Howard Kurtz: Fox News "Choreographed" Tea Party Coverage

[karbyk62]

Does anybody even watch this guy? he's a paid hack for George Soros Media Matters.Glenn Becks rantings trounce this buffoon

[sljouzo12]

What network was this on?

[ProPTRehab]

You can go back & find +ve/-ve w/everything.The bottom line is Obama Admin is fostering a culture of dependence& stealing away ambition. We know the Gov wastes $ beyond imagination, so they shouldn't be in charge of deciding where $'s go unless we don't mind that illegals & dead people continue to get paid. Every dictatorship in history started the same way, just as Obama admin is doing. As it is so blatant it's hard not to have some thoughts that it might be on purpose to gain ultimate control.

[cjheiden]

lol, yeah, I'm sure FOX really gave that "rogue" producer a stern talking to:

"Don't let us catch you whiping up the Tea Partiers like that again. Of course, if you were to whip up the crowd like that off-camera, we wouldn't see you doing it and therefore couldn't catch you in the act. Not that we're suggesting anything. Just saying..."wink wink.

[maxmaloney1948]

SO HOW DO YOU LIKE IT IN LAST PLACE?

[PoliticalSkeptic]

@maxmaloney1948 contd...... argument for Federal Mandated Civil rights. The RNC chairman Ken Mehlman apologized to the NAACP for the southern

strategy in 2005. They knew it divided the country. And believe it or not there were blacks who still supported all of this. Black people have a strong animosity against other blacks who are republicans because of this history. Which is why they will not vote for someone just because they are black unless they are a Democratic. They rejected contd.....

[TerroristKiller1]

Fair and Balanced maybe not,I don't watch Fox, CNN or MSNBC anyways.

[blacklespaul14]

are you retarded news isnt entertainment

[Gremlinbrd]

Whats the big deal with pumping up the crowd? It makes for better TV. Sports producers encourage the crowds all the time.

[egrimnes]

For an organization to profess that it is a news organization, you cannot interject yourself into the coverage of what is being reported. When you do, you become nothing more than a propaganda outlet and no longer are you considered fair nor balanced. When you have to create or be a part of the news, you loose all legitimacy. Fox is swimming at the bottom of the journalistic integrity pool.

[mhatlie]

Fox would immediately drown if it were anywhere near the "integrity pool."

What has Fox done for the country? Massively accelerated the dumbing down of discourse.

[Painsandwich]

Really? Is that your argument? Ignorance is bliss.

[mrojek]

Doesn't matter. People don't go to FOX for news, they go for validation. FOX is simply giving them what they want.

[Fockersnextdoor]

I will be getting Glenn Becks new book today.

[Scottit]

Those people were already there, to protest grievances with BO's leftist plans.

It's not like Fox dragged them there & made them holler.

Is it wrong to agree with & support the protesters?

Yelling, like at a game, is far different than the purported violence, which isn't happening.

Almost all violent protest have come from the left.

[chutney2000]

? How so?

[Scottit]

I'm not sure what you are asking. I didn't really say something that "how" could be asked.

You might be wondering about "what" past leftist violent protests.

Well, 3 particular types of riots in the past came from the left: war, race & unions.

FNC is not inciting violence or coercing people to object to big government.

[RBMm0nkEy]

all of the mainstream media networks are controlled and run by the same big brother special interests groups. This is all designed to keep us fighting amongst ourselfs and not look out side the box at the big picture of gov tyranny

[fiveb85]

Fox will just deny it over and over again until their denial starts to sound true.  They're like a network run by 6-year-olds, and the sad thing is that their childish tactics work.

[LGLVideos]

Good point ....but go out and report on a real story...This is the sole reason

CNN along with MSNBC is fluff news.

Your laggers... Move on now..

[evi90]

fuck new's is what truth...LOL ,LOL, LOL ,LOL..please..Where's the nut wagon..

[BASEBALLAPPLEPIE]

GLENN BECK HATES 911 VICTIMS

AND KATRINA VICTIMS

watch?v=hf33g9ep4YU

[Scottit]

right

victims are bad people

Let's just get the gold on rainy days.

[bewareofzealots]

This just in:

"Shocking media developments"!! LOL. And Griff Jenkins is a phony - in addition to an idiot. He was up whipping up the crowd at Barney Frank's Town Hall in Dartmouth in August. I've seen that entire Town Hall and it was NOTHING like he was reporting. They call what he's doing being "in the sachel" with the Tea Baggers. "We stage it - you decide." Haaa haaa!!

[3ddan24]

CMM and MSNBC Losers.

[evi90]

and fuck news is what...?..bunch of nut job's

[jeffstudbum]

Don't see anything wrong here because that's what Fox is all about, entertaining. They don't cover news, they promote and/or entertain. In order to keep their audience and ratings at the #1 spot, that is what they must do. It has became just a big circus show.

[DaFinisherBX]

It was CNN that 'bout 2 yrs ago, showed video of the Islamic Radicals firing on our troops from the Radicals point of view. It seemsthat everyone forgot that & that the Democrats was against civil rights movement. Do your research...

[wtfoof]

YOU LIE!!!! WHAT president signed the civil right ACT mother FUCKER?? GO spread your lie somewhere else!!!

[DaFinisherBX]

The Repubs wrote it U idiot. Go drink ur f*ckin' ko0l-aid & die in Jamestown stupid. I know U don't know ur history.

[wtfoof]

LBJ and a majority Democratic House of Representives

chaired by Emmanuel Celler, a Democrat from New York. and in the Democratic majorty senate to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator James O. Eastland, Democrat from Mississippi.

So it looks like you are not only a idiot but either a liar or a Fucking loser that can't even GOOGLE a historical bill!!!

[DaFinisherBX]

The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of southern Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states

[DaFinisherBX]

After 54 days of filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), and Mike Mansfield (D-MT) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican votes to end the filibuster. The compromise bill was weaker than the House version in regard to government power to regulate the conduct of private business, but it was not so weak as to cause the House to reconsider the legislation

[DaFinisherBX]

In the first decades after Reconstruction, when white Democrats regained power in the state legislatures, they began to make voter registration more complicated, to reduce black voting. With a combination of intimidation, fraud and violence by paramilitary groups, they turned Republicans out of office and suppressed black voting. From 1890 to 1908, ten of eleven states ratified new constitutions or amendments that effectively disfranchised most black voters and many poor white voters.

[DaFinisherBX]

From 1890 to 1908, white Democrats in legislatures passed new disfranchising constitutions that completed provisions for making voter registration and voting more difficult. Most blacks and many poor whites were disfranchised, a condition which the state legislatures maintained for six decades into the 20th century.

[DaFinisherBX]

The leading white demagogue was Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina, who proudly proclaimed in 1900, "We have done our level best [to prevent blacks from voting]... we have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it

[PoliticalSkeptic]

@DaFinisherBX Even if the Repubs wrote it. you still need to look at the history of the party post that bill passing to understand how the racists got stolen from the democrats and are now nice and cozy in the Republican wing. The Democrats pushed for more and more civil rights laws for blacks over time and more blacks started voting for them while the racists started slowing moving to the Republican party. But when Lyndon Johsnon signed the 2nd Civil Rights legislation contd....

[PoliticalSkeptic]

@DaFinisherBX contd.... of 1964 (the first one was in 1957) an aid told him that if he signed that bill he would lose the entire south to the Republican party for ever. And he said it was still the right thing to do. Let me also add the gigantic majority of the country was against civil rights legislation. During the Barry Goldwater vs Lyndon Johnson election this sealed the deal with blacks and the Democratic party. And if there were any who weren't sure when Democratic George wallace contd..

[PoliticalSkeptic]

@DaFinisherBX tried to stop the desegregating of school ran on an independent segregation presidential ticket in 1968 eventually switched to the Republican party the entire south Democratic states were now Republican. And the Republicans wanted to secure the racist votes of the south so they ran the (research this) the Southern Strategy. So they wanted to out racist the racists lol! So they took their policies and repackaged a lot of them to appeal to the racists of the south. contd......

[PoliticalSkeptic]

@DaFinisherBX Ronald Reagan jumped on this really fast by first stating that he would have voted against the Civil rights legislation of 1964 ( it might not be 64 i'm kinda rusty) And he started his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi to make a strong statement. That was the place where the 3 civil rights leaders were killed for registering black voters. No one starts in that place. So he went there preaching States rights because states rights was the counter contd........

[RHantson]

journalism is dead... CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC are all cheerleaders for Obama... they totally ignored ACORN, they ignored the Tea Parties across the country - it's rediculous... it has nothing to do with FOX - FOX is just as bad - they are both so far radiclly off in their polar lefts and rights that NEITHER have a clue what the American People are talking about.

[waltermh111]

its as if you chose to ignore this video and rick sanchez video also just so you can be a troll.

Educate yourself and stop acting like a troll.

It was all covered. Sheesh.

[SlashingTongue]

You bring about an excellent point Hanston; though I disagree that CNN and ABC are cheerleaders for Obama.

These media companies have become a circus that we enjoy to watch. Real news is like AP, Reuters and especially CSPAN. But we do not watch them because they bore the hell out of us. Just look at their ratings in Youtube. It is the same reason we prefer WWE over actual wrestling. We rather see idiots ranting and arguing senselessly rather than a dull newscaster telling the news.

[Ujean76]

You are exactly right! Which is why I don't watch these cable news shows anymore!

[byerlyld]

The propaganda arm of the radical right is all whinny because no one gives a crap about their sponsored teabagathon. BAG ON!

[buzwazfuz]

i think the news channels are becoming more like pro wrestling, with these fueds adn name calling it is so dumb. i don't watch fox, cnn, or cnbc anymore. only associated press

[RHantson]

AP = where they get their REAL news from... if it doesn't have an AP attached to it - it's probably not real news anyhow with any of the networks.

[neverine2000]

I think all the other networks should take more time like this, to report on fox news fake coverage...

[b0bzm00s3]

0:41 Is the guy on the left side of the screen (right under the girl in green's arm) wearing a Che shirt? Why?!

[zippyman818]

It is NEWSWORTHY when a major media outlet reports stories that are FACTUALLY incorrect and may be refuted with only cursory observation and superficial research; and then REPEATS the error.

Irresponsible, unethical and unprofessional, I think.

Fox News: Prima facie evidence of crap masquerading as "journalism" in America, courtesy of a crazy Australian billionaire.

[CosmosPrivateer]

Those people aren't Conservatives. Why would they waste all that money to drive to a protest that nobody really cared about.

[swampfaye]

Glenn isn't a 'journalist'

CNN doesn't have journalists either.

I don't think journalists exist anymore.

[Magnumanxxl]

Only sutpid tools like foxs.

Only pussies with KO spine like ms-STD

CNN is not that great, but they have REAL JOURNALIST.

[1019drummer]

this is now a played story............where's the beef?

new news please.

[mikkitiny]

fox is a biggest prostitute in the world. but CNN is a prostitute, as well. does it mean two prostitutes failed to get along on the same panel?

[soapfan5]

I wonder what the discipline was.....no dessert after her dinner?!

[mikkitiny]

not only. she got put in the corner as well.

[benbur69]

Yeah and the mistake was being caught on camera doing it! Fair and Balanced my ass...

Isn't calling Fox News Channel a News Channel false advertising?

[midevalcheese]

Both sides are controlled by the owners of the FEDERAL RESERVE.

I am going to keep saying this until YOU people figure it out.

The media is also controlled by them.

That is why they have us constantly arguing with each other so that we don't realize what is really happening.

[Ryagful]

what dose that fucking crowed wants ?

(sorry my speling)

[megaminxmaster]

less government in their lives.

[Ryagful]

in what sense?

[Smartassawhip]

Fox News is for those who prefer to live in a fantasy world as opposed to reality.

[maizeysugah]

Please ignore darrellmellissa, he's a racist conspiracy theorist, and borderline retarded.

[OGReppinNC]

Fox will do anything for ratings and they definately are not fair nor balanced.

[megaminxmaster]

they are more balanced than the left media and they cover things that the left media doesn't cover at all.

[maizeysugah]

hahahahhaa

[megaminxmaster]

is that all you can say? typical left winger. and BTW, only some of the FN shows are ok. i hate o'rielly, heraldo, greta, and ann coulter.

[maizeysugah]

But you like Glenn beck and Mike Huckabee? The ones you mentioned are more watchable.

[megaminxmaster]

absolutely. i think GB is a very smart man and says a lot of correct things. he also does a lot of investigative reporting on certain things. i think MH is a gentleman. if you notice, he actually lets people talk as oppose to assholes like o'reilly.

[stoicsquirrel]

I was just thinking the same thing. There's nothing wrong with Greta.

[OGReppinNC]

No they make up news. just look around youtube its not hard to tell.

[megaminxmaster]

oh, and you think that the other networks are better. look at CNN and MSNBC, all they do is talk about shit that doesn't matter. the left wing supports about 40% of the american people while fox supports the rest. besides, you have choose what shows are good. i hate o'rielly, heraldo, greta, and ann coulter.

[C0ct0pusPrime]

but you like beck? even worse if you do...

[megaminxmaster]

why does everyone hate beck? he's very smart and right on a lot of things.

[maizeysugah]

GB doesn't even believe what he says. He is not an investigative reporter, he readily admits that as he did on the View. MH is a very nice man, absolutely, but his views arefar too conservative for my tastes.

[megaminxmaster]

i understand wht you mean when it comes to MH. this is the sole reason why i'm not conservative; i'm a libertarian. MH is what i would call a true conservative. the religious aspect of conservatism is what kills the GOP(and bush). oh, and yes, GB believes what he says. he was the one who started the 9-12 project.

[maizeysugah]

But then there's that tape of Beck saying "You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families" in 2005 on his radio program. He's exploiting 911 for ratings. There's nothing wrong with being libertarian, either. Penn and Teller are, and I listen to them like christians to gospel, lol

[C0ct0pusPrime]

beck is like plastic dog shit: fake and only appealing to the mentally challenged.

he's a fake cryer, a liar, and a mormon to top it all off.

[anonymolol]

glen beck is a fucking clown, he admits it himself.

he isnt paid to inform you, he is paid to entertain you.

[stoicsquirrel]

First of all, let me start this by say I am a conservative so you won't think I am just liberal biased.

Beck is about as wacky as the 9/11 "truthers" he hates so much. He's always trying to link this guy to that guy in some twisted "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" kind of way. He mixes enough truth with his rants that you don't catch his embellishments. He's the conservative version of government conspiracy theorists. That's why people don't like him.

[waltermh111]

actually, everytime those teapartiers were asked about Beck, they said he was an inspiration to them.

Hes quite loved by the very emotional far right who swarm these teaparties scared of everything under the sun that doesnt fit their view of how things should be.

Not just in disagreement, but pure fear and hatred.

[megaminxmaster]

you make a good point, but i think i'll still watch him.

[OGReppinNC]

No, apparently you think Fox is the best.Those other network may talk about issues that aren't as important but Fox just goes overboard with their antics and propaganda.

[kenedwards88]

@OGReppinNC It must be working . . . their ratings are off the charts.

[darrellmellissa]

Very light covering, They are still a liberal mouth piece.

[integral]

You mean because CNN doesn't take and push the far right agenda (as Fox does) they are a liberal mouthpiece.

If you say so.

On the other hand, any one dim enough to still buy the "liberal media" meme that the GOP pushes really hasn't been paying very close attention.

[darrellmellissa]

For how long, have you been a Fabian, or a member of the 5th colum, or both.?

[MikeMM2242]

@integral Every station, including MSNBC, reports on the Tea Party. They just don't PROMOTE it. There is a huge difference. In one case you are a news organization , in the other you are part of the story you're reporting. Can you tell the difference?

[geffel]

Fox is an abomination.

[xdir]

The producer made a mistake... She got caught doing it.

[KlPi79]

Watch F** News, get brainwashed. No, we don't want lower premiums! We're morons!"

[stoicsquirrel]

Is Fox News ACTUALLY saying that? I tend to channel surf between the 3 main cable news networks. I must have missed them telling people that they don't want lower premiums.

Or did you just make that up?

[integral]

Another Fox fan displays his diminutive intellect.

[jag10]

all mainstream corp/gov news is manufactured.

Wake up people. This is propaganda.

[ProCarbine1]

It's funny, the left hates FOX News so much, but

yet they watch it more then the average person lol.

[integral]

That would be more "than" the average person.l

And I still love that manly, virile channel name.

[TheRamenAvenger]

Fox News is a joke

[dietsnapple89]

Im sick of people calling these networks the liberal media...if anything, they are the conservative media.

[goldgrif]

damn straight the news is owned for the most part by the right

[megaminxmaster]

wtf are you talking about? whodo you think ABC,CNN,MSNBC, NPR, and the rest are controlled by? the left wing.

[Oldskoolkammy]

Indeed. Conservatives have almost every single anchor in America. All the left has is MSNBC's 7:00 and 8:00 (Central) slots.

[TheBravo345]

LOL, neither are fair and balanced, they represent different sides.

[voyeurdug]

The gold standard of journalistic impartiality is as impossible to execute as it is undefinable. It is (something similar to), reporting ONLY what the majority of (some number) of impartial AND partisan people witnessing the same event would AGREE happened.

In this case, the journalist would have to report the actions of his producer as contributory to the event.

Fox News DIDN'T... another news organization DID... and Fox News' ad asserts that the opposite is true.

[HugeJohn51]

and Fox News asserting that the opposite of reality being true is pretty much all they have.

[mejesus]

MSNBC, CNN, FOX, ABC. . . .all propaganda /watch?v=OY9Loxm5584

[cosmosgato]

She was smart enough to wear dark glasses. I don't want my family to know I'm a call girl and/or work for faux news.

[likes2p]

CNN got pwned. Fox posted the ad to get a response. Now CNN just gave Fox free ad time.

[megaminxmaster]

and the best part is that fox is right. NONE of the other networks covered any of it. CNN covered it for about 1-2 minutes, and that was it.

[DawnOfTheLiberalDead]

You are wrong. Not even the gray area kind of wrong, like the 100 percent provable kind of gullible buy anything you're told kind of wrong.

[megaminxmaster]

wrong about what?

[dogstar7]

BS!

I've seen FOX producers behind the cameras whipping up the crowds at protests. This was just caught in front of the lens. THAT's what was the "inexperienced" part.

[Bear5177]

LOL. Owned.

[Zeldovich]

This was no accident. This was creating the news.

[motorolarules]

So CNN doesn't do the same crap! Please. At least all the main stream liars are ratting on each other hopefully to all of their demise.

[cagedtigersteve]

News should be reported in an unbiased, impartial manner.

[joshuag5732]

RIght on