Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs

Want to be on Fox & Friends? Buy some Magic Markers and cardboard, scribble some anti-Obama phrases on it, and plant it in your front yard. Chances are good that your phone will ring not long afterward with an invite to the show to discuss your sign.

You'll get that invitation because Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade are willing to promote anyone who uses signage to express displeasure with the Obama administration and Democrats (and non-Christians, but that's a separate issue). Like this:

That's from a segment they did today on a Florida sub shop owner who put a sign up on the marquee outside his shop that said, “A Bible thumpin', gun totin', capitalist pig owns this joint.” Carlson, who couldn't contain her laughter as she spoke, said “I want to meet him,” and noted that he was “inspired” to put up the sign because he “went to a tea party last week” and decided he was paying too much in taxes.

So, some tea partier puts up an anti-government sign outside his local shop. That's not exactly breaking news, and yet the hosts of a national talk show felt compelled to talk about it -- three times in one show. Here's the thing: this happens on Fox & Friends all the time.

Two weeks ago they boosted the Florida urologist who taped a sign to his office door warning patients to “seek urologic care elsewhere” if they “voted for Obama.” They reported on it and then three days later actually interviewed the doctor.

And in February, they featured segments on two anti-Obama billboards, while issuing pleas for viewers to “call” or “email” the show if they knew who sponsored the signs. The first sign said “Miss me yet?” with an image of George W. Bush. The second sign said “How's that 'hope and change' working for you?”

This is not Fox & Friends seeking out folksy, amusing stories to fill air-time between sports and weather reports. This is part of Fox News' anti-Obama, anti-Democrat agenda. What better way to magnify a general sense of government mistrust than to regularly pluck local signs out of obscurity and blast them across the airwaves?