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At the very end of Your World w/Neil Cavuto's show today (July 8, 2004, at 4:56 p.m. ET), Neil read emails during his "Mailing it In" section. One of the emailers said he liked listening to Cavuto on "Armed Forces TV service."

Searching the web, I came across the American Forces Network through the Department of Defense. I presume this is what the emailer was referring to as there is no "Armed Forces TV Service" per se.

The American Forces Network is known online as "MyAFN" and is here.

NASCAR on Dayside

At 1:38 p.m. ET on Dayside w/Linda Vester (July 7, 2004) Vester did a segment with a man named Alex Meshkin, who owns a NASCAR racing team called the "Bang" racing team. About three months ago, Vester began doing periodic segments (every ten days or so) about NASCAR drivers.

COMMENT: Is Fox trying to appeal to the "NASCAR dad" crowd so they can sink the hook in them before the election? Or, could the objective be to promote News Corp.'s FX Channel which carries NASCAR races? (See the category: News Corp. Hegemony.)

"Red, White and Liberal" and Dismaying All Over

OK, so I'm only on Page 14 of Alan Colmes' book, "Red, White and Liberal," (published by ReganBooks, a Fox affiliate) but already this newshound smells a rat!

Page ix in the Acknowledgments: "Roger (Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News) sees things mere mortals overlook. Not only does he surround himself with the best and brightest people in the business, he also trusts them to do their jobs. The result is a superior product created by a focused, motivated group that each day reaches a little higher than the day before."

Page 3: "(President George W. Bush) is one of the most charming policiticans (and people, not that they're mutually exclusive) I've ever met. I've liked him better the few times I've spent a couple of minutes with him than I've liked many on my own side politically, regardless of the amount of time I've spent in their company."

Pages 11-12: "(Sean Hannity) is passionate in his beliefs, articulate, and persuasive... Sean is also a great American who realizes that the great ongoing national debate as epitomized on Hannity and Colmes is integral to democracy."

Can Colmes actually believe these things? Has he watched Sean Vanity rant and rave and berate guests then cut them off before they have had a chance to respond? We newshounds have and we don't think that's the great American way of debate.

I think Outfoxed will help prove those statments to be the same kind of distortion that have become all too familiar for us Foxwatchers.

More Shameless Self-Promotion

NASCAR drivers Rusty and Kenny Wallace were guests today in a segment aired toward the end of Dayside w/Linda Vester (July 1, 2004, 1:00 p.m. ET). Introducing them, Vester quickly said something about a "new reality show on FX...The NASCAR 360." (Comment follows.)

We Sell. You Buy.

June 25, 2004. Big Story with John Gibson. 5:13 Pm to 5:16 PM ET

Interview with Yossef Bodansky.

Guess the topic of his latest book! Why, yes. It's all about the fully documented, irrefutable and nefarious collaboration between.....are you ready?