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		<title>Fox &amp; Friends Produces 4 Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad, Then Removes It From Its Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 19:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics of the Fox News morning program Fox &#038; Friends have often charged the show&#8217;s three hosts with essentially providing free airtime to GOP candidates, lawmakers and surrogates with little to no representation from their Democratic counterparts. But Wednesday morning&#8217;s foray marks a new low in the network&#8217;s willingness to do the Republican Party&#8217;s heavy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fox-and-friends.jpg"><img src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fox-and-friends.jpg" alt="" title="Fox-and-friends" width="250" height="141" class="alignright size-full wp-image-465818" /></a>Critics of the Fox News morning program Fox &#038; Friends have often charged the show&#8217;s three hosts with essentially providing free airtime to GOP candidates, lawmakers and surrogates with little to no representation from their Democratic counterparts. But Wednesday morning&#8217;s foray marks a new low in the network&#8217;s willingness to do the Republican Party&#8217;s heavy lifting for it.</p>
<p>Fox News produced its own 4 minute attack video disguised as a retrospective of President Obama&#8217;s first term in office and aired it as a  &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends Presents&#8221; special. The ad opens with images of cheering voters during the 2008 election, before devolving into a wildly misleading juxtaposition of then-candidate Barack Obama promising change with rising unemployment rates and national debt. Watch it:</p>
<p><center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Tmstx1HWX08" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center></p>
<p>At the conclusion of the video, Fox &#038; Friends co-host Steve Doocy thanked one of the show&#8217;s producers for editing together the segment &#8220;for weeks.&#8221; But it only took hours for network brass to perhaps recognize the implications of Fox News producing and airing its own attack ads, because they <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fox-news-airs-blistering-then-and-now-anti-obama-video-review/">quickly pulled</a> from the Fox News website with no explanation. Even conservative sites <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/30/video-foxs-four-years-of-hope-and-change/">balked</a> at the idea of Fox News producing its own political attack ads. </p>
<p>Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/roger-ailes-repositions-fox-news.html">long defended</a> his network from charges of bias, explaining&#8211;incorrectly&#8211;that only the network&#8217;s primetime hosts are explicitly partisan. But as this ad clearly demonstrates, the network&#8217;s collusion with the Republican party runs much deeper than the 5pm to 10 pm time slots. </p>

	 <div class="post-update"><h5>Update</h5><p class="timestamp"> </p> <p> Salon&#8217;s Alex Seitz-Wald <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/fox_news_cuts_obama_attack_ad/singleton/">notes</a> that Fox Nation &#8220;has now posted and tweeted the video, declaring it a: &#8216;<a href="https://twitter.com/foxnation/statuses/207904752753844224">MUST-SEE VIDEO</a>.&#8217;&#8221; </p></div>
	 

	 <div class="post-update"><h5>Update</h5><p class="timestamp"> </p> <p> &#8220;The package that aired on &#8216;Fox &#038; Friends&#8217; was created by an associate producer and was <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fox-friends-obama-attack-ad-video-204537376.html">not authorized</a> at the senior executive level of the network,&#8221; Bill Shine, executive vice president of programming at Fox News, told Yahoo News. &#8220;This has been addressed with the show&#8217;s producers.&#8221; </p></div>
	 
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		<title>Limbaugh Sees Ratings Dip Following Attacks On Sandra Fluke</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/05/21/487905/limbaugh-fluke-ratings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Peterson Beadle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ratings for Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s radio show have dropped significantly in key markets since he attacked Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a &#8220;prostitute&#8221; and a &#8220;slut&#8221; after she spoke out in favor of the Obama administration&#8217;s contraception rule requiring coverage at no additional cost. Despite claiming in March that his ratings were up 60 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ratings for Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s radio show have <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/limbaugh-takes-postfluke-ratings-hit-124058.html">dropped significantly</a> in key markets since he attacked Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a &#8220;prostitute&#8221; and a &#8220;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/29/435082/limbaugh-calls-student-denied-spot-at-contraception-hearing-a-slut/">slut</a>&#8221; after <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/01/435729/limbaugh-fluke-sex-tape/">she spoke out in favor</a> of the Obama administration&#8217;s contraception rule requiring coverage at no additional cost. Despite <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/limbaugh-takes-postfluke-ratings-hit-124058.html">claiming</a> in March that his ratings were up 60 percent, Limbaugh&#8217;s <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/limbaugh-takes-postfluke-ratings-hit-124058.html">numbers have fallen</a> 27 percent in the 25-54 demographic in New York City, 31 percent in Houston-Galveston, 40 percent in Seattle-Tacoma, and 35 percent in Jacksonville, Politico reports. The numbers come from a selection of the March 29 to April 25 Arbitron ratings. </p>
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		<title>Drudge goes birther</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/05/17/486259/drudge-goes-birther/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judd Legum</dc:creator>
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