From Fox News: A handful of Republican lawmakers is warning against Congress approving a massive discrimination settlement that passed the Senate last week despite concerns the claims process may have been marred by thousands of potentially fraudulent applications. Just before
The blogosphere was in an uproar after GQ published a risqué photo of Fox News’s Megyn Kelly: I’ll admit, it does sort of undermine her straight-no-chaser serious sensibility. Is this a case of a woman simply embracing the hot, celebrating
About a year ago, O’Reilly caught John Edwards selling SunSetter Awnings on Fox News: [youtube yHfvnZKAYhQ nolink] But why is Fox News contributor Ellis Henican now selling Thermacare Heat Wraps on Fox News (video)?
Any public figure who is as easy to make fun of as Glenn Beck deserves to be made fun of regardless of their politics. Life is too short, and it has always been a healthy sign for conservatives that we
The blogosphere is all abuzz over yesterday’s comments from Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, in which he opined about the annoyance of today’s cable news television programming. Apparently cable news gets in the way of his desire for
In the first of many acts of bipartisanship to come in the 112th Congress, House Democrats have refused to work with Republicans on cutting NPR’s public funding. The brouhaha was created when NPR fired Juan Williams for expressing his honest
Tuesday, Ted Koppel appeared on NPR to continue his defense of “objective” journalism. His main objection to outlets like Fox and MSNBC seems to be that these news organizations are trying to make a profit: The fact that you have
Meet Sarah Seltzer. She’s one of the great untold stories of the internet — that invention that allows everyone to have a voice whether they make good use of it or not. And, regrettably, she does not. To wit, her
There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: “Out. Off. End. Goodbye.” It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here
The Anti-Defamation League has taken up the Media Matters’ cause by attacking Glenn Beck’s series against George Soros: Glenn Beck’s description of George Soros’ actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top. For a political commentator
Why doesn’t George Soros just go himself? Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog that spends most of its time attacking Fox News, won a charity auction lunch with Rupert Murdoch for $86,000. “I look forward to this opportunity to have
Will TLC’s new reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, make you want to book a vacation to “America’s last frontier?” You betcha, it will. It will also give you a glimpse inside the Palin family and into the life of one
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com According to Fox News, Amazon.com is still defending its right to sell the book. Bill Hemmer also highlights a handful of other controversial titles that Amazon carries or has carried.
Dick Morris has picked up on a theme Education Action Group has been trumpeting for months: public employee union contracts, including school employee contracts, are unsustainable and have several states on the verge of fiscal collapse. Recently on Fox News,
Rap mogul and purple-prosed hyperbolist Russell Simmons over at the HuffPo: If [Keith Olbermann] goes we lose the Edward Murrow of our generation, the voice that spits truth to power and vested interests. I have devoted my entire adult life
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The rise of the Tea Party movement shows “democracy works,” former President George W. Bush says in an interview to air Tuesday night on Fox News’ “Hannity.” “Here’s what I see. I see democracy
Everyone has an opinion about the suspension of Mr. Olbermann. What is interesting is that no one on the left seems capable of giving analysis without mentioning Fox News.
There will be a lot of people giving a lot of advice to the new Republicans who will be taking office in DC in January. I will give mine. Have no fear of the activist old media. They have rendered
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For the last few weeks, I’ve been finalizing some intensive research and was in the process of writing up a multi-part post that was to be published after the mid-term elections. One of the installments in the series will focus
The Left nauseatingly pays lip service to the terms “tolerance” and “diversity.” In reality, they are highly intolerant and they hate diversity, particularly diversity of thought. They hate free markets and really loathe free marketplaces of ideas. As such, the
If opening night reviews are to be believed, the newest theatre hit of the year may have just premiered in Minneapolis last night. Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham has embarked on an ambitious venture that is sure to make
RightNetwork strikes again, this time with an original, entertaining and informative political talk show. “Politics and Poker” combines a round-table discussion with the laid-back atmosphere of a friendly card game, and it’s a combo sure to draw an audience. —–
