CNN announced this morning the hiring of RedState.com editor Erick Erickson as a political contributor for their new 7pmET program, John King, USA. The addition of Erickson to the team fits in well with John King's idea of the program as a political rundown of every part of the nation with a variety of opinions (Erickson will be located in Atlanta). Yet given that King's predecessor, Lou Dobbs, felt that as an advocate journalist he was not a good fit for the future of the network, hiring someone to the right of Dobbs as a contributor for that time spot may send some mixed messages. (more...)

video It isn't the first time a Fox News commentator has taken on the public education system's assumed liberal bias, but months after the initial release of the Barack Obama indoctrination videos from New Jersey that followed the President's address to schoolchildren last fall, the gears have shifted from the White House to the nature of public education itself. Nearly a week after Glenn Beck's special on the "progressive assault" on children in schools that ended with a plea to parents to get children removed from the public school system, Tucker Carlson followed up on a topic long of interest to him, the distortion of facts in public school textbooks, and in the process mocked opponents of McCarthyism. And while the attack continues, the left responds meekly. (more...)

video This morning's guest on Fox and Friends warned that the Constitution was under attack and the two-party system was bleeding the nation dry. He made clear his disdain was equal for both the Bush and Obama administrations, and noted that he would only support politicians that are truly independent. And if he hadn't called Sarah Palin a "quitter" who is "in" on the federal Constitutional takeover the Tea Party activists are also a part of, Jesse Ventura could have almost passed for Glenn Beck. The former Minnesota governor has been making the morning talk show rounds to sell his new book, American Conspiracies, and saved his most special material for the Fox News audience this morning. (more...)

video Rep. Anthony Weiner was on Fox and Friends this morning with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, talking about the House voting on the health care bill. Both the Huffington Post and Media Matters ran a segment of the show where Weiner "attacks" the hosts, saying that shows "like theirs" have spread disinformation about death panels and the bill. But if you watch the entire segment of that portion of the show, Weiner's conversation with Doocy and Kilmeade was actually much more fair and affable than these blogs have made them out to be. (more...)

video Earlier this week, Senator Harry Reid suggested that unemployment leads men to domestic violence during a Senate debate over the job creation package. This morning, Fox & Friends aired Reid's comment, then had on two guests to discuss whether his statement was harmful or truthful. Radio Talk Show host James Harris delivered exactly what producers were hoping for - a strong opinion that appeared to blame Obama for the rise in domestic violence. (more...)

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To commemorate the first anniversary of the signing on Obama's stimulus bill, DNC chair and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine made more television appearances in one 24-hour cycle than it felt like he had during the entirety of his tenure before today. On occasion, Kaine had been showing up on MSNBC to remind everyone that someone was, indeed, in charge of the party despite the growing tide of Republican (and general right-wing) opposition, but his appearances were always overshadowed by Michael Steele telling someone to shut up, calling someone "baby" or, worse, winning an election. After waiting for so long, what did Kaine bring to the table at Fox and Friends, Morning Joe, and American Morning? The gameplan for victory Rachel Maddow gave him the night before. (more...)

video On Fox & Friends, an emergency heart procedure for an ex-president is a perfect opportunity for an ultra-partisan hypothetical situation: "If the Democrats' health care reform had gone through would President Clinton have received the stents?" The two stents the former president was given on Thursday provided a jumping off point for a highly convoluted (and perhaps insensitive?) undermining of health care reform plans, the stimulus package and Obama's budget director Peter Orszag. (more...)

video The story of embattled political soon-to-be ex-wife Jenny Sanford is one of the rarest incidents in American politics: a story that both sides can spin to fit their narrative. Sanford went on a media tour to promote her new book, Staying True, that hit all three major cable news channels and the unofficial fourth power in journalism, The Daily Show. And despite the vast ideological gaps among the mediums, every interviewer wanted her on their team. (more...)

video Robert Gibbs -- who is well known for the frequency with which he gets very angry about Fox News -- appeared on Fox and Friends, a show well known for sometimes getting fairly angry about Robert Gibbs. The ostensible purpose of the interview, which was conducted remotely, was to discuss what, exactly, Gibbs’s boss plans to tell the nation tonight. Shockingly, they all seemed to get along! (more...)

Liberal blogger and Firedoglake publisher Jane Hamsher has come under heavy fire for an appearance on Fox & Friends in which she promotes a petition to kill the current health care reform bill. Liberal critics paint her as a "useful idiot" being exploited by the right, and point out Hamsher's own distaste for those on the left who appear on Fox. Hamsher has responded to the criticism, but she'll have to convince a tough critic: Jane Hamsher from July. That Jane Hamsher seemed to have a different set of priorities. (more...)

The weekend edition of Fox & Friends starts at 6 a.m., which means that Alisyn Camerota sets her alarm for 3 a.m. in order to be ready on time. Oh, and then after four hours on air, she spends the day running around New York City with her kids. The New York Times drills Camerota about her non-stop Sunday routine.

From 4:15 to 5, I go into hair and makeup, where they attempt to make me look presentable at that hour. I go in, in, basically, my pajamas. I’m, like, transformed in the next hour to being presentable on television. I wear whatever dress and jewelry and heels, and they do my hair and makeup.