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Drunk Fox News Anchor Brawls With Airport Cops In Jailhouse Video
J.K. Trotter · 06/24/14 09:30AMMegyn Kelly to Cheney: "History has Proven" You Were Wrong in Iraq
Andy Cush · 06/19/14 09:05AMFox News Retracts Fraud Claim Against Former Executive
J.K. Trotter · 06/10/14 09:54AMWhen Fox News president Roger Ailes fired his close advisor Brian Lewis last year, the channel claimed—via a series of coordinated leaks to Fox-friendly outlets—that Lewis was terminated over “financial irregularities” and unspecified “breaches of his employment contract.” Lewis fired back, and eventually settled with Fox for $8 million in November.
"Drunk and Belligerent" Fox News Anchor Arrested in Minnesota Airport
Taylor Berman · 05/22/14 07:29AMFox News Just Unsettled Its $8 Million Hush-Money Settlement
J.K. Trotter · 05/07/14 09:50AMRemember Brian Lewis, the former vice president of media relations for Fox News and even more former confidante of Fox News president Roger Ailes? This past November, Fox paid approximately $8 million in hush money to settle a dispute over his dramatic firing, in which the network had accused Lewis of “financial irregularities” and Lewis had countered, through his attorney, with a threat to tell “the truth” about Fox News.
Nope, Fox News Really Did Shove Shepard Smith Back Into the Closet
J.K. Trotter · 05/05/14 03:00PMLast week, Gawker reported that, in the summer of 2013, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events, Fox News executives had retaliated against star anchor Shepard Smith because he had voiced his desire to come out as gay. Fox News called the report “100% false and a complete fabrication,” and pointed out—directly and through cooperative reporters—what it thought were discrepancies in our account.
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How Fox News Shoved Shepard Smith Back Into The Closet
J.K. Trotter · 04/30/14 09:15AMWhy hasn’t Shepard Smith come out yet? The affable Fox News anchor has a longtime boyfriend, ranks among Fox’s most senior talent, and lives in New York City. It could be, of course, that he’s just a very private person, or—as the Times argued in October—that public attitudes have changed and nobody cares if a famous figure is gay.
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Fox Host Calls UConn's Basketball Team the "NAACP National Champs"
Jordan Sargent · 04/08/14 11:56AMWell, Fox News almost made it through this year's NCAA basketball tournament without saying something sorta racist. This morning, Heather Childers of Fox & Friends First introduced highlights of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball championship victory by calling them the "NAACP national champs."
Bill O’Reilly at Catholic Fundraiser: I Want to Beat Up De Blasio
J.K. Trotter · 04/04/14 02:45PMBill O’Reilly wants to pummel the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, for demonizing the wealthy. “I want to beat him up,” the Fox News anchor said of Hizzoner. (You can hear the audio above.) O’Reilly revealed his violent wish at a Thursday fundraiser for the Church of Saint Mary, a Catholic parish and K-12 school in the Long Island hamlet of Manhasset. As the Bible says: The rich will inherit the Earth.
Ted Cruz Flashes Fake Churchill Tattoo, Proves He Sucks at April Fools
Adam Weinstein · 04/01/14 01:46PMMy Very Weird Night with Shepard Smith
J.K. Trotter · 03/25/14 02:10PMDonald Rumsfeld Compares Obama to "a Trained Ape" on Fox News
Adam Weinstein · 03/25/14 10:30AMOh, Rummy, Rummy, Rummy. You're senile, you're white, you're conservative and entitled, so it sort of makes sense. But you don't just say these things out loud, old man.
What Is And Is Not "Cool," According to Greg Gutfeld
Hamilton Nolan · 03/24/14 02:13PMDid Shepard Smith Leave Crimea to Come Out?
J.K. Trotter · 03/18/14 12:35PMLast week, gay blogger Joe Jervis noticed that Fox News anchor Shepard Smith was listed as a “Special Guest” for Headlines & Headliners, an annual gala held by the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association in New York City. The title of Jervis’s post read: “Is Fox Anchor Shep Smith Coming Out?”
Fox Station Cuts Evolution out of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos
Jay Hathaway · 03/13/14 12:40PMAn Oklahoma City Fox station ran a teaser for its nightly newscast during the premiere of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's reboot of Cosmos. No big deal, except that it interrupted Tyson's only mention of evolution in the entire episode.