68% of Republicans pick Fox News as most trusted source, nothing else even hits double digits
“Unlike you, I don’t have a ratings problem.”
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Gets a Taste of His Own Ambush Medicine - Mother Jones
“Back in 2009, I wrote a piece for Newsweek arguing that Republicans would regret conceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh. Until that point, I’d been a frequent guest on Fox News, but thenceforward some kind of fatwa was laid down upon me. Over the next few months, I’d occasionally receive morning calls from young TV bookers asking if I was available to appear that day. For sport, I’d always answer, “I’m available—but does your senior producer know you’ve called me?” An hour later, I’d receive an embarrassed second call: “We’ve decided to go in a different direction.”
David Frum, When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
“Fox News Lies”: Geraldo booted off the Occupy Wall Street island
Not a banner day for Geraldo Rivera: In a crowd with fresh memories of Jesse LaGreca’s epic takedown of Griff Jenkins, Geraldo’s not-so-warm welcome is a tad heartwarming. Now, granted, his coverage of the protests — complete with Tavis Smiley and Cornel West talking from a studio — was pretty balanced, and not in that “Fair and Balanced” way, either. But his network affiliation led to some chants over his news broadcast — not fun — and eventually led to this rough exit, captured by Russia Today. source
“I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.”
Roger Ailes, president of Fox News Channel
“Fox promo-ing a segment tonight “Alan Simpson for President… what’s behind the nationwide movement?” — they really don’t like the field.”
Meanwhile, on Fox “News” hilarity ensues as John Stossel looks for jobs in NYC garbage pails.
Fox News Fires Back at Gawker’s Story on Bill O’Reilly, His Wife, and Nassau County Cops
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How Bill O’Reilly Tried to Get His Wife’s Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops
Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O’Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department’s internal affairs unit to investigate one of their own for messing with the wrong man’s lady.
Continue reading… Gawker
This is one of just a few onscreen graphics that Fox “News” actually put on the air.
I remember some asshole on here going on about how I was declaring “class warfare” because I thought things like universal healthcare were good things, things that would benefit our fellow men and women who — numbering in the tens of millions — go without such things.
So what the fuck is this, exactly? What is Fox “News” trying to prove here? That poor people aren’t actually “poor” because they have something in their homes that prevents essential foodstuffs like milk and eggs from spoiling?
That having things like a TV or a cellphone makes them, in words ACTUALLY USED ON FOX “NEWS” TO DEFINE POOR PEOPLE, “the takers,” “parasites” and “the moocher class”?
That a family of four making less than $23,000 a year is somehow getting away with something by literally being too poor to be taxed by the federal government?
Go fuck yourselves.
No seriously. Go fuck yourselves right now.
“Conservatives hate the ‘liberal’ media so much, they’re even willing to accept an argument… based on science.”
“The only problem with talking about Sarah Palin is that she works here, and it’s like a coworker. And if I say something bad and I see her in the hallway I feel really awkward and wrong. So I just kind of say, ‘that was a good job.”
Fox News Host Greg Gutfield, on covering news related to Sarah Palin
Check out The Atlantic’s “Fox News Employees Acknowledge Their Sarah Palin Problem” for more.
(via reallyfoxnews)“What makes Fox News different [ from other news organizations] is its use of commentators who aren’t just participants in America’s public conversation about politics, but prominent players in the game itself. If one of your core beats is covering the conservative movement, it’s problematic to employ, as a multimillion-dollar asset, a frequent news-maker and campaigner who for some time seemed a possible presidential candidate. It is to the credit of Gutfeld and Beckel that they’re now being transparent about that fact.”
