Limits, Even at Fox News, to Promoting Tea Parties

Heh. Well, I guess if they want to keep spouting off about how Fox is allegedly fair and balanced (like waterboarding isn’t torture) then they have to draw the line somewhere. This was an obvious place to draw it. At least we can point to this sort of thing and say that Fox isn’t advocating a political point of view, it’s just exploiting the market that comprises that political point of view. It doesn’t do much to bolster their fair and balanced creds but at least you know the game they’re playing.

I wonder if it would have been a different story if Fox News received a share of the profits…

Something is happening over at Fox. Yesterday several of their “personalities” also debunked O’Reilley’s claim that nobody at Fox had ever mentioned jail time in connection with not getting health insurance.

“The Cincinnati Tea Party folks tell me that they had no deal with Hannity — he had a deal with the University of Cincinnati, and they had a deal with the University of Cincinnati, but there was no deal between them.”
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Instapundit: HERE IN CINCINNATI
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/97672/

#1 Who cares about Hannity.

#2 If The LAME stream press did their job instead of looking at Hannity for a news story, we would not be in 1/2 the mess we are in…COVER THE NEWS, not other news commentators, DO YOUR JOB…OR GET OUT… Your coverage of 47% of American people (and growing) is lacking, you think we are all red-neck hillbillies (no offence to red-neck hillbillies)…Both YOU CNN & TIME are Hacks and media elitist. Move over or pay attention…..

Fox news has the highest ratings of any news channel out there, and Hannity’s ratings are soaring through the roof. People are finally waking up out of there trance and seeing the truth of what is happing in this country. There’s a reason why viewer ship on ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC are dropping.

Boy, it’s obvious to see what agenda Time has from their characterization of Fox.

While it’s obvious Fox has more wanna-be conservative commentators than liberal commentators, and even their actual anchors (which do not include Hannity, O’Reilly, they are opinion specific programs) lean conservative, they still have many more two-side debates than either CNN or MSNBC, neither of which will air a truly conservative viewpoint, only wanna-be conservative Bush-like Christians like Pat Buchanan who don’t see any contradiction with conservatism and pushing legislation that promotes their own beliefs. (Hint Buchanan: the conservative principal of individual liberty has to be consistent in every issue). By only airing Bush-conservative principals, they effectively diminish the conservative arguement, while also refusing to cover issues that deal with the concerns of real small government, fiscally responsible conservatives.

To Time and you other Fox detractors, what do you have against hearing at least part of the conservative arguement? Why is it you only accept left-leaning news sources? Wouldn’t your intellect be much better served by watching both CNN and Fox since you’re going to get a bias either way? Don’t you want to consider enough sources to get both sides of the story?

No, probably not. “Open-mindedness” is just a buzz word for you, not a real value.

Amen danetea and cbratton!!! Talk about media bias??! Make chit up and do stories that have NO relevance of what this government is doing to radically change America which we’re gonna put stop to it come November. Take a post like erieangel…TOTALLY MADE UP! “PRESONALITIES DEBUNKED O’REILLY”????????…THAT’S JUST A DAMN LIE! He had a Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn on his show because he made this assertion that someone on Fox News said people would go to jail if they failed to buy into healthcare. The senator admitted he was wrong!! O’REILLY DEBUNKED THE STORY FK WAD!!!! Just keep drinking that kool aid erie….come November, we’re taking the country back!!!

….that’s right….just make chit up and throw it against the wall to see if it sticks!! Go to the O’Reilly website on Fox News and click the interview with Senator Coburn. TELL ME WHO DEBUNKED WHO….IDIOT!!

The same could be said for the conservatives and tea party people who get most, if not all of their news from Fox. Why don’t more of them listen to the other networks??
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That’s right, those “other” networks are too liberal and socialist for them.
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BTW, I watch Fox for a least an hour a day. And its the only “news” network I turn on during weekends. But mostly weekends when I do watch tv, its CSpan.

With regard to O’Reilly’s assertion that no one on Fox News had said you could do jail time for not having health insurance, my colleague Kate Pickert enumerates several instances in which people on Fox, including Glenn Beck, made that claim:

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/14/jail-time-for-insurance-evaders-yes-said-fox-news/

However, in case you regard anything that comes from time.com as biased, I would also note that Fox News’ Neil Cavuto–in the context of defending Fox News to Coburn–said himself that, contrary to what O’Reilly said, Fox personalities had in fact made that statement:

“Now, you’re quite right, and I’ve researched this, that a number of Fox personalities had made that comment, but they were not alone at the time.”

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4150755/coburn-challenges-congress

The exchange starts about five minutes into the video.

What kind of response is this? You didn’t go all caps on any words. Where are the exclamation marks? The ad hominems? No, this is all wrong. Round one goes to prestonsc.

Question: Am I the only person that is actually less likely to read a comment if it contains unnecessary capitalization and punctuation?

That being said, I heard Hannity’s punishment is having to do another 10 shows with Alan Colmes.

No, you are NOT!!!!

Seeing the truth? That Fox is supporting the tea party movement by giving them maximum positive coverage and their on air personalities are literally fund raising for them? I hope that Fox viewing tea party supporters see this news and see the real truth: that Fox is encouraging and publicizing the tea party movement so they can exploit its members for Fox’s financial benefit.

This article is as misleading as all the others floating around. There were no “profits” intended or made by the all-volunteer Cincinnati Tea Party on this event, it was strictly breakeven. It was well known by all, including FOX, weeks ahead of time that tickets were being sold.

Isn’t America great…. I dropped my subscription to Time magazine and NYT. Aren’t they going out of business. They have lost their credibility. They claim Fox is biased. Is the NYT biased? Long live the NYT… it is almost dead!

Alan is my favorite lib… He does make sense if you give him a chance.

Talk about hilarious. How about Larry King’s little tryst? Maybe that will boost CNN’s ratings and bring them up out of the gutter. What a joke.

I’m sorry bill0clinton (and I doubt that this is really Bill Clinton) but this comment just got to me. As a result I had to drop my subscription to the National Review.

It’s been 10 minutes…isn’t it time for Time Magazine to put Obama on its cover again?

Fox News is a big joke worldwide. Racist Hanity and his Tea Party anti-american conservative thugs are all scared and running with their tails between their legs.

You live in the greatest country and you don’t want to pay your taxes. I’d pay triple tax if I had to go live elsewhere’s. Big Government must control Big Wall Street and health care greed.

President Obama is the Greatest President the United States will have had – not just to Americans, but to the World.

The writer of this article is a joke. He claims that Fox’s ratings have been helped by their appealing to ” anti-government, anti-Obama spirit. Um, they have been number one in news ratings for like fifteen years or so. If my memory is not too hazy, Barack Obama wasn’t really in the news for most of those years. He adds, “whatever it is in journalism, it’s just good business sense, implying that their journalism is questionable. Well last time I checked no one from any network has come forward questioning what is presented as truth on fox, only on what is opinion. So, my dear article writing friend, if you can’t tell where the journalism ends and the personal opinion begins, maybe you should reconsider whether you are qualified to critique either. It is obvious that he tried to be honest about the story while adding enough leftist rhetoric that his liberal friends will high five him at their next meeting of the mindless.