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Fox drops Judge Napolitano show

 

WASHINGTON – Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” on Fox Business Channel, arguably the most hard-hitting conservative show on TV, is being dropped by the network later this month in a major shakeup of the lineup.

 

FBC is also dropping shows by David Asman and Eric Bolling. The network will repeat earlier shows, “The Willis Report,” “Cavuto” and “Lou Dobbs Tonight” in their place.

Fox is also developing a new show hosted by Melissa Francis, who recently joined FBN from CNBC, that will air at 5 pm ET.

Bolling and Napolitano will continue their on-air roles at Fox Business and Fox News; Asman will continue to anchor the 4 pm ET show on Fox Business.

“We look forward to Judge Napolitano, David and Eric continuing to make significant contributions to both FOX Business and FOX News,” said FBN Executive Vice President Kevin Magee.

In response, WND Editor Joseph Farah, who appeared on Napolitano’s show earlier this week, said: “Say goodbye to the most uncompromisingly conservative program on TV. It may have been the only show on TV that measured politics and economics through the lens of the U.S. Constitution.”

Liberal Hypocrisy Never Ends...

Wag The Finger: Williams Condemns Brewer, Confronted Bush With Same Gesture

Dateline: New York

Brian Williams, shocked at the picture of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger in the President's face, asked last week, "who have you ever seen talk to the President like this?"

Turns out it was Brian Williams in 2006.

BRADY VS TEBOW HIGHEST RATED IN 18 YEARS...

Of course CBS won the night, but with the Patriots winning in a blowout the ratings weren't nearly as Tebowlicious as they could've been. I'll say it again, the numbers below are preliminary, not time zone adjusted, and are only for  for 8-11pm ET (the game started at ~8:15 and ran past 11p) they almost certainly will be adjusted up a little bit in the final numbers. Depending on how much of an adjustment record viewership for the Saturday night divisional round primetime game is still possible (the record is an average of 30.9 million viewers), but it will be nowhere near the > 50 million that divine prognosticators were rooting for in our ratings poll.

Update: in the metered market household ratings (which are for the full game and time zone adjusted,  it did set a record for a Saturday division round primetime game and was the highest rated AFC divisional playoff in 18 years.

Fox was second on the night boosted by a little bit of the afternoon game (Saints/49ers) running into primetime in the eastern and central timezones (now THAT was an exciting game!).

The lack of a close game in New England might have aided Miss America and ABC - the pageant was up 13% versus last year to a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating between 9-11p.

Broadcast primetime ratings for Saturday, January 14, 2012:

Time	Net	Show	18-49 Rating/Sh	Viewers (Millions)
8:00	CBS	NFL Playoff:  Broncos at Patriots	9.7/26	28.37
	FOX	NFL Playoff Overrun/Cops	8.9/24	25.12
	ABC	Wipeout (R)	0.8/2	2.91
	NBC	The Firm (R)	0.4/1	2.17
8:30	FOX	Cops	1.9/5	5.22
9:00	CBS	NFL Playoff:  Broncos at Patriots	12.3/31	33.63
	ABC	Miss America Pageant	1.6/4	5.65
	FOX	Terra Nova (R)	0.7/2	2.21
	NBC	The Firm (R)	0.4/1	2.34
10:00	CBS	NFL Playoff:  Broncos at Patriots	9.7/26	25.18
	ABC	Miss America Pageant	2.1/6	7.71
	NBC	Law & Order: SVU (R)	0.7/2	3.41

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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2011 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.

Definitions:

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.  More information on ratings is available here.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Fast National Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.

Is Pat Buchanan Out at MSNBC?

{ We certainly hope so - being there is a totl waste of his abilities...}

Pat Buchanan could be finished as an MSNBC political analyst after his most recent book was criticized by several groups as racist and anti-Semitic, according to reports.  MSNBC President Phil Griffin said he has not made a final decision about the conservative commentator, but.....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Murdochs 'in family fallout' over crisis

Tensions at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire are threatening to explode into the open amid claims that the media mogul's children are turning on each other.

A biographer of Murdoch, Michael Wolff, claimed that the tycoon's daughter, Elisabeth, had said her brother James had "f&*ked the company".

This week Murdoch denied she had said something similar about the ousted News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. But Wolff wrote on Twitter that those reports were "incomplete": "She said: 'James and Rebekah fucked the company.' " Wolff said Elisabeth made the remark on Sunday at a book launch for the political analyst Philip Gould, hosted by her husband, Matthew Freud, and the editor of the Times, James Harding.   Read More>>>>

NPR, Reuters publish absolute lie about News Corp (Fox News)

By Bob Barney

Fox News parent company, News Corp is under assault from the left winged media in an attempt to halt the company's rapid growth over the last decade. First, there was Media Matters, a liberal outlet which is considered "in the tank" for Democrats, trying to bring out rabid stories on the Murdoch owned group. The tax exempt (probably illegally) Media Matters has found themselves now the target of a probable IRS investigation. In England, News Corp lost its bid to buy the largest satellite company in the nation over scandals (which appear to be real) concerning illegal wiretapping by News Corp reporters on politicians and other people.

 

Today however, the liberal assault on News Corp hit it's lowest mark when Reuters news service columnist David Cay Johnston wrote a false story concerning his so-called investigation of the company's public financial figures, which he claimed showed that News Corp had consistently made money at tax time over the past four years, which he said was all legal. Johnston said the company's tricky accounting has netted it billions of dollars.

 

"News Corporation made over $10 billion in profits over the last four years. And their tax came to $4.8 billion, negative," Johnston says. "That is, they made $4.8 billion from tax refunds."

 

Johnston said News Corp. was able to use the system in its favor by taking advantage of a few corporate tax laws. One provision allows a company to reach back and carry forward tax losses and benefits from many years.

"The second thing that Mr. Rupert Murdoch does that's very important is ... [use] tax haven subsidiaries," he says. "And when you have a tax haven subsidiary — the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Panama — what you do is you take expenses in the United States, and then you take the profit in the tax haven where they don't pay a tax on it."

The problem with his story? It's false!

Car lover's dream leads to surprising historical find

WND Exclusive

I spoke with auto clubs – they had never seen a Fairlane with that low of a VIN number'

Daniel Carl
© 2011 WND

Brian Reilly next to his '68 Ford Fairlane

In 1993 Brian Reilly, a self-professed "Ford nut" wanted to purchase a convertible. After an extended search, he found a diamond blue, 1968 Ford Fairlane in Seattle.

Little did he know, he had just stumbled upon a unique piece of television history.

Being an avid fan of Ford Fairlanes, Reilly noticed a few things about the car that seemed "somewhat unusual," including its large, 390 GT engine, which Reilly says that model didn't usually have.

George Soros minions step up war on Fox News

Media Matters for America, the liberal advocacy group funded by philanthropist George Soros, has stepped up its attacks on the Fox News Channel, launching a website directly targeting the cable network's advertisers.

Read more: George Soros minions step up war on Fox News http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=302733#ixzz1NY3m5ZaX

Glenn Beck to Leave Fox News Program

Updated: Glenn Beck is out at Fox News Channel.

Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts and FNC have reached a deal which will see Beck  “transition off of his daily program” later in 2011.

Beck’s much-reported troubles with the advertising community are believed to play a role in the decision.

Nonetheless, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has on a few occasions defended Beck and his program from advertiser issues, including in a call with shareholders last year:

One wanted to know how long Fox News would “subsidize” the show, which is “filled with house ads.”

“It’s not subsidizing the show at all,” Murdoch fired back, adding that the theatrical Beck gives “a terrific kickoff” to the Fox News evening lineup.

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No John 3:16 at Super Bowl

This is from the network that each year tries and jam "Merry Christmas" down our throats, yet when it comes to the real God instead of paganism, they find no room at the inn.  Well Gretch, we are waiting...

On Super Bowl Sunday, an organization that sponsors debates between Christians and atheists will not be given the opportunity it planned to spark a nationwide discussion on Jesus Christ, for Fox Broadcasting Company has rejected its commercial featuring John 3:16.

Read more: Don't look now! No John 3:16 at Super Bowl http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=256845#ixzz1CPR1SFkK

 

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in GQ: T&A gets you to #1!

Your eyes aren’t fooling you: that really is Fox News’s Megyn Kelly in the most recent edition of GQ Magazine.

The blonde-haired, and pregnant, anchor of “America Live” sat down with GQ’s Greg Veis for the December issue. The article’s title is to be expected: “She Reports, We Decide She’s Hot.”

While the magazine has not yet made a link available for the story, TVNewser does have some excerpts, including the magazine’s description of the conservative host:

Abhorred by the left, adored by the right, frequently pinata’d by The Daily Show, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has become the very blonde face—and legs—of the network. And she’s okay with that.

In the magazine interview, she boasts about Fox’s ratings: “You may have heard that we’re number one—we’re pretty good at advertising that.”

And also manages to discuss fan mail:

Some of them [letters] just say, ‘You’re hot”—which, you know, I don’t find insulting. [laughs] But the ones that go a little over the top get deleted right away.

You can read more from TVNewser and in the December issue of GQ.

Jack Webb on How to Deal With the TSA

Desperately Seeking Helen Thomas?

Legendary journalist Helen Thomas has retired after making controversial comments about Israel and Palestine.

Thomas, who turns 90 in August, has covered every President since John F. Kennedy from her coveted front row seat in the White House press room. She is famous for her feisty sense of humor and loud, cackling laugh.

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The Fox jihad continues at FOX NEWS

This is not a new story – sadly.

It's one I've touched on before, hoping that calling out Fox News' irresponsible shilling for a Muslim Brotherhood front group might give Rupert Murdoch and his Saudi investors something to think about.

Obviously, the gentle nudging did not work.

Dan Rather: 'Articulate' Obama Couldn't Even 'Sell Watermelons'

HDNet's Dan Rather stepped on one mine after another in the racial minefield that exists when talking about the nation's first black President as the former CBS anchor, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, uttered the following take on the President's ability to get health care passed and how the GOP and independents would view it. [audio available here]

DAN RATHER: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. "Listen he just hasn't been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death." And a version of, "Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."

While Rather may not have been being intentionally racist one has to wonder what the reaction would be if a conservative had used similiar language on the show. Earlier Rather called the current legislation a "Republican health care bill" as seen in the following exchange as it was aired on the March 8 Chris Matthews Show:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Will health care, the health care bill of Barack Obama, the one he roughly is for now, coming out of the Senate and coming out of the House. Will it become law? Will he win?
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DAN RATHER: Yes because what we have now is basically a Republican health care bill, if it gets through. It's, it's got a lot...but I think the President finally putting his whole sack in on it, yes he wins but it's not a certain thing.

MATTHEWS: Andrea?

ANDREA MITCHELL: I think close call it has to win or else this presidency is in serious...

MATTHEWS: So in other words they'll make it happen.

MITCHELL: They've got to make it happen.

RATHER: When you talk about a triumph though. One, part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. "Listen he just hasn't been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death." And a version of, "Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."

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Mark Levin Questions Glenn Beck's Behavior And Strategy 'STOP DIVIDING US'

Is Mark Levin the only major figure on the right with the guts to question Glenn Beck's attempted hijacking of the conservative movement? At the moment, it sure seems that way.

During tonight's edition of the syndicated Mark Levin Show, the best-selling author (shown right with Rush Limbaugh) challenged Beck over his clown-like behavior and half-baked plan to split conservatives in two via a third party.

But he also offered some relatively friendly advice on the likely result of "playing footsie" with the mainstream media: career implosion.

Earlier today, Levin also took to Facebook to question the seeming inconsistencies of Beck's ideological agenda.

Film 'proving Bible true' getting major expansion

By Joe Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A film that could potentially verify the historical accuracy of much of the Bible is getting a major expansion, causing its producers to be extra sensitive to modern political concerns and anxious fans to wait even longer for its release.

With a new working title of "The Exodus Conspiracy," the movie was initially targeted for release in the spring of 2007. But, despite about 10 years of work, the producers have not launched it yet because the scope of the project has increased dramatically.

A high priest looks upon the Ark of the Covenant in a scene from "The Exodus Conspiracy." (courtesy Mahoney Media Group)

As WND reported in 2006, the film was intended at first to focus primarily on documenting the Exodus of the Israelites from ancient Egypt.

SAUDI PRINCE PLANS MORE CONTROL OVER FOX NEWS

The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said he is looking to expand his alliances with the media giant, in the latest indication that his appetite for growth remains robust even as his company retrenches.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Saudi king and who was listed last year by Forbes as the world's 22nd richest person, met with News Corp.'s chief executive Rupert Murdoch on Jan. 14 in a meeting that "touched upon future potential alliances with News Corp.," according to a statement released by his Kingdom Holding Co. late Saturday.   MORE>>>>>>>>>>

CNN: Missing Dobbs

Could things get any worse for CNN? Apparently, the answer is 'yes.'

The pioneering and once dominant leader in cable news has been hemorrhaging viewers for some time and earlier this year suffered the indignity of slipping to last place among cable news networks, behind even its sister network Headline News.

Now come the November Nielsen ratings showing that the surprise departure of Lou Dobbs has cost the network even more viewers.

After Dobbs announced his resignation on air on Wednesday November 11, CNN suffered a 25% decline among all viewers in Dobbs' 7pm time slot, and a 26% decline among adults 25-54.  MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>

Networks That Jumped at Complaints About a ‘Deniers’ ‘Conspiracy’ Now Silent About Left’s Global Warming Distortions

By Rich Noyes | November 24, 2009 - 12:20

The broadcast networks still haven’t uttered a single word about the revelations late last week of e-mails showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side in an effort prop up the notion of a “consensus” on the issue. But when the liberal side of the debate charged that their opponents were involved in a “conspiracy” to tilt the debate in their favor, those same networks eagerly jumped on the story and castigated the evil “deniers.”

In 2007, as Brent Baker chronicled at the time in the MRC's CyberAlert, the broadcast network evening newscasts jumped to hype a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing meant to publicize a report from two far-left groups about how the Bush administration supposedly suppressed science about the dire threat of global warming — as if that view wasn’t getting plenty of play in the mainstream media.

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Lou Dobbs: My downfall at CNN started when Barack Obama became President

Former CNN veteran Lou Dobbs suggests his form of advocacy journalism fell out of favor when President Obama was elected and his ratings began to decline.

Dobbs, who had come under fire from watchdog groups because of his on-air, anti-immigration stance, told Bill O'Reilly Monday on the Fox News Channel that he never heard directly from CNN management that he made the network look bad - but there was a tonal change when Obama became President.

"You know, I discern more of a difference between then, which was under the Bush administration whom I was criticizing, and now, when it is the Obama administration and an entirely different tone was taken," Dobbs said.

Dobbs abruptly resigned from CNN last week after agreeing that he could no longer operate under CNN's push to avoid airing anchor opinions in prime time.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/11/17/2009-11-17_lou_dobbs_my_downfall_at_cnn_started_when_barack_obama_became_president.html#ixzz0XGqXxQT3

'Birther' stories led to Lou Dobbs' resignation -UPDATED

Sources say CNN dispute over Obama's eligibility was 'beginning of the end'

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Posted: November 13, 2009
12:24 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs' refusal to drop "birther" stories about challenges to President Obama's constitutional eligibility to hold office was a major source of contention with CNN management, leading the unconventional anchor to walk away from the network and more than $9 million, according to the New York Post.

Dobbs, known for his strong stand against illegal immigration, surprised his loyal viewers Wednesday night by announcing his resignation and offering no indication of his next move.

The Post, citing anonymous sources, said the beginning of the end of a long-simmering dispute came in July, when CNN President Jonathan Klein told Dobbs' staff in a memo to stop reporting on lawsuits that demand Obama produce evidence he's a natural-born American citizen, as required by the Constitution.

"It seems this story is dead because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef," Klein's memo said.

A source told the Post Klein's move incensed Dobbs.

"They have been talking pretty regularly since then," the source said. "And it's been pretty bad."

Dobbs, who also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, told his radio audience in July that "even though I said I believe the president is a citizen of the United States, I don't understand why he shouldn't produce a birth certificate. My God, you're talking about the third rail of American journalism, baby! That's it. I'm not going to back off."
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Former CNNer Claims Network's Liberal Bias Caused Dobbs' Exit

Former Letterman writer cries foul over sexcapades

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A former writer for David Letterman says she left his NBC show in the 1980s partly because she was uncomfortable with a work environment in which several female employees benefited from sexual relationships with high-ranking men.

Nell Scovell, who worked on "Late Night with David Letterman" for less than a year, writes on VanityFair.com that "sexual politics" was a "major part" of why she walked away from her dream job.

"Did I believe these female staffers were benefiting professionally from their personal relationships?" Scovell writes. "Yes. Did that make me feel demeaned? Completely."

But she stops short of confirming direct knowledge of any sexual relationship Letterman had.

The comedian last month admitted on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" that he had had consensual sexual relationships with female employees.  MORE>>>>>>>>

White House boasts: We 'control' news media

Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government

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Posted: October 18, 2009
7:11 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Anita Dunn

TEL AVIV – President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

"We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it," Dunn said.   MORE>>>>>>>>>>>

Katie Couric Buys Daughter Mosque-Shaped Alarm Clock That ‘Does the Call to Prayers’

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