Fox News Promotes Anti-Obama Tea Parties VIDEO

I, for one, appreciate Fox News bringing me information on how and where I can exercise my constitutionally protected right to peacefully assemble and let MY voice be heard.  The elections are supposed to do that, but this past one surely didn't.  We have a President that refuses to prove he is eligible to hold the office and has proven that he is promoting friendship and harmony with all the Muslim world order.  We have an election that has been proven to have been tampered with by the Acorn organization, who the President then rewards by wanting to give Acorn all the power to control, manipulate and tamper with our Census information.

I want MY voice heard.  I will be at a tea party.  Enough is enough.  I want MY America back.  Not the one that Obama is pushing down our throats and that my grandchildren and greatgrandchildren will be paying for his stupidity all their lives.

Hannity is not a journalist. He has an opinion and he editorializes the whole show. Often he annoys me, but not any more or less than 620 AM here, the lib station.

Do you guys know the diffrerence between a news show and an opinion show?

On Fox, the news shows are with Shep Smith and with the guy who is the successor to Brit Hume, whose name I can't remember.

I call BS on this!!

NO ONE...I REPEAT....NO ONE has funded me or anyone else that I know who is joining a tea party with anything. No bussing, no money for gas for my 100 mile trip or purchases for materials. Unlike ACORN and some of the other Obot support groups, we can and will do it on our own.

Get your facts straight and quit printing crap like this!!

Your inacurate reporting about the Tea Parties NATION WIDE is not surprising. Having attended the March 15 rally in Cincinnati that drew 5000 people and was the largest to that point, I can unequivocally state that they are absolutely grassroots efforts. I plan on being at the April 15 rally in Cincinnati as well. I have followed the folks that have organised both and they are the epitomy of grassroots.

The fact that the groups you mentioned, especially Foxnews, are helping publicize them is do to the fact that the main stream media are totally ignoring them or, like you disperage them.

Oh, I don't recall you saying anything about ACORN, MoveOn, SEIU, et. al. and their voter fraud efforts(reminder, several ACORN associates are either on trial or have been convicted nation wide for this). So, you see, you indignation comes across as empty, meaningless and hypocritical!

My suggestion for you is to go watch PMSnbc with Tingly-leg Matthews, Olberdork, and Madcow.

It is absolutely amazing how people can pick up on the "bias" of the opposition news network, but don't have a clue when it comes to their own side.

This is the primary source of what are called "projections", negative or positive exaggerations of someone else's good or bad points as the result of being unconscious of that trait in yourself.

We then, in the case of the negative projection, go to war against the "enemy" with a crusader's zeal, having "identified" the source of Evil-in-the-World-Without.

The coverage of the Surge was atrocious. As the Surge succeeded, you didn't read about the success of the Surge. What you read about were stories about how there were no stories about Americans being killed as often as there had been.

Then there is this story of Obama and his Afghan Surge.

Obama lied about his intentions when he ran for president or he owes us all an apology for changing his mind about what to do there.

He has postponed his Iraq withdrawal. Why? Has more info? Well, then, is it the case that he now knows what Bush knows and wants to finish the job well? Admirable, but no one covers this change of policy as the change of policy that it is.

Obama has even attempted to keep the Guantanamo prisoners from getting habeus corpus. No discussion of that.

That is the prejudice of the left-of-center news. Oh, and they screw up the really good leftist stories that are too extreme for them. The New York Times and the rest don't want you to see how the left's elitists are not concerned at all with the plight of regular Americans, especially the middle class.

Heck, Obama's church has an actual position taken against "middle-classness", as they call it.

Check out Farirness and Accuracy in Reporting.

Another perspective :

In all seriousness, it's one thing for a news outlet to cover a political protest -- that's pretty logical. It's quite another for a news outlet to repeatedly encourage its viewers to attend a political protest. Far from practicing legitimate journalism, it's blatantly and unabashedly political.

Of course, it is "blatantly political".

News stations, just like newspapers, are allowed to support political agendas. Newspapers have editorial pages full of the opinions of their editorial boards.

CNN and MSNBC have blatant editorial positions that one can easily infer from the slant on their news and that they state openly as well.

Lou Dobbs, my favorite, doesn't even bother to pretend to not have an opinion. He just tells you what it is.

So, what is it that Fox News is doing that is not done by CNN, HLN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the newspapers of every ethnic and racial group and social and professional class in the US and around the world?

By the way, most of the shows on Fox are opinion shows. O'Reilly is not news. It is opinion. Hannity is not news. It is opinion.

Shepard Smith and the new guy that replaced Brit Hume are supposed to be the news.

When Hume did the news, to have balance in theanalysis, they had a conservative, a centrist and an NPR reporter, either the woman whose name I forget or Juan Williams.

MSNBC doesn't have a "BLATANT" agenda? Have you ever watched MSNBC?

ABC News, CBS, NBC are so bad I stopped watching them years ago. CNN used to be objective in its first ten years. Now, you can forget about that.

ABCs Sunday news show is hosted by the guy (Stephanopoulos?) who ran Clinton's campaign when he ran for president.

CNN regularly uses Begala and the bald-headed guy (Carville?) who were still being described as "analysts" when they were on Hillary's payroll during the primaries.

Unbelievable. But Fox News gets to be "the bad guy".

Time magazine and Newsweek are just long articles consisting almost entirely of editorialization as well.

Fox is doing far more than giving information, they are actively supporting a protest against the president of the United States. This has never happened in the history of broadcast.
journalism.

Your voice was heard, you voted, your guy lost.  Most of America rejected 8 years of failed Republican policies. America said no to more tax breaks for the rich, illegal wars, torture of innocent people and 3 trillion wasted in Iraq while Bin Laden remains free.

The state of Hawaii has stated twice that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, you are simply living in a delusion of sour grapes. BTW John McCain was not born in the US, he was born in Panama.

As far as tampering with elections, why did the Republicans use the federal government (which you now hate) to stop the state of Florida from finishing a hand recount in 2000?

Please do go to the corporate sponsored, lobbyist sponsored, Fox news sponsored tea party and protest the biggest tax break ever given to the middle class in the history of the US. (given by Barack Obama).  Those rich corporations need you to be their willing tool.

Radical... ...ha ha ha ha.  Protesting the government's insance deficit spending.  Now THAT's radical! 

There's a huge difference between editorials on an editorial page and entire network promoting protests against the President of the United States.  if you can find any example of any other news network doing what Fox is doing I'd love to see the story.

I worked at NBC News, and can tell you that we got complaint letters from the right and the left, mostly angry we didn't push their agenda.

"Mostly". That will be subject to some rather intense debate.

There are no pushes for the tea parties on Shep Smith's news nor on the later news show with the guy (Baer?) who has succeeded Brit Hume.

All the other shows are not news shows. They are opinion shows.

If you read the pages of the New York Times carefully, and you know the stories very well, you can see how stories get slanted.

Example: Global warming: it is either obviously true or obviously false, and, frankly, I don't know how Eleanor Clift or Rush Limbaugh know that one or the other is true. I sure don't and I will match my science education with either of theirs and win.

The most objective guy on Global Warming has been O'Reilly who doesn't know but doesn't want to take the risk that it is true and do nothing.

Nearly every major story is dealt in like fashion, for the most part.

Roy, are you kidding?  All we ever heard for months and months was about the success of the surge, what we didn't hear was that it was due to the Sunni factions turning against al qeada was what really had the most influence.

For the record, Iraq does not belong to the US. The invasion and occupation violate international law as does the torture in Gitmo as the International Red Cross detailed it.

Obama always said that war against terrorists was in Afghanastan, and that he would go into Pakistan (said that in a debate against Hillary and McCain) , if he knew for sure al qeada is there, which he has with unmanned drones.

When has Obama prevented Guantanamo prisoners from getting habeas corpus and how exactly would he do that since the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration for trying to do that.  John McCain even claimed that decision would the enemy to our soldiers (another GOP lie).

The New York TImes beat those war drums loud when Bush illegally invaded Iraq, the New York Times also stuck behind Donald Rumsfeld after the torture at Prison Abu was revealed, and the Times pushed that nonsense Jessica Lynch "hero" story that the Pentagon dreamed up, which was debunked by the BBC.

When did I ever state that participants had been funded in the story?  I never said that.  Please stop accusing me writing something I did not write.  All of my facts are backed by supporting links.  Yours are coming from your deep paranoia.

BTW, did you know you're protesting AGAINST the biggest tax break ever given to the middle class.  Obama is giving more of your money back to you and you're mad about that?  Explain that logic please.

Sorry, but YOU are wrong!  Your so called "biggest middle class tax break in history" is laughable.  If you think that $10 a week is a huge tax break you'd better go take some economy classes yourself(FYI, that's $520 a year).  Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush gave far larger breaks to the middle class(I know you don't have a "grateful bone in your body," so it's pointless to tell you to thank them). 

I'm not going to restate everything I said about the grassroots organization of the tea parties.  Everything I said though is factual and documented.  As far as the "right wing think tanks, corporate lobbying groups and Foxnews,"  They are FAR LESS involved with these than PMSnbc, George Soros, Code Pink, and left wing think tanks were with the "anti-war/anti-George W. Bush" protests.

MoveOn, ACORN, SEIU, et. al. are notorious for their election rigging and busing in of protesters and paying them for their time.  The AIG protests, for example, were staged by ACORN and SEIU with bussed in people who didn't have a clue about what they were doing except for what those staging them told them.

If you want to talk about a channel "acting as a political arm of a political party, just like Pravda in the old Soviet Union," then all you need do is look at NBC and everyone of the "news" outlets being operated by it.  They are nothing more than a mouth piece of the Democrat party.  CNN, ABC and CBS are only marginally less so.  The New York Times, has done nothing but shill for Obama and the Democrats.

As far as my education goes, your response is what I'd expect from an urban snob who thinks they are smarter than everyone else.  Just for your edification, though it's none of your business, I do have a college education(the level of which I will not brag about), but my education didn't/doesn't stop there.  I do understand the difference between a broadcast journalist and a 501(c)3 organization.  As for my parents, they did an excellent job raising me.  They taught me that education is NOT limited to the walls of a school or college and doesn't stop when you leave there.  I could say something about the job your parents did, but I'm not that snarky and won't lower myself to that level.  Try not to be such an arrogant snob though!

First, when are you guys ever going to get this right? For once and for all, it's not anti Obama, it's anti big spenders in DC. Oh yeah, Obama is in that category but so is almost everyone else.

Oh and of course the protests in front of AIG exec homes were sure spontaneous! Acorn funding bused these folks in for effect. Yeah, that's real spontaneity for you.

Listen, now that there's a group on the other side that's fired up all of a sudden it's bad to demonstrate or have "big money" behind you. Ever heard of George Soros??? For once maybe fiscal conservatives are learning from the left how to organize.

I rest my case.

It's amazing how MovOn.org was name calling General Betrayus and how Begala and Carville pushed the left agenda on CNN as analysts.  At least we all know what Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck are.  There are no pretends there. 

An objective person looks at all the news and comments and evaluates them.  We all know that BS is being spewed from both sides.  Separate the pepper from the Fly s--t.  I sincerely believe that the Tea parties should be covered by all networks.

Sorry you're wrong, there is going to be a nationwide tea party on April 15th to protest the biggest middle class tax break in the history of this country (you can thank Obama for that, if you have a grateful bone in your body). 

The tea party is not a grassroots, sorry to burst your bubble.  It has been documented repeatedly that right wing think tanks, corporate lobbying groups and now Fox news are actively supporting it.  Fox is doing far more than publicizing it, wake up and face reality.

Moveon.org and ACORN are political action committees, Fox is a NEWS organization, big difference there.

It is appalling that a broadcast journalist channel is acting as a political arm of a political party, just like Pravda in the old Soviet Union.

You are clearly uneducated, by choice, and have no idea what the difference is between broadcast journalism and political action committees. Shame on your parents for raising such ignorance.

Roy, this goes way beyond bias, this a national broadcast news organization advocating and assisting in a protest of the President of the United States (who just gave the middle class the biggest tax break they've ever had).

This has never occurred in the history of broadcast journalism.  Amazing you fail to even recognize that.

My linked sources are ALL back up news reports, you provided no backup to prove they are wrong.   Are we simply supposed to take your word for it? 

There are lots of Anti-Obama signs and slogans at these tea parties, and don't worry I'll be posting all of them following the April 15th tea party.

It's not anti-government, there are 10-12 republican senators, Congressmen and Governors speaking at tea parties, what in the world are you talking about?

As I thorougly documented, the tea parties have been organized by right wing think tanks, corporate lobbyists, Newt Gingrich's organization and the ultra right wing Fox News. 

The irony is the tea baggers are willing tools protesting against the biggest tax break ever given to the middle class in US history (and it came from Obama).

Talk about cutting your own throats. When will the Red Staters ever learn?

Roy, yes, we know that Sean Hannity is an overpaid multi-millionaire broadcast propogandist and right wing tool, but sadly millions of Red Staters haven't quite caught on yet.

But I have full confidence you'll straighten them out.

Youre comparing a broadcast news network to a blog and a political action committee?

That is absurd. What is wrong with you people?

HIGH TAXES?

Umm, Obama just gave the middle class the biggest tax cut in the history of this country.  Please educate yourself.

Where was this outrage against deficits when Bush spent 3 TRILLION killing innocent Iraqis?

I guess it's only acceptable to the left if the protest are funded by anti-American groups or <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2004/03/006172.php">communists</a>, lol.

powerlineblog.com = right wing nuttery blog

Find me ONE example of any national news organization actively supporting and organizing (NOT JUST REPORTING) protests against the President of the United States.

Obama's is tax break is far more than $10, you're simply quoting Limbaugh and Hannity.

Reagan and the Bushes gave huge tax breaks to corporations, George W. gave enormous tax breaks to oil companies, but you didn't mind that, no tea parties there.

The New York Times supported Bush's lie about WMD, the illegal invasion, mass murder, Rumsfeld after the Pirson Abu torture scandal, and the infamous Jessica Lynch "hero" fable. Thanks for your ignorance.

I worked at NBC News, CEO Jack Welch is a republican and a union buster. MSNBC only seems liberal because you can't face reality in your Glenn beck fantasy world.

You're still comparing political action committees to a major news organization, you just don't get the difference between covering news and creating news.