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15 Years On, the Secret of Fox News's Success
Tweet Share on Facebook October 7, 2011 Comment (2)The media world might have been shocked when a recent Pew Research poll named Fox News Channel the public's top news source: In the July poll, 19 percent of Americans said they turned to Fox as their main source of national and international news, followed by CNN with 15 percent. But Fox exec Brit Hume wasn't surprised by the results. Thinking back 15 years to the Oct. 7, 1996, debut of the cable news channel, he recalls how nobody outside Fox thought it would even survive. "It wasn't that reports of our demise were exaggerated," he says, "nobody even thought we'd get far enough to have a demise." Now, he wonders, why aren't the other news programs following Fox's lead?
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Shakira Joins Obama's Hispanic Education Team
Tweet Share on Facebook October 7, 2011 Comment (1)There was no chest-popping nor hip-shaking in the Capitol last night. Well, at least not from international pop star Shakira.
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Michelle Obama Coached On Teleprompter Too
Tweet Share on Facebook October 7, 2011 Comment (315)There's one less thing President Obama has over his wife Michelle: mastery of the Teleprompter.
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Herman Cain's Plan For First 90 Days as President
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2011 Comment (8)In his first 90 days as president, Herman Cain plans to replace President Obama's health overhaul law with "Caincare," institute a new "Domestic Cain Doctrine," change the cabinet into a corporate-styled executive committee, and force all agencies to justify their spending. And when all that is done, he plans to appoint his wife Gloria as head of the "Grandmommy Project" to do something related to grand kids.
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Why Obama's No Truman and Cain's No Eisenhower
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2011 Comment (1)Herman Cain is dreaming if he thinks the public will make him president and Barack Obama's plan of repeating Harry S. Truman's come-from-behind 1948 victory is fatally flawed, says political expert Larry Sabato.
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Palin Unlikely to Land a VP or Cabinet Job Either
Tweet Share on Facebook October 6, 2011 Comment (17)Sarah Palin's erratic process for deciding she won't run for president likely also killed her chances of being picked again as a runningmate or even a cabinet official in a Republican administration. But one thing's for sure: She'll keep making enough money that she'd have to pay President Obama's millionaire's tax.
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John Grisham Says Small Town Juries Too Easy to Sway
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (5)Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks combined spent more than 30 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
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Fight Erupts Over First Lady's Travel Costs
Tweet Share on Facebook October 5, 2011 Comment (71)A fight has broken out between the White House, its defenders and a conservative public watchdog group over first lady Michelle Obama's travel costs and how they are calculated. The dispute stems from a Judicial Watch release yesterday, reported by Whispers, that said the first lady's June goodwill mission to Africa cost $424,142 just for her Air Force C32A.
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Michelle Obama's Africa Trip Cost More Than $424,142
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 Comment (708)First lady Michelle Obama's family trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch, a taxpayer watchdog group.
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Perry Donors Say He's Raised $10 Million
Tweet Share on Facebook October 4, 2011 Comment (1)Texas Gov. Rick Perry hopes to quiet doubts about his political endurance with a blockbuster report of his third-quarter fundraising, which some Perry donors say should be about $10 million.
