Minnesota Independent

Fox pans Pawlenty’s tough-guy persona after he claims Obama wears Depends

By Andy Birkey | 04.07.11 | 6:54 am

A potential GOP candidate getting flak from Fox News’ conservative anchors for criticizing President Obama? That was the case for Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday when the Fox and Friends new macho image isn’t sitting well with some of Fox News’ conservative anchors who called Pawlenty’s recent comments about President Obama, “inappropriate,” “out of hand” and possibly “bad for the country.” The Fox and Friends crew took Pawlenty to task on Wednesday after Pawlenty made a comment on Tuesday that Obama gets so scared by intelligence briefings that he soils himself.

Bachmann hit 14 national media outlets in the last seven days

By Andy Birkey | 12.13.10 | 8:00 am

A study last year by the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota found that Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on cable news programs every nine days on average. Last week, she shattered those expectations by appearing on a cable news program at least once a day from Tuesday through Saturday making 14 national television or radio appearances.

Keillor joins Bachmann, Fox’s Carlson in War on Christmas fight

By Chris Steller | 12.18.09 | 11:14 am

Garrison Keillor rages from the battlements of the War on Christmas in his column this week, telling Unitarians and Jews and other heathens that “Christmas is a Christian holiday — if you’re not in the club, then buzz off.”

AM.MN: Suits scare Pawlenty, Minneapolis officials

By Chris Steller | 10.30.09 | 8:30 am

Lawsuit Day often comes before Halloween and Election Day (ask Norm Coleman). Sure enough, Thursday saw a federal judge give President Obama a treat, confirming his U.S. citizenship in throwing out a “birther” suit. In Minnesota,…

On Michele Bachmann babysitting for Gretchen Carlson

By Chris Steller | 10.28.09 | 10:52 am

Imagine this notice tacked up in Anoka, circa 1970: “Wanted: Future Member of Congress to babysit future Miss America and Fox News host.” That’s just one of the rabbit-holes your mind can wander down if you ponder this fact…

Fox’s Gretchen Carlson: ‘Crack research’ finds only two clunkers for cash in state

By Chris Steller | 08.04.09 | 12:20 pm

What kind of “crack research” is Fox’s Gretchen Carlson smoking? The Fox & Friends co-host and former Miss Minnesota claimed today that after spending “a tremendous amount of time” researching the issue, she found that only two cash-for-clunkers…

Religious Right Watch: The ‘War on Christmas’

By Andy Birkey | 12.22.08 | 7:57 am

What is the reason for the season? For some it’s to squabble over when and where people celebrate the birth of the Christian messiah Jesus Christ, and it’s part of the holiday tradition known as the “War on Christmas.” This year the war features a child-molesting Santa Claus, Nazis, gay marriage, Frank Costanza’s Festivus pole and a look back at the most anti-Christian Christmas-bashers in American history: the Puritans.

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…