WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh says he won’t let “false accusations drive me out of this process” as he, President Donald Trump and top Republicans mount an aggressive drive to rally the public and GOP senators behind his shaky Supreme Court nomination. Trump and Republican leaders accused Democrats on Monday of a smear campaign by […]
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Fox News' Laura Ingraham taking a nosedive
For Laura Ingraham, the decline came well before the fall. The Parkland teens’ success in pressuring advertisers to flee her Fox News Channel show could cut her career down to tweet size. Ingraham made the mistake of mocking student leader David Hogg’s reaction to being turned down by several colleges. Ingraham is great at dishing […]
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An accurate assessment
Ralph Peters is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel. Until recently, he had been a regular commentator on military affairs for Fox News. He was a reliable and harsh critic of ex-president Obama’s military policies — for example, calling out Obama’s Syria strategy as “inept, ineffective and cowardly.” Peters recently quit Fox, and not with a […]
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Commentator Ralph Peters leaves Fox News, calls it a ‘propaganda machine’
Commentator and author Ralph Peters isn’t just closing the door on his career at Fox News Channel. He’s slamming it right off the hinges. In a blistering goodbye email, Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who commented on military affairs, called Fox “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.” He described […]
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Retired 'Navy SEAL' praising Trump on Fox News was a fake
Fox News ran a story on Oct. 8 about a decorated Vietnam War Navy SEAL and glass artist who created an enormous presidential glass seal he hoped to give to President Donald Trump. On Thursday, 11 days later, the network retracted the story after being told the Trump supporter never served in Vietnam at all, […]
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Lawsuit: White House, Fox News worked together on fake story
NEW YORK (AP) — A new lawsuit lays out an explosive tale of Trump allies, the White House and Fox News Channel conspiring to push a false story about Democratic leaks and an unsolved killing in order to distract attention from the Russia investigation that has been swirling around the president The lawsuit was filed […]
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Roger Ailes, Fox News architect, dies at 77
Roger Ailes, who mastered the art of selling political candidates like Hollywood celebrities and was the architect of conservative-oriented TV news, has died at 77. Fox News reported the death, citing a statement from his family. No further details were reported. As chairman and chief executive of the Fox News Channel, Ailes presided over a […]
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Bill O’Reilly out at Fox News Channel
FILE – In this Oct. 1, 2015 file photo, host Bill O’Reilly of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, poses for photos in the set in New York. There was no immediate response from Bill O’Reilly’s bosses Wednesday, April 19, 2017, to escalating reports that the Fox News Channel personality will lose his […]
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Some words of wisdom for Bill O’Reilly
Dear Bill O’Reilly: Let’s talk insults. Me, I like a good put-down as much as the next pundit. Judiciously employed, it can be an effective rhetorical tool, the equivalent of a slam dunk over the defense. You don’t just score, but you also demoralize and embarrass the other team. Similarly, to drop an insult into […]
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J. Christiansen: Tell ’em what they want to hear
Those under the influence of FOX News claim that all other news sources are “liberally” biased. Those news sources are “the media” (FOX is not?) Apparently FOX (the mouthpiece of right-wing bias) has some special interest in telling “the truth,” whereas others do not. Really? Conservative commentators know that if people are routinely told what […]