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Fox News focus group in Iowa: President Obama is Muslim

By | 02.08.11 | 3:00 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

On Sean Hannity’s program Monday night, pollster Frank Luntz hosted a focus group of Iowa Republican caucus-goers, gauging their reaction of President Barack Obama’s Sunday afternoon interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

After a question by O’Reilly about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role

Lunchtime Links

By | 08.06.10 | 12:10 pm

The Senate “isn’t ‘Saturday Night Live,’” says Mitch McConnell.

Chuck Grassley worries about scientists looking at porn.

An Elvis Presley impersonator — named Elvis Presley — is running for Arkansas governor.

McConnell also hopes the president will become a “born-again moderate.”

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Sarah Palin Thanks Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh

By | 11.17.09 | 2:03 pm

In the acknowledgments of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names.

To some media professionals whom I admire because you don’t let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots’ heads spin.

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The Waiting Room

By | 09.21.09 | 6:06 pm

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.

One day before the Senate Finance Committee is set to present the nearly 600 proposed amendments to Chairman Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) health care plan, the amendments presented by fellow “Gang of Six” member, Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine), made More…

Bill O’Reilly Bans the Press From His Values Voter Speech

By | 09.19.09 | 9:09 am

When reporters walked up to the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel to see Bill O’Reilly’s Friday night speech — he was receiving the “Media Courage Award” — we were told, to our surprise, that no members of the media would be allowed in. Word had leaked out that More…

Bill O’Reilly Can’t Stop Harrassing Women

By | 03.23.09 | 12:39 pm

Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress has a blow-by-blow timeline of an ambush by Jesse Watters, a producer for Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” who asks accusatory, leading questions of people Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like. Terkel lives in Washington, but Watters stalked her on a vacation jaunt into Virginia. More…

Last Tango in the No Spin Zone

By | 03.17.09 | 4:00 pm

The real mystery is why it took so long for someone to buy the audiobook of Bill O’Reilly’s novel “Those Who Trespass” and turn the most sexually explicit clips into MP3s.

(WARNING: NSFW!)

The Rest of the CPAC Straw Poll

By | 03.02.09 | 10:46 am

The headline was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 20 percent plurality in the presidential preference question, but I think the rest of the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll was rather more interesting. Here were CPAC attendees choices for “favorite conservative media personality.”

Rush Limbaugh – 26 percent
Glenn

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Dems Respond to Obama’s Fox Turn

By | 09.05.08 | 2:25 pm

Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor,” — TWI coverage and video here – revives the roiling debate among Democratic strategists, Obama aides and liberal bloggers over how to handle an influential cable channel that covers U.S. politics while opposing the election of most Democrats.

Fox’s tight and symbiotic ties More…

Obama Scuffles with O’Reilly

By | 09.05.08 | 12:44 pm

While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News.

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, made a much-hyped appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” to tangle with Bill O’Reilly. The talk-show host had been pushing More…