Anyway, that’s enough of this foolishness. Let’s talk about Fox News.
First off, Fox News really needs to change its name to “Fox Lobbyists”. Throughout Bush’s term as President they shed all pretence at objectivity and became more and more rabidly pro-Republican. On the day of Obama’s inauguration, an event that everyone should agree is of historic importance, Fox spent almost as much time following George Bush’s flight home than they did on the inauguration itself.
But that is just slant, it isn’t actual corruption. But this is. That article contains a quote that suggests that in addition to popularising and offering verbal support to the Tea Party movement (and its super wealthy parent the so-called ‘Freedom Works’ organisation) Fox News is actually whoring out its celebrities to make money for the Tea Party protests.
It is at this stage that Fox News ceases to be a new organisation and becomes a full-fledged propaganda piece. It is at this stage too that Fox News employees stop being journalists and become de-facto representatives of the Republican party.
A news organisation cannot openly support a political movement and still call itself a news organisation. Naturally Fox will try, but no one outside of their demographic is buying it.
In this picture the gimp represents the tea partiers, Waldo represents obama's approval rating amongst rednecks, the prison represents Fox News and the chair represents yo' momma.
“But why the gimp suits?” I hear you ask. Well, it’s really quite simple. The tea party movement began as a way to ironically oppose Obama’s bailout plan, even though they didn’t oppose Bush’s bailout plan. But since then the character of the movement has changed, and not for the better.
These days the tea partiers, or teepees, are only allowed to protest about things that Fox and their conservative masters want them to protest about. Check out the first link I posted, the one from The Young Turks. They ask why the teepees aren’t protesting Wall Street any more and it never gets explained. It is clear from the posters and the websites that the teepees didn’t want the bailout to happen, and that they are angry at the rich benefiting while the poor do not.
So why are their protests never about that? Why are their protests always against taxing the rich, against providing cheap healthcare and against preserving the environment?
Are you seeing a pattern?
One protest was called off because it wasn’t “fiscally viable”. But the movement recently spent $350 000 to make a senator out of a favourite dominatrix of theirs: Scott Brown.
It doesn’t matter how you slice it. The teepees may be grass-roots and they may legitimately want change. But the fact is they will only get the support, publicity and sheer money that they need when their protests support what the Republican leadership want them to support.
So to the teepees: I salute you!
Here’s your suit:
I didn't make this, but man I wish I had.
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