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Breaking: Major Garrett Leaving Fox News (UPDATED)

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Mediaite has learned that Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett is leaving the network effective September 3rd to return to his roots in print journalism. White House correspondents Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel will assume joint coverage of the WH beat for Fox News.

The highly respected White House reporter weathered numerous battles between FNC and the White House and maintained the highest standard of journalism during his tenure. Developing…

UPDATE: Brian Stelter of the NYT tweets: NYT’s @jwpetersNYT confirms that National Journal is hiring Major Garrett away from Fox News. Apparently Atlantic Media owner David Bradley wasn’t fooling around when he said he wanted to take on Politico. [GM]

MAJOR GARRETT RETURNS TO PRINT JOURNALISM
Leaves FOX News September 3rd
FOX News’ Chief White House correspondent Major Garrett announced today that he will leave the network effective September 3rd to return to his roots in print journalism. White House correspondents Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel will assume joint coverage of the beat.

In making the announcement, Garrett said, “Slightly more than eight years ago, [FOX News Chairman & CEO] Roger Ailes, [former FOX News Executive Vice President] John Moody and [former FOX News Washington Managing Editor and current Senior Political Analyst] Brit Hume created a full-time reporting position for me in the Washington bureau. Our new Senior Vice President of News, Michael Clemente, has continued that support. Since August of 2002, the network and its top executives have given me every opportunity a journalist could hope for. I thank the network for giving me the chance to grow as a reporter and broadcaster.”

He continued, “Throughout my television career, I’ve known with certainty I would someday return to my roots in print journalism. That day has come. I will soon announce an exciting new phase of my career — one made possible in no small part by FOX News’ consistent support. It would take a lot – something near perfection – to lure me away from the best job I’ve ever had. Details to come.”

Garrett further remarked, “I will miss many dear FOX News journalists, colleagues and friends. I wish all of them success. I look forward to discussing my future work on FOX News – keeping in touch with an audience I’ve come to know and cherish. Before I leave FOX News, I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to each and every viewer who extended to me their generous good wishes, support and encouragement.”

Michael Clemente, Senior Vice President of News Editorial for FOX News added, “There are reporters and then there are truly tenacious reporters who come along every so often. Major Garrett is a fact-finding machine, and wherever he goes he will continue to serve an audience that is thirsting for genuine reporting and balance. We wish him the best as he turns this page.”

Joining FOX News from CNN in 2002, Garrett served as the network’s chief White House correspondent since January 2009. Prior to that, he held the position of congressional correspondent reporting on House and Senate races and providing extensive coverage of the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections. Before embarking on a television career, Garrett spent seven years at the Washington Times as its congressional reporter and later a deputy national editor.

FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour general news service covering breaking news as well as political, business and entertainment news. For over 100 consecutive months, FNC has been the most-watched cable news channel in the country. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes.

> Update #2: Here’s an internal memo sent out from Clemente:

To all,

After eight years of solid work at Fox News, Major Garrett is moving to the next phase of his career and returning to his roots in print journalism.

As you well know, Major is as sharp and determined as any journalist in the business. He’s been at Fox since 2002, having already worked at CNN and a number of print organizations including The Washington Times and U.S. News and World Report. He’s covered everything, from wars to elections, Congress, the White House, impeachment and terror attacks. He was with President Bush on September 11th in Florida and he’s been with President Obama, across the globe.

We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and we want to give a heads up to those who may find themselves on the receiving end of his questions…get ready.

A press release is attached as we send this news out beyond Fox, so please join me in wishing Major the best of luck, as he bids farewell here.

Michael

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  • The Real Royal King

    He always had too much integrity to work for FOX.

    I wish him all the very best. He is a very good journalist.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Lindhartsen/704548889 Chris Lindhartsen

    I wonder where he’ll be heading in print media, whether it’ll be a News Corp property or somewhere else.

  • Patrick Henry

    Mr. Garrett is a class act and I wish him well.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Major Garrett is a class act and he knows Fox News is unfair and unbalance. Fox News is forcing the moderates out of their company Shepard Smith will be next. Fox News “Where the truth does not matter and all we want is Obama’s head on a silver platter.”

  • Sean68

    Hope he doesn’t end up on a milk carton like little Davey Schuster.

  • Pablo

    Aw, crap. The very best to you, Major.

    Hey, maybe he can find a spot teaching journalism! J-school could really use him.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Major Garrett is a class act and he knows Fox News is unfair and unbalance.

    Despite him saying quite the opposite of that. You’rejustthatmuchofamoron.

  • puck30

    Sean68 said:
    Hope he doesn’t end up on a milk carton like little Davey Schuster.

    Where have you gone David Schuster

    A Left Wing Nut Base Turns it’s lonely eyes to you (woo, woo, woo)

    What’s that you say, Mr. Maddow

    Crazy Dave has been banned and sent away (Hey, hey, hey…..hey, hey, hey)

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Pablo said:
    Despite him saying quite the opposite of that. You’rejustthatmuchofamoron.

    Of course he said Fox News is a great company it is one of his last forced scripted quotes he must read from Fox News. Pablo you are just that damn dumb.

  • AngelPeters

    He is solid. Best and success to him.

  • greg454

    Print journalism is dead, except for The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal. Major Gareth is nuts, whatever, there are plenty of people ready to take his place. He’s so ungrateful, is he gonna make more money now? I wouldn’t live Fox News for nothing.

  • Penguin60

    “Of course he said Fox News is a great company it is one of his last forced scripted quotes he must read from Fox News.”

    Everyone even the royal queen of douche bags opines that he is a class act. So why impune his integrity,? What a tool.

  • The Real Royal King

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Major Garrett is a class act and he knows Fox News is unfair and unbalance. Fox News is forcing the moderates out of their company Shepard Smith will be next. Fox News “Where the truth does not matter and all we want is Obama’s head on a silver platter.”

    That’s an interesting idea. With the recent problems FOX has been having, the Breitbarting, the donations and ties to the RGA, the failure to cover the breaking news of the Iraqi draw-down (with O’Reilly and the body language expert, O’Hannity and O’Rove’s deflated ego and O’Van Susteren’s boat trip in Alaska) and, of course, the terrorism-funding connection, I wonder if FOX might be considering dropping the news pretext altogether and simply devote its entire programming day to radical rightist commentary? I can’t say that would be a bad idea. FOX “news” has always been sketchy and often laced with radical right editorials, and I think a station dedicated to radical right philosophy is a fine thing.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • http://activitypit.ning.com spinlikeflynn

    Oh no! I just adore Major! Best of luck to him…he’ll be missed. I know he’ll rock his new print journo endeavor. Good luck, Major!

  • The Real Royal King

    Penguin60 said:
    “Of course he said Fox News is a great company it is one of his last forced scripted quotes he must read from Fox News.” Everyone even the royal queen of douche bags opines that he is a class act. So why impune his integrity,? What a tool.

    And, this Douche Bag, for one would also say that loyalty to an employer and to one’s colleagues is admirable as well.

    I have no criticism of Major.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • lonestar77

    Penguin60 says:
    August 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm (Quote)
    0 0

    “Of course he said Fox News is a great company it is one of his last forced scripted quotes he must read from Fox News.”

    Everyone even the royal queen of douche bags opines that he is a class act. So why impune his integrity,? What a tool.
    ________________________________________________________________________________________

    C’mon, you know that wingnut never watches Fox. He’s prolly scared it’ll give him cooties. Like most liberals, ad hominem attacks are about all he has.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Everyone even the royal queen of douche bags opines that he is a class act. So why impune his integrity,? What a tool.

    What part of FORCED you do not understand? You are a tool for the conservative political machine.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Of course he said Fox News is a great company it is one of his last forced scripted quotes he must read from Fox News. Pablo you are just that damn dumb.

    Ah, so he’s a class act…who’s lying for money. Yes, you’rejustthatmuchofamoron.

  • hausch

    Major was an excellent print reporter 20 years ago at the Las Vegas Review Journal. He will excel in the field again.
    Best of luck to a talented man.

    –Associate Professor Mary Hausch
    UNLV Greenspun School of Journalism

  • notsofast

    Congrats Major! You are very good and will be missed. You are so much classier than those trog reporters from the MSM.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    What part of FORCED you do not understand?

    All of it. Evidence?

  • NORBIT

    Is Glenn or Sean available to take Major’s spot?

    - They’d bring even more BALANCE to the Professional-Left JournOlistic press corp.!!!

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Pablo said:
    All of it. Evidence?

    Liberalviewer on youtube

  • The Real Royal King

    NORBIT said:
    Is Glenn or Sean available to take Major’s spot?

    Although you are a notorious twit, that is hilarious. Beckerhead or O’Hannity doing the news. They’d have to have a script handed to them like Ted Baxter. Neither one of them has a clue what’s going on in the world.

    Thanks for the laugh, Norbit!

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • Penguin60

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Everyone even the royal queen of douche bags opines that he is a class act. So why impune his integrity,? What a tool. What part of FORCED you do not understand? You are a tool for the conservative political machine.

    Forced? What a jackoff. Using someone’s dis in your dis. Definition of a tool=Imjustnotthatgood.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Liberalviewer on youtube

    Translation:” I have no evidence. I just made it up. I’m a lib.”

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Penguin60 said:
    Forced? What a jackoff. Using someone’s dis in your dis. Definition of a tool=Imjustnotthatgood.

    “Forced” was my dis’ you conservative tool for Fox News.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    Translation:” I have no evidence. I just made it up. I’m a lib.”

    Liberalviewer is a click away my friend another excuse to drink more Kool-aid from the conservative machine and not to look into the prism of truth.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Liberalviewer is a click away my friend another excuse to drink more Kool-aid from the conservative machine and not to look into the prism of truth.

    Translation:” I have no evidence. I just made it up. I’m a lib.”

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Message for any brain doctor……………Read the posts by RRK. You can tell he is living in La La land. He is in his own fantasy world. I am worried he will harm himself.
    Notice he claims Fox News has had recent problems? That proves he is delusional. Fox has had no problems and is rolling over all opposition.
    So doc, we need your help in saving this poor fool. I know he can’t afford the labotomy but we can try to pass the hat to pay for the operation. I think writer, Michelle F., Norbit, Pablo and I will all put in a dollar. That is a start.
    I think we can get the Texas Rangers to pick him and bring to a hospital.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Liberalviewer on youtube

    What in the everloving fuck is that? Evidence that Major Garret is lying, it ain’t. Do better or shaddap.

  • Penguin60

    To explain that “tool” is a dis is just a waste of time. Go back to playing Donkey Kong.

    Imjustnot thatgood=Tool

    “Translation:” I have no evidence. I just made it up. I’m a lib.”

    Yep, most a$$holes don’t know that they are a$$holes, case in point, libtard shill, Imjustnotthatgood.

  • Puter Boi

    The Real Royal King said:
    He always had too much integrity to work for FOX.

    ummmmm…he was there for eight years….

    ??

    That being said…Hi, King!
    Wishing nothing but further success to Major Garrett. I haven’t watched FOX in a long time, but I see Garett in news conferences sometimes….daily briefings…and I remember his work at CNN.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    Translation:” I have no evidence. I just made it up. I’m a lib.”

    Fox News must have told you to be afraid of liberalviewer. The truth hurts my friend.

  • Pablo

    NORBIT said:
    Is Glenn or Sean available to take Major’s spot?

    Didn’t O’Reiily say he was gonna spend some time in that new front row seat?

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Message for any brain doctor……………Read the posts by RRK. You can tell he is living in La La land. He is in his own fantasy world. I am worried he will harm himself.Notice he claims Fox News has had recent problems? That proves he is delusional. Fox has had no problems and is rolling over all opposition.So doc, we need your help in saving this poor fool. I know he can’t afford the labotomy but we can try to pass the hat to pay for the operation. I think writer, Michelle F., Norbit, Pablo and I will all put in a dollar. That is a start.I think we can get the Texas Rangers to pick him and bring to a hospital.

    You know Marceaux, I mean Blower, I am still waiting for your explanation as to why you were so wrong about Hayseed trouncing Gramps in Arizona.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Fox News must have told you to be afraid of liberalviewer. The truth hurts my friend.

    Child, prove major was forced out. It’s YOUR lie, not mine- own it!

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Yep, most a$$holes don’t know that they are a$$holes, case in point, libtard shill, Imjustnotthatgood.

    “Libtard” and I’m an asshole? Really?

  • The Real Royal King

    Pablo said:
    Didn’t O’Reiily say he was gonna spend some time in that new front row seat?

    I think he changed his mind when the WH announced it would hire Andrea Makris as Assistant Press Secretary.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • MichelleF

    Gordon, I’ll sacrifice and go $2 if that’s what he takes to get him the help he so desperately needs!!

    We’ll miss you Major! You are a class act!

  • The Real Royal King

    notsofast said:
    Child, prove major was forced out. It’s YOUR lie, not mine- own it!

    I agree. There is no indication Major was forced out, and I am confident he was not.

    Having said that, what do you think FOX will do long term with this mighty hole in its news department? Do you think this might be the opportunity for FOX to simply drop the news façade? I personally think it would be a brilliant idea, on one level, but FOX has always used “news” as its claim to legitimacy and also as the often abused basis for its commentary.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    Child, prove major was forced out. It’s YOUR lie, not mine- own it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkr9UsoZxnI

    If Fox News did it before then they will do it again.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Gordon, I’ll sacrifice and go $2 if that’s what he takes to get him the help he so desperately needs!!

    Just save it for your Cheetos fund.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    ImJustThatDamnGood says:
    August 25, 2010 at 12:53 pm ImJustThatDamnGood(Q

    You can tell if someone is a lib: They rarely can make a comment that does not contain a lie. It’s just their nature.

    Now prove Major was forced out?

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkr9UsoZxnI

    If Fox News did it before then they will do it again.

    That only shows Dems are afraid of FOX- we already knew that!

    Now stop changing the subject, clown:Now prove Major was forced out!

  • Penguin60

    “And, this Douche Bag, for one would also say that loyalty to an employer and to one’s colleagues is admirable as well.”

    So you never changed job?

    And Imjustnotthatgood, the first step is admission. Good for you.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    You can tell if someone is a lib: They rarely can make a comment that does not contain a lie. It’s just their nature.

    Now prove Major was forced out?

    Okay you want to play the evidence game you have stated Obama is ruining our country. Where is your evidence? You can tell if someone is a conservative because they believe in the “Do as I say Not as I do” philosophy.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    So you never changed job?

    And Imjustnotthatgood, the first step is admission. Good for you.

    Now admit you are a tool of Fox News.

  • newzmaker

    Major is pretty much a straight-up journalist, which is a rarity these days. He’s one of the very few media personality dudes, who didn’t fall in love with Obama and lose his sanity. Too many dude reporters fell hopelessly in love with Obama and still haven’t recovered. Over the past 2 years, I have witnessed dude after dude, completely goin’ out of their heads, over Obama. Olbermann and Matthews are the worst of all the sick puppies. . Such a sight…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXasrXAfP6Q

    When I’ve been here longer on this blog, I’ll figure out which of these dude reporters are also going’ out of their heads, over Obama. Then, I’ll post their names here.

  • Penguin60

    sorry keith, your projections are false. Now hurry up, that Asteriod machine is calling your name.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RRK, I am waiting for you to cut and paste that comment I made about Hayworth? Can’t do it can you?
    Check the other pages where you posted that lie. You need to answer everyones question, why do you LIE all the time.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Okay you want to play the evidence game you have stated Obama is ruining our country. Where is your evidence?

    My evidence?

    Obama Presides Over Most Jobs Lost Since 1940
    By Julia A. Seymour
    Business & Media Institute
    1/8/2010 11:03:00 AM

    Unemployment shot up in 2009 from 7.7 percent in January to 10.1 percent in October before settling at 10 percent in December. Behind those percentages were more than 4.1 million people who lost their jobs during the year. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s the most job losses in a year since 1940. (BLS could only provide data from 1940-2009)

    As for the deficit, CBO shows that over the first three years of the Obama Presidency, 2009-2011, the federal government will borrow an estimated $3.7 trillion. THAT IS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE ACCUMULATED NATIONAL DEBT FOR THE FIRST 225 YEARS OF U.S. HISTORY. By 2019, the interest payments on this debt will be larger than the budget for education, roads and all other nondefense discretionary spending.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027181656362948.html

    Deficit climbs to record under Obama’s budget
    $3.8 trillion budget: Jobs take priority; reaction swift
    February 02, 2010|By Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

    Washington — President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget blueprint for next year sets a new deficit record of $1.56 trillion, includes a big jobs program and rolls back Bush-era tax cuts for high-income Americans. The president sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which would not drop below $700 billion in the next several years.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-02-02/news/17842521_1_tax-cuts-house-republicans-head-of-tax-policy

    In the week ending Aug. 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 500,000, an increase of 12,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 488,000. The 4-week moving average was 482,500, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week’s revised average of 474,500.

    Unemployment: 9.5%; Obama says he’s ‘deeply concerned’
    Updated 7/2/2009 7:17 PM

    By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
    WASHINGTON — The nation’s unemployment rolls swelled by 467,000 in June, reversing a recent trend of slowing job losses and raising questions about a widely anticipated second-half recovery.

    The unemployment rate edged up only slightly, to 9.5% from 9.4% as 155,000 Americans left the work force, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in its monthly survey. Many were likely discouraged workers who gave up their job searches, says Sung Won Sohn, economics professor at the Smith School at California State University.

    Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil futures extended losses and were briefly down more than $1 on Friday after a greater-than-expected drop in U.S. nonfarm payrolls in July.

    July nonfarm payrolls fell 131,000 in July, the U.S. Labor Department said. Economists in a Reuters survey had forecast a loss of 65,000.

    Foreclosures predicted to beat last year’s record setting number
    August 23, 2010 4:01 AM

    New home sales drop 12.4% to record low
    chart_new_home_sales.top.gif By Hibah Yousuf, staff reporterAugust 25, 2010: 11:34 AM ET

    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — New home sales unexpectedly fell in July to the lowest level on record as the housing market continued to suffer from the end of the homebuyer tax credit boost.

    New home sales dropped 12.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000 last month, down from a downwardly revised 315,000 in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Sales year-over-year fell 32.4%.

    Sales of existing homes plunged in July
    Record drop of 27 percent to the lowest level since 1995

    By ALAN ZIBEL, J.W. ELPHINSTONE
    updated 8/24/2010 6:56:56 PM ET

    WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes plunged last month to the lowest level in 15 years, despite the lowest mortgage rates in decades and bargain prices in many areas.

    July’s sales fell by more than 27 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. It was the largest monthly drop on records dating back to 1968, and sharp declines were recorded in all regions of the country.

    Now prove Major was forced out!!

  • Michael_T

    Chris Lindhartsen said:
    I wonder where he’ll be heading in print media, whether it’ll be a News Corp property or somewhere else.

    Did you not read the Mediaite article?

    It says, “…National Journal is hiring Major Garrett away from Fox News.”

    As for M.G. it must be a welcome change to now have the freedom to provide critical analysis of *both* major parties … whereas at FNC he had to, for the most part, acquiesce to the Roger Ailes unspoken agenda.

    Of course if he cut his teeth at the Washington Times, perhaps his heart & mind will always lean to the right. I have no problem with that.

  • Penguin60

    “You can tell if someone is a conservative because they believe in the “Do as I say Not as I do” philosophy.”

    You can tell someone is a lib, they never answer a question.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Congrats Major. Fox is no place for a journalist.

    And you no longer have to be embarrassed to go to your son’s “Career Day for Kids” at his school.

  • Michael_T

    Colby Hall,

    It would be helpful if you would add a time stamp to your updates (as other sites like HuffPost do) … e.g. UPDATE #1 and UPDATE #2 in your current Mediaite article.

    Thank you.

    Michael

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    BFD did anyone bring you cookies at the home this week?

  • notsofast

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Congrats Major. Fox is no place for a journalist.

    And you no longer have to be embarrassed to go to your son’s “Career Day for Kids” at his school.

    I guess they don’t allow your kids to visit you at the prison on “Take Your Child to Work Day” , do they, BFD?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Now prove Major was forced out!!

    You make specious arguments about Obama ruining the country. Many of your numbers are due to Bush’s policies and Obama having to carry Bush’s deficit into his term.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/bush-leaving-next-preside_n_115335.html

    I guess a half truth is a whole truth for conservatives.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    You make specious arguments about Obama ruining the country.

    No, no, no child! I just proved it! And it was Barry who ran for the job to save the country ; no one forced him, and BHO has in 18 months tripled Bush’s 8 year deficit!

    And prove that Major was forced out , clown!

    You keep changing the subject, libby!

  • Penguin60

    Ah, the Bush card…..over the limit, just like the race card.

    I’m mean come on, pretend like you have half a brain.Using the Huff and Puff and You tube as your back up, shows the true definition of a lib shill/tool.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Okay you want to play the evidence game you have stated Obama is ruining our country.

    “I know! I’ll change the subject! Then, they won’t catch me lying!”

    Sorry, moonbat. Trix are for kids.

  • The Real Royal King

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    you no longer have to be embarrassed to go to your son’s “Career Day for Kids” at his school.

    I have to admit, I never considered that. Good motivation to leave FOX.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Twas all the race baiting that sent him packing.

    An honorable man just can’t tolerate that.

  • Karol

    That is the saddest news I have heard today. Major Garrett along with Shepard Smith are the super stars of Fox. They make Fox legitimate. I am sorry and will certainly miss the no nonsense newsman. I wish you the very best, Mr. Garrett and will miss you enormously.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Penguin60 said:
    Ah, the Bush card…..over the limit, just like the race card.

    I’m mean come on, pretend like you have half a brain.Using the Huff and Puff and You tube as your back up, shows the true definition of a lib shill/tool.

    With your logic I guess every time a firefighter puts out a fire. The fire was the firefighter’s fault. Obama is putting out Bush’s fire.

  • Constantly

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Okay you want to play the evidence game you have stated Obama is ruining our country. Where is your evidence? You can tell if someone is a conservative because they believe in the “Do as I say Not as I do” philosophy.

    deflector shields at maximum captain!!

  • Penguin60

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    With your logic I guess every time a firefighter puts out a fire. The fire was the firefighter’s fault. Obama is putting out Bush’s fire.

    Yeah, that’s it. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
    barry never voted on all those crappy bills, eh? Left was going berserk over the deficit when bush was in, what’s it now? Keeping grasping.

  • notsofast

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Obama is putting out Bush’s fire.

    LOL

    Barry added gasoline to the fire.

    Now prove that Major was forced out, you lying lib!

  • notsofast
  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    notsofast said:
    No, no, no child! I just proved it! And it was Barry who ran for the job to save the country ; no one forced him, and BHO has in 18 months tripled Bush’s 8 year deficit!

    And prove that Major was forced out , clown!

    You keep changing the subject, libby!

    No sugar cakes tax cuts are still in effect. I never stated Major was forced out I stated he was forced to say good things about Fox News before he leaves. I surmised Shepard Smith may be forced out. Conservatives always twisting the words of innocent liberals.

  • Penguin60

    “innocent liberals.”

    There are none. They are all guilty.

  • notsofast

    Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg
    Published: Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | 11:23 AM ET

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    ImJustThatDamnGood says:
    August 25, 2010 at 12:10 pm ImJustThatDamnGood(Quote)
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    Major Garrett is a class act and he knows Fox News is unfair and unbalance. Fox News is forcing the moderates out of their company Shepard Smith will be next.

    Nice lie, lib.

    “I stated he was forced to say good things about Fox News before he leaves.”

    Prove that one too, liar!

    Anyway, I proved you are a liar, so enough of you.

    More evidence that Barry is ruining the country.

    Do refute it , child!

    Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg
    Published: Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | 11:23 AM ET

    By: Jeff Cox

    Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday.

    Writing in his daily briefing to investors, Rosenberg said the Great Depression also had its high points, with a series of positive GDP reports and sharp stock market gains.

    But then as now, those signs of recovery were unsustainable and only provided a false sense of stability, said Rosenberg.

    Rosenberg calls current economic conditions “a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession,” and notes that any good news both during the initial 1929-33 recession and the one that began in 2008 triggered “euphoric response.”

    “Such is human nature and nobody can be blamed for trying to be optimistic; however, in the money management business, we have a fiduciary responsibility to be as realistic as possible about the outlook for the economy and the market at all times,” he said.

    The 1929-33 recession saw six quarterly bounces in GDP with an average gain of 8 percent, sending the stock market to a 50 percent rally in early 1930 as investors thought the worst had passed.

    “False premise,” Rosenberg said. “And guess what? We may well be reliving history here. If you’re keeping score, we have recorded four quarterly advances in real GDP, and the average is only 3%.”

    Rosenberg’s warning comes as a slew of major analysts—Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan among them—have slashed GDP projections for 2010 to the 1.5 to 2 percent range.

    Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said in a speech Tuesday that the risk of a double-dip recession has escalated. He said government programs to help distressed homeowners have been ineffective and aren’t helping the pivotal housing sector recover.

    The dour outlooks come on the same day that the National Association of Realtors said home sales reached a 15-year low in June, dousing hopes that the industry had reached a bottoming point.

  • Penguin60

    “Major Garrett along with Shepard Smith are the super stars of Fox. They make Fox legitimate. ”

    I would also add Bret Baier.

  • juan

    Luv ya and Best of Luck, Major!

    Thank GOD for you and FOX News!

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Nice lie, lib.

    Okay you prove my point where did I state Major was forced out? Twisting my words once again.
    A half truth is a whole truth in the eye of the conservative.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Penguin60 said:
    “Major Garrett along with Shepard Smith are the super stars of Fox. They make Fox legitimate. ”

    I would also add Bret Baier.

    You would.

  • KMLake

    Good on ya Major for leaving the realm of the vampire king… Rupert Murdock. You just might be able to become once again the good man we suspect you really are.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    With your logic I guess every time a firefighter puts out a fire. The fire was the firefighter’s fault. Obama is putting out Bush’s fire.

    How’s that working out for ya? Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession

    How are things better under Obama? Is poverty more fun now or something?

  • Pablo

    KMLake said:
    You just might be able to become once again the good man we suspect you really are.

    That’s funny. People all across the spectrum already know Major is a good guy and a damned good journalist. Even Colby’s up there calling him “highly respected” because, well, he is. It’s a shame you didn’t get the memo.

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Okay you prove my point where did I state Major was forced out? Twisting my words once again.
    A half truth is a whole truth in the eye of the conservative.

    You said he was forced to write nice things about Fox. You lied. A whole lie is the truth in the Eye of the Moonbat.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Pablo said:
    You said he was forced to write nice things about Fox. You lied. A whole lie is the truth in the Eye of the Moonbat.

    I give up on to the next topic

  • Pablo

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    I give up on to the next topic

    Don’t you think you ought to retract your comment or apologize for making it? Oh wait, being a moonbat means never having to say you’re sorry, amirite?

  • Penguin60

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    You would.

    Oh that’s right, he actually tried to ask a relevant question to your messiah. Unlike all the other zombie “journolists” that got him elected. You’re more used to what’s his favorite color, or what he likes on his burger. That would make Bret a poor journilst in a lib shill’s eyes.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    I made an inaccurate statement but Fox News is the right arm of the Republican Party.

  • MichelleF

    ImJustThatDamnGood ,
    Would you say ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WA POST are the left arm of the Dem party?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    MichelleF said:
    ImJustThatDamnGood ,
    Would you say ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WA POST are the left arm of the Dem party?

    Michelle from La La Land stop drinking the Kool-aid the networks you mention are fair and balance with their coverage.

  • MichelleF

    Thank you for proving that you have NO credibility. Case closed!

  • Penguin60

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    Michelle from La La Land stop drinking the Kool-aid the networks you mention are fair and balance with their coverage.

    That’s it ladies and gentleman good night, he’ll be here all week……..

    You must be a comedian.

  • Constantly

    imjust do you cradle obama nuts as you blow him?

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Constantly said:
    imjust do you cradle obama nuts as you blow him?

    no

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Penguin60 said:
    That would make Bret a poor journilst in a lib shill’s eyes.

    Ummm…no, it is his biased moderation of the Fox All Stars panel on Special Report w/ Bret Baier that disqualifies him as “legitimate” and not just another shill for GOPbagger talking points.

  • Constantly

    you libpussies crack me up every time someone leaves fox they suddenly become moderates in your mind. i see how you transfer your bias so you can maintain your vitriol towards fox. you people really are fucking retarded.

  • Penguin60

    Yeah, I see what you mean what a shill., Unlike Norah, Gregory, Todd, Mika, Savannah. Now there’s a Royal Flush of lib shills that seem like they get their talking points from the WH.

  • The Real Royal King

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Ummm…no, it is his biased moderation of the Fox All Stars panel on Special Report w/ Bret Baier that disqualifies him as “legitimate” and not just another shill for GOPbagger talking points.

    I’d saay Baier is the very mouth of the RNC. At least Hume could fool you into finding him credible and objective for a few seconds. Baier is a complete shill.

    AT FOX “NEWS” WE SET OUT TO MULTI-TASK:
    REPUBLICAN PR AND TERROR DOUGH.
    BUT, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION, HOW DARE YOU ASK:
    ON WHOM OUR FAVORS WE DEEM TO BESTOW?

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Penguin60 said:
    Yeah, I see what you mean what a shill., Unlike Norah, Gregory, Todd, Mika, Savannah. Now there’s a Royal Flush of lib shills that seem like they get their talking points from the WH.

    Thanks for admitting Brett is biased with your “Hey, everybody else is doing it!” defense.

    ‘preciate it.

  • KMLake

    Pablo said:
    That’s funny. People all across the spectrum already know Major is a good guy and a damned good journalist. Even Colby’s up there calling him “highly respected” because, well, he is. It’s a shame you didn’t get the memo.

    Got the memo darlin’ I like the guy… just detest Murdock mania.

  • KMLake

    It’s called “Differentiation.” It’s when you have the intellectual capacity to tell the difference between a good man in a bad situation (that he is smart enough to leave) and a very bad man (Murdock) who hate you, me and the rest of America and wants (does) to profit from discord, human misery, fear, hate and anything else that is negative and will pad his obese wallet.

  • KMLake

    Sean68 said:
    Hope he doesn’t end up on a milk carton like little Davey Schuster.

    LMFAO fuuunnnneee

  • Penguin60

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Thanks for admitting Brett is biased with your “Hey, everybody else is doing it!” defense. ‘preciate it.

    Read into what you like. Left minded people make anything said bend to fit their agenda. Actually I believe there is a DSM-IV category that explains your ilk.

  • WideAwakeNow

    hmmmmm… ..Bill O’Reilly just may get that front row seat yet..

  • FairNYC

    I think the behavior of those morning clowns who sit on the couch was too much for Major Garrett, especially after the fiasco with Dan Senor talking about this unnamed Saudi who is funding the mosque and who also just happens to be Rupert Murdoch’s partner at News Corp. Yet they never disclose it during their wingnut coffee clotch.

  • FairNYC

    WideAwakeNow said:
    hmmmmm… ..Bill O’Reilly just may get that front row seat yet..

    I am sure Bill O’Reilly is not happy with Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy’s bumbling behavior with Dan Senor.

    I am sure O’Reilly is glad he’s away on vacation this week, everytime Fox pulls something like this his credibility goes down the drain.

  • KMLake

    Constantly said:
    you libpussies crack me up every time someone leaves fox they suddenly become moderates in your mind. i see how you transfer your bias so you can maintain your vitriol towards fox. you people really are fucking retarded.

    So Constantly what did you say your real name is…..hummm sounds like you are the real pu**y (I’d call you a d**k but I doubt you actually have one (maybe a little tiny flaccid one that no one wants to touch but you… can you reach it over your fat?) How is that flatulence problem by the way. Put up or shut-up ya big coward.

  • KMLake

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Message for any brain doctor……………Read the posts by RRK. You can tell he is living in La La land. He is in his own fantasy world. I am worried he will harm himself.Notice he claims Fox News has had recent problems? That proves he is delusional. Fox has had no problems and is rolling over all opposition.So doc, we need your help in saving this poor fool. I know he can’t afford the labotomy but we can try to pass the hat to pay for the operation. I think writer, Michelle F., Norbit, Pablo and I will all put in a dollar. That is a start.I think we can get the Texas Rangers to pick him and bring to a hospital.

    God you crack me up… wanna have you over for dinner some day to meet my family. You have to admit though his poetry is funny and not too bad.

  • Constantly

    KMLake said:
    So Constantly what did you say your real name is…..hummm sounds like you are the real pu**y (I’d call you a d**k but I doubt you actually have one (maybe a little tiny flaccid one that no one wants to touch but you… can you reach it over your fat?) How is that flatulence problem by the way. Put up or shut-up ya big coward.

    did i hit a nerve? you old dried up cunts are the first to go after the cock arent you? what are you going to do with my name? come visit? i wouldnt fuck you with a hobo’s dick.

  • KMLake

    Constantly said:
    did i hit a nerve? you old dried up cunts are the first to go after the cock arent you? what are you going to do with my name? come visit? i wouldnt fuck you with a hobo’s dick.

    You don’t have the cajones to hit a nerve with me you mental midget. If you actually had something meaningful to say maybe someone (anyone) might want to hear it (even me). However, sadly you don’t you’re a coward and a liar who hides from view instead of standing up like a real man and publishing your name. BTW I’d take on any hobo rather than a douche like you … ya litte weenie whiney child. Go beat your wife now scumbag. Oh yeah I forgot… she left you years ago. Sad sick silly little coward.

  • KMLake

    And lonely oh so very lonely…. booo hooo

  • Constantly

    Constantly said:
    you libpussies crack me up every time someone leaves fox they suddenly become moderates in your mind. i see how you transfer your bias so you can maintain your vitriol towards fox. you people really are fucking retarded.

    KM i think that was meaningful, i meant every word. it doesnt change the fact you are still a dried up old cunt.

  • KMLake

    Constantly said:
    did i hit a nerve? you old dried up cunts are the first to go after the cock arent you? what are you going to do with my name? come visit? i wouldnt fuck you with a hobo’s dick.

    Hey … where are you… don’t go away mad. All I am trying to tell you is that being foul-mouthed, mean spirited and nasty, you do a better job of recruiting for the left than any genuine “lefty.” People of any political orientation really don’t like the types of things you say. You may not believe this … but I, for one, feel cheated by your lack of willingness to actually engage in a thoughtful discussion. I don’t know what’s going on with you, but I do know this… you are a better person than you are presenting yourself as here. Partly it’s the anonymity. It makes people foolish. I don’t want you to go away… I want you to be more “present” here in this conversation. Look at the two guys I really respect and secretly even like, Gordon and Murf (John). We don’t agree on much but I respect them because they gave me their actual names and I think they are smart and actually believe what they write. True… I do get on them for being mean sometimes, but that doesn’t mean that when they speak … I won’t listen. Constantly, we don’t have to agree on anything, but give me something more than hate and visciousness. Give me something to actually think about. Change my mind and help me to understand why you feel the way you do.

  • KMLake

    Oh and as far as being dried up … there is always lube. For your condition however there is no ready remedy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-J-Lemire/100000045361210 Alfred J. Lemire

    The Real Royal King almost seems generous in his remarks concerning Major Garrett. I subscribed to The Washington Times when he reported on the Congress and Bill Sammon did likewise at the White House. Just as a pecking-order question, Mr. Sammon was elected a vice president of Fox News last year, beside his post as Washington Managing Editor, succeeding Brit Hume in that post. I don’t know what his status is now.

    Both were outstanding reporters, fair, factual, and intelligent. I can guess at Mr. Sammon’s political views from his books, but could not from his reportage. I’m still not sure about Mr. Garrett’s. That speaks to the quality of his reporting for Fox. (In TV-speak, he is a correspondent, but “corresponding for Fox” seems awkward.). And in reporting, he has many colleagues who excel, including Jim Angle, Reena Ninan, and James Rosen, to name three that present straight, fair, factual reports. They report facts that one will not encounter at other networks, which is fine, as, I recall, Messrs. Garrett and Sammon reported facts that other reporters ignored or falsely presented. (Others present info that Fox does not; I just wish their reports were not so obviously partisan, e.g., how the national news media ignored much about Barack Obama in 2008, while the AP sought out nearly every Alaskan who disliked Sarah Palin, while ignoring her accomplishments as governor.

    The account given here does not tell just how National Journal will compete with Politico. The latter leans too far left and its reports can be tendentious, showing unprofessional reporting and editing, though that is now typical of most national news organizations, especially the AP, which is partisan, propagandistic, incompetent, and corrupt in its political reporting. It’s like that in many cultural articles, too.

    Mr. Garrett will be missed, but Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel are both competent and will do well.

    The “professional left” attacks Fox News at every opportunity because it challenges the heretofore unchallenged one-party partisan preference in the news other TV organizations present. And one can clearly distinguish between the news and political discussion programs, a distinction the lefties never make.

    ABC, CBS, NBC news and The New York Times, TIME, and Newsweek made me feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany. It was so good to get straight news from Fox News and from pros like Major Garrett. He will do well at National Journal or whatever other part of the Bradley news operation he will serve; I am curious to learn what slot he will occupy. The best to him–and to Fox News!

  • KMLake

    Alfred, a well researched and presented analysis. Thank you. I, however, don’t like Fox because I hear “spin” almost every time I turn it on. For example, Beck’s recent speculation on the possibility of shariah law in America. It’s not always the direct comment… it’s the inference that is damning. I like Major and I think he’s a good man with a conscience. Rupert Murdock, however, is a nasty piece of work with no regard for my country or my people. He is responsible for sewing discord, fear and hate among my people. Making them fear each other and making them sick with a somewhat cannabalistic desire to “eat their own kind.” We are Americans… all of us. We are far better than right versus left; black versus white; muslim versus christian. I am not saying that other networks aren’t similarly deluging us with innuendo, disrespect and madness. It’s just that Fox (Murdock) has made it into an art form that pads his already obese wallet at the expense of my countrymen.

  • berserk

    There’s gotta be more to this meets the eye. Moving from the most coveted posting for a TV correspondent (White House) on the highest rated cable news network (FNC) to become correspondent at the lowest regarded political institution (Congress) for an obscure magazine (National Journal). This does not compute.

  • KMLake

    berserk said:
    There’s gotta be more to this meets the eye. Moving from the most coveted posting for a TV correspondent (White House) on the highest rated cable news network (FNC) to become correspondent at the lowest regarded political institution (Congress) for an obscure magazine (National Journal). This does not compute.

    I agree… and hope someday Major will tell us why. Until then, good luck Major. I will be looking for your reporting at the National Journal.

  • KMLake

    Constantly…. where are you dude? You matter. Come back.

  • KMLake

    Da*n it,,, I really DID NOT want to scare him away. I want to hear what he has to say in a cogent manner. Heck…. I think I shamed him into silence… which is so much what I did not intend. Come on brother… tell me what you think.

  • KMLake

    OK … I am now officially feeling like a mean ole’ dufus … come on boy… don’t give up. Be what I think you might have the potential to be….. an American. (I so hate it that you ran away like a weenie). I would (sooooo much more prefer someone strong enough to withstand the “blow back” from my mind, Come on Duce!!! Give me something … ANYTHING… to actually think about ….

  • Penguin60

    Dude, 3 posts to yourself? Time to double the Xanax.

  • KMLake

    yeah you are so right… Just wanted to invite the little dude back…. My bad…. gone now Night Night… silly ole me

  • Sunnyr

    Major Garrett is one of the best Journalists in America and will be a huge asset to National Review Magazine, who will batter Politico into the ground! Go Major and National Review. We will be reading and rooting for you all the way.

  • Karol

    I agree with Sunnyr. Major Garrett tops the list of American journalists. He and Shepard Smith are the only reasons I watch Fox. Heaven help us if Shep leaves, though I doubt any other network would allow Shep the freedom he has. He delivers the hard news with some fun tucked in here and there. My very best wishes to Major Garrett. I know he will be successful.

  • Jimtsmith

    I smell BS here.

  • Jimtsmith

    yeaaa….i’mjustthatdamngood is a moron.  change your name to i’mjustsodamnstupid.

  • Jimtsmith

    LIbs never answer a question with a straight face because they have don’t have any answers. Ask them a question and what comes out their mouth is so far-fetched.

  • Jimtsmith

    Are you kidding me? Fox news is no place for a journalist????  What planet are you from??? Fox News is the most watched news station. The truth always hurts to those in the minority….and I’m not speaking about race.  The minority I am referring to is the group of hard-core Liberals that are fading away slowly but surely.

  • Jimtsmith

    Oh here we go again.  Liberals have no defense.  The only way they can respond to the arguments is that Obama inherited problems from President Bush.  No matter who is President or when they become President, they will always inherit existing problems.  The point is how will the current President will handle the situation for the better.  Obama has not made any progress…when he loses the next election the new President will have his plate overflowing with disastrous problems left by Obama.

  • Jimtsmith

    and who will put out the uncontrolled fire caused by Obama?

  • Bluegrasscotty

    I heard that!  Something doesn’t smell right to me.  You just don’t up & leave one of the biggest news orgs in the world to go to some news paper in BFE?  I rather enjoyed his reports and commentary that he brought to FOX News.  I kind of wonder if it isn’t connected to the Glenn Beck “clean-up”??  Glenn dug himself into a hole and couldn’t find the way out.  I bet he wishes he was still on FOX instead of “G TV”!! 

  • Bluegrasscotty

    Look, I’m not trying to pick a fight or anything & you are intitled to your opinion; I’m just curious about something?  Ok, you don’t agree with Fox News and your political views are different, right?  Well I don’t agree with MSNBC and the “Left” but I don’t think they are forced to say anything.  They are Dem’s & Liberals and I’m fine with that.  That’s the way they believe.  So why would FOX, a right leaning news org., maked their reporters say pre-scripted monologues? 
      Anyway, just curious about your viewpoint.  Sorry if I offend???
    Bluegrasscotty

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