May 2012
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May 31st
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“Even by Fox News standards, yesterday’s edition of “Fox &...”
– Steve Benen, of MSNBC’s The Maddow Blog, on the anti-Obama ad that Fox aired during Fox & Friends.
May 31st
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May 31st
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Fox exec says criticized Obama video unauthorized... →
Fox News Channel’s morning show on Wednesday twice aired a nearly 4-minute video that contrasted President Barack Obama’s words with negative statistics about his administration in a format that looked similar to a campaign advertisement. The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called the video “essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.” The segment...
May 31st
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abaldwin360: Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad While Fox & Friends has long been a home for some of the most vicious, misleading, petty, and dishonest attacks on President Obama, they crossed a new ethical line today by producing and airing what is essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad. The video - opening with the text “Fox &...
May 30th
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“A fanatically micro-managed fiefdom where my own far-right agenda and personal...”
– Jon Stewart, on what Fox News’ tagline should be in the eyes of Roger Ailes, in response to Ailes’ comments that Stewart is a socialist who wouldn’t do well without Fox. 
May 30th
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May 29th
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May 27th
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“True believers.”
– Mitt Romney, describing Fox News viewers at a private campaign fundraiser on April 15.
May 25th
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“If you’re talking about programming, we noticed that all the talk shows on...”
–  Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman, in a speech at the University of North Carolina We have one conservative on Fox News.
May 25th
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In which the Las Vegas Sun calls Bill O'Reilly's... →
May 25th
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May 24th
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“So for all you liberals out there hating Fox, we know you make things ups, but...”
– Fox News’ Tammy Bruce, remarking that her tweet claiming she can’t be a guest on The O’Reilly Factor because she is gay was, in fact, a joke.
May 24th
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cheatsheet: Cable TV? Fox News host John Stossel debunks the “myth” that poverty in America is a serious problem. In which Fox News decides that people with televisions are (1) not allowed to go to food pantries and (2) not poor.
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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“Considering FDU’s undergraduate school is ranked as one of the worst in the...”
–  Fox News’ statement on Fairleigh Dickinson University’s study that ranks Fox News viewers as the least informed on news issues. FDU’s study is one of a long line of similar studies conducted over the past few years, the majority of which have found the same results. Well this...
May 24th
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Fox News Figures Attack Their Own Poll Showing... →
The poll, released May 16, shows President Obama with a 7-percentage point lead over Mitt Romney, including a 22-percentage point lead among women. Despite the fact that the poll was conducted by their own employer, Fox News figures almost immediately began downplaying the results and criticizing the methodology. On the May 16 edition ofThe O’Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Dick...
May 23rd
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Courtesy of the Huffington Post, a great... →
May 23rd
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“If [rape is a synonym for rob or plunder] then I think President Obama is really...”
– Eric Boiling, adding to his ever-growing long list of offensive statements as a Fox News correspondent.  Video
May 23rd
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Yet Another Survey: Fox News Viewers... →
A new survey from Farleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds that people who watch no news at all can answer more questions about international current events than people who watch cable news outlets like Fox News and MSNBC. The survey also finds that Fox News viewers are the worst-informed on domestic and international current events, while NPR listeners are the best-informed. The report...
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“This is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation. In like 5...”
– Jon Stewart, on Fox News’ progression from labeling gay marriage as the gateway to marrying turtles to calling Obama’s announcement a political ploy. 
May 16th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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Fox News guest laments ‘mistake’ of letting women... →
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that’s appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with...
May 9th
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May 8th
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Saturday Night Live takes on Fox & Friends.
May 7th
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