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Roger Ailes Now Says Palin Is 'So Smart'

Fox News chief also explains why Glenn Beck is off the network

(Newser) - Roger Ailes is probably the last guy Anthony Weiner expected to rally to his defense. But in a new interview the Fox News chief does just that. “The media’s had enough giggles over Mr. Weiner and his name,” Ailes told Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast . “...

Fox Mixes Up Sarah Palin, Tina Fey

Boss uses wrong shot in story about possible run for presidency

(Newser) - How good is Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin? So good it even fooled Palin employer Fox News. Fox posted a photo of Tina Fey posing as Sarah Palin last week while reporting that Palin says she's still "50/50" about running for president, reports Sheya . Maybe Fox...

Glenn Beck's Last Day: June 30

Still no word from Fox on his replacement

(Newser) - Mark it down on the chalkboard: Glenn Beck's final day on Fox will be June 30, reports Mediaite . A gleeful Media Matters notes that Beck's ratings in May were among his worst ever. Business Insider , meanwhile, suggests five possible replacements, including Megan Kelly and SE Cupp . Beck, of...

Fox Chief Roger Ailes Feared Bombing by Gays, Muslims
 Ailes 'Feared Bombing' by Gays 
May 26, 2011 4:43 AM CDT

Ailes 'Feared Bombing' by Gays

Rolling Stone profile paints Fox News boss as paranoid propagandist

(Newser) - Roger Ailes has made huge profits by selling fear, but he has a few fears of his own, Rolling Stone finds in a detailed—and deeply unflattering—profile of the Fox News chairman. Ailes, whose resumé includes repackaging Richard Nixon for TV in 1968 and helping derail health care reform...

Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin 'Is an Idiot' (New York Magazine Profile)
 Roger Ailes 
 'Thinks Palin 
 Is an Idiot' 
'new york' profile
May 22, 2011 5:34 PM CDT

Roger Ailes 'Thinks Palin Is an Idiot'

'New York' profiles Fox News boss

(Newser) - In the wake of President Obama’s 2008 win, Roger Ailes successfully built up Fox News’ ratings and raked in $900 million last year—but he still hasn’t found a 2012 candidate to throw his weight behind, according to an extensive New York magazine cover story. “You can’...

Secret Service Sorry for Anti-Fox Tweet

Calls post 'unapproved and inappropriate'

(Newser) - The Secret Service is apologizing for an anti-Fox News tweet that made it onto the Service's new Twitter feed barely a week after it was set up, reports CNN . "Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering," read the tweet, which was...

Stewart, O'Reilly Face Off Over White House Rapper

Daily Show host slams Fox 'outrage machine'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart accepted Bill O'Reilly's challenge and the pair debated rapper Common's White House appearance on last night's O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly insisted that it was a mistake to have invited a rapper who "celebrates" a cop killer to a White House poetry night,...

Huckabee Lets Us Know Tomorrow

He'll announce whether he's running on his Fox show

(Newser) - Modern politics: Mike Huckabee has made an announcement announcing that he will make another announcement tomorrow about whether he's going to "explore" a run for president. It will happen during his 8pm EST show on Fox News, of course. What's it going to be? “I’ve...

Stewart Slams Fox Over Rapper Brouhaha ... Via Rap

No cops, Bushes hurt as Common performs at poetry night

(Newser) - Rapper Common was among several artists who performed at a poetry event at the White House last night—and he didn't shoot any cops. The rapper, whose presence at the event infuriated conservative pundits who seized upon some of his controversial lyrics, gently recited verses about love and the...

Fox Ends Contracts With Gingrich, Santorum

Move suggests they're both serious about 2012 runs

(Newser) - Fox News has ended its contracts with Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, reports Ben Smith at Politico, suggesting both want in on the 2012 presidential race. The network suspended both contracts about 2 months ago and gave both men a deadline of May 1 to decide whether they were running....

Fox, MSNBC Full of Obama/Osama Slip-Ups

Fox begins using 'Usama' spelling; celebs tweet reactions to news

(Newser) - A single-letter screw-up at Fox has Twitter abuzz. An affiliate station in Sacramento announced to viewers: “Obama Bin Laden Dead,” Metro reports. The station shrugged off the gaffe as an easy slip-up, pointing to other stations that have made similar errors—including another of its affiliates, whose anchor...

Michele Bachmann's Latest Gaffe: She Claims NATO Killed up to 30K Civilians in Libya
Bachmann: NATO Killed
30K Libyan Civilians
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May 1, 2011 1:36 PM CDT

Bachmann: NATO Killed 30K Libyan Civilians

Not exactly, Chris Wallace later corrects her

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann got a little mixed up today, claiming on Fox News Sunday that NATO airstrikes have killed as many as 30,000 civilians in Libya. She was railing against the “foolishness” of President Obama’s decision to get involved in Libya at the time, The Raw Story reports....

Fox News Anchor Confirms: Obama Is US Citizen

Shep Smith: Hawaii's birth certificate proves it, ‘period’

(Newser) - CNN isn't the only cable channel crashing the birthers' party . Add none other than Fox News, or at least anchor Shep Smith. After denouncing Franklin Graham's questioning of the president's birth certificate credentials, Smith declared: “Fox News can confirm the president of the United States is...

Trump: De Niro ‘Not the Brightest’

Fires back after actor criticized him this weekend

(Newser) - This weekend, Robert De Niro slapped Donald Trump’s “crazy” behavior with a piece of advice: "Don’t go out there and say things unless you can back them up." Appearing on Fox & Friends today, Trump had some choice words about the actor, notes Mediaite : “...

Fox News Ditches Obama Speech Suicide Story

Piece implied link between student death, deficit chat

(Newser) - Fox News has wiped from its website a report on a George Washington University student's suicide whose timing may have coincided with President Obama’s speech on the school's campus—and that seemed to suggest the two events were linked. "GWU officials tell Fox that police were...

Fox News Nails J. Crew for Boy's Pink Polish

On FoxNews.com, doctor warns of raging gender confusion

(Newser) - If there's one thing that Fox News cannot abide, it's pink nail polish on a little boy. Now he and the nation are apparently in for a world of psychological pain and years of therapy. And it's all because of a J. Crew email ad that featured a mom painting...

Stewart's Entire Show an Epic Beck Parody

If Glenn Beck's show is ending, it must be the end of the world: ' Daily Show '

(Newser) - Glenn Beck's Fox show will soon be no more, and Jon Stewart seized the moment last night, offering a glasses-wearing, chalkboard-scrawling send-up of Beck's program. By analyzing facts and figures—ranging from Charles Manson to the Bible—Stewart was able to determine that Beck’s departure can only mean one...

Glenn Beck, Fox Hated Each Other All Along

Both sides kvetch anonymously to the 'New York Times'

(Newser) - Publicly, Glenn Beck and Fox News may have put a happy face on their divorce, but there’s a whole lot of acrimony behind the scenes, sources from both sides tell the New York Times . Beck’s supporters say he was unhappy at Fox almost from day one, and has...

Glenn Beck: I'm Like Paul Revere

And he's now apparently off to fight the 'revolution'

(Newser) - Why is Glenn Beck giving up his show on Fox News ? The host addressed the question at the end of his show yesterday, but left his future plans something of a mystery, Mediaite notes. Beck made it clear to his viewers that he feels "we are heading for...

Fox Couldn't Control Glenn Beck Anymore

Both sides seem genuinely happy that it's over

(Newser) - Plenty of speculation is out there about what finally caused Glenn Beck and Fox News to pull the plug on his show , but Glynnis MacNicol at Business Insider thinks it boils down to this: "Beck and Fox are parting ways because Beck had too much power and Fox couldn't...

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