Fox News Cut Out From Questions At Obama's First Press Conference


	Fox News Cut Out From Questions At Obama's First Press Conference

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11-11-2008 10:48 PM

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"For a long time, he was in love with the Fox chief, Roger Ailes, because he was even more Murdoch than Murdoch," Mr. Wolff wrote in the October Vanity Fair piece. "And yet now the embarrassment can't be missed -- he mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it; he barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly."

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