Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News

[babylonsister]

Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News
by David Freedlander Mar 23, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
First it was the ‘left’ turn after the election, then Benghazi coverup accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is ‘not as fair and balanced as I thought.’


Is Fox News going soft?

That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Tea Party versus Fox News?

File photo: Tea Party members in Montgomery, Ala., 2013; Sean Hannity, 2011. (Dave Martin/AP; John Amis/AP)

“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. “So we are really losing our only conservative network.”

The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the network’s regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)

A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/23/why-tea-partiers-are-boycotting-fox-news.html

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. I wish them well

We need to keep Fox as nutty as possible. Barring that, if they lose viewership, that'd be cool too. Win-win.

[TransitJohn]

2. Benghazi is the new Chappaquiddick

It'll be a talked about thing with the wingnuts for decades.

[babylonsister]

3. Do you think that's because we're allowing it?

I think the Dems' response should always be a comparison to dimson and Iraq. Eventually that might shut them up/down.

[TransitJohn]

4. No, I think it's because they're wingnuts

They still think FDR and JFK were communists.

[Life Long Dem]

8. It's because they don't have anything else to bash the President with

other than this BS. And it really comes down to the Republicans not wanting to fund the security needed for Benghazi.

[tanyev]

5. "Why, it's gotten to where the only news source we can trust is Sarah Palin's Facebook page."

**not intended to be a factual quote

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Oh FFS.

These guys' 15 minutes of fame are over already. Most of their candidates lost their asses in 2012 (yes, I know Ted Cruz) and the 1% no longer need them since they lost their collective racist misogynist minds. They're radioactive and nobody but the craziest of crazies wants to be associated with them.

[Ikonoklast]

7. When there is nothing to be seen to your Right,

everything looks to be on your Left.