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Roger Ailes' Sex-and-Lies Tale: There Is Something Different About Fox
By David Corn - Politics DailyIf a television anchor were caught -- on tape! -- encouraging a colleague to lie to federal investigators in order to protect a high-profile friend, do you think he or she would still have a job? Probably not. But if you run a network and if it's Fox, well, then . . . On Thursday, The New York Times broke one of those deliciously dishy New York political-media exposés involving bold-face names. According to legal papers filed in a civil suit, in 2004 Roger Ailes, the pugilistic head of Fox News, encouraged Judith Regan, a flashy publisher, to lie to federal investigators about an affair she ...
Glenn Beck: Should Fox Toss Him Out of the Coop?
By David Corn - Politics DailyGlenn Beck is walking toward a cliff -- or running, or skipping. The question is, will Fox News go flying over the edge with him, or give him a push? For years, Beck has pitched various conspiracy theories with a rather predictable thrust: The left is out to take over and/or destroy the United States. (The relationship between assuming control of the country and scheming its decimation has always been a bit fuzzy.) And his targets have been sinister lefty outfits that are not household names: the Tides Foundation, ACORN, and others. As long as Beck stuck to this classic tale -- secret commies ...
Rabbis Want Glenn Beck, Roger Ailes to Stop Fox News' Holocaust Comparisons
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA coalition of some 400 rabbis has published an open letter to Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch, calling on the media mogul to discipline Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, and Glenn Beck, the cable channel's incendiary and popular host, for exploiting the Holocaust in their comments. In particular they were upset over Beck's attacks on liberal magnate George Soros and Jewish leaders. "We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media," the rabbis write in the letter, which appears Thursday as an advertisement in The Wall Street ...
PBS the Most Trusted News Outlet, Fox the Most Distrusted, Poll Finds
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsWhat a difference a year can make. According to a new Public Policy Polling survey, a majority of Americans say they don't trust Fox News, just a year after the same poll found that the conservative-leaning network was the most trusted major outlet. This year, however, Americans surveyed said they trust PBS much more than Rupert Murdoch's cable outlet. Asked to rate a number of different news organizations, 50 percent of those polled said they trusted PBS as a news source, while just 30 percent said they did not. In contrast, Fox News had a much less favorable split, with 42 percent of ...
Jewish Group Wants Glenn Beck Dropped From Fox News
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyJewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), a charity that campaigns for social change, delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News Thursday demanding that talk show host Glenn Beck get the pink slip. The petition drive began in November after Fox News aired a three-part Beck special on businessman and philanthropist George Soros called "Puppet Master." The television show was deemed anti-Semitic by many in the media and Jewish groups. Beck once said that his election coverage goal was to "make George Soros cry," which is "hard to do," as Soros "saw people into gas chambers." Beck's ...
Fox News Head Tells Hosts 'Shut Up, Tone It Down' After Giffords Shooting
By David Gibson - Politics DailyRoger Ailes, the conservative who heads the Fox News Channel, has told his traditionally outspoken hosts to "shut up, tone it down" in the wake of the massacre in Tucson that is putting overheated right-wing rhetoric under intense scrutiny. Related Stories Gabby Giffords' Husband Releases Statement: 'There Is Little We Can Do but Pray' After the Arizona Massacre, Will Congress Ever Be the Same? In Wake of Shooting, Congress Is on High Alert but Intent Upon Carrying On Sarah Palin Blamed by Bloggers for Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords "I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it ...
Roger Ailes Apologizes to ADL, but Not to NPR for 'Nazi' Comments
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- Did I say Nazi? I meant nasty, inflexible bigot. Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes may have apologized for calling NPR executives a bunch of "Nazis" during an interview with the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, but he certainly isn't backing down. In a letter to the Anti-Defamation League, Ailes said that he "was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word," adding that he "was angry at the time because of NPR's willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough." Ailes also qualified the Nazi statement, saying that in his "now considered opinion, ...
Right vs. Left: It Ain't a Fair Fight
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe other night I was on "Hardball" with conservative bad-boy Pat Buchanan. Michael Smerconish, the guest host, asked about a column I had written noting that George W. Bush, in his new book, had disingenuously airbrushed Karl Rove out of his (superficial) accounting of the Plamegate affair. The reason was obvious: Bush wanted to avoid dealing with the dishonesty his White House had relied upon during one of the darker moments of his presidency. Buchanan guffawed, calling the CIA leak case a "silly episode" and a "trivial" matter. Now imagine this scenario: David Axelrod, President Obama's ...
Fox News' Roger Ailes Calls Obama Socialist, Jon Stewart 'Crazy' and NPR 'Nazis'
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- How does one define "fair and balanced"? In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was not shy about voicing his opinions on a variety of subjects, including President Barack Obama, Jon Stewart and NPR. The interview, which ran in two parts at Tina Brown's site, offered insights into how the man charged with running Fox News views some of the topics most discussed on his network. On President Obama: "The president has not been very successful. He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked ...
Lou Dobbs Bids CNN Adios
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Lou Dobbs, the last of CNN's original anchors, abruptly announced in the middle of his show Wednesday that he's quitting the network. "Over the past six months, it's become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving," Dobbs said in a statement that gave no indication of where he'll go next but had the ring of a political campaign to it. Embedded video from CNN Video ...
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