{"id":3099,"date":"2010-10-29T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T22:06:30","slug":"fox-news-hosts-election-night-tea-party-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Hosts Election Night Tea Party Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Caps\/tea-party-zone.jpg\" alt=\"Tea Party Zone\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><strong>Fair and Balanced Fox News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t forget to visit us on Election Day. We&#8217;ll have all the election coverage from Democrats to Republicans and also host a special Tea Party Zone that night. We&#8217;ll see you there!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Fox is hosting a special Tea Party Zone on election night? That&#8217;s nice of them. But why isn&#8217;t there a special Labor Zone? Or a Progressive Zone? Or any other zone for segments of the electorate that aren&#8217;t represented by wackos, Wall Streeters, and white-wingers?<\/p>\n<p>The reason, of course, is that Fox News is an avowedly partisan cheerleader for Republicans and conservatives. They hate America&#8217;s working class. They hate blacks and Latinos and seniors and environmentalists and anyone who opposes the entrenched corporatists and selfish Randians who are the backbone of the Tea Party.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to their Tea Party Zone, Fox News has also announced that their television coverage will feature Mike Tobin&#8217;s reports direct from the Tea Party. Tobin will be dedicated to Tea Party news on election night. And again, there will be no reporter dedicated to covering any other point of view.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just how Fox rolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair and Balanced Fox News: Don&#8217;t forget to visit us on Election Day. We&#8217;ll have all the election coverage from Democrats to Republicans and also host a special Tea Party Zone that night. We&#8217;ll see you there! So Fox is hosting a special Tea Party Zone on election night? That&#8217;s nice of them. But why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684],"tags":[527,33,534],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-NZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1531,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1531","url_meta":{"origin":3099,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Poll: Obama Beats All Republicans In 2012","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/22\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"All it takes is a fluke victory in Massachusetts for Fox News pundits predict the demise of the Democratic Party. 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