ThinkProgress, June 3, 2009: Last night on Fox News, Vice President Cheney admitted that the Bush administration deliberately decided to pass the buck on GM and let President Obama deal with the problem.
And last night he was on FOX saying -- criticizing the President about the deficit.
That night Baby Stewie on Fox's The Family Guy admonished viewers who in a mock poll failed to attribute a famous quote to Henry David Thoreau.
"We wanted to come together in a bipartisan way to make Fox Sunday night rock, " sums up Simpsons executive producer Al Jean of the MacFarlane casting.
While many weekday late-night efforts have failed (see Fox's earlier attempts with Joan Rivers and Chevy Chase), a successful late-night show can mint millions for a network.
Fox topped the night in the adult demo thanks to a steady "The X-Factor" (9.4 million, 3.4).
If you don't, Mr. Cheney, why don't you let yourself undergo waterboarding on Fox TV every night for a month and see what you think?
I'm told that David Cameron spoke to a close friend of Liam Fox's last night and assured him that he would do whatever he could to keep the defence secretary in his post.
"Gov. Romney should be up and talking about this and really hammering it home, saying, 'Look, we're a nation of laws, we need to enforce our laws, and we can't let the president go around Congress and disregard how our legislative process is supposed to work, ' " Quayle told Fox News on Monday night.
When it comes to new series, media buyers are forced to rely on differentiators like night of the week (Thursday nights, for instance, are more desirable than Friday nights, and are thus more expensive), expected demographic (shows that skew younger tend to be more attractive) and the newcomer's lead-in show (or shows, in the case of a programming block like Fox's Sunday-night animation domination).
Fox Sports released a statement Sunday night saying it hasn't determined the cause of the accident and it is suspending use of the camera system indefinitely.
' And now we take a poll every night and, you know, just like Fox, we have our own jury-rigged group of people that are being polled, but everybody screams in unison.
House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-Texas) and House Majority Leader Dick Armey, appearing on Fox "Morning News, " described Monday night's closed-door GOP caucus.
Williams appeared Thursday night on The O'Reilly Factor, the same Fox program where he made the initial comments that seeing fellow airline passengers dressed in Muslim garb makes him nervous.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) Fox will make a play for a late-night presence, be it with Jay Leno or another funnyman.
With three out of three wins already in the pocket, Richard Fox could not be headed, but on the night he was beaten by his old rival and friend, John Harrington.
At the Boston Convention Center where he was planning to deliver the speech that night, Romney's supporters were stunned when they heard Fox News on the big screen declare Obama the winner.
But with millions of people watching him, Fox's trademark casual attire will be replaced for the big night.
Before buying their family house, Karen and Tim Fox drove around the estate at different hours of the day and night to see if there was any noise or disturbance.
The government's tactics in the Kim case gained attention when the Washington Post reported Sunday night that prosecutors sought and received a judge's approval to obtain the Fox News reporter's private emails in a Gmail account.
The bottom line is that Fox wants to take a show that was already typically winning its night and find every way possible to improve it -- including brainstorming creative changes apart from the on-air talent.
CNN: Fox explains 'X Factor' shakeup, defends 'Idol' ratings
But while Fox brass have publicly stated their desire to find a successful five-night-a-week late-night show many times before, it's not clear how smooth (for contractual reasons) or appealing (for affiliates) hiring O'Brien would be.
Another early launch, Fox's "The Mob Doctor, " did a face-plant last night and showed that drawing a debut audience is never automatic.
The show's audience may have been hurt because the postseason baseball games that Fox airs have forced the network to air the show at odd times, such as Sunday night, when viewership was down by almost 30% from its premiere audience.
What we're watching : The Cardinal's and Mets hope to get the NLCS started today on Fox after being rained out yesterday, while Virginia Tech takes on Boston College in a pretty good Thursday night college football matchup.
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