Brit Hume Stepping Down as 'Special Report' Anchor
July 15th, 2008 5:05 PM
Following the November elections, Brit Hume, longtime host of "Special Report" on Fox News Channel and one of its guiding lights, will step down from his anchor post and as managing editor for the Washington bureau.The news broke this afternoon via Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz who reports that Hume will not be leaving the channel entirely--he will be retaining his role as a panelist…
Juan Williams Pays Tribute To Tony Snow
July 13th, 2008 3:05 AM
Regardless of what you think about Fox News's Juan Williams, you owe it to yourself to read his remarkable tribute to Tony Snow.I promise you will laugh, cry, and be thankful for having done so...and, you'll learn something about Tony you didn't know before.
Rush Limbaugh Speaks About His Dear Friend Tony Snow
July 13th, 2008 1:24 AM
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh spoke with Fox News on Saturday about the passing of his dear friend Tony Snow, as well as the AP's disgraceful coverage my colleague Tom Blumer reported:
Ben Stein: Media Are Whipping Us Into Economic Despair
July 12th, 2008 11:44 AM
Days after former Sen. Phil Gramm told the Washington Times that "We have sort of become a nation of whiners" when it comes to the economy, Ben Stein claimed, "It's the media that is whipping us into this frenzy."Deliciously, this came just minutes after a Democrat strategist actually said, "We are in the toughest economic time we have ever been in this country." As such, I would make the case…
Before Threatening Obama's 'Nuts,' Jesse Jackson Dissed Faith-Based Pr
July 11th, 2008 4:13 PM
It's now been widely reported that during what Jesse Jackson thought was an off-mic moment from Sunday's "Fox and Friends," the reverend stated he would like "to cut [Senator Barack Obama's] nuts off." However, a look at the on-air conversation shows that the FNC hosts had to prompt Jackson to say anything positive about Barack Obama's plans for faith based initiatives, the subject that drew his…
Setting the Record Straight: FNC Actually Dems' Preferred Cable Channe
July 9th, 2008 12:43 PM
The hiring of Howard Wolfson as a political contributor to Fox News has resulted in the ritual outrage from blue blogs and Fox haters. When they aren't smearing Wolfson ("sell-out", "right-wing Zionist", etc) the alternate tactic is used: diminish Fox by lying about its influence and reach. The preferred method for doing so is to marginalize the Fox audience. It's something you've read…
Matthews Foresees 'Howards End' in Wolfson Move to Fox News
July 8th, 2008 9:36 PM
You'd think Chris Matthews might wish Howard Wolfson well on the news that the former top aide to Hillary Clinton has joined Fox News as a Dem analyst. Think again. The Hardball host has ungraciously predicted that the move to Fox could spell the end of Wolfson—and in doing so revealed his own pop-culture roots.Here was Matthews on this evening's Hardball:CHRIS MATTHEWS: Fox News loves…
Former Clinton Aide Joins 'Evenhanded' Fox News Channel
July 8th, 2008 3:18 AM
Howard Wolfson has become the latest prominent Democrat to join forces with Fox News Channel during the general election, hailing it for its "comprehensive and fair and evenhanded" coverage during the primaries.That's quite an endorsement coming from one of the Democratic party's biggest communications mavens, and not one known for being especially soft-gloved. It's the equivalent of MSNBC…
'The New York Times Wants America to Lose
July 6th, 2008 1:18 PM
Why would the New York Times divulge information that could prove harmful to the national security of the United States? Because, so consumed is it by hatred of President Bush, that the paper actually wants America to lose. Such is the considered opinion Jim Pinkerton expressed on yesterday's Fox News Watch. The case in point was an article the Times published on June 30, 2008, Amid U.S.…
Rosie O'Donnell: Being on 'The View' Like Getting Raped in Prison
July 4th, 2008 8:11 PM
Wow, that Rosie O'Donnell is one classy gal, isn't she?On Wednesday, the "comedienne" did a guest stint at a Cyndi Lauper concert in Vancouver, Canada, during which she called Ann Coulter a bitch, and rather indelicately compared her experience on "The View" to the scene in the movie "Born Innocent" when Linda Blair was raped in the shower at a girls' reformatory.I kid you not.What follows is a…
Karl Rove Schools Alan Colmes on Rights of Enemy Combatants
July 4th, 2008 6:16 PM
One of the more astounding post-9/11 liberal media affectations has been the extraordinary concern press members have for how terrorists looking to kill innocent Americans are treated at detention centers. A fine example of this occurred on Thursday's "Hannity & Colmes" when the left-leaning part of Fox News's successful duo debated former White House adviser Karl Rove about the recent…
Chris Wallace: My View of Media Has Changed Since Coming to FNC
July 3rd, 2008 1:32 PM
In the years since he began working at FNC as host of its "Fox News Sunday" program, Chris Wallace has come to realize he was wrong for earlier thinking that the elite media are politically neutral."When I was in the mainstream media, when I was working at NBC and ABC [...] I thought we were fair and balanced. But since coming to Fox four and a half years ago, I have come to see things a little…