Media Matters - ""Conservative Woodstock?" Fox News' all-day promotion of anti-Reid tea party rally"

[TomCADem]

If you wonder why so many Americans think that President Obama is the anti-christ, that HCR includes death panel and will increase the deficit, and that HCR and Financial Reform constitute a government takeover, you need not look any further than Fox News:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201003270028

On March 27, Fox News continued its political activism by aggressively promoting that day's Tea Party Express rally, which targeted for defeat Sen. Harry Reid and other members of Congress who support health care reform. The rally was sponsored by a political action committee run by Republican consultants and headlined by Fox News contributor Sarah Palin, whose speech Fox broadcast live.

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Fox & Friends promotes "huge day for the tea party" as they begin "getting ready to rumble." On Fox & Friends Saturday, co-host Clayton Morris said it was a "huge day for the tea party... they're firing up, filling up the tanks with gas, 23 states getting ready to rumble."

On Fox, "all eyes on Searchlight, Nevada today" for kick-off of Tea Party Express III. On Fox & Friends Saturday, co-host Dave Briggs reported that "thousands of tea partiers are descending on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's hometown," adding that "they're kicking off a massive new tour across the country to protest against Democrats who voted for health care reform." During the segment, radio host Michael Graham -- who is listed as a special guest for the April 14 Tea Party Express rally in Boston -- said that the tea partiers are "fighting for fundamental American values, and they are not going to quit." Briggs concluded the segment by stating "all eyes on Searchlight, Nevada today."

Fox & Friends hosts "one of the keynote speakers" to discuss "the message" of the rally. Fox & Friends Saturday hosted radio host Jerry Doyle, "one of the keynote speakers today," and asked him to discuss "the message" of the rally.

[ixion]

1. Hey GOP, make up your own damn event names

reptillian-minded morons wouldn't know an original thought if it bit them on the ass.

[old mark]

2. I heard Harry Reid said he was glad to see so many people come into Nevada -

that they could ue the business.


mark

[Botany]

3. The real Woodstock .... Tens Years After

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6tsnX42-FM

[bobburgster]

5. Wow! that brought back memories!

Hadn't listened to ten Years After for a long time.

Thanks :)

[GreenTea]

4. Media Matters is a great site one of the best....

http://mediamatters.org/

[louis-t]

6. Teabaggers don't know what they want, how to get it

and wouldn't know it if they saw it. This will come back to haunt Fox, Palin, and all others who are glomming onto a phony populist movement. I believe it will get very ugly. Someone will get hurt, puggies will back off, and teabaggers will turn on them. They are playing with fire. These people only need to PERCEIVE that they are being wronged to go off, as Bart Stupak learned. However, they don't know they are being wronged by the perpetrators of this "grassroots", bullshit crazython.

[SoCalDem]

7. Nothing "hurts" Fox.. they are just an arm of the RNC

the propaganda arm..propaganda works.. they know it.. If Fox never made a penny, it would stay on the air..

[zbdent]

8. Hundreds of thousands of protesters of the original Iraq war buildup ...

"never happened" ... because the "liberal media" chose not to cover it ...

some loon who claims that Obama is not a citizen by birth? "Massive crowds", some even in the tens ...

[Yavapai]

9. 8000 people?

The only comparison to the Woodstock festival that attracted at least 500,000 young people on drugs, is that there were maybe 8,000 dopes at this one...

[zbdent]

13. I heard Glenn Beck estimated the crowd in the trillions ...

[lpbk2713]

10. "Fox News" --- the most egregious misnomer of all time.

They have nothing at all in common with any news outlet.
They are the propaganda arm of the RNC, pure and simple.

[tanyev]

12. There's a reason they spell out the entire word "news" in their logo.

Kind of like a food manufacturer putting "All natural!" on the front of the bag when it is no such thing.

[AvaMae]

11. Can we support the boycott against Fox?

http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/03/washpost-apple-boycotting-fox-news.html