“New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.” LastsAmericaHateSexLeaderWeekGayDrugNewsDevilBlameMalesTroopsFoxesScrewsEvangelicalScrew UpsJohn KerryFox NewsOur TroopsReverendsHaggard Author:Bill Maher
“Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenHas BeensNewsCriticsConservativeRadioDecadesFavorsAlternativesLunchFoxesBiasedFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Larry Elder
“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.” Has BeensIdeasSelfSeemsPastHalfCenturyMediaTelevisionNewsConservativeToleranceLiberalismDelusionBiasFoxesNormSurrealObjectivityOver The PastFox NewsDeviationSelf Delusion Author:David Limbaugh
“At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.” UseAmericaSpeechNewsGood ThingsFreedom Of SpeechFoxesFox News Author:Eric Idle
“The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox News, which has created an echo chamber in which people just hear the same ideas repeated ad infinitum. And you know, it's just basic advertising, basically. You hear the same idea over and over again. Or you can call it propaganda if you like.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasLastsPoliticalSidesVoiceNewsConservativeAdvertisingPropagandaAdsEstablishmentEchoesFoxesChamberSpectrumFox NewsVoice OverPolitical Spectrum Author:Bruce Bartlett
“Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.” CultureSeaMediaNewsHollywoodFoundationUniversityNewspapersHeightMinoritiesElitesFoxesMonopolyCnnFox NewsComicalNbcUnbalancedNprPbsLiberal Media Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.” IfsLittlesRunningRepublicanMarriedNewsActressesPresidentialHopefulAwkwardPregnantFoxesMikeAttackingBeing MarriedPalinFox NewsBristol Author:Jay Leno
“I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.” PeopleTheoryInternetNewsFoxesFox News Author:Bill Maher
“I visit Fox News every now and again, and it's nice, because the Eye of Mordor is above the building.” EyeNiceBuildingNewsFoxesFox NewsMordor Author:Jon Stewart
“Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and balanced, but CNN used to have the slogan "You Can Depend on CNN". Guess what? I watch it, no you can't. So what's the difference?” KnowsHandsUsedDifferencesWatchesDependsNewsFairsOkayYeahBalancedFoxesSlogansNot FairCnnFox News Author:Jon Stewart
“It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year.” YearsMeanNewsQuittingContractsFoxesCommentatorsPalinFox NewsGreat Day Author:Craig Ferguson
“Terrorists, oh I'm sorry, Fox News tells us it's all illegal immagration's fault but it's not their fault, it's ours.” NewsFaultsSorryTerroristIllegalI'm SorryFoxesFox News Author:Christopher Titus
“Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.” ShouldShowsMightRunningNamesPresidentWillingMarriedNewsDressesDemocraticDemocratCurrentsDebateCandidatesFrighteningFoxesHostileHusseinFox NewsForumsMachoNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.” WantFactsClearHonorNewsJournalistDivisionFoxesBadges Author:Glenn Beck
“Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.” PeopleWorldSometimesStoriesAsksNewsBiasFoxesOutletsFox News Author:Megyn Kelly
“Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.” FirstsHas BeensCountryAmericaBlackPresidentNew YorkWillingMembersNewsBillsGolfClintonClubsOfficialsFoxesFox NewsSponsorsThursdayCountry Clubs Author:Argus Hamilton
“The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the rest aimed at Fox News.” AmericaNewsSizeChinaNuclearRussiaAdministrationFoxesArsenalFox News Author:Jay Leno
“Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.” TrumpNewsInterviewsUsualFoxesSoftballVulgarityFox NewsInterviewersYiddishVulgarity Is Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.” BelieveDangerousNewsCapacityWingsFoxesRight WingDangerous ThingsFox News Author:Zephyr Teachout
“For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.” YearsHas BeensAudienceMediaInformationNewsWingsConservativeRadioTrustedFoxesOutletsRight WingFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Chris Hayes
“After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.” YearsSeemsEyeThreeAudienceBloodTrumpRepublicanPerceptionNewsAdultsStartingCoreBrandsPresidentialCandidatesThree YearsHittingFoxesLowestSurveysFox NewsPresidential CandidateFeudsLowest Point Author:Chris Hayes
“Fox News' Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, 'The Kelly File.'” FirstsAirNewsProgramVideoFoxesFilesNotableFox News Author:Alexander Viets Griswold
“Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn'€t understand Fox'€s appeal.” MayStillsTodayOpportunityPresidentRecordsEconomicPositionSpeechNewsWeaknessDemocratUniversityAppealsCriticizePresident ObamaFoxesRivalsCablesNotableRatingFox NewsCable NewsNorthwesternNorthwestern University Author:Jonathan S. Tobin
“I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.” PeopleThinkingFactsHalfGoes OnTrumpNewsConservativeFoxesFox News Author:Erick Erickson
“My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.” ShouldWatchesNewsSubstanceFoxesCouncilTurner Author:Lou Dobbs
“[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked.” EndsStoriesHouseActingRaceCasesInvolvedRepublicanNewsLettersClintonExtraordinaryCampaignsConcertsFoxesFox NewsCoordinationHackedKgb Author:James Carville
“I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.” ThinkingEnoughMediaBalanceNewsDemocratComplexesRadioFoxesFox News Author:Andrew Breitbart
“In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.” TryingMindMomentsSeemsNightLeftGivenCompanyTalkingWatchesMillionsRecordsNew YorkTvsNewsPercentResourcesDirectHollywoodCommittedShut UpFoxesNew York TimesRecord CompaniesCnnFox NewsNbc Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Rick Grenell, who is an old U.N. hand, talk on Fox News about really pressing to see if the Iranians are violating any of the terms of the agreement, really press them on that, make sure there is full compliance.” IfsHandsTermNewsPressesAgreementFoxesFox NewsCompliance Author:George Stephanopoulos
“This statement, this transgression, this issue whereas if you look at the Fox News poll - CNN, ABC, NBC, everybody was there."CBS" polls, you see that Americans were very focused on jobs and the economy, health care, immigration, terrorism. I mean, the cues and clues to this election were right in front of him the whole time.” IfsLooksMeanWholeCareJobsEconomyIssuesFrontsNewsElectionTerrorismFocusedImmigrationStatementsHealth CareFoxesCluePollsCnnFox NewsTransgressionNbc Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?” KnowsFacesNamesPresidentCasesSawsMediaTrumpNewsStandingBunchExecutivesFairnessVentureFoxesViewersCablesCnnFox NewsStanding There Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I think his [Donald's Trump] objection would be to biased and unfair, which is not the way he characterize "Fox News" to me, anyway. But we're all looking for objective coverage.” ThinkingWayWould BeTrumpNewsObjectivesUnfairFoxesCoverageObjectionsBiasedFox News Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms.” FactsTermNewsBossFoxesFox News Author:Megyn Kelly
“We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.” SaidWantedFilmChallengesTelevisionProveNewsFoxesReferringFox NewsClip Author:Marina Abramovic
“The Fox News anchors are lovely. They have an incredible combination of brains and beauty. And I think that's one of the reasons people love watching them and listening to them.” PeopleThinkingReasonBrainListeningNewsIncrediblesLovelyCombinationFoxesAnchorsFox NewsBeauty And BrainsNews Anchors Author:Megyn Kelly
“What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to see" - is so violent. I'm not even talking about the content. I'm talking about the way in which it's cut.” WayChildrenAbleTalkingCuttingNewsOur ChildrenViolentSupposed To BeBotherCinemaFoxesFox News Author:Tilda Swinton
“That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.” WayCharacterTrumpNewsFolksBarackFoxesSupporterRespondingFox NewsFictional Character Author:Barack Obama
“Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.” PoliticalPartyDemocracyIgnoranceBandNewsRaisedIdeologyFoxesPolitical PartiesPredatorFox NewsRowdy Author:Bill Moyers
“So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the era of modern cable, because people will pay them to talk to the president.” PeopleLongPresidentPowerfulPayModernAchieveTrumpNewsAdvertisingErasFoxesCablesFox NewsUnheard Author:David Frum
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensRealityPoliticalHateTermWatchesExampleNewsHatredDemocraticCoreDefinedChiefsAdministrationExpertsResentmentStaffStereotypeFoxesFox NewsStrategistElitistDeputiesChief Of Staff Author:Sidney Blumenthal
“I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think.” PeopleThinkingProblemMightNewsPracticalsProblem SolvingFoxesCaricaturesFox News Author:Barack Obama
“I have made you - along with Fox News has made you - think Obama is something that he isn't. And it's such a shame. I have so distorted who the real Obama is in your mind, that it is paralyzing our government. It is paralyzing the Speaker of the House, who really, really, really, really wants to go in there and really, really work with Obama, but he just can't. It's hard for people like Boehner to move too far in my direction because of the misperception of me, Obama says, created by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.” PeopleThinkingWantMindMadeRealHardGovernmentMovingHouseNewsShameSpeakersFoxesFox NewsMisperception Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.” YearsLooksKindDoneShowsBigsHateThreeLostSpeakGrowsGoneMediaOughtNewsConcernedConservativeRadioNewspapersNineAll KindsPieListenersFoxesMonopolyHate MeNine YearsCnnFox NewsTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.” PeopleShowsNewsAgreeFoxesFox News Author:Naomi Wolf
“Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.” NumbersOpinionEnemyNewsWingsFoxesRight WingFox NewsPublic EnemiesNews Channels Author:Michael Moore
“I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?” BelieveHappensCareNewsPhonesBritainFoxesWho CaresGreat BritainHackingFox News Author:Michael Moore
“I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.” PeopleIfsWayI CanWholeTurnsNewsTablesGet UpRestaurantsFoxesFox News Author:Rupert Murdoch
“This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.” CountryLiteratureNewsFoxesBetter PlaceFox News Author:Bill O'Reilly