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*Sean Hannity and Democratic congressman Keith Ellison (Minnesota) got into it on Tuesday’s “Hannity” after Ellison called the Fox News host, “the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen.” Ellison was reacting to a music montage of President Obama that Hannity ran just before bringing him on. The clips, which showed Obama talking about [...]
*He’s baaaack. Fox News Channel has hired former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain as a contributor, reports Deadline. The former National Restaurant Association CEO, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, will join other recent additions to the cable news network like former senator Scott Brown and former congressman Dennis Kucinich. “Cain’s impressive [...]
*This afternoon, the Fox News program “Happening Now” debated a new Tennessee proposal that would tie parents’ welfare payments to their kids’ school grades, leading to a clash between the law’s creator and a former superintendent who finds the idea to be misguided at best, reports Mediate. Republican State Rep. Stacey Campfield explained that the [...]
*Sarah Palin has ended her paid gig with Fox News Channel. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, who was hired as a contributor in 2010 for $1 million annually, has ended her three-year run with the News Corp.-owned network. FNC executive vp programming Bill Shine released a statement confirming her departure Friday. [...]
*Bill O’Reilly featured Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, Thursday night on his Fox News program to discuss the Wednesday arrest of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed her teenage son. O’Reilly, who has criticized the media for “rushing to judgment” about Martin’s case, told Fulton that he was sorry for her loss. “I [...]
For those still wondering what the big deal is behind the newly-surfaced Barack Obama video from 1991 – touted by the late Andrew Breitbart as “a bombshell” that would undermine Obama’s reelection efforts – Sarah Palin thought she’d enlighten everyone Thursday night during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. The video clip released earlier [...]
*CNN was the most watched network of all cable news competitors in the ratings for Whitney Houston’s funeral, averaging five million viewers during its coverage of the singer’s Baptist memorial on Saturday, according to Nielsen. The event was televised without commercial breaks from 12:15 to 3:45 p.m., resulting in a spike of 5.4 million viewers [...]
*Fox News commentator Eric Bolling insists he was kidding when saying Thursday that Rep. Maxine Waters should “step away from the crack pipe,” reports Politico.com. “What is going on in California? How’s this? Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston. Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from [...]
*As political pundits continue to dissect Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler, which has been accused of supporting President Obama’s decision to bail out America’s auto-industry, the Libertarian actor says he has no “affiliation” with the current administration – or any politician or party, for that matter – and has donated his salary to [...]
*Fewer and fewer viewers are tuning in for President Obama’s annual State of the Union address. According to Nielsen, 37.7 million viewers watched Tuesday night’s speech on 14 networks. That was down more than 13 percent compared to last year’s speech, which averaged 42.7 million viewers across eleven networks, notes The Hollywood Reporter. In fact, [...]
*The controversial Conrad Murray documentary was not necessarily a ratings bonanza for MNSBC, but it managed to give the network a win in the all-important 25-54 demographic among its cable news competitors. “Michael Jackson and the Doctor: A Fatal Friendship” averaged 240,000 viewers in the demo last Friday at 10 p.m., the time slot where [...]
*The wife of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has canceled a scheduled interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren as sexual harassment accusations continue to hover over his campaign. The New York Times reported Thursday that Gloria Cain had indicated earlier this week that she would appear on Friday night’s edition of “On the Record.” [...]
*Ann Coulter continued to attack Politico for its article on sexual harassment claims against Herman Cain during an appearance on Monday’s “Hannity,” reports The Huffington Post. Politico drew swift right-wing fire for its Sunday article on Cain, which alleged that two female employees had accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s. Coulter used the [...]
*Hank Williams Jr. and his iconic theme song “All My Rowdy Friends” will no longer be used to open ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” the network announced today. The parting of ways follows an analogy Williams used involving Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama to make a political point on the Fox News Channel. “We have [...]
*During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted he would win a third of the black vote at a time when President Obama is struggling with his base. “The African-American vote, I am confident, based upon black people that run into, black people that used to call my radio [...]
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