America's Survival has launched a call for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck. This announcement comes on the heels of troubling revelations about Beck's firing and other disturbing trends at Fox. It quickly got front-page coverage at the Huffington Post, presumably to launch a campaign of ridicule and smears before Kincaid's idea builds momentum. No matter how much they sneer, the left is terrified of Beck. Beck's firing was the work of George Soros, Kincaid has revealed. Soros funded Color of Change, the organization founded by Van Jones that launched a boycott against Fox after Beck...

What did you like in the State of the Union address? The props for U.S. military None of it The call for more natural gas production at home The tax hikes on the wealthy All of it

On this Sunday's Morning's Fox and Friends, Ann Coulter continues her Kamakazi mission for Mitt Romney. She continues burning her bridges to the possibility of eventually supporting Newt Gingrich for President. When a smart person does not acknowledge Gingrich's shining victory in South Carolina and criticizes the people of South Carolina by saying they were becoming like Democrats again, Ann is acting like a doctrinaire Liberal who does not acknowledge the success of their political opponents. Ann is risking her credibility and seems prepared to go down with Mitt Romney.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Tussles With Fox & Friends Hosts In Heated Interviewby James Crugnale | 10:40 am, January 20th, 2012 During a relatively heated segment, DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared on Friday’s Fox and Friends and engaged in a tête-à-tête with co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade. Doocy began the interview by asking if CNN was over-the-line for starting off the debate with a question about Newt Gingrich’s personal life. “You know, I think it’s over the line to suggest that there is a partisan tilt to — to a question from a network…” Schultz hesitantly began. “Never heard...

The first question at Thursday night's debate in South Carolina went to Newt Gingrich, giving him an opportunity to denounce a "vicious" news media that is "protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans."

Don Irvine of Accuracy in Media digs up this relevant portion from an Esquire interview of Bill Clinton: I was just watching MSNBC, and they had a woman that used to work for me and a couple of other people on there, and they were talking about the Republican primary. And I was laughing. I said, “Boy, it really has become our version of Fox.” And I say that because think of the economics of running cable channels. Suppose you and I bought a cable channel, and he [pointing] bought another. You know that to make a living out of...

Bill Clinton: MSNBC is 'our version of Fox' By: Mackenzie Weinger January 18, 2012 12:45 PM EST Former president Bill Clinton has turned media critic - dubbing MSNBC “our version of Fox.” Clinton told Esquire magazine MSNBC has become just like Fox News — and he blames the insatiable demand for cable news to have constant content as one of the reasons politics has become so caustic and divisive. The existence of so many news channels and media outlets, Clinton said, “has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.”...

Wall Street Journal editorial board director Stephen Moore explains why Rep. Ron Paul’s ideas on economics are correct and must be accepted in the mainstream GOP platform.

Philadelphia weatherman John Bolaris lost $43,712.25, his job and, arguably, his dignity from one fateful trip to Miami Beach.

Sitting at the bar in Paolo’s Restaurant at 92nd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan Saturday afternoon, December 10th, I was shocked by the tone the conversation with my old ABC News colleague Lowell Bergman had taken. He was heading to London and had urgently requested that we get together before his afternoon flight from JFK. I remembered Lowell as a brave, competent, but hugely self-righteous old school investigative reporter, who famously produced the Mike Wallace expose of the major tobacco companies for ’60 Minutes.’ Al Pacino played him in the movie version of the saga, ‘The Insider.’ Although I...

(Fox News)In what's becoming an annual media tradition, Fox News used its holiday card to wish friends and family well this holiday season--and take a swipe at CNN and MSNBC. The front of Fox News' 2011 card--distributed to media journalists including this one--features a cartoon fox leading ABC, NBC and CBS in a sheep-sled race, with the jockeys for MSNBC and CNN watching from the sidelines. (The idea is that Fox News, the top-rated cable news network, is so far ahead, it's now competing against the the Big Three networks.) Representatives for CNN and MSNBC did not immediately respond to...

Baier: And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. A state judge in Georgia has denied a motion by the Obama Administration to dismiss a complaint challenging the president's eligibility to be on the ballot there. Attorney Orly Taitz filed the complaint back in November on behalf of a Georgia resident contending Obama is not a natural born citizen and therefore should not be on the March presidential primary in Georgia. You'll remember last year the White House released the president's long form birth certificate, however Taitz, along with many others in the so-called "birther" movement, is still not...

Second part, final part. Some in the GOP and "conservative" talking heads need to do the same for both: chastise Obama for not wanting to run on his record and his gearing up to run a super negative campaign against the eventual GOP nominee and also chastise Romney for not happily running on his record, and sitting back and letting others do his attacking for him against fellow GOP candidates. Romney needs to run on his record, right? What is in Romney's record that he shouldn't be proud of?

Obama cannot run on his record (Obamacare, Frank-Dodd, Porkulus, the bailouts, Obamacare exemptions for some and and some states, but not others, green jobs, etc, ) and doesn't want to run on his record. He will smear the eventual GOP nominee, and run a negative campaign, and actually let superpacs do it for him. Same with Romney. He cannot run on his record as governor, his position on global warming, etc, and so, sit back, say nothing, and allow superpacss to run his GOP opponents (like Gingrich) into the ground through negative campaigning. I don't care for Newt "Scozzafava" Gingrich,...

In an interview on Studio B Monday, Shepard Smith challenged Rick Santorum on his position on gay marriage. Santorum said that whether homosexuals should be allowed to marry is really a question of values, saying, “The question is whether we should change the laws of this country to reflect a different value structure. What we’re talking about here are different values. We have to Judeo-Christian values that are based on Biblical truth and truth that can be acclaimed and resolved through reason. And, those truths don’t change just because people’s attitudes may change.” He went onto say, “People are allowed...

Fox Latin America has apologized for a poll on whether Jews killed Jesus Christ that one of its staffers put on a Facebook page promoting the National Geographic Channel's Christmas special. The poll asked readers who they think is responsible for the death of Christ: Pontius Pilate, The Jewish People or the High Priests.

She used to hide her Caribbean accent - Viewers were shocked on the top nine show when this soft-spoken singer out of nowhere morphed into a totally different person.... She was denied an "X Factor" fast-pass - Not only did Melanie almost get sent home before the live shows, she almost didn't make it to her audition at all. "I wanted to get a Fast Pass at the local Fox news in Florida, and they told me, 'No, we didn't enjoy you very much,'" she says, incredibly. "So I waited in line with all the thousands of people." Guess it...

Is it just me or is FOX News in the tank for Mitt Romney? I've noticed a "trend" with FOX News in the past two or three weeks and it's starting to disturb me. It seems they are in love with Mitt Romney. Tonight, Bill O'Reilly had, on his program, Ann Coulter (once Conservative, now Moderate) as well as Sally Quinn of the Washington Post (liberal rag), to help him bash Newt Gingrich over Newt's comments from Thursday night's Debate, re: activist judges who try to legislate from the bench. And then, he had discussions of Michele Bachmann clips "letting...

There will be a lot of talk about the candidates tonight of course, but I had some thoughts on the Fox team. Chris Wallace: unable to ask a single question that did not put two candidates at each other - a bunch of childish "what do you think about so and so qeustions." What a nerd Bret Baier: with a straight face, asked the candidates about going after each other instead of Obama - right after a bunch of Wallace questions. Geez Bret, are you listening to YOUR OWN GUY? Megyn Kelly: will probably not cross Newt again during this...

Faux-Republican David Frum took a shot at Fox News viewers on Sunday when he told CNN's Howard Kurtz that "people who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events." Frum's interview aired during the bottom half of the 11 a.m. hour of Reliable Sources. Even Kurtz, who has worked for the liberal media for three decades, challenged Frum's hard-line criticism of the right-wing media. "You're tarring with an awfully broad brush there" he told Frum, who in a recent New York Magazine column accused the conservative media

How George Soros Sacked Glenn Beck by Cliff Kincaid on 19 Oct 2011 A recent interview of Fox News chief Roger Ailes by Howard Kurtz suggested that the channel is becoming less conservative by design. The real question, not addressed in the piece, is whether the relentless attacks on the channel by George Soros-funded groups have anything to do with this change in the direction of the popular channel and the demise of the Glenn Beck program in particular.On Glenn Beck’s new TV program, carried on the Internet, Beck himself seemed to indicate this was the case. Talking about Orson...

Newt Gingrich is the clear front-runner for the 2012 Republican nomination -- and the biggest beneficiary of Herman Cain’s departure from the race. Mitt Romney, again, holds steady with about a quarter of GOP primary voters in his camp.A Fox News poll released Thursday shows Gingrich up 13 percentage points since mid-November. Cain suspended his campaign on December 3. In the latest snapshot of the race, Gingrich receives the backing of 36 percent of GOP primary voters. That’s up from 23 percent last month -- and is three times the 12 percent he had in late October. It also represents...

Fox News is still leading the cable news ratings race—but for how long? Fox's overall ratings for November dropped 13% compared to the same month last year, reports Mediabistro.

Help! I am being held hostage in a foreign land with no access to Fox News. If you receive this message do not call 911 but cut and paste a link to Fox news and forward to Nathanbedford by private Freepmail. Thanks from your FReeRepublic embattled but undaunted bridgehead in Bavaria.

Don't fall for Fox's betrayal of our trust. O'Reilly used to pretend to look out for us, now we know he's just looking out for establishment Republicans. Krauthammer used to pretend to be honest. Maybe he is such a sourpuss that wouldn't laugh if he got Cain's teleprompter joke, or maybe he's stupid enough to believe that Cain isn't interested in reading the news. I think it's deliberate deception. Rove was giddy on Hannity Tuesday night, at the thought of Cain dropping out. If someone can post a link you should check out the evil chuckle from this vile man....

Who would you vote for in the GOP primary? Herman Cain Newt Gingrich Mitt Romney

Are you willing to cut defense to help cut the deficit? No. With the state of the world, defense cuts should be the last resort, not the first. Not sure. Government needs to be cut everywhere, just worried about weakening our national defense. Yes. Figure out what's needed to defend America and cut the rest. Other (post your opinion).

The headline is a grabber: “GOP support for Perry plummets after debate flub.� The second takeaway from the latest NBC poll release also sounds explosive: After his flub at a Republican debate on Wednesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has seen his support plummet among GOP primary voters, according to a re-contact of Republicans surveyed in this month’s NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.And after another charge of sexual harassment this week, ex-businessman Herman Cain’s support has stagnated or slightly declined.“If this was not a good week for Herman Cain, it was an absolutely horrendous week for Rick Perry,” said Democratic pollster...

'SPREAD LIKE A DISEASE!!!!!!!'

Donald Trump urges Herman Cain to "bring a major lawsuit against those two women if what they assert is false."

This pathetic AP article is currently featured at Fox. Brief excerpt. Words in brackets and italics mine:"An Israeli aircraft struck a pair of Palestinian militants [terrorists] on Sunday, killing one man [terrorist] and wounding a second in a new eruption of violence.The airstrike cast doubts on efforts to forge a cease-fire after the deadliest round of fighting in months. In all, 10 Palestinian militants  [Islamic terrorists] and an Israeli civilian have been killed in a weekend of Palestinian [Jihadist] rocket attacks and Israeli [counter-terror] airstrikes.The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine , a small militant [jihad terrorist] group,..."On another occasion watching Fox with Martha McCallum and Trace...

The collective activist hacker group Anonymous has released a statement saying it will “destroy” the FOX News website for what it claims are “propaganda” attacks on the Occupy Wall Street movement. In a video (see below) Anonymous points out the talking points Fox repeatedly uses to denounce the movement’s protesters in generalizations such as, “filthy, disgusting and dirty.” The statement of intent against FOX news says: We are Anonymous. Fox News is now the target of Anonymous because of their continued propaganda against the Occupations. Those such as Sean Hannity are attacking the credentials as well as the character of...

While former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s poll numbers have been sky-high in recent weeks, the honeymoon may soon be over for him, says Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume. On Sunday’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Hume chided Cain for a series of gaffes and missteps in explaining his stance on issues such as abortion and negotiating with terrorists. “I think serious damage has been done,” Hume said. “For all of the disaffection for professional politicians that we see in this cycle and to some extent in the congressional election, in the end, particularly when you are running...

FNC’s Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry got the first question at today’s joint news conference between Pres. Obama and Lee Myung-Bak, President of South Korea. Henry asked the president about the alleged Iranian terror plot, and used a quote from GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney who had criticized Obama’s leadership. Obama responded with, “I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney.” In an interview later with Megyn Kelly, Henry explains, “I was trying to put it in the broader context of not just Mitt Romney, but there are a lot of Republicans out there who would charge...

Driving The News: Fox Covering ‘Fast & Furious’ 10 Times More Than MSNBC And CNNby Colby Hall | 11:27 am, October 11th, 2011 The ‘Fast and Furious‘ story appears to be turning a major corner with the news that Congressional investigators, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, are sending a new subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder over the DOJ’s failed gun running operation. The subpoenaing of the head of the Department of Justice is big news, but it seems that only viewers of Fox News channel are hearing much about it – and boy are they ever: a simple search...

(Wall Street Journal) - More than half of $4 billion in federal funds disbursed this year to spur small business lending by community banks was used to repay bailout funds that the banks received under the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Small Business Lending Fund was meant to raise capital at smaller banks, which tend to lend more heavily to small businesses, in the hopes of jump-starting growth and employment. But instead of directly lending to small businesses, many of the banks used the money to rid themselves of higher-cost TARP debt...

It’s over: the cast members of The Simpsons have agreed to new two-year deals with series producer 20th Century Fox TV and, with them locked in, Fox has renewed the veteran series for two more seasons. Both sides reportedly made concessions from their original demands, with the cast abandoning their quest for a piece of the series’ lucrative back-end and the studio upping their previous final offer for a 45% salary reduction. (The number I had heard and reported earlier in the day was for a cut in the range of 30% from the actors’ current paychecks of $440,000). The...

“The Revolution Will Not Be Editorialized.” This is how you do it. And by do it, I mean talk to Fox News. Kyle Christopher of Occupy Wall Street’s media team caught this interview with a Fox reporter, which Fox wisely chose not to air after getting majorly schooled by my new personal hero, Jesse LaGreca. Rock on Jesse! Occupy Wall Street got some pr help last week from a Manhattan public relations firm, Workhouse, whose tagline for the movement is, “The Revolution Will Not Be Editorialized.” Oh, snap. That sure fits in with Jesse’s Fox interview. Occupy did not hire...

Do you think debt collectors should be given access to your cell phone number? Not sure. Doesn't this open up the whole issue of cell phone privacy? No. Cell phones are meant to be private, not for use by bill collectors and solicitors. Yes. A lot of people use their cells as a home phone, so what's the problem? Other (post a comment).

Technical question for anyone. I have noticed anytime I try to watch a video from Fox News that it will either not load or take a real long time if I load it in Firefox. However, if I use Internet Explorer, then there are no issues. Ditto on ESPN. Therefore, whenever I want to watch a video on one of these two sites I have to go to Internet Explorer to watch. Oh and these two sites never have an issue with Internet explorer? Every other video web site I go to have no problem loading it in Firefox. Do...

Fla. Rep. Allen West was asked if President Obama is just inept or if he is intentionally harming the economy. West says he’s definitely doing this on purpose. (Video at the Fox News link.)

<p>Sometimes I like to go over to the main three cable news competitors' websites and compare their top stories/top pictures. Of course, much of the time the articles are on the same topic. Then there are the slower news days when nothing particularly grabs the spotlight. Days like that are the best for comparing the front pages.</p>

U.S. prosecutors have sent News Corp. a letter seeking information about possible payments made by its U.K. tabloid newspapers to British policemen, according to people familiar with the matter. The letter of request, sent last week, is part of a Justice Department investigation, these people said, into whether the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials. The fact the Justice Department chose to issue a "letter of request" rather than a criminal subpoena suggests the department has opted for a less confrontational approach to the matter, legal experts say.

What's the message -- if any -- in the NY-9 election result? No message. It's just voters choosing one candidate over another. The message is: Bad news for Obama. It's a clear rejection of the president's policies. Not sure, but it looks like Democrats could be in trouble in November 2012. Other (post your comment).