Mark Shields: Fox News Acts Like 'Fourth Branch of Government' Not App

June 1st, 2013 4:16 PM
PBS's Mark Shields on Friday, in an attempt to mock Fox News, actually made a bit of a fool of himself. After noting on Inside Washington that ObamaCare had passed Congress, been signed into law by the President, and affirmed by the Supreme Court, Shields ridiculed Fox News as being "a fourth branch of government...that hasn't approved it" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Jeff Zucker Claims CNN Covers 'Much More' Than Fox News, MSNBC

May 31st, 2013 3:11 PM
Five months into his tenure as president of the Cable News Network, Jeff Zucker gave a “progress report” on Wednesday by stating that rivals Fox News Channel and MSNBC “are covering politics” while CNN is reporting on “politics and much more.” “News is how you define it,” Zucker said during a panel discussion in the “All Things Digital” conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif., and “we…

Networks Don't Share Bill O'Reilly's Fury at IRS Boss Visiting White H

May 31st, 2013 11:19 AM
On Thursday night’s O’Reilly Factor, the Fox News host opened the show by attacking former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman for visiting the White House 157 times, almost four times as many appearances as Hillary Clinton. O’Reilly hinted this was a “smoking gun” of the White House running the IRS harassment campaign of the Tea Party. But guess what: this fact of Shulman’s well-worn path to…

Kirsten Powers: Obama's Attacks on Fox News Are 'Completely Despicable

May 30th, 2013 9:49 AM
Left of center columnist Kirsten Powers on Wednesday called the Obama administration's repeated attacks on Fox News "completely despicable." Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, Powers noted that "any president would be happy" if there were just one news outlet "that allows people to say things about him that he doesn't like" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional…

Dennis Miller: Obama and Christie 'So Cute Together - Like Danny Zuko

May 29th, 2013 9:19 PM
Dennis Miller, as would be expected, had a humorous take on Tuesday's reunion of President Obama and Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.) at the Jersey Shore. Appearing on Fox News's O'Reilly Factor Wednesday, Miller said, "They're cute together. It's like Danny Zuko and Sandy in 'Grease.'”

CBS Spotlights Perjury Investigation, 'Drumbeat' For Eric Holder to Qu

May 29th, 2013 4:04 PM
Wednesday's CBS This Morning zeroed in on the House Judiciary Committee's inquiry into whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his testimony regarding the Justice Department's controversial investigation of journalists. Jan Crawford's two-and-a-half minute report on the congressional investigation into Holder stood out as the only coverage on the Big Three networks on their…

Krauthammer: Holder Not Sensing Gravity of Scandal ‘Makes You Wonder

May 28th, 2013 7:35 PM
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer had some harsh words for Attorney General Eric Holder’s handling of the leak investigation scandal. Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report, Krauthammer said, “The fact that he says that the gravity of the situation didn't sink in until yesterday makes you wonder if he was anesthetized.”

Gosnell Attorney to Fox's Megyn Kelly: 'Things Went a Bit Awry,' Blame

May 26th, 2013 6:23 PM
Imagine if Newtown, Connecticut massacre perpetrator Adam Lanza had lived and gone on to get convicted of the 26 murders he committed. Further, imagine, post-conviction, that his attorney claimed that "things went a little awry" that day. There would be no containing the outrage, or the establishment press coverage. Kermit Gosnell attorney Jack McMahon was interviewed on Wednesday by Fox News…

Fox's Ed Henry: Colleagues Cheered Me On When I Grilled Bush Administr

May 25th, 2013 11:54 AM
Fox News senior White House correspondent Ed Henry said Friday that when he used to grill George W. Bush press secretaries Dana Perino and the late Tony Snow when he was working for CNN, his colleagues cheered him on in private. "Then when I was at Fox covering the Obama administration," he told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, "it can get a little bit lonely sometimes" (video follows…

CNN Ignores Eric Holder Approving Seizure of Fox Reporter's E-Mails

May 24th, 2013 3:21 PM
[UPDATED BELOW] News broke on Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder approved the Justice Department's seizure of a Fox News reporter's private e-mails. CNN still has yet to report this development, although the network found time to cover Brad Pitt's "face blindness" on Friday. Host Jake Tapper ripped into the Obama administration on Wednesday for its investigation of Rosen, but on…

NBC Fails to Report Its Own Scoop That AG Holder Approved Investigatio

May 24th, 2013 12:05 PM
As of Friday morning, NBC News broadcasts had completely ignored an important scoop from the network's own national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the Justice Department's aggressive investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen. Meanwhile, both CBS News and FNC provided on-air coverage of the new development. [Listen to the…

WaPo's Marimow Fails to Reveal 18-month Delay in Unsealing Rosen Warra

May 24th, 2013 1:13 AM
One obvious question which occurred to me and I suspect others when I read Ann Marimow's first account at the Washington Post dated May 19 of the search warrant issued in 2009 for the personal emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen was: "Where has this thing been hiding?" The "Affadavit for Search Warrant" is dated May 28, 2010. Why did it come out just this week? Marimow didn't say. More…

Dennis Miller: 'Nixonian' Obama Will Need Teleprompter to Say 'I Am No

May 23rd, 2013 6:25 PM
Appearing for his regular "Miller Time" segment on Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, comedian Dennis Miller asserted that the Obama administration is "looking more Nixonian" because of recent scandal revelations. He went on to crack that when President Obama says, "I am not a crook," he'll need a teleprompter to help him. Referring to the Justice Department's focus on FNC reporter…

CBS Spotlights 'Firestorm' Over 'Obama's War on Journalism'; ABC Punts

May 23rd, 2013 1:02 PM
The Big Three networks coverage so far of the Justice Department's questionable investigation of Fox News' James Rosen has followed a similar pattern to that of their coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case. Jan Crawford's report on Thursday's CBS This Morning was the first full report on growing controversy on ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts. NBC briefly covered the investigation…