Faux News stopped being a "News" organization long ago. Probably before they picked up their pom poms and began cheering for Bush and his policies. Upper management in the corporation has as much said that they are nothing more than cheerleaders.
The Teabag "grassroots" astroturf protest in DC was a huge failure, and Faux News is licking their wounds, and continues to spin it much larger than it was. It was conceived by their new Wunder Kind Glenn Beck (Mr. 9-12, wahhhhhhh, sniffle, wahhhhh), and organized by the right (Freedom Works a front for corporate greed so nothing grassroots about it), and BLATANTLY PROMOTED by Faux News. There was nothing fair or balanced about it, they ran promotional ads for days before the event. All of their hosts talked about it in the most glowing terms, just like a bunch of cheerleaders, sis boom bah, rah rah rah. Beck devoted weeks to the promotion of this Hindenburg of a sham. So now the corporate right media and the blogs have to try to save face, so they lie about what others estimated to be numbers and blatantly post photos of other events to try to show larger numbers. The fact is that over 150,000 show up each week to LSU home football games (not all will get in, cuz the stadium's not that big). Less than half that many showed up to this important rally.
The real news outlets covered this event correctly, it was nothing more than the circus coming to town. They sent their cameras, captured the ambiance, talked to the protesters, and let their audience get a good laugh.
Yes all of the networks have some bias, but nothing to the extent of Faux News who colors almost everything they do red. MSNBC's afternoon/evening lineup tilts left with Schultz, Olbermann, Madow, Mathiews. But they tilt right in the morning with Scarborough, Geist and Ratigan. Not exactly balanced but at least an effort is made. Hell, just for kicks I've watched Hannity a few times in the past few weeks (love to watch that hair gelled pussy piss his pants). His "Great American Panel" has NO lefties, none at all. Faux has apparently decided that Hannity can't debate from the talking points, so he now has an echo chamber show. Hannity spends an entire hour every night running down Obama, how he's making the country less safe, how he's bankrupting us, etc. Wow, that's fair and balanced. When Bush was President even Olbermann (MSNBC's most left leaning host at the time) didn't spend his entire broadcast every night running him down! 24 hours a day on Faux (except for Shepard Smith's how) they report that the sky is falling, the sky is falling and it's Obama's fault. No wonder their viewers have become so radicalized!
