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Over the weekend, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Fox News Sunday that President Barack Obama was the most “nasty, divisive, negative campaigner that this country’s ever seen.” On Monday, former Virginia Republican Party chair Kate Obenshain and former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-ny) Chris Hahn joined Fox News anchor Jon Scott to debate the tone of President Obama’s campaign against Republican party presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Their conversation quickly exploded into a battle over the mendacity of both candidate's campaigns.

Libertarian energizer bunny Ron Paul's presidential campaign is getting more than enough media coverage according to radio host Alan Colmes. Fox News host Jon Scott noted that Paul was polling 2nd in Iowa with 18%, ahead of Mitt Romney in a new Des Moines Register poll and asked Colmes if the plucky free-market firebrand was being overlooked by reporters. "I don't agree with the premise, he's in every debate, I have him on my radio show a lot, I've seen a number of segments not just here about how the media doesn't talk about Ron Paul well they're talking about Ron Paul!" argued Colmes. "People know who he is if you're following this stuff and that's maybe one of the reasons why he's doing well because people do know who he is and he does resonates with a good percentage of the Republican electorate. I don't think he can get...

TV Legend Gerry Anderson is to join the crew of Leicester's National Space Centre on March 19 and 20 for a celebration of British science fiction.

The publisher, producer, director and writer is famous for TV classics such as Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Space: 1999, Joe 90, UFO and The Protectors.

On both days of the event, visitors will be able to meet the man who created the Supermarionation puppetry technique used in many of his series.

Anderson will be joined by a host of guests and characters, including Gareth Thomas who played the title role in Blake's 7.

There will be displays and talks by Mat Irvine and Mike Tucker on the launch of their new book that charts their careers leading the teams in the BBC Visual Effects Department. Between them they have worked on hundreds of shows including Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Rentaghost.

A display of original props and...

Kudos to Fox News' Jon Scott who managed to squeeze three whole bird puns into nine seconds of air time earlier. Quite possibly a world record. We've managed to capture it here to be used as reference in journalism classes from here on out. Of course, we here at Mediaite would obviously never stoop to anything so base as silly word play.

Lost somewhere among the Saturday night Glenn Beck reruns and Geraldo Rivera's missing people exposés is usually a nugget or two of pure commentary gold, whether it's Chris Wallace calling the White House a bunch of "crybabies" or a segment dedicated to bashing Sarah Palin. This weekend, Cal Thomas uncovered the secret "haiku going on" between the Democrats and the mainstream media, and Fox News Watch host Jon Scott did his best impression of a living edition of the Boston Globe.