Tea Party group boycotting Fox News for becoming ‘too liberal’

[ashling]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/23/tea-party-group-boycotting-fox-news-for-becoming-too-liberal/



tri-cornered imbecile

“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said 70-year-old Stan Hjerlied to the Beast. After the network dropped its obsessive focus on the raid on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave an interview in which he said the Republican Party needs to retool its message on immigration, Hjerlied believes that “we are really losing our only conservative network.”

[ZRT2209]

1. P.S. We're not crackpots

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I am beginning to think

that this country needs to be split into two countries......how do you deal with idiots like this???

And the PTB are actually listening to them.

[zbdent]

3. He probably paid more for that hat than he ever saved under

George W. Bush's tax cuts ...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. Fox News???? Turning Left??????

Do they have another channel I did not know about?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. "Hjerlied"?

Immigrants from where, Stan?

[bluedigger]

6. They recently voted to allow those of Nordic descent provisional membership.

It's part of their Diversity oUtReach Program, or DURP for short.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. Yargle bargle blarrrrgh!!! (n/t)

[Initech]

7. From the article: "If I want the news I go to Brietbart and Drudge."

Wow you name the two *LEAST* credible blogs on the internet! And a Hitler reference. Good job Tea Party!

[Botany]

8. Sometimes your "kids" stop listening to you

“We have seen FOX suddenly get very loud about Benghazi after the 1st boycott, but conservatives are conservative because they are not stupid,” reads the boycott website, Benghazi-Truth. “We recognize, easily, loud noise which is low on substance. In other words, by whining loudly about Benghazi without the kind of hard-hitting investigative reporting that brought down Nixon over Watergate, what we are seeing from FOX IMO is smoke and mirrors; a trick, to fool us into dutifully genuflecting at their alter [sic] of their arrogant hosts who throw us crumbs with one hand while insulting us with the other. If we want FOX to get serious, we’re going to have to keep hitting them hard. And that is just exactly what we’re going to do.”

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“We need Fox to turn right,” Hjerlied said. “We think this is a coverup and Fox is aiding and abetting it. This is the way Hitler started taking over Germany, by managing and manipulating the news media.

[Arcanetrance]

10. Where the hell do you go to get your info when you feel fox is to liberal

[Revanchist]

12. Alex Jones?

Or is he also considered too left-wing?

[Ken Burch]

11. Probably still mad that Fox called Ohio for Obama and told Rove to fuck off.

[Contrary1]

13. "...they were able to cost the network 20 percent of its audience in the previous boycott"

Let's see...20% x 10 =

[RZM]

14. The news channels are establishment voices

Fox News speaks for the Republican establishment. Not at all the same thing as the base. In fact the two drift further apart everyday.

Similar dynamic at MSNBC, though the divide doesn't seem to be growing as fast.