Even more evidence of Fox News-GOP link
October 26, 2009 11:42 pm ET by Terry Krepel
Did we need more evidence that Fox News is a Republican front group and not a news organization? Regardless, Fox News has been happy to oblige.
Talking Points Memo reports that recent Fox News hire John Stossel -- whom TPM had already noted was taking part in three "Health Care Town Halls" in Arkansas sponsored by the tea party-promoting group Americans for Prosperity -- is being joined in his efforts by former Arkansas Sen. Asa Hutchinson, who is doing robocalls promoting the event. TPM points out that this aligns Stossel with not just the tea partiers but with the Repubican Party:
Hutchinson is a Republican heavy hitter. He was a member of Congress from 1997 to 2001, when he was appointed to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency. He later was a top official in the Dpartment [sic] of Homeland Security. And he was the GOP nominee for governor of Arkansas in 2006, losing to Democrat Mike Beebe.
Given the White House's recent decision to call out Fox News for its partisanship, it's significant that Stossel has now effectively been working as a political activist not just with an anti-reform group, but with an actual Republican politician.
Fox News' claims that it's not partisan -- and its fellow right-wingers' concurrent insistence of same -- are ringing increasingly hollow.
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As I was driving home to western North Carolina last Friday, out on I-40, I say a caravan of tour buses driving on down the road. As I got closer, I noticed the back of them had written on them, "Hands off of my health care!". It was a collection of Americans for Prosperity anti health care buses going on to distribute their misinformation.
I drove up along side them, honked the old horn, and then shot them the bird. Sure, it's juvenille, but it made me feel better, and I'm not above doing such an immature thing.