Why you shouldn’t call Fox News’s Pat Caddell and greet him with ‘Hi, Pat’

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Some background: Author Zev Chafets recently published a generally positive biography on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. A similar book, though largely speculated to contain more gritty details about Ailes and Fox, is due out later this year by New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman. Many Fox News personnel have attacked Sherman, who has released… Read more »

Fox News’s Shep Smith Grouses Catholic Church ‘Exclude[s] Half the Population’; ‘Why Can’t a Woman Be Cardinal?’ He Asks Priest

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With thick, black smoke pouring out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel indicating that the College of Cardinals had not elected a new pope on their first ballot, Fox News Channel's Shep Smith took to the air at 3:15 p.m. EDT to grill Catholic priest and Fox News contributor Fr. Jonathan Morris on the… Read more »

Fox News’s Beckel Issues Quasi-Apology for Rape Comments

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Taken to task by numerous individuals on Twitter yesterday — see Twitchy's excellent roundup here — Fox News Channel The Five liberal co-host sought to explain, if not actually apologize for, his comments on the February 19  program in which Beckel both suggested campus rapes were rare incidents and that college co-eds might accidentally shoot… Read more »