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Fox’s Gretchen Carlson invokes Minnesota roots while stoking ‘War on Christmas’

By Chris Steller | 12.11.08 | 4:00 pm

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again, the “War on Christmas” season.
Over the past day, Gretchen Carlson, a co-host of “Fox & Friends” and the last Minnesotan to become Miss America (1989), invoked her…

Bachmann: 23 TV appearances since Sept. 1, 0 public meetings in her district since being elected

By Andy Birkey | 10.29.08 | 1:04 pm

Michele Bachmann has done over 20 major television appearances since the beginning of September — far more than any member of Minnesota’s congressional delegation. How does a freshman Congress member from the minority party find herself in the limelight so often?

Easy. You and I pay for it.

Media Monitor: O’Reilly remixed (and more)

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.13.08 | 11:24 am

Bill O’Riled: As old footage of Bill O’Reilly going ballistic on the set of Inside Edition burns up the Internet, RevoLucian makes an NSFW remix sure to…

The sound of two jaws flapping: Bachmann and O’Reilly on the scourge of criminal aliens

By Steve Perry | 02.28.08 | 11:01 am

Last night on Fox, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann engaged in a cheerfully fact-free five-minute colloquy with Bill O’Reilly regarding the case of Olga Franco, the Guatemalan woman who caused the southern Minnesota school bus crash that killed four…