Tea Party = GOP = Fox News
« on: 2010-07-07 18:36:55 »
We already knew about Fox News, now the latest Gallup polling explicitly seals the TeaParty-GOP-FoxNews circle jerk. Gee, why am I so completely not surprised? Basically the tea party has been an excuse for Republican party hacks to act like complete assholes while pretending that they are really independents. I'm sure it was very obvious from the beginning to the rest of the world since the tea party was started by Dick Armey and Fox News, but somehow the media has gone through this ridiculous charade for a year and a half incredulously wondering aloud "just who are these angry people"? Doh!! I guess it just goes to show that millions of dollars of GOP special interest money can make the media act really stupid for almost two years.
The scads of media coverage about the burgeoning "tea party" effort has focused heavily on the idea that those who identify themselves as part of the movement are political free agents -- dismissive of both parties and Washington in general.
New data out of Gallup suggests that premise isn't right, as nearly seven in 10 tea party supporters describe themselves as "conservative Republicans."
All told, nearly 80 percent of tea party supporters describe themselves as Republicans, while 15 percent say they are Democrats and just six percent are, in their own minds, "pure independents."
[Mo] Given this poll regarding the Tea Party I think its a good time to review with Rachel Maddow who back in October made a very clear case about why Fox News isn't news. Basically its all about how the Fox News organization threw its corporate sponsorship and hired media talents behind the Tea Party Express (aka the "GOP") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LUid0IZ2w
Fox News, the Tea Party, and the Republican Party are all basically the same GOP propaganda noise machine.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) this year, Bloomberg reported. The company owns Fox News and the New York Post. (You can see the full IRS filing here.)
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