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While Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s not afraid of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, it’s curious that her next big media appearance following that statement wasn’t Olbermann’s show but the friendlier Bill O’Reilly’s. Something else she’s not afraid of: a handout.
Reader Kate writes in to ask whether Bachmann — who told O’Reilly on Wednesday, “I don’t need [...]

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.

Burnin’ up the internet this morning is an interview by Orlando Fox news anchor Barbara West and Joe Biden, who had to endure some positively Bachmannesque questioning. West, who is married to a GOP media consultant, is now the subject of a petition seeking an apology. Best exchange:
West: How is Sen. Obama not being a [...]

Paulose or Pelosi? When Republican Mark Foley resigned during the congressional page scandal last September, Fox News three times identified Foley as a Democrat. A glance at the website of the network’s local affiliate, Fox 9, today makes me wonder if they’re at it again. Their (otherwise solid) coverage of the federal investigation into US [...]

A few days after Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch admitted that his network tried to shape the agenda around the Iraq war and “basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East”, local affiliate KMSP began running teasers for a Feb. 5  “Fox 9 Investigators” report on Minnesota National Guard troops stationed at the U.S.-Mexico [...]