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Fox News anchors like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly and radio talkshow hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham speak to millions of Americans. Their commentary is crucial in shaping the conservative and Republican political agenda of the day. So what are they saying, week in, week out? Sadhbh Walshe listens and reports so you don't have to
  • House Democratic Steering Committee Holds Hearing On Women's Health

    Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke slander

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Limbaugh is unapologetic for calling a female student 'a slut'. But he may change his tune if his radio show sheds advertisers

  • Pensions strike

    The Right Word: who's to blame for the eurozone crisis?

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The talk pundits know the answer: Europe's pampered public sector workers – oh, and President Obama

  • Jon Huntsman confers with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney

    The Right Word: if not Mitt, Newt?

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The conservative talk hosts despair over the Republican party settling on a credible candidate to beat arch-enemy Obama

  • Occupy Wall Street demonstrators Brooklyn Bridge

    The Right Word: Glenn Beck talks 'crap'

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The Occupy movement has caused conservative talkshow hosts deep consternation – chiefly about protesters' personal hygiene

  • Sharon Bialek

    The Right Word: Herman Cain v the 'feminazis'

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    Sadhbh Walshe: In a week of reverses for conservatives, Rush Limbaugh is especially sore about the rising tide of political correctness

  • Herman Cain mops his brow

    The Right Word: Herman Cain and a vast leftwing conspiracy

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    Sadhbh Walshe: It's been a busy week for Ann Coulter and Dick Morris, touring the studios to defend Cain from sexual harassment allegations

  • Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Libya's NTC chairman

    The Right Word: 'sharia' scare in Libya

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The conservative talkshow hosts fear that Obama will snatch defeat from victory in Libya by waving on radical Islamists

  • Glenn Beck has been criticised for staging his rally close to the Western Wall and Haram al-Sharif

    The Right Word: Glenn Beck snarls at Fox

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The Occupy Wall Street argument grows bitter after a Fox News reporter calls Beck 'paranoid or delusional'. What can he mean?

  • New Hampshire GOP debate

    The Right Word: more Republican nomination angst

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Bill O'Reilly wants Romney picked so the GOP wins Congress, but Rush Limbaugh hopes to see a real conservative pull ahead

  • Occupy Wall Street demonstrators stage a march dressed as corporate zombies.

    The Right Word: Fox News grapples with Wall Street protests

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    Sadhbh Walshe: There's dissension as to whether the protesters are a threat to democracy or just unwashed. Either way, Not a Good Thing

  • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wipes a tear as he responds to a request to run for president

    The Right Word: Praying for Chris Christie to run

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The talk hosts are excited about Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential runner. But Glenn Beck has other worrries

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    The Right Word: Fox News fights class war

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Bill O'Reilly despairs that Warren Buffett and President Obama say he must pay more taxes. Rush Limbaugh offers solidarity

  • Glenn Beck

    The Right Word: Beck's back

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Obama's jobs bill maddened conservatives – especially Glenn Beck, who awaits a hero on a capitalist white charger from China

  • Teamsters leader James Hoffa Jr at Labor Day event

    The Right Word: Labor Day blues

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Our conservative pundits were disgusted by the tone of some of the Labor Day rhetoric from Democratic and union leaders

  • Glenn Beck rally in Jerusalem

    The Right Word: battling far-left political correctness

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The topics varied this week – God, Dick Cheney and courage – but the theme is the same: save America from the pinko PC mob

  • Barack Obama calls upon Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to relinquish power

    The Right Word: Obama gets B grade on Libya

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Fox News' armchair generals award Obama a grudging pass on the Libyan intervention, but Michael Savage is incensed

  • A car burns during riots in St Pauls, Bristol

    The Right Word: Fox News fears riots

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    Sadhbh Walshe: The talk show pundits have no hangups about attributing the UK riots to cuts and deprivation, but their prescriptions differ

  • Former US President George Bush

    The Right Word: No deal on the Bush tax cuts

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    Sadhbh Walshe: Despite a consensus that Republicans got the better of the debt ceiling deal, the pundits' anxiety is high about the Bush tax cuts

  • Norway attacks, Oslo explosion

    The Right Word: Telling left from right

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    Sadhbh Walshe: For O'Reilly, Beck and Co, it's hard to know which is the greater outrage: the Norway attacks or the liberal media's reporting

  • Bill O'Reilly

    The Right Word: Bill O'Reilly breaks Fox News silence on phone hacking

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    Sadhbh Walshe Rightwing talk show hosts finally get to grips with the phone hacking story

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