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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUh-oh. The NY Times calls out 'Fox & Friends' as a Republican Show on its home page.
Enemies and Allies for Friends: When it comes to sitting for interviews Mitt Romney is not usually a willing and eager subject. But there is one invitation he rarely turns down.
Fox & Friends has had Mr. Romney as a guest 21 times in the last year. Thats almost twice a month, vastly more than the four times each he has appeared on NBCs Today and ABCs Good Morning America, which draw five times the audience.
Mr. Romney is hardly alone in recognizing the power of Fox & Friends as a high-decibel megaphone pointing directly at the Republican base. At the height of the primaries not a week went by without an appearance by one of the candidates. And when leading Republicans like Gov. Rick Scott of Florida or Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin have something to say, they do it on Fox & Friends.
It is easy to see why. Perhaps more than any other show on the Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends has become a powerful platform for some of the most strident attacks on President Obama. Conspiracy theories about Mr. Obamas religion once found an uncritical ear on the shows set. Assertions that Mr. Obama leaked national security secrets for political gain are accepted as fact. And its hosts recently took time on the air to congratulate one of their producers for making a four-minute video that painted Mr. Obama as a failure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/arts/television/fox-friends-finds-ratings-and-controversy.html
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Uh-oh. The NY Times calls out 'Fox & Friends' as a Republican Show on its home page. (Original Post)
onehandle
Jun 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)1. Just the facts
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)2. Now we know why the blonde bimbo is so ditzy...
"...Gretchen Carlson, the often-severe and incredulous voice of authority. (Ms. Carlsons childhood baby sitter in Minnesota was Representative Michele Bachmann.)"
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)3. I was thinking of calling it a Dog and Pony show but it's more like...
....a "pack of lying Pit Vipers" that would dissolve if they told the truth.
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)4. Off topic
BUT Mitters picture reminded me of old Danny Quayle, anyone else see this?
bupkus
(1,981 posts)6. Yep, if not separated at birth
Then at least definitely cut from the same cloth.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,944 posts)5. WOW - I just lost all faith in FOX!!!
onlyadream
(2,166 posts)7. Doesn't he know that he's preaching to the choir?
just wasting his time there, so good, let him.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)8. Whoops
Some copy boy or girl just lost their job.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)9. Pot meet Kettle...
Apparently, still trying to distance themselves from the co-opted media of the Corporate Megalomaniacs...
("At least, we're not FOX!!"
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)10. Fox and Friends or The Drew Carey Show?
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Gretchen Carlson
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