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huffingtonpost.com - 12/8/2008
Obama Fox News Showdown A Murdoch 'Set Up': Wolff
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Back in September, then Presidential hopeful Barack Obama had a "secret meeting" with Fox News executives in an effort to hash out "concern[s] about the way Fox was covering him." At the time, Obama wondered if Fox was ever going to give him "a fair shake," leading Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes ...

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Why Does FOX News' Tantaros Hate America? (video)
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Why Does FOX News' Tantaros Hate America? (video)
— youtube.com — Andrea Tantaros again proves that Roger Ailes lied when he said FOX News likes America. In this clip she repeatedly smeared the majority of Americans who vot... (more) Why Does FOX News' Tantaros Hate America? (video)

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thinkprogress.org - 12/3/2008
Obama grants Fox News its first question at his press conference.
— thinkprogress.org — During today’s press conference, President-elect Barack Obama called on Fox News to ask a question for the first time since the election. Fox News had not been called on in Obama’s five prior press conferences . Fox’s Wendell Goler began by ... (more) Obama grants Fox News its first question at his press ...

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Rupert Murdoch Engineered Ailes-Obama Meeting
Politics Daily — ... This is funny. From an interview between Howard Kurtz and Michael Wolff--who is doing a big book/bio of Rupert Murdoch and News Corp--Wolff tells Kurtz that Murdoch engineered the meeting deliberately to force his TV news division and Obama to come to some sort of a ceasefire. What's funny is why Murdoch doesn't exercise more control over his apparently rogue news division: ...

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