Grapevine Whine - Backfire on the Alito Bandwagon
Tue 07:17 AM
With the opening Monday (1/9) of the Senate confirmation hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito, FNC swung into full battle mode, with nearly every program hosting talking-head guests promoting his appointment. Special Report was no exception, & anchor Brit Hume even used the lead "picking" on his Grapevine segment in a double-whammy attempt: an attack on Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), one of his favorite targets, & am umsubtle plug to confirm Alito. Unfortunately for Hume, he was guilty of the same lapse (failure to disclose) for which he criticized Kennedy.
Continue reading »Traitor Robert Novak Says He’s Not Sorry He Outed Valerie Plame, He’s Only Sorry For The Problems It Caused Himself. PS – He Also Says The Leaker Was A Man.
Mon 10:49 PM
He ended the career of a CIA agent devoted to working on non-proliferation during a war on terror, he caused the indictment of one high-level Bush Administration official, and more, related indictments may be coming. Yet Robert Novak told Sean Hannity tonight that his only regret about writing the column was the problems Novak suffered as a result. That was just moments after he insisted he would not reveal the name of his source, then let slip that it was a man. What a guy!
Continue reading »O'Reilly Plays Dumb About Religious Right
Mon 10:18 PM
Rabbi James Rudin came on The Factor tonight to plug his book, The Baptizing Of America, and O'Reilly very respectfully acted like he had no idea what Rabbi Rudin was talking about even asking him for examples.
Continue reading »Alito Has Old Friends At FOX
Mon 07:13 PM
John Ashcroft and Ken Mehlman were on hand today on Big Story endorsing Samuel Alito but by far the most interesting information came from Andrew Napolitano, Fox Legal Analyst and regular on the show. Melanie reported that Napolitano and Alito are old friends but the details of that history were revealed by Napolitano today. 1/9/05
Continue reading »Andrew Napolitano, Fox's "Senior Judicial Analyst," is A Decades-Long Friend of Samuel Alito
Mon 06:21 PM
Your World w/Neil Cavuto wasn't on today (January 9, 2006). A "Special Edition" of Fox News Live w/Bill Hemmer aired in its place. The show essentially consisted of a rotating series of reports - Dow 11,000, Alito, Sharon, Alito, Andrea Yates, Alito, Cheney, Dow 11,000, Alito, DeLay, Alito.
Continue reading »Fox - Alito - He's a Regular Guy (wink, wink, nod, nod)
Mon 04:55 PM
Most of today's Studio B with Shepard Smith was taken up by very flattering introductions for Samuel Alito. The only thing that woke me up was when they adjourned the hearing for the day and Megyn Kendall said something that struck me as odd.
www.outfoxed.org one of best open-source websites
Mon 02:52 PM
Wow, Robert and Jim! One more reason to be proud of being associated with you! The Outfoxed website is listed by the Independent On-line Edition as one of the top open source websites where users can change the content.
Continue reading »Grapevine Whine - George Galloway Gets Fox's Goat Again
Mon 07:56 AM
Last Friday night (1/6) on Special Report Jim Angle substituted for anchor Brit Hume & used one of the "pickings" on the Grapevine segment to mock a UK politician who has the ability to make Fox staffers foam at the mouth. Yes, it's George Galloway (again), & this time it was about him being a contestant on a UK-based TV "reality" show. One might wonder why Special Report selected this item for its political Grapevine, rather than the far more politically significant story about the alcohol problem plaguing Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats (which has subsequently resulted in his resignation). I guess that might remind viewers that there are "some" in our current administration rumored to have similar problems.
Continue reading »Bill Kristol hints at new House leader on FOX News Sunday
Sun 11:59 PM
Today 1/08/06 on Fox News Sunday Brit Hume subbed for host Chris Wallace. It is discombobulating to see Hume swing back and forth between the supposedlyimpartial host's seat and the advocacy chair of a panelist. In today's case, with Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer on the panel the effect was 3-2 Republican, with Mara Liasson and Juan Williams sitting in for Democrats.
Continue reading »FOX Exclusive Interview With Tom DeLay
Sun 07:00 PM
Tom DeLay granted his first interview since stepping down to FOX News, speaking to Brian Wilson at 1PM today. DeLay started the interview with his campaign grin but his facial expression changed considerably when Jack Abramoff was mentioned. Nothing new was offered to the public during this interview. According to DeLay, he's innocent and the Democrats are the ones to blame. 1/8/05
Continue reading »Rupert Murdoch Having Trouble Playing His Games at MySpace.com
Sun 06:42 PM
Media Consolidation Alert!
In July, 2005, Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News and its parent company, News Corp., bought MySpace.com. An article in today's (January 8, 2005) London Independent, Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch, says that, "Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites."
Comment: Sounds just like him, doesn't it? Geez! The guy is like a cancer.
Look who else is watching FOX!
Sun 11:39 AM
As many of you have commented, some of FOX's viewership ratings are due to those who look at it as a train wreck and others who are keeping an eye on the opponent to see what their latest tactic (talking point, smear target) is. So look who else is watching FOX!
Continue reading »Watch Out Vermont! Sean Hannity, New Yorker And College Drop-Out, Has Decided He Knows Better Than You What’s Best For Your State And Is Ready To Meddle With Your Legal System
Sun 03:14 AM
Sean Hannity, who never finished college and is not a Vermont resident, has come to the conclusion that a Vermont judge should be impeached over a criminal sentence Hannity didn’t like. He has vowed to do what he can to make that happen.
Continue reading »A Coincidence That's Too Coincidental
Sat 02:45 PM
The U.S. economy has tons of strong companies looking for investors, so when stock analysts on two different Fox financial shows recommended buying the same three stocks during shows on Saturday (January 7, 2006), I was more than a little suspicious.
Continue reading »Wall Street 'Worried' About Patriot Act?
Sat 01:48 PM
After watching Brenda Buttner's "Bulls and Bears," I was all set to invest my millions in the stock market on Monday to take advantage of the Dow breaking 11,000. But then I watched Neil Cavuto's "Cavuto on Business" a half hour later (January 6, 2006) and I realized the Dow is about to go into the tank because the Congress may not renew the Patriot Act. Boy, am I confused!
Continue reading »A Fox News Alert -- For Yesterday's News
Sat 12:29 PM
What type of event deserves a "Fox News Alert"? Apparently, any event, even if it's yesterday's news.
Continue reading »Grapevine Whine - Robertson vs Sharon
Sat 06:07 AM
Thursday night (1/5) on the Grapevine segment of Special Report, Brit Hume led off with a tidbit about the Reverend Marion "Pat" Robertson's ridiculous & outrageous comments concerning Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. It was actually pretty amusing watching Hume try to put some distance between GOPs & Robertson, one of the primary figures in the American Taliban. But FNC was not content with that. When Jim Angle substituted for Hume on Friday night (1/6), he also led off the Grapevine segment with another tidbit about the same story, this time noting that the White House issued a "sharp rebuke" to Robertson.
Continue reading »Murdoch uses FNC to smear NY newspapers which made the same mistake as his NYPost
Sat 02:36 AM
Like many others, I went to sleep Tuesday night/Wednesday morning happy to know that the 12 miners in Tallmansville WV had been found alive. Flipping on the TV in the morning to see if Fox was talking about Abramoff yet, I was horrified to learn that the miners had perished.
Continue reading »Jon Stewart to Host the Oscars - FOX News Freaks Out
Sat 12:39 AM
If Friday's (January 6, 2006) Your World w/Neil Cavuto is any indication, Fox News is freaking out that Jon Stewart will host the 2005 Academy Awards.
At 4:11 p.m. ET (11 minutes into Fox's "premiere business news" program), while video of Michael Moore played on screen, substitute host Stuart Varney signed off on a commercial break with a promo for an upcoming segment: "Now that Jon Stewart has been picked to host the Oscars, should you brace yourself for the biggest Bush-bashing event you've ever seen?"
Continue reading »Hannity Urges Israel To Attack Iran. Is FOX News Prepping US For War?
Fri 11:38 PM
Tonight’s Hannity & Colmes discussion about the president of Iran’s comment that he hoped Prime Minister Sharon would die seemed little more than an excuse to drum up support for another war in the Middle East. Chickenhawk Sean Hannity made it clear he thinks Israel should attack Iran and not waste any time about it. Even Alan Colmes seemed uncharacteristically bellicose about Iran. Meanwhile, both hosts completely overlooked the similar remarkss of evangelist Pat Robertson who suggested that Sharon’s illness was divine retribution.
Continue reading »"The Book Of Daniel" Should Not Be Casualty Of Culture Wars, reported by deborah, 28 comments
Fox Argues in Favor of Pat Robertson's Ariel Sharon Remark (and Loses), reported by Melanie, 212 comments
Grapevine Whine - Bob Novak Rears His Ugly Head, reported by nancy, 50 comments
Grapevine Whine - Where Old News Is New News (Again), reported by nancy, 20 comments
The missing ingredient in the Abramoff scandals - the sex angle revealed, reported by chrish, 24 comments
Don’t You Just Know That Someone At FOX News Is Frantically Looking For Evidence That Bill Clinton Took Money From Jack Abramoff?, reported by Ellen, 28 comments
FOX News Continues Its Crusade To Force The World To Be More Christian, reported by Ellen, 22 comments
FOX's Wendell Goler gets Madeleine Albright totally wrong, reported by chrish, 100 comments
Will Shepard Smith Replace Bob Schieffer as Anchor of the CBS Evening News?, reported by Melanie, 14 comments
O'Reilly Rates Media Coverage Of Letterman Interview, reported by deborah, 91 comments
Like Bush, Cavuto Protects Mining Companies & Shafts American Workers, reported by Melanie, 30 comments
Horrific, Bloody Days In Iraq Segment Ends With Chiding Murtha, reported by Donna, 82 comments
Grapevine Whine - Yet Another Spinning Poll, reported by nancy, 96 comments
Abramoff scandal on a par with Jolie-gate, reported by chrish, 52 comments
“Fair and Balanced” FOX News Censors Bush Criticism During Mine Explosion Discussion. Hannity to Bush Critic: Just Shut Up, reported by Ellen, 94 comments
Re the Abramoff "Nonsense" - "Democrats Much More Tolerant of Corruption", reported by Melanie, 43 comments
Studio B Focuses On The 3 Hour Gap - Maybe Mining Health & Safety Violations Should Be Emphasized?, reported by Donna, 29 comments
David Letterman & Bill O'Reilly, reported by deborah, 601 comments
Taliban & Colmes – Or More Proof That Roger Ailes Lied When He Said FOX News Likes America, reported by Ellen, 248 comments
So-called liberal media makes Abramoff guilty pleas #2 story, reported by chrish, 43 comments
News Hounds regulars planning to meet in the spring, reported by chrish, 18 comments
FOX Swings Into 2006 Midterm Election Campaign Mode, reported by Melanie, 17 comments
Jack Abramoff - No Fair & Balanced on Fox's Studio B - Just A Republican Consultant's Take, reported by Donna, 27 comments
"Culture War" Heats Up on Special Report, reported by nancy, 65 comments
Mega-Financier Wilbur Ross Owns the Mine Where Disaster Occurred, reported by Marie Therese, 32 comments
FOX News Alert! Stay Tuned! The Great O'Reilly Hunt for the Nefarious Bush-Haters Continues, reported by Marie Therese, 107 comments
US About To Exceed Debt Limit? No Big Deal To FOX News Reporter Megyn Kendall, reported by Ellen, 38 comments
FOX News Legal Analyst Peter Johnson Distorts The Padilla Case To Make Bush Look Better, reported by Ellen, 13 comments
O'Reilly No Heart Or Humanity, reported by deborah, 40 comments
Bill O'Reilly's Sleazy Threat: NY Times' Keller & Rich "have led lives and if they want to attack people personally ... then we're gonna have to just show everybody about their lives.", reported by Marie Therese, 139 comments
Fox's Molly Hennenberg Parrots The President & Pushes The 'Leak' Being More Important Than The Fact That The President Is Spying On Americans Without Obtaining Warrants, reported by Donna, 35 comments
They're Back!!!!, reported by Donna, 6 comments
Fox Does its Evil Work - It Obfuscates the Wiretap/Leak Issue, reported by Melanie, 26 comments
'Happy New Year' Thanks To All For Donating During Our Holiday Donation Drive, reported by Donna, 201 comments
The Year on FOX: News Hounds Reflect on 2005, reported by Marie Therese, 23 comments
Dear America: You're Making Me Rich, Rich, Rich! Thanks so Much. Love Ya (Sucker), Rupert, reported by Melanie, 6 comments
War Dead & Injured, reported by Melanie, 20 comments
2005 In Review - Studio B, reported by Donna, 11 comments
2005 in Review: Top Ten Lists from a Year of Watching the FOX, reported by Marie Therese, 21 comments
2005 in Review - Fox News Live Takes "Tabloid News" to New Lows, reported by nancy, 24 comments
2005 in review - trumpeting the White House message and muddying issues: Fox "News" IS #1!, reported by chrish, 45 comments
2005 In Review: A Low Mark For Fox's Culture War, reported by deborah, 25 comments
2005 in Review - Your World w/Neil Cavuto - A Filter for the Bush Administration, reported by Melanie, 15 comments
2005 in Review--Katrina, reported by judy, 12 comments
News Hounds more popular than Bill O'Reilly!, reported by chrish, 57 comments
News Hounds Stats for December, reported by nancy, 23 comments
Happy and Safe New Year's Eve to all our readers, reported by chrish, 25 comments
2005 Beltway Boys Awards, reported by deborah, 29 comments
Hope Springs Eternal, reported by judy, 83 comments
Grapevine Whine - Where Old News Is New News, reported by nancy, 13 comments
Mailbox Unfunnies - "Bah Humbug!" Edition, reported by nancy, 108 comments
Republican Strategist Admits 2005 Was A Bad Year For Bush, reported by Ellen, 33 comments
Gibson and O'Reilly wrong on Clooney - really, really wrong, reported by chrish, 58 comments
Your (Screw the Real) World w/Neil Cavuto, reported by Melanie, 44 comments
John Kasich Nauseating as PR Huckster - Blindly Distorts Truth in Frantic Effort to Whitewash Bush, reported by Marie Therese, 29 comments
FOX Takes Credit for Justice Department Leak Investigation, reported by Melanie, 71 comments
Grapevine Whine - Kennedy in the Crosshairs, reported by nancy, 8 comments
Justice Department Investigating NSA Leak, reported by deborah, 221 comments
Contacts at Fox, reported by nancy, 39 comments
Grapevine Whine - Political Porn, reported by nancy, 36 comments
Any Excuse Is A Good Excuse To Bash Democrats, reported by Ellen, 55 comments
Top Dog Martin Frost: "(Bush) is not a dictator.", reported by chrish, 73 comments
"We have to leave to win", reported by chrish, 48 comments
Fox Guest: "Everybody Has Moved Up to Be Rich Now", reported by Melanie, 55 comments
Fox's Folbaum Asks - Have We Caught Any Al Qaeda On U.S. Soil? Simmons Answers: If We Have, They've Been Quiet About It, reported by Donna, 25 comments
Just Another Small Distortion To Add To The Long List, reported by deborah, 91 comments
Grapevine Whine - Spying on Americans Isn't Really Spying, reported by nancy, 119 comments
FOX News, Ever Eager For New Ways To Attack Academia, Picks A Racist Chickenhawk As Its Latest Vehicle, reported by Ellen, 130 comments
Who let the dogs out?, reported by chrish, 11 comments
Pretzel logic on the Big Story, reported by chrish, 20 comments
Fox: the Administration's Attack Dog - It Punishes Canada for Having a Life, reported by Melanie, 149 comments
Fox - Folbaum Asks If Judges Will Be Sympathetic To Defense Lawyers Who Try To Use The Law To Assist Clients, reported by Donna, 20 comments
Grapevine Whine - Still Boosting Arnie, Still Getting It Wrong, reported by nancy, 126 comments
FOX News And The GOP Try To Spin The Controversy About Bush Spying On Americans Into A National Security Issue And Away From Questions About Whether Bush Broke The Law., reported by Ellen, 230 comments
Gibson: vague accusations, smearing all with one big whiny brush, reported by chrish, 54 comments
War in Iraq a bargain, reported by chrish, 55 comments
The Fox News Reich Pins a Yellow Star on the NY Times, reported by Melanie, 93 comments
Horrific News Out of Iraq - Or How I Stopped Fretting About The Current Deaths And Concentrated On Former Ones, reported by Donna, 51 comments
Roger Ailes' new contract, reported by chrish, 16 comments
No Grapevine Whine - Just Fox's Ongoing "Culture War", reported by nancy, 172 comments
GrapeWhine Summary - Week of Dec 19, reported by nancy, 28 comments
Rich Lowry’s Despicable Smear Of Libraries. Are They The Next Target Of The FOX News Hate Machine?, reported by Ellen, 66 comments
Grapevine Whine - Bitching About Barbie, reported by nancy, 24 comments
Rich Lowry and David Dreier Spin The Patriot Act As A Piece Of Civil Liberties Legislation, reported by Ellen, 6 comments
Fox Poll Asks Readers to Rate the Results of An Election that Hasn't Happened Yet, reported by Melanie, 37 comments
The Gravy Train Cometh: Factor Guest Dropped by Washington Times For Taking Money from Abramoff, reported by Marie Therese, 12 comments
Fox Covers for the Bush Administration While it Nukes the Constitution, reported by Melanie, 71 comments
Bush Administration Siding With Anna Nicole Smith, reported by deborah, 17 comments
Fox's Rick Folbaum - Wouldn't Most Americans Agree With The President Eavesdropping?, reported by Donna, 25 comments
The Christmas War Is Over For Another Year, reported by deborah, 98 comments
And to all a Good Night!, reported by chrish, 20 comments
The Grinch Factor, reported by deborah, 48 comments
A Christmas Memory For John Gibson, reported by deborah, 1 comments
FOX News Regular Wayne Simmons Says Traitors Should Be Shot By A Firing Squad. Think He'd Say The Same About Valerie Plame Leaker?, reported by Ellen, 145 comments
Lowry Lies Again And Sullies What Had Been A Decent Discussion About Iraq, reported by Ellen, 13 comments
Ho, ho, ho, boys and girls! On FOX News Channel, Santa's a Republican!, reported by Marie Therese, 39 comments
Tom Daschle Now On The List Of Democrats To Attack, reported by deborah, 36 comments
"Outfoxed" airing in UK on Boxing Day, reported by chrish, 16 comments
Religious Intolerance Abounds on Dayside, reported by janie, 126 comments
Grapevine Whine - Still Spinning About Katrina, reported by nancy, 25 comments