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Fox News' Hemmer: "Can't get to a tea party? Fox Nation hosts a virtual tea party."

April 13, 2009 9:42 am ET

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    • Author by DAWUSS (April 13, 2009 9:48 am ET)
         
      http://www.thesportstruth.com/images/gallery/norv-turner.jpg
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    • Author by mk3872 (April 13, 2009 10:03 am ET)
         

      Wait a second ... Don't we still have U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan?

      What happened to Fox News & right wingies tell us that protesting against the U.S. president at a time of war was unpatriotic and unamerican?

      Ohhhhh, riiiiiight ... That only applies to REPUBLICAN presidents

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    • Author by harley (April 13, 2009 10:25 am ET)
         

       

      They are just being "fair and balanced".  Remember when Faux offered virtual anti-war protests!?

       

       

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    • Author by jjamele2880 (April 13, 2009 10:36 am ET)
         

      OT, but here's something we never could have anticipated- Laura Ingraham is "not happy" with "how long it took" for Obama to give the order to rescue Captain Phillips off the coast of Somalia- "Maybe if he hadn't been so obsessed with talking about housing for so long, he could have acted sooner..." she also quotes a "military blog" suggesting that Obama didnt give the order at all- the military commander in charge did, Obama just pushed the responsibility on him and is now taking credit for it....Pathetic, and Predictable.

      Ingraham also swoons "I'm just so happy when someone can call in and call himself a Navy Man...." and suggesting that the only policy of the US toward pirates should be "Hang'em high!"  Yep, to heck with all this gay "trial" stuff.  Just hang 'em.  

      Coming next: Obama attacked for putting the captured "pirate" on trial instead of just ordering him to be tortured to death or strung up.  Just you wait.

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      • Author by harley (April 13, 2009 10:49 am ET)
           

         

        I wonder what Ingraham had to say about herr dubyah allowing a US Naval Aircrew to be held captive and interrogated by Communist China for over a week?

         

         

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    • Author by eweston8542983 (April 13, 2009 10:52 am ET)
         
      And then something involving ruby slippers, National There's no Place Like Home Day, with a fundamentalist religeous twist in there somewhere.
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    • Author by tman418 (April 13, 2009 6:06 pm ET)
         
      Aren't Tea Parties something that foreigners do? I thought conservatives hated foreigners.
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    • Author by nitpicker (April 13, 2009 10:41 pm ET)
         

      Actually, there's much more interesting phrasing at work here. Hemmer says:

      While the mainstream media has ignored the Tea Party Movement, here at the Fox News Channel, we're gearing up to bring you special coverage of the events all across the country.

      Fox either blares its ratings in every promo or, as in this one says, "it's your nation, the Fox Nation." So, how can they both claim to speak for America but admit, here, that they are outside the mainstream. 

      This is important phrasing. For too long, Fox has dismissed Media Matters and DailyKos and other thoughtful, left-leaning websites with by referring to them as, basically, silly or hateful bloggers. Their critics lacked the bona fides of true professionals. Now, though, they have begun referring to themselves as outside of the professional cadre of journalists (after all, that's what the dreaded MSM was to the valiant, conservative "Army of Davids" that was going to take down the pros: professionals). But now, according to Bill Hemmer, everyone else is the mainstream media.

      Fox is...what, exactly? 

      An important question. Mr. Boehlert? The ball's in your court.

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