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Just turn on Fox News!

Like I said, it's a fair portion of every hour I've watched the channel. And I listed some of the liberal commentators I've seen defend the movement.

The fact that you are so immune to the notion that Fox could possibly give fair coverage, or any coverage, of the protestors, speaks volumes about your own partisan biases.



I don't know why they didn't air it. They may have aired it and I just didn't see it.

But they certainly didn't avoid airing it because this guy presented any facts or persuasive argument of the protests, or the evils of conservatism, or the evils of Fox news.
He ranted a bunch of one-liners and snotty opinion, that you are only persuaded by be3cause you already agree. What exactly should Fox be afraid of. If memory serves, the guy interviewing is Griff Jenkins, and I think he normally appears on Greta Van Susteren. Possibly run during other shows.





In your opinion. Not mine.
He was unnecessarily snotty, accusing and confrontational with the guy who was holding a microphone to get his opinion.
He was a clear partisan, just getting in his factless one-liner digs at Fox and Republicans.




Fine. We agree to disagree. I see it as a guy who was rattling off snotty remarks that sound credible, but require about 100 words each to present the true facts and prove false.
For example, "Glenn Beck called the president a racist". If you were a regular Glenn Beck viewer (and that is probably the show i watched most frequently on Fox) you would have seen one day Beck presenting facts of Obama's specific actions related to social justice and black liberation theology, where he said "I'm sorry, but putting these facts together, I can only come to the conclusion that Obama is a racist". Which even in that context he said factually and respectfully, and it was clear he was presenting it as his opinion on the facts as he knew them. But the very next day on his own show, and later in the week on O'Reilly and other shows, Beck apologized and said that at that moment he saw it that way, but now Obama's motivations are clearly ideological (socialism, anti-colonialism) and not racial.
This demonstrator misrepresents Beck to hold the eternal opinion that Obama is a racist. But in truth Beck only voiced that opinion for at most a day, as he wrestled with the facts as they became known about Obama.

Similarly, each of the points raised by this shithead protestor can be disproven. He espoused a lot of highly opinionated opinion, that you obviously agree with beforehand, in the absence of any facts presented.
And you further enjoy that --your opinion-- he "PWN'D", or whatever, Fox News. All I see is a snot with no facts being a jerk.





Be serious!
You show a 20-second out of context clip from the Daily Show (a clearly liberal centerpiece of clearly liberal network that never misses an opportunity to bash Fox News, or to bash Republicans in general as ignorant backward inbred so-and-so's) and that's supposed to prove something? (Beyond your own prejudices, going to comedy central to look up clips that support your preconcieved biases?

And regarding FoX News being my primary source for news, I've made it quite clear that from 1981-forward, my news of choice has been the PBS News Hour. Although in 2008-2009, because of selective omission of facts about Obama in election coverage, nonexisstent coverage of the ACORN story on PBS, and similar distortions, I do watch Fox more now than prior to that.

But I also often post other sources, and still watch the News Hour.

An example of PBS bias from 2 days ago:
FOX NEWS: Sen McConnell on the Senate floor, answering Obama's calls for a vote on his Jobs Bill, said okay, right now, let's have a vote! But Harry Reid tabled the bill, because he knows that it not only faces opposition from Republicans, but because a majority of Democrat Senators won't vote for it either. So rather than lose, Reid tabled the bill.
PBS NEWS HOUR (Kwame Holman, same story) Sen Mitchell answered Obama's call for a vote on his Jobs Bill saying let's vote on it today. Sen Reid said elected not to vote on the Jobs Bill, because he said there was other pressing legislation that was a greater priority...


Do you see the difference? Fox gave the proper perspective of what was really at stake and that the bill did not have Democrat support. And PBS just completely glossed over and selectively omitted that important part of the story!





As I said, every time they list statistics on percentage of stories, Fox does prove to have balanced coverage. Even within their editorial programs, they have liberal commentary. I don't have to search for clips, it's right there for you to see, 24 hours a day.