What percentage of these teabaggers, do you think, watch Fox News, and maybe Fox News exclusively?
99 percent? 99.5 percent? OK, OK, maybe that’s overstating it.
98 percent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8

As Hendrik Hertzberg notes here, the teabag movement is unique in American history because its leadership is entirely comprised of conservative media pundits:
The protesters do not look to politicians for […]

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So there’s this big teabag protest going on down in DC today, more of what we’ve seen. But this photo in particular, from the Washington Independent, really struck me:

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John Stosssel headed to Fox - his natural habitat.
How long ’til they sign up Lou Dobbs, maybe Elizabeth Hasselbeck? I’m sure that the more overtly conservative voices they add, the more fair and balanced they’ll be…

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Yeah. No wonder you got it wrong.

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Wow. So, the State newspaper down in South Carolina, using open records law, requested and got more than 600 pages of documents detailing e-mails and phone calls related to Gov. Mark Sanford’s disappearance. They found that the governor’s staff had no idea where he was. But that wasn’t the most interesting thing they found - that […]

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Steve Benen, in discussing Fox News’s soaring ratings, revisits something he wrote 16 months ago - when Fox’s ratings were slipping:
But then imagine how thrilled they’ll be if Dems control the House, Senate, and White House. Fox News and its audience are their most content when they have a target for their rage. These guys […]

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Outraged, OUTRAGED!, I tell you, at Al Franken’s victory.
Good.

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This is basically the type of “knowledge” you get from wingers:
You know Donald Trump, I want to talk to this guy. When he was on the show just a few minutes ago I was thinking how can you not be laughing at us? How can the world not be laughing at us? We have all […]

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Sanford on the tube right now admitting affair. Unreal. Father’s Day weekend, no less.
In one respect, the way Sanford’s doing it is the right way to handle it politically. Caught; admit it rather than cover up; invoke your faith (to assure your people-of-faith constituents that you’re still with them, really, you stumbled but you still […]

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Interesting. NYT piece on Shepherd Smith, the only one at Fox who seems to take the “fair and balanced” business separately, and who gets a lot of abuse for Fox devotees for that very reason:
Mr. Smith said he fully anticipated one result of those comments: the nasty e-mail increased.
“Thousands of them,” Mr. Smith said. “And […]

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I see the wingers are all bent out of shape about ABC News’s “bias for Obama.”
More conservative White Houses have not been awarded a supportive network platform. Does anyone remember that ABC prime-time special that allowed President Bush to sell Social Security privatization in 2005?
Or the two-hour, 2006 prime-time Bush White House special promoting the […]

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Good. Not only does it annoy the usual suspects - who will be OUTRAGED!!! - but it may lead ordinary, non-ideological Americans who perhaps watch Fox News to say - Hm. Come to think of it, I never do hear much good about the president on Fox.
And maybe this business about “fair and balanced” is […]

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Because hey, he didn’t say the actual word!
They do this on purpose, by the way. Most Fox News viewers will not have seen the actual speech in its entirety, and because Fox News is the only “fair and balanced” network to report the “truth,” they will come away with this notion that Obama talked to […]

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I really have to hand it to Fox News here, they have made the pugnacious liberal columnist’s job far, far easier.
As noted on several occasions, I am peppered by a regular volume of winger mail. Much of it in caps; replete with the expected misspellings, etc. But one other regular feature of winger mail is […]

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Fox promoting the tea parties? Now where would anyone have gotten that idea…

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Will be very interesting to see how many people actually show up at these “tea parties” this week. Fox has been pimping it hard, and the impression it and the partisans on the right are trying to convey is that this is not only a populist movement (which it isn’t), but it’s a mass movement.
Turnout […]

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Why the Democratic takeover was the best thing that could’ve ever happened to Fox News.

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Fox News, it appears, isn’t merely planning to cover the tea parties next week - they are actively pimping them:
As Media Matters for America documented, Fox News hosts have frequently encouraged viewers to participate in the “tea parties”; during the April 6 edition of Glenn Beck, on-screen text characterized these events as “FNC Tax Day […]

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Fair and balanced, baby:
In their latest survey out today, Fox’s pollsters asked a question that assumed that raising taxes would mean that “nobody gets to be too rich“:
Another question asked respondents whether they believed that President Obama “wants the financial crisis to continue so government can take over more businesses and grow the federal government.”

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Hm. Via Sullivan, I see where Steve Doocy over at Fox called CNN the “Communist News Network,” and the network subsequently doctored a clip of Biden to make it seem as if he was saying the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.”
When last we checked in on Fox, their execs were telling us that, sure, […]

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