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Reporting on tea parties, Fox Business' Willard asks: "Guys, when are we going to wake up and start fighting the fascism that seems to be permeating this country?"

April 15, 2009 1:22 pm ET

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    • Author by harley (April 15, 2009 1:24 pm ET)
         

       

      Again, he's just being "fair and balanced"....riiiiiiiight?

       

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      • Author by carlileb5935 (April 15, 2009 5:35 pm ET)
           
        This phony longhair just sank FOX and every effort people like Cavuto made to try to seem "objective."
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (April 15, 2009 5:41 pm ET)
             

          Where did they unearth this guy?  From the local univerity's College Republicans?

          But for Fox, these parties are just hours and hours of programming that their viewers will consume with delight.

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      • Author by cmiller442 (April 16, 2009 10:28 am ET)
           

        April 15th, 2009: The Tea Party to end all tea parties!

         Hundreds attend. Millions don't.

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    • Author by mk3872 (April 15, 2009 1:27 pm ET)
         

      Fascism??? That is the right-wing description of a Democratic liberal president.

      Fascism apparently has nothing to do with a prez & vp that expands executive powers, holds prisoners without trial and lies about starting a war.

      Friggin SORE LOSERS!

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    • Author by worrierking (April 15, 2009 1:30 pm ET)
         
      Love the crawl at the bottom of the screen.

      "HUNDREDS gather in boston to protest taxes, spending."

      You'd think that since Boston is where the first Tea Party took place there'd be more interest. But then again, these teabaggers of today bear no resemblance to those who actually put their asses on the line when they threw tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.

      These teabaggers are spoiled, easily led, know nothings doing the bidding of the Republican Propaganda Network, Fox News.
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      • Author by Victor Colorado (April 15, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
           

        "HUNDREDS gather in boston to protest taxes, spending."

         

        Wow, weeks of promotion on a 24-hour-a-day 'news' channel and this is Fox News' turnout!

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        • Author by Dem02020 (April 15, 2009 2:42 pm ET)
             

          The time of day indicated in this video clip is 12:44 EDT, and the Fux used car salesman is on the Boston Common, at lunch time, on a sunny and pleasant day... the few people behind him, who seem worse than disinterested, they seem embarrassed (notice how in the background the people are turned away from the camera, like they didn't want to be seen, despite the antics of the used car salesman and the fact that the camera is filming him), those few people represent an insignificant fraction of the many people who are enjoying the sunshine on the Boston Common during their lunch break.

          What a joke.

          The Fux salesman looks like at any minute he'll roll up his sleeves, and start pitching some kind of "Nature's Miracle Cures" book, or maybe start selling specially minted commerative coins of the historic occasion...

          What a sham, what a bunch of hucksters these people are.

          There must have been many thousands of people on the Common at that moment, paying no attention to and even avoiding the Fux sales pitch... like I said, the few folks in the background look strangely unwilling and disinterested.

          The same is true of the County Fair item about this same Fux salesguy, on that same Boston Common, at lunch time also: that other video is time-stamped 12:16.

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          • Author by Victor Colorado (April 15, 2009 2:51 pm ET)
               
            The unbridled audacity of Fox News to think it could create grassroots political outrage is absolutely mind numbing.
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          • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (April 15, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
               

            A great day for the Fock You Channel...

            You can almost see the sewage dripping down this guy's face.

             

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        • Author by captfoster2 (April 15, 2009 4:28 pm ET)
             

          "HUNDREDS gather in boston to protest taxes, spending."

           Wow, weeks of promotion on a 24-hour-a-day 'news' channel and this is Fox News' turnout!

          - Victor Colorado

          Well... if you take the average of a few hundred in each of the 300 cities that showed up....

          That's like.... 90,000 brain dead.....er I mean people across the nation!

          Of course... I have no doubt that Glen Beck, BillO,Sean and the rest of the dunderheads at FoxNoise will claim that millions.... scratch that....

          MILLIONS.... and MILLIONS.... showed up to.... um... party? Look stupid? protest? Drink tea? All the guys will pull their pants down and tea bag the lady next to them... or the nearest FoxNoise....um 'reporter' ?

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          • Author by commonsenseliberal (April 15, 2009 4:46 pm ET)
               

            All the guys will pull their pants down and tea bag the lady next to them...

            *LOL*

            Conservative men don't have the balls to do that, Col.

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            • Author by commonsenseliberal (April 15, 2009 4:47 pm ET)
                 

              Uh, that's supposed to be Capt...

              I'm having trouble with my post targets today...sorry...

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          • Author by pklute63 (April 16, 2009 7:13 am ET)
               
            I have already heard today, on of all places a sports talk radio station, the claim of millions across the country coming out to protest. The funny thing about what else they said was that these people were out saying they are sick of seeing their taxes being raised...so by that logic, all of the teabaggers across the country who showed up pay over $250,000 a year since everyone under that figure would get a tax cut....I mean, people wouldn't be so stupid as to show up to protest a tax cut would they? Please tell me they wouldn't? I'm sure these people did their research before heading out, right? And a news company wouldn't promote protests for tax cuts would they? Anybody? Bueller?
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (April 15, 2009 1:34 pm ET)
         

      Hundreds on tax nitwits in Pittsburgh outside my officeas I type this

      They've been going for an hour and a half so far.......hmmm, had this been a dem protest others would say we should get a job.

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    • Author by worrierking (April 15, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
         
      And to the guy in the picture, "Get a haircut, you fascist creep!"

      Sorry, I've been wanting to tell some right wing nutjob to get a haircut since 1970 when they yelled at me to get a haircut.

      But I wasn't a fascist creep, just an average commie bastard.
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      • Author by Eykis (April 15, 2009 5:16 pm ET)
           
        Although I am a female, I remember the fascists of 1970 yelling get a haircut, take a bath, you hippie freak!  I was actually a senior in high school, but we crossed the line with the SDS from the same university (SMU) where W's library is planned.  BTW, they don't want him at SMU! It's liberal, like Berkeley liberal.........Get a haircut Wingnut - this is too fun - Beck is at the Alamo!  He does not know Texas lost the Alamo, they won at San Jacinto....
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        • Author by carlileb5935 (April 15, 2009 5:33 pm ET)
             
          You're right-- for Beck to be using Alamo imagery is extremely unfortunate, because they were all wiped out... (except one woman !)
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        • Author by jonesjax2374 (April 15, 2009 9:15 pm ET)
             
          I would fire him for inappropriate attire.  Not just the haircut, but a BAD hair style.  Women can't get away with that on television - so who is this troll?  I'm IN Berkeley and men wear longer hair but manage to look more professional than this guy who looks like 1977 all over again.  Dude.  No. All of it.  No.  I mean the bad shirt, the tie.  If they want to be treated with the big people, dress like them.  Sorry.  Youre ON TELEVISION.  Get with the program.  Its really an insult to viewers, Spicolli. 
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    • Author by cmiller442 (April 15, 2009 1:38 pm ET)
         
      What "ism" will they think of next?
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    • Author by MickD (April 15, 2009 2:01 pm ET)
         
      Is Cody Willard suppose to be a "youth movement" in the creaky hallways of Fox News? He looks like a reject from the Hanson Brothers.
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    • Author by Craig (April 15, 2009 2:12 pm ET)
         
      November 4, 2008?
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      • Author by tman418 (April 15, 2009 2:49 pm ET)
           
        You stole my answer! Yep, we already did fight fascism on that day. That is to be the worst day in the world for conservatives.
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        • Author by tman418 (April 15, 2009 2:50 pm ET)
             
          I bet conservatives hate that day more than September 11th.
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          • Author by captfoster2 (April 15, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
               

            I bet conservatives hate that day more than September 11th.

            - tman418

            That's.... September THE 11th...

            Shesh... didn't W. teach you anything?

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    • Author by dimes (April 15, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
         

      That guy is an embarrassment, even for Fox.

      Looks like Prince Valiant was using his :30 of national airtime to audition for a guest gig on Glenn Beck.

       

       

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    • Author by DJNate (April 15, 2009 3:05 pm ET)
         

      Poli-Sci 101

      Political philosophy if viewed properly shows that on the left, socialism/communism is more closely aligned to facism than anything on the right side.  Conservatism leads to libertarianism and anarchist permutations.  On the left, facism is a forced blending by government of the private sector.  On the right, individual freedom is valued above the wisdom of government control.  Look around lefties and see who your commrades really are!

      Class dismissed!

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      • Author by harley (April 15, 2009 3:13 pm ET)
           

        Considering reich-wingers are afraid of college and too stupid to attend, here is the reality:

        Poli-Sci 101

        Political philosophy if viewed properly shows that on the Right, totalitarianism and communism is more closely aligned to fascism than anything on the left side.  Liberalism leads to progress and equality.  On the Right, fascism is a forced blending of the government and the private sector.  On the Left, individual freedom is valued above the wisdom of failed conservative/fascist constraints.  Look around Reich-wingers and see who your comrades really are!

        Class dismissed!

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        • Author by DJNate (April 15, 2009 4:09 pm ET)
             

          kawasaki,

          Thanks for being another fine example of our public school systems (in)ability to educate.

          Trotsky and others looked upon facism as a phenomenom of an individual controling capital and destroying the bourgeoise, instead of doing it by uprising of the proletariat.  Same outcome though, and they admitted that, that capitalism and the freedoms it provided had to be overthrown.

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          • Author by harley (April 15, 2009 4:14 pm ET)
               

            Reich-winger,

            Thanks for being another fine example of home schooling's (in)ability to educate.

            Fascism and Communism are both anti-liberal.  Don't let facts and reality stand in the way of your ignorance.

             

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        • Author by christian6121485 (April 15, 2009 5:25 pm ET)
             
          This is probably coming from someone who attended a state college or a liberal arts major? Am I wrong?
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          • Author by worrierking (April 15, 2009 5:54 pm ET)
               
            And what's wrong with a state or liberal arts college?
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          • Author by jonesjax2374 (April 15, 2009 9:30 pm ET)
               
            I'd like to know what this comment means.  What is your implication for STATE or LIBERAL ARTS College?  Are they unamerican?  Are they less of a learning institution because STATE may be cheaper?  Do you read novels, poetry, watch movies, appreciate art? Are those LIBERAL ARTS things somehow unpatriotric HERE in the country that is KING OF THE CINEMA? What is the ELIST comment here about State Colleges? I'd really like to know.  Where did you go to school?  Did you have to work while in school? Do private schools make you smarter because your parents could afford them?  What an ELISTIST UNAMERICAN THING TO SAY!  I thought the Right was all about the average JOE.  Wow I guess I was wrong.
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      • Author by jonesjax2374 (April 15, 2009 9:21 pm ET)
           
        "Individual Freedom" linked with today's Conservatives... UNLESS you're GAY, or believe in Free Choice, of course.  Oh, and you can't really be a JEWISH American, or a MUSLIM American, either but its all about FREEDOM...
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    • Author by newzhound (April 15, 2009 3:10 pm ET)
         

      djnate:  Drop whatever you are doing right now.  Go to the store.  Get a clue.

      Extreme right-wingism is facism.  Like, say, the Nazi Party?

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    • Author by markbfoot199 (April 15, 2009 3:44 pm ET)
         

      Oh my, did you see all those crazy people fighting, screaming, turning over cars and burning buildings.  Oh yea that is right, they were peaceful.  I guess that protest group will not make NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN or any other mainstream media reports, they were too nice.

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    • Author by markbfoot199 (April 15, 2009 4:01 pm ET)
         

      Harley, yes, why not?  My Tea Party does not start till 5pm, so till then I can enjoy how upset you all are with the protests.

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      • Author by Victor Colorado (April 15, 2009 4:04 pm ET)
           
        Bet you're also enjoying the late day market surge.  Yay, economic recovery!  USA! USA!
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      • Author by dimes (April 15, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
           

        Please do not confuse derision for 'upset'.

         Thank you.

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      • Author by harley (April 15, 2009 4:18 pm ET)
           

         

        I'm not upset....at all.  Our country has a Democratic Majority.  I'm quite happy.  Apparently you reich-wingers are real upset, that's why you're protesting the Democratic Majority.  

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      • Author by commonsenseliberal (April 16, 2009 12:17 pm ET)
           

        These tea parties aren't the same as happy hour.

        Get your social drinking straight!

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    • Author by dave (April 15, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
         
      At the end of the day, these silly tea protests will do as much as pink/yellow/red etc ribbons, turning your lights out for an hour, or honking your horn. Nothing. They equal crapola. And that Willard guy needs a haircut.
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      • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (April 15, 2009 4:44 pm ET)
           

        Willard does need a haircut.

        ...and then a lobotomy.

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    • Author by snoopy (April 15, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
         
      I thought this was supposed to just be a protest against taxes? But we already knew that it was an anti Obama right wing crusade from the start, this just confirms that taxes were really on the bottom of their "list".
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      • Author by smarshall1432997 (April 15, 2009 7:08 pm ET)
           
        Snoopy,   You are so "right" and I thought that the people at FoxNews would take over these 'Tea Parties' so they could get out their (FoxNews') hateful, mean-spirited, nasty garbage of words as they lie and misguide Americans about President Obama and his policies.  Ed Schultz on MSNBC did a "great" job too in explaining FoxNews involvement with these 'Tea Parties' today.  Bottom line, FoxNews definitely got game (power). 
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    • Author by dave (April 15, 2009 4:21 pm ET)
         
      These protests amount to nothing, just like turning your lights out, tying any color ribbon on a car, or chaining yourself to a tree. Willard needs a haircut.
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    • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (April 15, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
         

      I wonder what the Obama FCC is up to?

      Maybe it's time to really give these Cons something to scream about.

      No doubt, Obama is a socialist.  He's going to raise taxes on our wealthiest citizens to a level so they're still about 10 percentage points LOWER than were for most of REAGAN's presidency.

      Think about that a minute tea party goers, and then try to realize what an embarrassment you are.

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      • Author by commonsenseliberal (April 16, 2009 12:20 pm ET)
           

        I remember reading CNN's coverage of these tea bagging events.

        One gentleman interviewed said he was 44, worked in litigation, and this year when he did his taxes, he complained that he paid the same amount in taxes that he did when he graduated college.

        Now, assuming that he graduated college 20 years ago; assuming that he is now gainfully employed - he's complaining that his tax bill hasn't gone up in 20 years.

        WTF?  Are these people idiots?

        Don't answer that...

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    • Author by rkcomments (April 15, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
         

      Since Fox has so much riding on this tea-party scam, I would not be surprised one bit if they paid people to show up at these parties today.

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    • Author by ess.jaye7648 (April 15, 2009 4:56 pm ET)
         
      OK, let's compare too how people get motivated against GOP policicies.

      <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2765215.stm">BBC - Mon 17 February 2003
      <i>"...up to 250,000 people took part in a final event in San Francisco..."

      "...The demonstration in London was the biggest in the UK capital's political history, with nearly two million taking part, organisers said, although police put the figure at 750,000..."

      "...In Barcelona, Spanish police estimated that up to 1.3 million people marched, with around 200,000 in Seville and more than 600,000 in Madrid..."

      "...[Rome] police estimated that 650,000 took part..."

      "...In Australia, more than half a million protesters jammed the streets..."

      "...a 100,000-strong rally near [the NYC) UN headquarters..."

      "...10,000 protested in India's eastern city of Calcutta..."</i></a>
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    • Author by tetropods (April 15, 2009 5:51 pm ET)
         
      I think they are retarded or at least very bad at defining fascism.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (April 15, 2009 10:08 pm ET)
           
        Fascism doesn't need defining. It already has a definition. What they are bad at is knowing what fascism truly is and recognizing it in Dick Cheney.
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    • Author by scootmandubious (April 15, 2009 6:40 pm ET)
         

      I happened to tune into Fox today and was horrified. They are not reporting on the teabaggers, they are instigating a revolution.

      A revolution based upon a Bush tax structure and the potential horrors of going back to the Clinton tax code, where the richest 1% paid more of their fair share.

      Just to make sure I wasn't missing a huge event, I checked to see what MSNBC and CNN had, as the Fox coverage was totally partisan and non-stop. They were doing their regular reporting, as I expected.

      This lunacy has to end. They have gone over the edge. And now, on Yahoo! their front page is talking about this growing revolution.

      I hope the MSNBC shows absolutely slam Fox tonight.

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      • Author by worrierking (April 15, 2009 7:01 pm ET)
           
        Yahoo gets it's news feed from one source, the Associated Press.

        Though not as biased as FNC, they're headed in that direction.
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    • Author by aceman41 (April 15, 2009 6:42 pm ET)
         
      He's right. Let's screw the new "long" budget and take the Republican's "simple" budget with no numbers. Seriously though, conservatives have this whole thing completely screwed up if they think you can just produce a less than 10,000 word magical budget to solve a problem that even Bill-O calls "complex."
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    • Author by scootmandubious (April 15, 2009 6:44 pm ET)
         

      One more thing, who knew that Fox defined fascism as corporatism?

      They are allegedly concerned with business being in bed with government? Since when? Certainly not during the Bush and Reagan regimes.  

       

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    • Author by chris.1520 (April 15, 2009 6:51 pm ET)
         
      Americans appear to not know about Fascism, never having lived under it. The current US government comes nowhere even close to Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain. This idiotic Fox News (reporter???) needs to educate himself. He's making the American people look stupid in the eyes of the watching world.
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    • Author by scootmandubious (April 15, 2009 7:32 pm ET)
         

      I just posted the following on the Fox News website. I am planning a personal boycott of every one of their sponsors. It would be nice to see this organized by a group that has the resources to compile a full list, with contact information for each sponsor:

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      Today, one of your reporters called our government fascist. His definition was government being in bed with business.

      Excuse me, but if that was the definition, what about all of Bush and Cheney's friends enriching themselves in Iraq, to cite just one example. Bush and your party ONLY cared about business interests, which is why we are in this mess.

      It is my belief that Richard Poplawski, a right-wing terrorist who murdered 3 police officers, was inspired by Glenn Beck, among others. I watch the way you incite people to rise up against this government. You want the president and country to fail and your 'news' is now just 24-hour punditry, trying to agitate this country, in my opinion, to violence.

      That is why, as of today, I plan on a personal boycott of every one of your sponsors.

      I hope others do the same.

      You have crossed the line from journalism to something disgusting and extremely un-American.

      You no longer are in the majority. Get over your extremist ways, or you will never attract another moderate or independent again.

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    • Author by eyeswideopen1 (April 15, 2009 8:14 pm ET)
         
      Isn't this "rise up and fight the gov't" talk illegal?
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (April 15, 2009 8:45 pm ET)
         
      And here I thought that we got rid of  all the FASCISTS on JAN 20.
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    • Author by jonesjax2374 (April 15, 2009 11:18 pm ET)
         
      I like the sponsor boycott.  By the way, is this reporter RELATED to anyone? Just curious.  I mean there are a lot of really good student journalists out there and they picked him?
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    • Author by Eric Jaffa (April 16, 2009 12:41 am ET)
         

      I ldidn't believe that Cody Willard was a reporter when I saw a shorter version of this.

      I thought that Fox News had just asked an organizer to speak on camera.

       

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    • Author by wandaluvsdolls461 (April 16, 2009 2:49 am ET)
         

      I know this won't get posted but I have a question for who ever reads this.......WHY DON'T YOU MONITOR MSNBC AND KEITH OLBERMAN AND CHRIS MATTHEWS. OH I HAVE THE ANSWER BECAUSE MEDIA MATTERS IS A LEFT WING WACKO SITE!!!!!

       

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      • Author by snoopy (April 16, 2009 3:29 am ET)
           
        Oh, look, your reichwing rant got posted here! Now go to your redstate.com site and revel in the fact that you reichies won't let left wing opinions last 3 seconds on your sanitized site.
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      • Author by cmiller442 (April 16, 2009 2:09 pm ET)
           

        MMFA does report on Olbermann. He is just less of a D-Bag than his counterparts on FauxNoise.

         

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