Déjà Vu: Fox News Rallies Viewers To Participate In Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests On July 4
Déjà Vu: Fox News Rallies Viewers To Participate In Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests On July 4
This morning on Fox News, Glenn Beck joined the Fox and Friends hosts to promote new anti-Obama, anti-tax tea party protests on July 4. Steve Doocy introduced the segment, “This weekend, of course the 4th of July, Americans are gearing up for a second round of tea parties to protest massive government spending.”
Reprising their role in orchestrating the first tea parties, the lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are again helping to organize the July 4 protests. FreedomWorks is working alongside other right-wing groups on a new website to publicize the events, and Americans for Prosperity is hosting several rallies on the 4th, including one with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
But while these lobbyist-run groups played a pivotal role in financing the logistics and coordination of the tea parties, Fox News was certainly the megaphone for the movement. Just as Fox News became a full-fledged sponsor of the April protests, running back-to-back segments and broadcasting live from protests across the country, the network is attempting to motivate another round of radical, anti-Obama protests on July 4th. In recent weeks and this morning, Fox News has run several segments, including one featuring disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), to promote tea parties. Watch it:
Already, Fox News contributor and former News Corp. lobbyist Angela McGlowan is scheduled to appear at the Memphis tea party later this week.
Last year, in the final year of Bush’s presidency, Beck penned an op-ed about how Americans should celebrate July 4 by talking not about “our problems,” but by celebrating “what’s right about America.” Beck also downplayed the “much maligned economy” under Bush, and told readers that the media should use Independence Day to take a break from reporting on “crooked politicians” or “high gas prices.”
Though he demanded that the media depoliticize July 4 last year, Beck and his colleagues at Fox News now seem preoccupied with rallying radical opposition to President Obama.
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Vile, stupid, loathesome, hateful people…masquerading as patriots…
June 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pmGreat 4th of July viewing – bigots and mindless idiots on parade. Where were they during the bush admin?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pmMeanwhile (at 1 p.m. today), the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled in Al Franken’s favor. Pawlenty will probably sign the election certificate and Franken will soon be seated.
Thank goodness that Paul Wellstone’s Senate seat is finally back in trustworthy and deserving hands!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:07 pmThe FoxNews anchors look like they have been dipped in polyurethane.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:09 pmStay unpatriotic and unclassy wingnuts.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pmOK, I’ll agree to depoliticize the fourth if Glen Beck and his ilk shut up for the other 364 days of the year.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pmOT – Congrats to Senator Al Franken – MN court affirms Franken’s victory.
Suck on that, Beck!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:11 pm.
Q U E S T I O N:
Which mistress is Gov. Sanford planning this tea party with?
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pmGO, TEABAGGERS!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pmYippie. More racially tinged, conspiracist hate speech on public display from Darwin’s B-team. Fortunately, with Fox’s presistent use of Mark Sanford to promote these bund rallies we can never forget the true meaning of teabagging.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pmJust business as usual at FOX>
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pmLet’s see some patriotic repiggie teabagging, shaved or unshaved.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pmThe patriotic thing to do on the 4th is to show your support for America by slapping a Republican.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pmAnd inevitably, FOX will show footage of gatherings that have nothing to do with teabagging (save for the lone wingnut and his vile sign), and everything to do with celebrating our country, and say “look how many showed up to protest!”
June 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pmWow, Sanford is the best they can do? The man that just went AWOL on his state so he could boink a woman other than his wife?
My how the mighty have fallen.
The 4th shouldn’t be political, and that is probably the only thing that Glen Beck has ever said that I agreed with. It has nothing to do with politics, it’s to celebrate the birth of our nation, and the start of the global shift toward governments controlled by the people they govern. Protests, while within your rights, are not appropriate on such an occassion. I’m not going to stop anyone from doing it, but far from pulling me in, anyone who tries to politicize this kind of celebration immediately turns me off, forever. It shows such an incredible lack of respect for this country, its founders, and the citizens that I could never associate with such people. I was raised better than that.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:15 pmIs Sanford a low-hanging teabagger?
Inquiring minds want to know.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pmThanks for sharing that great news, Tom!
I also appreciate you bringing the late Paul Wellstone’s name up.
Pawlenty will most likely sign the election certificate, but let’s see what ‘The Norm’s’ lawyers do…he racked up nearly a cool million in legal fees just in May. Of course, the RNC or something like it will cover that.
Senator Franken will be the elusive #60, possibly preventing the overused and misunderstood cloture rule.
Let the Teabaggers confornicate in public on the 4th all they want…
June 30th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWE GOT FRANKEN!
I shall make sure my testicals are nice and clean for the teabagging party!!!! I would hate to smear the nose of republicans in public!!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:19 pmTXProgressive Says:
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Great 4th of July viewing – bigots and mindless idiots on parade. Where were they during the bush admin?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Uhhh………They were all part of the administration…………
June 30th, 2009 at 2:20 pmSenator Franken…
Yes, I like the sound of that.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:20 pmit’s good to remind ourselves from time to time of what we’re up against:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox
June 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pmWhat’s next? Beck and FAUX asking people to show up in a church on December 25, 2009, to show support for lower taxes on the top 2%?
WOW! I’ll bet there will be big crowds because of Glenn’s request!
Duhhhhhhhhhh…………..
June 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pmThey will soon produce their own tea bags with ‘fox news: fair and balanced’ printed on the paper tab.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pmDream on, people. Blue Dogs.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pmxero said: And inevitably, FOX will show footage of gatherings that have nothing to do with teabagging (save for the lone wingnut and his vile sign), and everything to do with celebrating our country, and say “look how many showed up to protest!”
June 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pmI fear you are only too correct, xero. I also fear that going to see my local fireworks is going to bring me into contact with with wingnuts ruining my enjoyment of the celebration of my country with their xenophobic, racist, hypocritical, theocratic UN-American BS.
The good news is that if Al Franken is seated as Senator from Mn I don’t think he will be a quiet little mouse.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI can do a fair and balanced teabagging.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pmi guess teabagging does take a fair amount of balance
June 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pmRight on, realitarian!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pmDone deal:
From CNN- Minnesota’s Supreme Court has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of the state’s disputed U.S. Senate race
June 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pmIgnorance is a right wingers most prized possession.
That is why they are always protecting it from information and facts and that is also why they insist on putting it on display at every given opportunity.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:29 pmhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6580694&page=1
June 30th, 2009 at 2:29 pmWhat’s a wingnut to do? Get drunk with friends and family and throw fireworks at each other, or go to a teabagging (followed by a yiffing) party with a bunch of people you’ve never met before? Guess that’s a tough one for the party of family values.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:30 pm…sorry, wrong link:
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/franken-declared-winner-of-minnesota-senate-race-2009-06-30.html
June 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pmIf the teabaggers are going to protest President Obama’s tax policy, they should pay back the tax cuts he gave them.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pmThis display is vile, self-serving, hypocritical, and the antithesis of what our founding fathers intended.
Dissent is patrotic. If you have a legitimate gripe against the government, it’s your duty as an American to express it. But, like we saw with the last teabag day, “Chairman Maobama”, the Obama-Hitler nexus, and the Birthers are far from legitimate. And, with Fox at the helm, you KNOW they’ll be the ones showing up in droves.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:32 pmUh oh! Does Antonin Scalia know about this?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pmMN is the first State to recognize D.C. has become a laughingstock, so we sent in a comedian, just in time.
Hey Republics, THE JOKE’S ON YOU!
June 30th, 2009 at 2:33 pmWill fox point out the irony in those groups rallying on National Liberty Day? The liberalism of the founders lives on every year as a national holiday, gotta love it.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:34 pmHoodathunktick Says:
Dream on, people. Blue Dogs.
Sad but true.
If it were up to me (us?), they’d be called “Black and Blue” Dogs because of the pummelling they have so righteously earned.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pmUh oh! Does Antonin Scalia know about this?
Probably not but I figure Norm and the RNC will apprise him of the situation real soon.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:36 pmJaneane Garofalo was right.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:37 pmDo teabaggers walk to protests because they hate the roads which their taxes built? Do they gather in public places knowing that, once again, their taxes provide for such venues?
HELL NO. They’re nothing but knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing shit-fcuks without any common sense whatsoever, and that’s on a GOOD day.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:38 pm….
send us a postcard from buenos aires, sandy.
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:38 pmIronically, people who are always doing ironic things do not understand irony.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:38 pmIs this the same Sanford who earlier today admitted that he wasn’t entirely truthful about the # of times he’d seen the mistress this year?
Remind me why anyone should listen to/believe any lies that come out is mouth…
June 30th, 2009 at 2:39 pmTime for another slapdown of state’s rights.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pmRanting Tommy says:
The patriotic thing to do on the 4th is to show your support for America by fragging a Republican.
There, I fixed it for you.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pm:-)
Let them have their tea parties, complete with M80 cocktail stirrers.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pmtoo extreme for me, uncle ho
I just want them to be humiliated, not harmed
June 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pmRanting Tommy.
Nobody does humiliation like the GOP. They seem to excel in self-destruct.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:44 pmCome one, you have to give the people of South Carolina some chops. They believe that a man who is capable of treating his wife and kids like dirt, abandoning their state for almost a week without saying where he is, is a man they want to lead them.
Oh, did I forget to mention he also didn’t want to accept any money that was targeted for improving education?
Obviously South Carolinians are as smart as they want to be.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pmTeabaggers want the government totally out of their lives until a calamity like a hurricane or a tornado strikes. Then they just can’t shut up about not getting any help or assistance.
Teabaggers totally want the government up the butts of each citizen when it comes to personal life decisions.
The left nut doesn’t know what the right nut is doing.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pmSomeone should kindly provide refreshments for the t-baggers on such a hot holiday.
Anyone know the recipe for Guyana Punch?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:52 pmIs it just me, or does the tea-party movement seem smaller and less local?
Despite this advertisement from FNC, it appears that the tea parties have lost steam in the mainstream media and the plugs have come days and weeks later than the “first round”.
This is why you don’t advertise these things to happen during a national holiday. Would you rather celebrate the freedom your country has had ever since 1776 or protest the freedom you think you may not have in the future?
June 30th, 2009 at 2:57 pmI thought it was just anti-liberal bigotry and an inordinate love of catastrophic policies.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:59 pmI just wish someone would tell these stupid teabaggers that the orginal Boston tea party, they so proudly use are their symbol, was not a protest against high taxes. It was a protest against the elimination of corporate taxes.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pmA wholly conservative effort on a day made for liberty is ironic.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pmPlease tell me that Fox didn’t use Sanford as an example of supporting teabagging !
Please not Mark my favorite song is:
Ma-ree-ah, I’m entranced by a girl named Ma-ree-aaaahhh!
Yes, everythings right in America.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:14 pmto add to 58. shoeless:
Another irony is that tea had been subsidized for the colonies and was much cheaper in the colonies than in England.
The Boston Tea party occurred when Britain started to pull back some of the subsidies in the colonies.
The repeal of the govt gravy train – now that is something to protest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:16 pmYou know, when you chop a chicken’s head off, the chicken’s body runs around in circles for a few moments before it figures out it’s dead…
Kinda reminds me of these knuckle-dragging, teabagging wingnuts.
Oy.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:27 pmI expect any senior citizen on SS will return the extra 250$
June 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pmstimulus they recieved last month if they attend this charade.
Now, thats FUNNY!
Note to FML(aka big dummy) Shove it where the sun don’t shine.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pmtony and lido
You teabaggers are the ones who know nothing. The Boston Tea Party was not a protest against higher taxes. It was a protest against the Tea Act, which gave trade advantages and favorable tax policy to the gigantic East India Tea Company. This was precisely the type of legislation favored by today’s Republicans.
Gawd, you are ignorant.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pmFox “news” continues to promote anti-Obama sentiments & incite hatred towards the government on a daily basis. How they can call themselves “fair/balanced”, & how they can express surprise that people see them as the one & only Repub propaganda network is mind-boggling. Only their faithful viewers are so ignorant, narrow-minded, racist, & bigoted as to believe the bs Fox spews. Regrettably, it’s apparent that many of their viewers also lean towards violence, hatred, & downright stupidity due to what they hear on Fox.
Did Fox ever – EVER – criticize Bush, demean him, point guns at his head on their website, or rally their viewers to attack the many horrific policies Bush/Cheney rammed through? Of course not.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:01 pmSorry, but I’m just tired of these nitwits reposting the same insane dribble post after post.I have never seen them post something factual with a link attached.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pmAnd AJ, if you don’t like it here. Start your own site.
It’s like kindergaten when the kids get tired and the teacher tells them to take a nap.
Only kindergartners grow up.Our group of trolls are emotionally and mentally unbalanced.
tony and lido
Why isn’t FLEAMARKETREPIGGIE serving in the military in Afghanistan right now?
Why aren’t these repiggie trolls enlisting to serve in the wars they egg on so much?
Talk about hypocrites…
June 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pmOh, how unpatriotic. Bet they will be waving the confederate flag instead of old glory.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pmI have rules about the lunatics I want to associate with. Teabaggers just don’t cut it for me.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:55 pmThe Republican Party has formally asked America’s mental hospital to release their patients on July 4th in order to attend their tea parties. “What’s a cup of tea without the lemon?” asked RNC Presient Michael Steele.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pmpags2 says, “I have rules about the lunatics I want to associate with. Teabaggers just don’t cut it for me.”
Why stop there? I don’t want to associate with Republicans, period.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:14 pmdelafield Says:
pags2 says, “I have rules about the lunatics I want to associate with. Teabaggers just don’t cut it for me.”
Why stop there? I don’t want to associate with Republicans, period.
I don’t have that problem because we have no Republicans in Chicago.
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Someone should kindly provide refreshments for the t-baggers on such a hot holiday.
Anyone know the recipe for Guyana Punch?
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June 30th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I got my stimulus check a few days ago. I’m not complaining. It makes me feel like stimulating. Me und mia compadre are going to see a movie at a theater, even though it isn’t Christmas. Gonna buy popcorn, too. Might even do something special for the 4th of July.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:28 pmIn 64. FML says “here’s some historical FACTS for your linear thinking brains. Maybe you’ll get your desire of the FED wiping your A$$es and force feeding you government cheese after all.”
I’m sorry, but “Maybe you’ll get your desire…..” isn’t recognizable as a fact by the non-Rushbo crowd. Rather it seems to be your personal wish.
And may I add, Mark Sanford, the one who arranged for govt money to pay for a meeting nto be moved to his mistress’s foreign country so he could have whoopee without even paying for the plan ticket. And the one who on another occassion has significant question on if he had the govt pay for his plan ticket to his mistress ???
When is the govt gonna pay for liberals to have sex ?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:02 pmoops – typo. Of course “plan ticket” should be “plane ticket”
June 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pmConservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”
I thought it was just anti-liberal bigotry and an inordinate love of catastrophic policies.
or worship of the Almighty Dollar masquerading as policy…
June 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pmIt’s not like anyone in these sociopath’s family or communities will invite them over to the BBQ, so they do have a lot of free time on their hands to engage in their USA-hating moron-a-palooza
June 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pmI live in Middle GA. There was a report in the local newspaper today about one of these teabagging parties, and what I found significant is that the article stated that, so far, the party is small, but vocal.
It seems the locals are planning to come out in droves to support this effort on Saturday, July 4.
Hahahahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:17 pmOT, but related and important that the teabaggers know: the first stimulus $ is finally being spent in GA to improve a highway system near Atlanta. More to come.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pmMajii,
can I assume the tea baggers will refuse to use that road ?
In SC News, one of Sanford’s political opponents (who just happens to also be a repub) is planning a protest outside the SC Capitol. Interesting (and on topic) in that his estimate of the size of the crowd he will gather is bigger than the size of the earlier teabagger protest.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pmOT, but related and important that the teabaggers know: the first stimulus $ is finally being spent in GA to improve a highway system near Atlanta. More to come.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:42 amJune 30th, 2
Vile, stupid, loathesome, hateful people…masquerading as patriots…
July 1st, 2009 at 2:51 amThese teabaggers are upset that McCain-Palin did not make it. Were we allowed to protest what Bush was doing? Hell no. These idiots are so out of control. My husband seen his paycheck growing week by week. The people under $250,000 aweek is seeing, so where is the taxes? I know it is because it is an African-American President. So sick…
You can take your teabags and shove it up your, where the sun don’t shine….
July 1st, 2009 at 7:55 amYawn.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:00 amJoin the Million Can March counter protest to the tea parties. One million cans of nonperishable food by July 4th. While you’re doing your shopping for your holiday picnic, but an extra bag or two and take them to your local pantry or shelter. Then blog about your efforts and send me the link or just let me know how many cans you donated here.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:39 amScrew the tea parties. We need to have some protests against the ‘just say no’ crowd and their stupidity.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:39 amI’ll be at my local protest. Last I knew that was a right in this country. Funny how these days when you express your opinion its considered…how did they put it… oh yeah, radical and anti-Obama. I have never seen sooooo many hypocrites in one place.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:13 amMaybe Sanford can borrow Bill’s little black book?
Stuart Smalley for President? We now have two comedians on the Hill. I guess it will be called the “Franken & Biden Show.” I’m looking forward to that.
Murtha International Airport for two planes that land daily?
Pelosi needs a shot of botox. Her forehead moved a little the other day. I heard that botox causes senility. Maybe that’s her problem. Or maybe it’s all the jet fuel she inhales?
Where will the Canadians go for their healthcare? Mexico? No es su problemo.
What does Frank REALLY have in his mouth?
Maybe it’ll make AlGore feel better when the oil & gas industry is demolished? Millions in tax revenue down the drain? How many people does it take to turn a windmill? ExxonMobil will NEVER bend over for MonkeyBoy, unlike Detroit.
These are just a few questions. I try very hard to understand both sides of the issues but with nothing but immature little brats running the country, it’s all getting lost in translation. Bueno suerte, El Jefe.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:27 pmTo Maple Street:
We all paid for Clinton to have sex in the Oval Office and most probably all the legal fees associated with the numerous sexual harassment suits filed against him. Ooops, I keep forgetting. He didn’t have sex with that woman. The cigar did.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:33 pmThere is nothing more unpatriotic than a Republican.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:05 pmthey even wanna mess a 4th of july. wow !
July 1st, 2009 at 10:33 pm