CNNs Roberts expected to join Fox News

Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts
Lame! Fox News hires progressive liberal CNN hack John Roberts What’s next? Is Fox News going to go after Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann from MSNBC? Newsbusters reports that for whatever reason Fox News hired he former CNN hack John Roberts, who was the anchor CNN’s American Morning from April 2007 until the end of 2010. Apparently, Roberts will be joining Fox News as a national correspondent. Newbusters also reports on John Roberts reputation for liberal bias. You may remember ...

CNN Host Morning Host John Roberts Expected To Join Fox News
From CBS to CNN to Fox News mediaite CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join FOX News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning . Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a coup for Fox News, as Roberts will shore ...

Breaking: CNNs John Roberts Is Expected To Join FOX News Channel
CNN’s John Roberts is expected to join Fox News Channel as a senior national correspondent based in Atlanta and will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network. Roberts came up the ranks of CBS News, often filling in for then Evening News anchor Dan Rather, and was most recently co-host of CNN’s American Morning. Roberts left that show, and CNN altogether, amid major changes at American Morning. Some industry insiders are sure to see this as somewhat of a c...

Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts
NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran CNN and CBS reporter and anchorman John Roberts is joining Fox News Channel. The network announced Monday that Roberts was joining the network as a senior national correspondent. Roberts was most recently a host of CNN’s “American Morning,” but he was bumped from that job when the network announced a reorganization last month. He had been discussing a transfer to Atlanta, home base for his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips. Roberts spent 14 years w...

Fox News hires veteran reporter John Roberts
Veteran CNN and CBS reporter and anchorman John Roberts is joining Fox News Channel. The network announced Monday that Roberts was joining the network as a senior national correspondent. Roberts was most recently a host of CNN's "American Morning," but he was bumped from that job when the network announced a reorganization last month. He had been discussing a transfer to Atlanta, home base for his fiancee, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips. Roberts spent 14 years with CBS, working as a White House corres...

John Roberts To Fox News
CNN host John Roberts is expected to join Fox News as a senior national correspondent, according to TVNewser. Roberts, who is engaged to CNN anchor Kyra Phillips, recently left the New York-based "American Morning" to move to Atlanta with Phillips, who is pregnant with twins. He will be based in Atlanta and "will be reporting on major domestic and international stories for the network," according to the TVNewser report. Roberts, a former Canadian TV and radio host, spent 14 years with CBS News...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

CNN's John Roberts Leaves For Fox News
What is this? Roberts had been taken off CNN's American Morning last month. The Orlando Sentinel's Hal Boedeker says he will be a "senior national correspondent" for Fox. Roberts, who joined CNN in  2006, was with CBS News before that and at one time was thought to be an Candidate to anchor the CBS Evening News. What is this? Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules and terms of use. See also the Community FAQ. You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login...

CNN's John Roberts leaves to go to FOXNEWS...
Long-time CBS News and recent CNN anchor John Roberts will join Fox News as a national correspondent, the top-rated cable channel announced today. Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial for FOX, said Roberts will be the channel's senior national correspondent. “We are excited to welcome John to FOX News — his reputation as a skilled Journalist with years of notable experience in the field will be a valuable addition to our news programming,” Clemente said in ...

Gas bag Bill OReilly to Mary Katharine Ham: as a conservative, youre ok with people dying
Gas bag Bill O’Reilly to Mary Katharine Ham: ‘as a conservative, you’re ok with people dying” It’s a new year for the gas bag Bill O’Reilly, but it’s the same arrogant, snotty, attacking of Conservatives and sucking up to progressive Liberal Democrats.  The start of the show debuted some new music, after O’Reilly’s two week Vacation. The first interview was with Congressman Peter King of New York, a Republican. O’Reilly was his usual arrogan

John Roberts to Swear in John Boehner's Aides
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in aides to incoming John Boehner on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. (Credit: AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to incoming John Boehner aides on Tuesday, Politico reports, in a move seemingly designed to emphasize the imminent speaker's commitment to constitutional reverence. According to Politico, incoming House Speaker Boehner specifically requested that Roberts preside over the ceremony, wh...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Swears In Boehner's Staff
John G. Roberts Jr., the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, swore in President Obama - twice. But Chief Justice Roberts is apparently Bipartisan in his willingness to swear in federal employees. On Tuesday morning, he presided over a closed-door ceremony in the offices of the soon-to-be House Speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, to swear in the lawmaker’s staff a day before Republicans are scheduled to take control of the House chamber. Employees of the Federal Government are all required...

Chief Justice Roberts calls for judicial confirmations
SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts raised some eyebrows in The Village with his annual report that criticized the slow pace of judicial confirmations, noting only 62 out of 96 vacancies on the federal bench have been filled in the last two years. “There remains,” the chief justice wrote, “an urgent need for the political branches to find a long-term solution to this recurring problem.” Roberts' critique echoes a similar complaint made by former Chief Justice Rehnquist during the Clinton

On history's stage: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
In January 1993 principal deputy U.S. Solicitor General John Roberts Jr. was arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought by an inmate in a Nevada penitentiary. The Prisoner, a nonsmoker who had been sharing a cell with a five-pack-a-day man, claimed that being subjected to so much Secondhand Smoke amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of his Eighth Amendment Constitutional Rights. The United States, represented by Roberts, was siding with Nevada in arguing that the ...

Boehner staff gets private swearing-in by Chief Justice Roberts
Washington (CNN) - John Boehner will be sworn in Wednesday as the new House Speaker, but his congressional aides were sworn in Tuesday morning by Chief Justice John Roberts in a private ceremony in the Capitol. According to a senior Boehner aide, the incoming Speaker requested that the Chief Justice perform the swearing in for his aides, and attended the ceremony. Boehner will take the oath as Speaker on Wednesday afternoon....

John Roberts: Stop Bickering, Confirm Federal Judges
Even John Roberts thinks the Republicans should stop blocking the approval of Federal Judges. He pretends it's a Bipartisan problem -- but it isn't: There is an "urgent need" for Senate Democrats and Republicans to put aside their bickering and fill federal judicial vacancies, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote Friday in his annual State of the Judiciary report. It was his first comment about the partisan gridlock on judges that affects President Obama's nominees. But Roberts noted that D...

Chief Justice John Roberts Urges Progress Naming Judges, Takes Aim At Gridlock Obstructing Process
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of Judicial Nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicia...

Roberts Asks Senate to Confirm Judges
The New York Times reports: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called on President Obama and the Senate on Friday to solve what he called “the persistent problem of judicial vacancies.” The plea, in the chief justice’s annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, was an echo of one from his predecessor, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who made front-page news on New Year’s Day in 1998 by criticizing the Senate for failing to move more quickly on President Bill Clinton’

Chief Justice Says 'Urgent' Need for Senate Action on Judicial Nominees
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says there's an "urgent need" for the political parties to put aside their differences and quickly confirm more of President Obama nominees to the federal judiciary. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of Judicial Nominations depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said in a year-end report released on New Year's Eve. "This has created acute difficulties for some judiciary dist...

Chief Justice Roberts, a Bush appointee, urges approval of more Obama nominees
Today Chief Justice John Roberts, who was nominated and confirmed under the Bush Administration, urged the Senate to allow for confirmation of more judicial nominees.  Both Democrats and Republicans have used their Filibuster power over the previous decade to keep judicial nominees from being confirmed, though liberals claim that Republicans have taken the practice to a whole new level with President Obama.  In his statement, Chief Justice Roberts argues that the entire judicial system...

The Terrorist-Supporting Neocons
Thanks to a New York Times op-ed today by Georgetown Law Professor David Cole, debate has been renewed over last summer's SCOTUS decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the question of what constitutes "support" for Terrorists and can be prohibited. Can you outlaw efforts aimed at steering terrorist groups toward seeking redress via peaceful means? The news hook is the recent backing from prominent Republicans for an opposition group of Iranian exiles designated by the United State...

Chief Justice Roberts to Privately Swear in Boehner Aides to Uphold the Constitution
Off to a good start. (Politico)- In another statement of the new House Republican majority’s commitment to the Constitution, aides to incoming Speaker John Boehner plan to take their oath of office Tuesday morning — a day before the same oath is administered to the 435 House members of the new Congress. At Boehner’s request, Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the staff ceremony, which may be a first in congressional history. Aides in Boehner’s Washington and di...

Newspaper review
The first Sunday editions of 2011 look ahead to a year of Austerity and ponder the future of the coalition. The News of the World cautions only even-handed cuts will persuade voters the pain is in the national interest. The Mail on Sunday headline asks: "Are we really all in this together?" The paper says senior MPs, including the Chancellor George Osborne, have been accused of "insensitive conduct" after apparently celebrating the New Year with lavish holidays and parties....

Chief Justice Roberts Laments Obstruction of Judicial Nominees
While none of the many headlines reporting on his address were exactly on target, Roberts delivered the type of call for reform of the Judicial Nominations process Greenhouse first urged several months ago, identifying a "persistent problem" in the "process of filling judicial vacancies" caused by obstruction of judicial nominations. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicial districts. Sitting judges in those districts have been burdened with extraordi...

Chief justice to swear in Boehner aides
In another statement of the new House Republican majority’s commitment to the Constitution, aides to incoming Speaker John Boehner plan to take their oath of office Tuesday morning—a day before the same oath is administered to the 435 House members of the new Congress. At Boehner’s request, Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the staff ceremony, which may be a first in Congressional history. Aides in Boehner’s Washington and district offices are expected to ta...