Fox News Helps Organizes Anti-Spending/Tax Protest On April 15th

[Median Democrat]

It is amazing that Fox News can even say they are "fair and balanced" with a straight face with this stunt where Fox anchors spread throughout the country at organized anti-Obama rallies mirroring Santelli's rant. Of course, GE decided to back-off when it became apparent that they may themselves need federal help, then barred MSNBC from commenting on it.

Now, for all the Republican complaints about the "liberal" media, I don't recall any news network actively supporting any protests against Bush policies. Indeed, major network affiliates censored news references to war dead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/07/fox-news-hosts-join-right_n_183957.html

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Rick Santelli and CNBC may be keeping their distance from the tax day tea party movement Santelli inadvertently spawned in an on-air rant, but Fox News seems to be throwing everything it's got behind protests planned for April 15.

Fox anchors Sean Hannity and Neil Cavuto boarded the bandwagon first by signing on with tax day tea parties in Atlanta and Sacramento. Now Glenn Beck will be broadcasting from the Alamo in Texas and Greta Van Susteren will party in Washington, D.C., amounting to hours and hours of rotating live coverage of the anti-tax, anti-spending events.

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[Cha]

1. fauxsn00ze lies..and anyone that watches them

for "news" is a brainwashed idiot who lets others' think for them.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. SCAR IS A BULLY

WHERE IS THAT BODY, JOE????

[zulchzulu]

3. Are they hiring Pixar to make up the "crowds"?

Pixar does have the computer emulation software if the RNC needs it. Give 'em a call, RNC...

Pixar Animation Studios
1200 Park Avenue
Emeryville, California 94608
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 510 922-3151

[JayMusgrove]

4. Proof that the "Fair and Balanced" LIE.... is just that, a damn

LIE!

Those people are a biased and angry group of television personalities, all of them, and they have NO ONE now, representing any other opinions.

And what do they propose to protest? Taxes? Because they lost the election, (where they had the right to vote, by the way) and the election didn't work out for them, NOW they are going to hold a tea party? I guess they don't know about "taxation without representation" meaning that the colonists were NOT represented in British Parliament....the colonists couldn't even VOTE!

But we see, once again, for Fox and all the right wing nuts, facts and details about history don't matter to them.