Rupert Murdoch, Monday:

If we weren’t fair and balanced, we wouldn’t have the number one network in news — by a very wide margin. People believe we’re fair and balanced, and they love us.

Charles Krauthammer, Tuesday:

What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.

Shep Smith, Wednesday:

I read a lot of email around here, and the email to me has become more and more frightening. It’s not a new thing — it’s been happening over the past few months. It’s been happening to some degree since the election process went along. I mean we had a woman, we had a black man, we had a lot going on… I read it, and they are out there — I mean out there in a scary place.

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Fox never fails to disappoint:

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And when all else fails, blame Obama.

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Fox News takes a momentary detour through the Reality Based Community:

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UPDATE: Here’s the Google cache of the von Brunn post that Free Republic put up (referenced in the last comment thread). Frightening.

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Not a rifle, but a shotgun:

Ladies and gentlemen, your foreign correspondent brings you good tidings from Il Bel Paese – and I introduce you to our very own hot mess right wing nutjob, Mara Carfagna!

Adorable, isn’t she?  Yeah, she sucks; I’ll tell you why in a minute. But lest you think I’m grasping at straws to make the “hottie” comparison, join me after the jump for a photo from her previous career.

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“I always wanted you to admire my fasting,” said the hunger artist.

“We do admire it,” said the overseer, affably.

“But you shouldn’t admire it,” said the hunger artist.

“Well then we don’t admire it,” said the overseer, “but why shouldn’t we admire it?”

“Because I have to fast, I can’t help it,” said the hunger artist.

Small crowd joins Cindy Sheehan-led Bush protest in Dallas [WFAA, via Think Progress]

Dueling protests square off near Bush’s Dallas home [Fort Worth Star-Telegram, via TP]

This is fucking insane:

In typical Fox News fashion, when we asked a Fox News writer how a Central Park cyclist ended up being dragged on the hood of his SUV for four blocks, he blamed the victim, calling the biker a “vigilante.”

Read the whole thing – I can only hope they charge they guy and put him in Riker’s.

Fox Newser Accused of Dragging Cyclist Through Central Park [Gawker]