Staff / TruthdigJul 7, 2006
Cute moment in Thursday's debate in Connecticut's Dem Senate primary race: Sen Lieberman tried to interrupt challenger Ned Lamont and Lamont silenced him by saying "this isn't Fox News, sir"
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Staff / TruthdigJun 24, 2006
When Pa Sen Rick Santorum went on Fox to make what turned out to be a bogus claim about WMDs in Iraq, did he violate federal law by holding classified documents up to the camera? Greg Sargent has more
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Staff / TruthdigJun 23, 2006
Last week, the Pentagon kicked all reporters out of the Guantanamo Bay prison after the suicides of three detainees. But on Wednesday the Defense Dept. invited a Fox News analyst down to Cuba to tour the facility.
And what do you know? The Fox analyst described Gitmo as ?now gentle, almost child-like the way they treat the detainees.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJun 22, 2006
Jon Stewart takes Anderson Cooper to task for being part of the CNN-MSNBC junta that seems to want nothing more than to ape Fox News' graphics and "swoosh" sounds. (h/t: Huff Po) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 22, 2006
Mere hours after Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) announced breathlessly at a press conference that ?we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,? a Fox news reporter found out that Santorum was hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions already acknowledged and dismissed by the White House?s Iraq Survey Group.
Watch Santorum dissemble when confronted with these truths on air. (h/t: Think Progress) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 12, 2006
Watch as Fox host Julie Banderas drowns out a vile anti-gay hatemonger. (Sort of a straw-man target, to be sure, but it's nice to see Fox News on the correct side of the cultural divide for a change. (Video hoster: Johnny Dollar's Place.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 4, 2006
In a last-minute about-face, the Mexican president will not OK a bill that would have greatly loosened penalties on possession of personal amounts of drugs. It's apparently the result of U.S. pressure. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 3, 2006
The Mexican president will sign a bill that drastically weakens penalties for possession of personal amounts of drugs like pot, coke, ecstasy and acid. But local judges can still detain or deport those found with the drugs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 26, 2006
No, it shouldn't be surprising that Bush is reportedly picking from the ranks at Fox News for a replacement for McClellan. More interesting, perhaps, is what Snow has said about Bush in the past: "An Embarrassment," "Impotent," "Doesn?t Seem To Mean What He Says." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 30, 2006
When Fox News decided to juxtapose busty bikini babes and news of a serial killer manhunt on the same screen, the savior from Comedy Central made wonderful mincemeat of the situation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 24, 2006
When the vice president spends the night at a hotel, he requires all TVs pre-tuned to Fox News (natch), room temperature set at 68 and caffeine-free Diet Sprite, among other things. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 3, 2006
Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann have been feuding for a while now (background story here, a video example, and another clip), and on Thursday, when a caller to O'Reilly's show merely mentioned Olbermann's name, Bill cut the line and said, "We have your phone number and we're going to turn it over to Fox security, and you're going to get a visit"--as though the caller was threatening O'Reilly--when in fact O'Reilly was threatening the caller!
UPDATE: FOX security calls back. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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