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Fox News takes ownership of more protesters' rhetoric

September 12, 2009 5:22 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From Fox News' live coverage of the September 12 protests:

"ASK SANTA ANNA HOW IT WENT FOR THE LAST PRESIDENT WHO TRIED TO TAKE AWAY TEXAN'S RIGHTS?"

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"DONT BARNEY FRANK ME!" 

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"OBAMACARE IS ELDERLY GENOCIDE" 

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Previously:

Fox News takes ownership of tea parties, and, therefore, their extremist rhetoric

Tags: Fox News Channel

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    • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 5:39 pm ET)
         
      Pathetic human beings and I'm sorry if I insulted real human beings out there.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (September 13, 2009 12:24 am ET)
           
        Can someone explain the Santa Anna one? I thought he beat the Texans at the Alamo, and then eventually got beaten by the U.S. Army.

        What in the world was that poster about?
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    • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 6:07 pm ET)
         
      And can anyone tell me one "right" the President or anyone else is taking away from Texans?
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      • Author by foghornleghorn (September 12, 2009 6:32 pm ET)
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        And, as usual, this idiot racist Un-American teabagger from Texas can't even produce a simple protest sign without a spelling error and a grammatical error.

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    • Author by Cpt.FancyPants (September 12, 2009 6:28 pm ET)
         
      The worst one is in the bottom photo. A sign carrier on the left side is holding up a sign that reads "Obama Bin Lying."
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    • Author by Max Credits (September 12, 2009 6:33 pm ET)
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      "I've never been so proud to be an American."

      Jim DeMint (R)
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      • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 6:39 pm ET)
           
        I gave a thumbs down to DeMint, not the poster.
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        • Author by Max Credits (September 12, 2009 6:45 pm ET)
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          Understood. Today was actually this man's proudest moment as an American. Today. 22,000 protesters with anti-Obama signs produced for this man his proudest moment as an American. I got no words for this.
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          • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 6:48 pm ET)
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            Their hatred is showing.....any day now someone of prominance will use the N-word or it will be screamed by a teabagger at a Faux reporter....its going to happen.
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            • Author by m96236028 (September 12, 2009 6:58 pm ET)
                 
              All I can is....Unbelieveably horrendous ignorance is on full display for the entire country to witness. Do they really think this is gonna further their agenda? I can only hope that the majority of this country sees this for what it is and inevitably these haters idiology will be crushed into oblivion. They better hope this reform goes thru for the sake of their mental health coverage, cuz their gonna need it.
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          • Author by foghornleghorn (September 12, 2009 7:00 pm ET)
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            Today was actually this man's proudest moment as an American

            It's because there so many people there who, like him, hate the black man in the White House. It fulfulls his dream to finally be able to attend a KKK rally. The only difference is the KKK hid their identities under white sheets. These racist teabaggers are only too proud to parade their racism in front of the camera.
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            • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 7:08 pm ET)
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              And Fox News has given hate and racism an outlet...if ANYTHING happens to this president or democrat member of congress, Fox News must be held responsible.
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      • Author by tangaroa (September 12, 2009 7:41 pm ET)
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        Jim DeMint from South Carolina of course. Sorry, Jimmy, but after all this is over, Obama's still going to be the president. And he's still going to be black.
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      • Author by EducatedRants (September 12, 2009 11:21 pm ET)
           
        When Barack Obama was running for President, Michele Obama made a similar comment and she was labeled anti-American by Cluster Fox. Her comment was in regards to a black man having the opportunity to run for president -- something unimaginable 40 years ago. Jim DeMint makes his comment regarding a bunch of willfully ignorant rednecks who want to dissolve the union and that's supposed to be pro-America? WTF?
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      • Author by political_left-religious_right (September 14, 2009 12:20 pm ET)
           
        Hey, when are DeMint's opponents going to crop his quote and say that he said, "I've never been proud to be an American"?

        The right did this to Michelle Obama, you may recall.
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    • Author by tangaroa (September 12, 2009 7:39 pm ET)
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      I'm particularly interested in the sign featuring some sort of animals in a sex act. When you consider the ridiculous furor over Janet Jackson's very difficult to see nipple, how is this acceptable?
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (September 12, 2009 8:28 pm ET)
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      The sad part of this whole silly rally is that people do not even know the true facts and they do not even care! They are satisfied showing reaction off lies! Again I say brainwashed dummies!
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      • Author by pklute63 (September 12, 2009 8:39 pm ET)
           
        Exactly right! When they started their tea parties, they were protesting tax cuts for those making less than %250,000 which was probably most of them!
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    • Author by joswie (September 13, 2009 2:38 pm ET)
         
      Which President was the last to try to take away Texan's rights exactly? I always thought that was Lincoln. Not to mention that Texas wanted independence from Mexico since slavery was illegal in Mexico. So, what exactly is this protester trying to say?
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    • Author by yancy derringer (September 13, 2009 3:27 pm ET)
         
      Note the Marsha Blackburn is about as wingnut as you can get. Yet, Henke in his blog efforts trying to take the Republican Party back from the extremists has posts by Blackburn on his blog.

      Nothing is going to bring the Republican Party and conservative movement back from the far right reality free fringe. The people who pull their strings, control them, are enjoying their power too much to ever give these people their minds back.

      Conservatism remains our nation's number one national security problem.
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