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Asa Hutchinson Recorded Robocalls For Anti-Reform Rallies Featuring Fox's Stossel

Zachary Roth | October 26, 2009, 6:25PM


FOX News' John Stossel and Fmr. Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)

We told you last week that John Stossel of Fox News is participating in rallies against health-care reform organized by a conservative activist group.

But now it looks like Stossel's decision to get involved with the effort ties him in not just with the conservative anti-reform movement, but with the Republican Party itself. That's because former Arkansas GOP congressman Asa Hutchinson has recorded robocalls promoting the upcoming rallies in his state.

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Topics: Asa Hutchinson, Health Care, John Stossel, Media

John Stossel

Fox's John Stossel To Rally Against Health Care Reform

Zachary Roth | October 23, 2009, 12:58PM


FOX News' John Stossel

John Stossel of Fox News will join a conservative activist group for rallies designed to build opposition to health-care reform.

Americans For Prosperity (AFP) has announced that Stossel, a "renowned health care reporter and analyst," will participate in three "Health Care Town Halls," starting next week in Arkansas.

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Topics: Health Care, John Stossel, Media

Pat Buchanan

Buchanan: White Americans Are Losing Their Country!

Zachary Roth | October 20, 2009, 11:32AM

Pat Buchanan, in his latest column, in reference to white Americans:

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

Don't tell MSNBC!

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Topics: Media, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Right-wing extremism

Global Warming

Reuters: We Screwed Up On Hoax Press Release

Zachary Roth | October 19, 2009, 3:22PM

Reuters admits it messed up by not calling the Chamber of Commerce about that hoax press release saying it had changed its stance on climate change.

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Topics: Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Media, Yes Men

Joe Arpaio

Lights, Camera, Action: DC Power Couple Jet Into Arizona For Stapley Presser

Zachary Roth | October 8, 2009, 6:12PM


Republican lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing

Well, that didn't take long...

Just three days after the news was announced that they've been hired to probe campaign finance allegations against a heretofore obscure Arizona county supervisor, Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing went before the cameras in Maricopa County.

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Topics: Andrew Thomas, Immigration, Joe Arpaio, Joseph diGenova, Media, Victoria Toensing

George Will

George Will Bamboozling Again On Global Warming

Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 5:01PM


George Will

With efforts to stop climate change back in the news, the Washington Post's George Will has re-started his efforts to bamboozle on the topic.

In a new column, Will denounces the "alarmists" on the issue, and, as if this were 1987, calls for "a national commission appointed to assess the evidence about climate change." Seriously.

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Topics: George Will, Global Warming, Media

American Police Force

Reporter-Turned-APF-Flack: "I Made A Great Career Choice"

Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 12:07PM


Becky Shay

Reporters who go to work in public relations often encounter a bit of skepticism from their former colleagues (see Wolffe, Richard.) But that skepticism may be especially pronounced when the company on whose behalf the former reporter is spinning is a mysterious private security force that has won a contract to take over an empty jail and won't reveal the source of its backing, and whose leader shows up in town wearing a military-style uniform, offering three Mercedes SUVs for use by local law enforcement, and dragging a long criminal record, including jail time for fraud, behind him.

Meet Becky Shay, the American Police Force's new director of public relations. Shay had been a reporter for 20 years, and had been covering the APF story for the Billings Gazette. She filed her last story Thursday night, apparently without telling her editors that she had been in negotiations for a job with the company she was covering. Then she abruptly quit the paper and announced that she had signed on with APF.

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Topics: American Police Force, Becky Shay, Defense Contractors, Media, Michael Hilton

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