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The GOP had to cancel the first day of its Republican National Convention last month due to the threat of Hurricane Isaac. With it went plans to show a Republican Party-produced video of Donald Trump sitting behind his desk The Apprentice-style and giving the business to a man playing President Obama sitting across…

A week and a half after Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood‘s appearance at the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney finally admitted he enjoyed the spectacle. "I was laughing at Clint Eastwood. Look, to have him get up and speak on my behalf was a great thrill," Romney said Sunday on NBC's Meet The Press. A public…

Over six days of primetime political party coverage, Fox News Channel has come out on top among the networks and its cable news rivals. In the 10-11 PM ET hour, according to Nielsen, Fox pulled in an average of 5.33 million viewers over the three nights of the Republican National Convention and the three nights of the…

Instead of hosting lounges at the Republican and Democratic conventions, Fox News Channel has been providing free rides to delegates and other conventioneers. Advertising Age reports the network provided cab service in Charlotte and Tampa adorned with Fox News…

The fake news shows beat the real news at the GOP convention in Tampa last week. Among the adults 18-34, men 18-34 and men 18-24 demographics, Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report were more viewed and higher-rated than Fox News, CNN and MSNBC in the 11 PM-midnight time slot. Among…

UPDATE THURSDAY 4:55 PM: The CNN camerawoman who was pelted with peanuts by attendees at the GOP Convention in Tampa yesterday has told Journal-isms that she was not surprised by the incident and that it should serve as a wake-up call to black people. “This is Florida, and I’m from the Deep South. You come to places…

Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian for saying that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his wife Ann were “not concerned at all” about African Americans suffering because of Hurricane Isaac. “They’re happy to have a party with black people drowning,” Chalian was heard saying on an open mic…

The Motion Picture Association of America, lead by former Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, approves of what the Republicans have to say about protecting intellectual property and internet freedom in their party platform. The GOP platform, which was formally approved last night at the party’s convention in…

It was Ann Romney's turn on center stage on television last night but it was NBC that got the convention bounce. While ABC, CBS and NBC all simultaneously broadcast live the speeches of the wife of the Republican nominee for the White House and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at the GOP Convention in Tampa on…