Continuing their tradition of journalistic excellence, FOX News is in trouble for essentially manufacturing the entire 9/12 Tea-party protests in Washington D.C.
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A letter has surfaced written by three crew members from the Transformer films defending Michael Bay from a recent string of comments Megan Fox has made about him in the press. They anonymously discuss how stupid and vacuous Fox was, and how much of a pain in the ass she was to work with (go figure).
TV Buzz After Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist, 36 companies have pulled their advertisements from his program. UPS has even gone as far as to pull advertising on all Fox networks. Looking over these highlights, you have to wonder why they didn't get out sooner.
New favorite Furry! There's plenty more where this came from, including Ladybear performing karaoke!!!
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Fox News' Shepard Smith's went on the air today to talk about the emails he's been receiving for “the past few months,” and how they've been getting “more and more frightening.”
TV Buzz Coming soon on Fox: real-life layoffs as reality TV. Each week of the exciting series “Someone's Gotta Go” will feature a struggling small business that needs to fire an employee. The entire staff will be told how much everybody makes, what their performance reviews have been like, etc. Then they will discuss and vote on who should be let go. It's being described as like The Apprentice meets Survivor meets The Office, but really it is like “so depressing” meets “makes me uncomfortable.”
TV Buzz Fox is planning a reality dating show for fat people. I guess this might be a time to bemoan America or whatever, but I hear that The Biggest Loser really moves people, and isn't helping people find LOVE worth more than helping them look pretty? (Fox PR people can feel free to send Sit Down, Shut Up screeners to me c/o BuzzFeed.)
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Jon Stewart takes a look at how Fox News is coping with the Obama presidency. Basically: not well. They are not even sure Obama is really the president. Patriots!
This is supposedly a leaked scene from an upcoming Simpson’s episode set to air on Nov. 2nd, that features Homer Simpson trying to vote for Obama. Of course, the machine basically forces him to vote McCain before it attempts to turn him into dough, er, Doh!
TV Buzz Jeff Foxworthy is now attached to an animated Fox series about a “dysfunctional family involved in NASCAR.” Just imagine King Of The Hill, but not funny.
TV Buzz In between almost every down during Sunday’s football games, Fox kept reminding viewers to tune in for Hole In The Wall, their remake of a crazy Japanese game show. In the show, contestants of all shapes and sizes try to rearrange their limbs to fit through an approaching hole in a wall, or risk being dumped into a pool of water. There’s a spate of YouTube videos from both the Japanese show and the American one, so take some time and get to know what may become your newest obsession.
Movie Buzz Lawyers for Fox are suing Warner Brothers to prevent their upcoming $120 million release of “Watchmen”. Apparently, Fox bought the rights to a “Watchmen” movie back in the 80’s, and may be trying to stop Warner Bros from ever releasing the highly anticipated film. But, knowing Fox, they’ll probably just settle for a superhero payday.
TV Buzz Fox runs altered photos of two New York Times writers during a news segment. On Fox & Friends, Fox hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade called the NY Times’ Steven Reddicliffe and Jacques Steinberg “attack dogs” after they ran a piece talking about Fox News’ recent ratings slide, and ran photos of the two Times employees with yellowed teeth and exaggerated facial features. We Photoshop, You Decide(TM).