VIDEO: Fox News Signs On To Tea Party Agenda, Aggressively Promotes Anti-Obama Protests
Organizers of the radical anti-Obama “tea party” protests have been trying to claim that the events are rising up spontaneously. Many of these organizers, such as Eric Odom, are claiming that the tea parties are being held by “regular American[s] in protest of government spending and extreme taxation.”

However, as Media Matters recently documented, Fox News has been aggressively promoting the anti-tax protests:

Specifically, Fox News has in dozens of instances provided attendance and organizing information for future protests, such as protest dates, locations and website URLs. Fox News websites have also posted information and publicity material for protests. Fox News hosts have repeatedly encouraged viewers to join them at several April 15 protests that they are attending and covering.

The network has also been pushing the movement’s talking points, saying that people are “angry,” “upset,” and “feeling disenfranchised,” which is why they’re organizing this “nationwide grassroots movement.” Promising “fair and balanced” coverage, hosts such as Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, and Sean Hannity are all planning to broadcast live from the events. The Fox broadcasts are in turn being used by the tea party organizers to promote their protests.

Think Progress has put together a video illustrating Fox News’s active role in promoting the “FNC Tax Day Tea Parties.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/10/fox-news-tea-party-video/



Fox News isn’t the only right-wing organization involved in building up these so-called “grassroots” events. The tea parties have been heavily backed by corporate lobbyists. The principle organizers of many of the local events are actually the lobbyist-run think tanks Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Works, and Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions. The groups are heavily staffed and well funded, and are providing all the logistical and public relations work necessary for planning coast-to-coast protests.

With its aggressive advocacy for the anti-Obama protests, it looks like Fox is quickly dropping its “fair and balanced” slogan to become the “voice of opposition” to the Obama administration.




Grassroots?
I think not!
More like sheeple being herded!

We're even having one here in our little City.
Dedicated to saving our Constitution from. Our State Rep will see, it's in his best interest to lean a little more to the right.

More like sheeple being herded!

All three of you!

And would you believe it, Obama is trying to take away all our rights to assemble?
Why would that be?

No he isnt!

Bush tried though!

Like I said Sheeple!

This is Exactly What Move-on Wants their Flock to Believe

Here it is again,

Editor's Note:
"I hope that the president and the final stimulus plan succeed."
So writes CNBC pundit Rick Santelli in a recent public statement,
one that's very much at odds with his on-screen persona as an instigator of a right-wing protest movement against
Barack Obama's economic recovery plans.
This is the man whose outraged rant against Obama's plan
for distressed homeowners was viewed millions of times on
CNBC.com and YouTube and sparked a backlash in the
form of "Tea Parties" across the United States.

Santelli's reversal resulted from the controversy surrounding
a Playboy article by journalists Mark Ames and Yasha Levine.
The article, which was later taken down from Playboy's site
after possible libel claims, exposed the connection between
the right-wing group FreedomWorks and the online
Tea Party organizers, and suggested that Santelli's
tirade was a "carefully planned trigger" for the Tea Parties.

In addition to his public statement on CNBC,
Santelli suffered the ignominy of canceling an
appearance on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show this week,
and further revelations and accusations are flying
between Ames and Levine's ExiledOnline Web magazine
and the New York Times and Atlantic Monthly blog, among others.

In a statement on the controversy, sent to me in the
afternoon on March 3, Ames and Levine write:

"There has been a lot of speculation as to why
Playboy removed our original article from its site.
Let us put it this way: When you look at the fallout
from our article -- FreedomWorks admits its role in the
teaparty, Santelli issues a giant lawyer-penned opus
about how he loves Obama, and CNBC
(whose parent company is the megaconglomerate General Electric)
frightens a bunch of Astroturfing Web sites into dropping
Santelli's name and into revealing their own PAC sponsors
-- then it's clear we hit the bull's-eye and stirred up the
wrath of a very scary monster.

"Given all of this, it would not be unreasonable for one
to consider the possibility (as many have) that the multigazilliondollar megabeast GE threatened the
much smaller independent media company Playboy with a
terrifying and expensive lawsuit, which, given the
current financial crisis, is not something anyone but
another
GE-sized megabeast could cope with. 'Nuf said on that."

Ames and Levine summarize the controversy on their site:

"We publish an investigation into the fake-grassroots
"Tea Party" protest campaign underwritten by
rich Republican right-wing interests,
exposing Rick Santelli's role as the launch event MC,
and three days later, Santelli is *****-slapped
down by his bosses, he's canceled from the Daily Show,
forced to issue a Bukharin-like confession,
FreedomWorks confesses that it was behind it from the start,
as we wrote, and every media outlet in the country from the
New York Times on down is writing up the scandal.

"Yes, it's a victory for us and for the forces of
independent journalism. Sure, we're doing a dirty
chicken dance in the end zone now. But the truth is,
it's a bitter victory, because we've also been forced
to confront the awfully familiar face of America's
own version of the Soviet Union at work: Giant scary
corporations threatening and scaring smaller fish into
censorship, while their bought-off minions in the media
do their dirty work to try to protect the
megaconglomerate's brand."

Ames' and Levine's story has also highlighted the
various media conflicts of interest caused by
overlapping business ties between the companies involved
and reporting on the controversy. It also revealed that
apparent critics of Ames' and Levine's report are tied
to the subjects of the controversy. For example,
Playboy has a deal in the works with NBC Universal,
CNBC's corporate parent, for an upcoming film titled
Playboy. The New York Times had to disclose that
it has a content-sharing agreement with CNBC in its
story on Santelli. While attacking the overall
credibility of the original story, Atlantic Monthly
blogger Megan McArdle -- who confirmed from FreedomWorks
that it has indeed been involved in organizing the
Tea Parties as Ames and Levine alleged in their story --
disclosed that she lived with a man who used to work for FreedomWorks and that he had engaged in the same kind of
Astroturf PR stunts for the group that Ames and Levine
reported on in their article. --


http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/129656 /the_rick_santelli_'tea_party'_controversy:_article _kicks_up_a_media_dust_storm/

Actually, this is true. Hussein Obama does attempt to stifle the voice of the people.

so the people that say Obama said this, Obama said that and use that as proof aren't sheeple?

now you are on the DHS "watch list"

They wanna' watch me, they're in for one boring sit.

Dont flatter your self. LMAO

You are an insignificant threat to anyone.

Who says that?
I haven't seen anyone saying that.

I bet you didnt even read the articles.

Not very nice, attacking posters. Shame, shame.^^^
Every one that has an opinion should be able to do so without being slammed.

The topic, not the poster.

Yes, Hussein wants to enslave us all and destroy our Constitution.

All these people running around crying wolf and thinking they are following something original or grassroots.
LOL

All you really are doing is being unwitting participants in a Republican sponsored political ploy!

They are your real enemy and you help them thinking you will be freer. LMAO

Don't y'all even remember all the freedoms they stole from you under the guise of the Bush Administration?

you haven't seen that??? no you don't do it...but people do

LOL
You think that was an attack?

LOL
Please,,,,,,

Well if they do point it out to me and I'll call them sheeple too!

No, Hussein isn't attacking anyone, he is only carefully eliminating the internal enemies of the state.

As long as you dance to his pipe, there is nothing to be afraid of.