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WaPo: DeMint celebrates Fox News' role trumpeting GOP message

October 31, 2009 12:17 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From the October 31 Washington Post article, "ACORN video creates new conservative star"

But among some conservatives there's a sense that what Breitbart and others are building is a more coordinated path to bypass mainstream media.

"We don't need The Washington Post to cover things anymore," said staunch conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). "Something can get on a conservative blog, then on Fox News, then it's everywhere."

Previously:

Fox's news programs echo its "opinion" shows: Smears, doctored videos, GOP talking points

Stewart annihilates Fox News' purported opinion-news division: "It's a perpetual revulsion machine"

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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (October 31, 2009 12:22 pm ET)
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      "Something can get on a conservative blog, then on Fox News, then it's everywhere."

      But how could anyone be so hateful as to possibly think that Fox is a propaganda arm of movement conservatism! Those liberals are so hateful!...
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      • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 01, 2009 1:12 am ET)
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        But among some conservatives there's a sense that what Breitbart and others are building is a more coordinated path to bypass mainstream media.

        Didn't the heads at Fox explode when Anita Dunn said that Obama video messages were meant to"bypass mainstream media" in order to control the campaign's message?

        "We don't need The Washington Post to cover things anymore," said staunch conservative Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). "Something can get on a conservative blog, then on Fox News, then it's everywhere."

        Is this not official confirmation that Fox is a political engine for the Republicans' conservative agenda?

        DeMint spilling the beans has spared us the need for further political forensic analysis of the Fox anatomy!
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (October 31, 2009 12:44 pm ET)
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      DeMented needs to pay more attention to his constituents in SC. Many of them are soooo fed up with him making their state look bad.
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (October 31, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
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        "South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for an insane asylum." What was true in 1860 is just as true today--the fact that they send DeMint to the Senate is all the necessary proof of that...
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    • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (October 31, 2009 1:22 pm ET)
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      This makes the Washington Post happy, too.

      More cover for the alleged "liberal-biased media".

      Expect even more corporate whoring from the WaPoo.
      ~
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    • Author by MickD (October 31, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
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      The article makes me sick.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (October 31, 2009 8:49 pm ET)
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        And all you need to get on a conservative blog and then Fux News is a hatred of anything and anyone not regressive, and a complete lack of shame and integrity.
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        • Author by MickD (November 01, 2009 8:55 am ET)
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          It really is about puffing the guy up as if he is a "player" in the big media tent, when in fact he just uses the half truths that the cons pass around from the Heritage Foundation. This is part of the false equivalency of "heroism" and "victory" that is mustered in the media.
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    • Author by bluestate69 (November 01, 2009 3:59 am ET)
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      "something can get on a conservative blog, then on fox news, then it's everywhere." this is my argument against fox news!!
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