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Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"? Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post and Fox News regular. Krauthammer on the Nov. 20 broadcast of Fox News "Special Report with Bret Baier" explained that a certain provision put into to the Senate version of health care legislation to favor undecided Democratic senators, specifically Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., represents a different brand of politics from what...

CABLE NEWS RACE NOV. 19, 2009 FOXNEWS O'REILLY/PALIN 4,120,000 FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,871,000 FOXNEWS BECK 2,730,000 FOXNEWS BAIER 2,359,000 FOXNEWS GRETA 2,113,000 FOXNEWS SHEP 2,078,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,188,000 CNNHN GRACE 1,018,000 CNN KING 980,000 MSNBC MADDOW 877,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 597,000 CNN COOPER 585,000

Glenn Beck, the controversial Fox News television host, is planning on becoming more active in the populist conservative movement he spawned, according to sources familiar with his thinking. At a rally Saturday at a massive retirement community in central Florida, Beck is planning to unveil what he has billed as a “big plan” for 2010, which is expected to involve the 9.12 Project, the group he started earlier this year and named for the day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when he says the nation was unified. “Coming this January, my whole approach changes on this program,” he...

If you are dyslexic or know someone who is,,,best selling author Vince Flynn will be discussing growing up with dyslexia. STAND UP AMERICA, GET OUT OF THE FETAL POSITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD. Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION that will change the 2010 elections. All comrades, infidels, sick twisted freaks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread. Join us won't you!

For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error." Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout this morning."For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to...

From Drudge: CABLE NEWS RACE NOV. 18, 2009 FOXNEWS HANNITY/PALIN 4,200,000 FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,868,000 FOXNEWS BECK 2,512,000 FOXNEWS GRETA 2,383,000 FOXNEWS BAIER 2,235,000 FOXNEWS SHEP 1,980,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,041,000 CNNHN GRACE 1,036,000 MSNBC MADDOW 957,000 CNN KING 835,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 625,000 CNN COOPER 611,000

I posted the videos of Sarah Palin's Interview On Fox News With Sean Hannity

Lets talk about Sarah and see how she handles this interveiw and the tough questions. The World is watching.

Here is video of President Obama's interview with Fox News' Major Garrett. On abortion in the "Health Care Reform," Obama said "I believe in the basic idea that federal dollars shouldn't pay for abortions, but I also think that we shouldn't restrict women's choices." Major Garrett asked Obama about Guantanamo, "how much will you miss the deadline to close Guantanamo...and how disappointed are you in that?" Obama answered "I'm not disappointed, I knew this was going to be hard." Obama said a reason it's hard is "people are understandably fearful, after a lot of years where they were told that...

Here are three clips for Fox News' Major Garrett's interview with President Barack Obama, which will air in full tonight during Special Report at 6:00 PM ET:

Are we seeing the beginning of managed healthcare? Hmmm? STAND UP AMERICA, GET OUT OF THE FETAL POSITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD. Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION that will change the 2010 elections. All comrades, infidels, sick twisted freaks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread! Join us for a head exploding hour with Glenn!

Tonight on Red Eye: Author Sgt. Nick Popaditch. My God, what a difference.... Gunny Pop or Bobby "I make Waxman look handsome Filner...

I predicted last month that the White House would lose its war with Fox News. That now looks to be the case with the announcement by Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett that Fox is one of five networks selected to interview Barack Obama in Beijing this evening, with each allotted ten minutes with the President. The decision to include Fox in tonight’s interview roster, alongside the likes of NBC, ABC and CBS, is a humiliating about-turn for the White House after it spent weeks rubbishing Fox’s credibility. As Anita Dunn, the Mao-quoting White House communications director put it...

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs stuck to his guns when questions were raised if he was forced out at CNN in an interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. However, Dobbs did make one distinction - how his detractors decided to pile on when he was critical of President Barack Obama instead of former President George W. Bush. He elaborated on this on Fox News Channel's Nov. 16 "The O'Reilly Factor." "I discerned more of a difference between then, which was under the Bush administration, whom I was criticizing and now when it is the Obama administration and an entirely...

Officials: Anita Dunn may be leaving with her little red book, but her husband enters as the next White House counsel, bringing experience in suppressing dissent, assaulting the First Amendment and limiting speech. Dunn, whose favorite philosophers include mass murderer Mao Zedong, was expected to leave after a short stint. She rose to fame as chief strategist for former Senate majority leader, now national health care guru, Tom Daschle. While serving as White House communications director, she was the commanding general of the administration "war" on Fox News. Like her philosophical mentor, Mao, and her colleague, FCC diversity czar Mark...

‘Going Rogue?’: Anita Dunn Hints That Obama Knew She Would Attack Fox News http://www.breitbart.tv/going-rogue-anita-dunn-hints-that-obama-knew-she-would-attack-fox-news/ Breitbart.TV

Fox News' Glenn Beck isn't catching a break anywhere - from "Saturday Night Live," The New Yorker, Al Gore's Current TV and Comedy Central's "South Park." They have all taken shots at the popular TV host. On his Nov. 16 program, Beck responded to the "South Park" interpretation of him - that he wasn't making accusations, but phrasing them in the form of a question. The show's character Eric Cartman played a spoof of Beck which he railed against his school's president, Wendy Testaburger. Beck maintained he wasn't making the "accusations" in the form of a question - but playing...

Too often "objectivity in journalism" is code for agreeing with the left. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz demonstrated this sentiment in his profile of Fox News Channel's Shep Smith. Kurtz lauded Smith as an "outspoken newsman at the network defined by high-decibel conservatives, a stance that has earned him respect even from some Fox-hating liberals." But was it really his "newsman" status that has earned him this respect, or is it the numerous instances in which Smith has agreed with the left? Kurtz documents a number of such instances, intended to demonstrate Smith's purported objectivity. During the runup to the...

Thanks for watching the show! Watch Panel Plus for November 15, 2009 with Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson, Liz Cheney and Juan Williams for more of the panel's discussion about the 9/11 terror trials.

In his column in Monday's paper, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz observes that Fox News personality Glenn Beck is dominating the media conversation -- even to the point of forcing a White House official to resign -- without a bit of help from newspapers, television or other mainstream news sources. "It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job," Kurtz writes. "But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no longer be...

In a segment titled "Chuck and Gena Norris on American Politics" Sean Hannity asks Norris if he would ever consider runnning for the U.S. Senate. Norris scoffs at the idea, saying "with all the senators there you can't get anything done. What would I do, I'd have to choke out all the democrats?" Norris continues, "it's kind of my sayings, one of the facts, America's not a democracy, it's a Chucktatorship. Hannity: I'd like a Chucktatorship. Norris: Yeah and if it was, I said I would go to congress , I'd line up every member of congress, and I'd have...

It is hard to believe that we don't trust soldiers with guns on an army base when we trust these very same men in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shouldn't an army base be the last place where a terrorist should be able to shoot at people uninterrupted for 10 minutes? After all, an army base is filled with soldiers who carry guns, right? Unfortunately, that is not the case. Beginning in March 1993, under the Clinton administration, the army forbids military personnel from carrying their own personal firearms and mandates that "a credible and specific threat against [Department of the Army]...

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This morning I visitied ConservativeNewMedia on YouTube and got this message: As of today, Fri. Nov 13, 2009, we are pulling all of our FOX News clips. We got a heads-up that FOX is going to be enforcing its copyright rights on YouTube, and we are thus forced to do this. At this time, we will not be able to post any further clips from FOX News. We'll keep you posted. Then I dug a little deeper and found it may be directed towards lefties. See, they don't like it when it happens to them!

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart absolutely trashed Sean Hannity on Thursday's "The Daily Show." What was Hannity's crime this time? Well, the Fox News personality actually apologized to Stewart for a mistake that was made in a "Hannity" segment aired last week and "reported" by "The Daily Show" host on his program Tuesday. Rather than graciously accepting Hannity's apology, Stewart attacked him with a segment that included a "young," 22-year old producer -- having aged 50 to 60 years watching "Hannity" the last five months -- asking Stewart to kill him so he wouldn't have to watch any more (video embedded...

A brilliant idea, although I hope the participants know that they’re now fair game for “progressive” blackface photoshops mocking them as traitors to their race. The Clinton coalition is fracturing, thanks to The One’s statism on steroids; every white suburbanite vote that’s lost will have to be made up with a minority vote, which means the volume on the demagoguery will have to be turned up that much higher. You’re a brave man, Charles Payne.

It's time for the truth – straight up, whether you like it or not. Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck are teaming up and going on tour. Your town may never be the same. Westbury, NY Saturday, Jan 23, 8PM The Theatre at Westbury (877) 598-8694 Buy tickets online Tampa, FL Friday, January 29, 8 PM USF Sun Dome (800) 745-3000 Buy tickets online N. Charleston, SC Saturday, January 30, 1 PM North Charleston Coliseum (800) 745-3000 Buy tickets online Norfolk, VA Saturday, January 30, 8 PM Ted Constant Convocation Center (757) 683-4444 Buy tickets online There's no shortage of people...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Thank you. (responding to applause) I was sitting in my palatial Florida estate minding my own business (audience laughter) and I don't normally see the mail. You know, I have staff that opens the mail, and somebody forgot to open it and I saw this thing inviting me to this dinner tonight for Roger and the Boy Scouts, and I said, "I've gotta worm my way into this." Because, you know, folks, there's not much more I can say about Roger that hasn't been said tonight but one of the things about being here and the reason...

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What the heck is it with this guy? At least twice a week he closes his news show with bear stories, always punctuating them in the end with video footage of a bear falling out of a tree and hitting a trampoline. I will admit that he makes the segment funny but still.

Had CNN spliced footage of a sparsely-attended Capitol Hill rally to discredit the reports of large numbers of attendees to the 9/12 rally in September, conservatives would have rightly howled about media bias. What will conservatives say about Fox News splicing footage of the 9/12 rally into coverage of Michele Bachmann’s otherwise well-attended rally last week? Jon Stewart gives Fox News a well-deserved poke in the eye for fudging the footage, as well as exposing rather clearly its source:

The Drudge Report is reporting that: Obama Grants FOXNEWS Interview, DRUDGE has learned; Major Garrett will conduct interview in China next week... As of the writing of this post, no source has been cited and no indication how Matt Drudge has come upon this information. This does raise several questions worth discussing: 1. Why would Obama go with Major Garrett (and not one of the big-boys: Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly)? 2. Why China? 3. Has the back-lash against the President for attacking Fox News ...

If I ever hear this guy talk about Republican's low approval numbers again, I'm gonna lost it. Even guest hosts for Beck are crushing him in the ratings, people are tired of listening to this fool, and the numbers show it.....Latest numbers from Monday...(Chart)

In another sign of detente between Fox and the White House, Major Garrett has landed an interview with President Obama, according to the Drudge Report. It will take place next week in China. -snip- UPDATE: A White House official tells POLITICO that the report is "not accurate." "We've not committed to doing any presidential interviews during the trip to Asia with any outlets at this point," the official said.

Lou Dobbs expected to resign from CNN tonight, multiple sources say. If true, we await his explanation. He was one of net's first employees.

Just flashed over Drudge Obama Grants FOXNEWS Interview -- Day After Anita Dunn Steps Down... MORE... DRUDGE has learned, Major Garrett will conduct interview in China next week...

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The White House just lost its chief media strategist and Fox News just lost its best P.R. tool. Anita Dunn, the outspoken and controversial communications aide to President Obama has announced today that she'll be leaving her post; her deputy, Dan Pfeiffer is to replace her. Though Dunn's title was communications director, at times, "Fox News Basher" seemed more appropriate as she seemingly and bizarrely began to publicly wage war on the network roughly a month ago. Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news," Dunn snapped, which ignited the White House attacks on Fox News' journalism. When asked further to...

Geraldo resists labeling Hasan a terrorists. Speculates it could have been a toothache that set him off. VIDEO

Shouldn't an army base be the last place where a terrorist should be able to shoot at people uninterrupted for 10 minutes? After all, an army base is filled with soldiers who carry guns, right? Unfortunately, that is not the case. Beginning in March 1993, under the Clinton administration, the army forbids military personnel from carrying their own personal firearms and mandates that "a credible and specific threat against [Department of the Army] personnel [exist] in that region" before military personnel "may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection." Indeed, most military bases have relatively few military police as...

This wasn't supposed to happen. At the end of February, after the $787 billion stimulus was approved, the Obama administration predicted that unemployment would average only 8.1 percent this year. Indeed, in February the unemployment rate stood at 8.1 percent. Yet, unemployment now stands at 10.2 percent and keeps rising. There is also another, wider unemployment measure seldom mentioned. When you count the unemployed who have become so discouraged that they have given up looking for work or have only accepted a part-time job, our country now has an unemployment rate that stands at a staggering 17.5 percent. Confirming these...

Do you think the accused Fort Hood shooter acted alone? Yes, he was the lone gunman. No, he had help. Not sure. Other:

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization. Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the...

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

According to Fox News: White House Communications Director Anita Dunn will step down by the end of November and be replaced by her deputy Dan Pfeiffer, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Dunn's departure had been expected as she took the position on an interim basis earlier in the year. Before joining the White House, Pfeiffer worked on Barack Obama's presidential campaign and also for several Democratic senators. NewsReal has previously been very critical of Dunn for her praise of history's greatest mass murderer, Chairman Mao. Click here for our coverage of that controversy.

In a surprising move Anita Dunn, White House communications director is leaving her post at the end of the month. Dunn who set back the image of the presidency at least fifty years is most famous for taking on the Drudge Report and losing and then taking on Fox News and Losing:

This is the link to Fox News 'Live". It is streaming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and Yes .. It is the channel that we all know and love! (Well except Shep Smith LOL) Seriously though, All of Fox is streamed here .. Including Smith! http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=1520

Ok, what are we to make of this tweet from Mary Katherine Ham…(via J$) On @oreillyfactor with @marclamonthill (Juan’s out) at 8ish, talking Iran and Obama. Tune in to see us! After Hill’s very public “firing” by Rupert Murdoch no less, seeing Hill back on FNC this soon is rather odd. I mean there isn’t even a wind chill in Hades yet…

While Fox News may be used to taking a never-ending beating from the liberal folks at CNN and MSNBC, you can bet they were not expecting a jab from venerable kids favorite, ‘Sesame Street.’ But that’s just what happened. Sesame Street, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary tomorrow with a visit from Michelle Obama, recently reaired an episode from a couple years ago - when the 2008 presidential election was in full swing - that has Oscar the Grouch launching his own television new channel called “GNN” - Grouchy News Network. After an atypical lighthearted broadcast, Grundgetta, a female Muppet...

STAND UP AMERICA, GET OUT OF THE FETAL POSITION AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD. Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Shake the cobwebs out of your brain...We are another day closer to the REVOLUTION that will change the 2010 elections. All comrades, infidels, sick twisted freaks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread! Healthcare...is it really DOA in the Senate?