Fox's new favorite prop: the omnibus bill

Earlier this year, conservatives in general, and Fox News in particular, obsessed over the size of the health care bill; in using the bill's size to attack it, Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends each trotted out a stack of paper representing the bill.

Now, with the introduction of a large omnibus budget bill, Fox News and Fox Business hosts are again having fun with props, using a stack of paper presented as a copy of the bill to punctuate their reports. Of course, the length of any given piece of legislation is completely irrelevant to its value or importance, but as Special Report anchor Bret Baier admitted, there's “nothing like a visual.” Baier's fellow Fox employees seem to have taken that to heart.

Here's Baier on Special Report:

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Neil Cavuto on Your World:

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Cavuto on his Fox Business show:

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Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch:

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Eric Bolling on Follow the Money:

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Greta Van Susteren on On the Record:

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Finally, in a prop convergence, here's Baier showing off his prop bill to Cavuto on Your World shortly after Cavuto showed off his own copy:

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