This morning, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron touted a recent survey by Public Policy Polling that found several prominent Republicans essentially tied with President Obama in theoretical 2012 match-ups. While Cameron found time to offer flattering descriptions of each of these “top Republicans,” he neglected to mention that 75% of them are current Fox News employees.

Using a tag line Sarah Palin couldn't have scripted better herself, Cameron called her the “culture warrior tea party candidate.” Palin was hired by Fox News in January, and since then has regularly appeared on various Fox News programs to not only attack the administration, but promote herself and other Republican candidates.

Cameron described Mike Huckabee as “the President of Iowa, having won its caucuses the last time and a social conservative.” Huckabee also has a prominent platform as the host of a forthcoming Fox Television Stations group show, and a Fox News show, which he uses to attack the administration and promote his PAC and various GOP candidates around the country.

Newt Gingrich, whom Cameron described as the “big ideas guy in the GOP,” has been a “political contributor” for Fox News since 1999. Like fellow potential 2012 potential candidates/Fox employees Palin and Huckabee, Gingrich uses his Fox News platform to promote himself and attack the administration. In a nice example of being able to do both at the same time, Gingrich recently appeared on Fox News Sunday to promote his latest book and claim that Dems are currently threatening America as much as “Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”

Fox News president Roger Ailes recently claimed he's “not in politics anymore. I don't do politics, I do the news.” Based on the actions of his network, Ailes doesn't see much difference between the two.