{"id":3952,"date":"2011-02-27T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2011-02-27T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:59:16","slug":"fox-nations-hypocritical-smear-of-union-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation’s Hypocritical Smear Of Union Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday more than a hundred thousand people across the country hit the streets in support of unions and the working families battling to retain their rights in Wisconsin. It was an inspirational demonstration of our Constitutional right to assembly and to redress our grievances. It was also a predominantly peaceful expression of the positive goals sought by the demonstrators.<\/p>\n

So leave it to Fox News to construct a false narrative that casts the protesters in a negative light. Here is the story as it appeared on Fox Nation:<\/p>\n

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The Fox Nationalists must have worked hard to find two completely non-representative wackos who would consent to making asses of themselves in front of the cellphone cameras of anti-union activists. That’s two out of a hundred thousand. And Fox deems this to be a headline story featured at the top of their web page.<\/p>\n

\"ObamaThat’s funny because Fox never had that reaction to the hundreds of Tea Party protesters who exhibited similar tendencies toward violence and hate. They never featured Tea Baggers with signs associating Obama with Hitler. They never headlined messages that read “We Came Unarmed – This Time.”<\/em> Some signs, like the one portraying Obama as an African witch doctor, were mass produced and popped up at Tea Parties across the country. But Fox never paid much attention to any of that.<\/p>\n

To the contrary, Fox News embraced the Tea Party, even branding it as a Fox News event. They assigned their reporter<\/s> sycophantic cheerleader, Jesse Watters, to actually board the Tea Party Express bus and praise the hate-spewing subjects of his assignment at every stop along the way.<\/p>\n

Now, after smooching Tea Party derrieres for two years, and ignoring their glaring warts by the hundreds, Fox News decides to spotlight a couple of outcasts in an attempt to defame tens of thousands of sincere and wholesome Americans who are only seeking to uplift the quality of life for everyone. But then that’s what Fox is there for – to smear their ideological opponents without regard for the truth or common decency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday more than a hundred thousand people across the country hit the streets in support of unions and the working families battling to retain their rights in Wisconsin. It was an inspirational demonstration of our Constitutional right to assembly and to redress our grievances. 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