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Matt Taibbi draws the obvious parallel between Fox News and the infamous Radio Rwanda broadcasts (something I've thought about myself) and wonders why we aren't boycotting Fox:

A lot of Tea Party anger is driven by real local issues -- where I live in central Jersey, for instance, there are a lot of pissed-off white people crowing over a nutty state supreme court case in which a Central American drunk driver got off because cops didn't explain the consequences of refusing a breathalyzer in his native Spanish. But without the constant reinforcement of national 24-hour media, which has taken these isolated cases and presented them as a coast-to-coast massive conspiracy, the rage over stories like this would never reach the levels we're seeing.

In fact if you follow Fox News and the Limbaugh/Hannity afternoon radio crew, this summer’s blowout has almost seemed like an intentional echo of the notorious Radio Rwanda broadcasts “warning” Hutus that they were about to be attacked and killed by conspiring Tutsis, broadcasts that led to massacres of Tutsis by Hutus acting in “self-defense.” A sample of some of the stuff we’ve seen and heard on the air this year:

On July 12, Glenn Beck implied that the Obama government was going to aid the New Black Panther Party in starting a race war, with the ultimate aim of killing white babies. "They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are going to poke, and poke, and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it." He also said that "we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, 'Kill all white babies.'"

CNN contributor and Redstate.com writer Erick Erickson, on the Panther mess: "Republican candidates nationwide should seize on this issue. The Democrats are giving a pass to radicals who advocate killing white kids in the name of racial justice and who try to block voters from the polls."

[...] There’s nothing in the world more tired than a progressive blogger like me flipping out over the latest idiocies emanating from the Fox News crowd. But this summer’s media hate-fest is different than anything we’ve seen before. What we’re watching is a calculated campaign to demonize blacks, Mexicans, and gays and convince a plurality of economically-depressed white voters that they are under imminent legal and perhaps even physical attack by a conspiracy of leftist nonwhites. They’re telling these people that their government is illegitimate and criminal and unironically urging secession and revolution.

The Fox/Rush/Savage crowd in the last 18 months has taken the anti-Muslim fervor that launched a phony war in Iraq, carried George Bush to re-election, and pushed through the Patriot Act, and re-directed that anger at a domestic nonwhite enemy. In doing so they’ve achieved a perfect storm of political cross-purposes: they’ve almost completely succeeded in distracting the public from the real causes of their economic misfortune (i.e. Wall Street corruption), they’ve re-energized a Republican party that was devastated by eight years of Bush-era corruption and incompetence, and, as usual, they’ve made Rupert Murdoch a sh*tload of money.

I’m convinced that none of the key actors here – the Wall Street banks shrieking about government takeovers and advertising on Rick Santelli’s CNBC, the Republican Party’s career hacks who have been scheming for a new horse to ride ever since Bush imploded, and the right-wing TV and radio networks – none of these actors is pushing this crazy movement out of any real desire to stoke a race war. For these institutional leaders and patrons of the Tea Party movement, this is all about material expediency: overcoming the real threat of new financial regulations after the crash, winning elections, and making TV profits. It’s just our bad luck that driving frustrated/broke white suburbanites into a race-hatred frenzy happens to be good business for these folks. And all of this is race-baiting-for-cash is borne out of the same short-term, indifferent-to-consequence thinking that we saw from the Wall Street guys in recent years -- who created mountains of deadly leverage capable of destroying the global financial system for the sake of a few one-year bonuses.

The fact that Fox and co. are doing what they do for these dreary commercial reasons makes it even worse, of course; at least Hitler really hated Jewish people. But that also means there's a bright side. One of the few positives in this Tea Party phenomenon is that it's shown how quickly masses of Americans can be convinced to completely change their minds about sh*t. The same Americans who six or seven years ago were looking skyward in search of poison-distributing Saddam-drones and buying duct tape and bottled water to protect themselves against imminent Muslim attack are now probably not spending five minutes a week worrying about Muslim terrorists -- and instead arming themselves against the coming black-Mexican-leftist-communist state. To me that indicates that if Fox and Glenn Beck can be induced to jerk off to some perhaps similarly profitable but less toxic hate-fantasy (midgets from New Zealand are taking our jobs!), all of this – well, it maybe won’t go away, but it won’t have us steaming toward widespread racial violence like we are now.

I'm beginning to wonder why effective boycotts against these hate-media channels, and particularly Fox, haven’t been organized yet. Why not just pick out one Fox advertiser at random and make an example out of it? How about Subaru and their unintentionally comic “Love” slogan? I actually like their cars, but what the f**k? How about Pep Boys and that annoying logo of theirs? Just to prove that it can be done, I’d like to see at least one firm get blown out of business as a consequence of financially supporting the network that is telling America that its black president wants to kill white babies. Isn't that at least the first move here? It's beginning to strike me that sitting by and doing nothing about this madness is not a terribly responsible way to behave.

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ricky's picture

Boycott. Starts with the same letter as Boomerang.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

ehmkec's picture

I just deleted my Fox bookmark. I should have done so long ago.

bratboy's picture

is not news, it's propaganda for the right wing. Every sane individual knows that. Only the ignorant and stupid believe fox has a "news" program.
Personally, I never watch the program unless I'm in some waiting room that has a TV that is tuned to it. Then, I get my book out and start reading.

Revolution will not be televised's picture

If you pay for cable or satellite service, you are giving money to FOX whether you watch it or not.

Part of the agreement your cable company has with distributors of content, is based on how many subscribers they can reach. Not on whether you are actually watching the channel or not.

Every time you write a check to pay your cable bill, you are stuffing money in the hands of FOX.

Whos going to cut the cable? Probably nobody who hasnt already done it long ago. How cute that you think 'your' shows are safe. Meanwhile, the reality is that you are a contributor.

Ignorance is the cause of most problems, this one included.

docb's picture

old --have not watched in years..media matters does the editing if i want [rarely] to see what they are pushing..CONTACT THE SPONSORS and BOYCOTT THEM!

Murdoch has deep pockets but needs the sponsors! You must follow through and let the sponsors know why you no longer buy their product!

David Ehrenstein's picture

What Taibbi sasy is true -- save for Teh Ghey. One of the most fascianting developments in recent times is how they've had to pull back on that score. Their kids aren't homophobes, and you can't convince a Glee - loving public that Ellen Degeneres and Neil Patrick Harris are "the enemy." Then to make matters worse for them -- and better for us -- there' Mehlmangate. This has totally blindsided the "Mainstream" leaving Howie Kurtz today to have Ross Asshat of the NYT to talk about Mehlman -- entirely within the context of the Gya Marriage fight. Asshat, as usual ws out of his depth. Not as out of it as Howie of course, but genuinely "confused." In short my 'Dar started pinging like five alarm fire.

There's much to be learned from this. We've got to step up and embrace Islam -- as (of all people) Mayor Bloomberg has done. Make no mistake, I'm against ALL religion. But it is strategically important to take the U.S. Constitution at its word and defnd all comers against Protetant Christianity -- which his long regarded itself as The State Religion.

As for Hutus vs. Tutsis' we happily haven't come to that pass yet. That's because this country is full of craven cowards who want other people to commit the crimes they dream of themselves. It's a wonder a statue wasn't built to honot Timothy McVeigh.

Peter G's picture

with their point of view don't watch Fox and the people who do won't boycott Fox. Calling for a boycott seems wonderfully pointless to me.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

all that energy built up by being pissed at Obama.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

katy's picture

Dear friends,

Many of us already know that Fox News is biased -- but it's actually much worse than that. For years they have used lies, distortions, and race-baiting to divide this country. Recently, it's gotten downright dangerous. Earlier this summer, a heavily armed man got into a gun fight with police after he was pulled over on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation[1] -- an obscure non-profit that Glenn Beck regularly demonizes on his Fox News TV show.[2]

Fox News is bad news for America -- and it spreads, and is legitimized, partly through TVs in public places.

That's why I've joined the TurnOffFox campaign -- the first part of a larger campaign to diminish the influence of Fox. It's about educating people about Fox and getting it turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places.

Will you join me? It takes just a moment to declare your own household "Fox free", and at the same time appeal to public establishments in your community to stop playing Fox. And you'll get a FREE Turn Off Fox sticker when you do. Click here:

http://colorofchange.org/turnofffox/?id=1508-477351&pr=to

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more info

i've been doing this for years... can't hurt!
and a widespread concerted effort just may help!

Drummer Boy's picture

I totally agree with the assertion that the masses are easily swayed into believing the bullshit. I believe that the systematic destruction of the middle-class is a lead-in to the demonization of the poor. How long do you think it will be before the "threat" becomes the poor, lazy, intentionally-jobless neighbor? This is class warfare, plain and simple.

Peter G's picture

but the first sentence seems about right. In fairness our masses seem as swayable as their masses when it comes to bullshit.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

to Social Security recipients.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

Peter G's picture

it's a left leaning cat food? A manufacturer that has full benefits for the partners of gay employees for example or which contributes to democratic causes. Somebody needs to force manufacturers to certify their products as either left or right friendly. Only then can we know the correct thing to do.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

thx11380's picture

Here is one I am aware of.
http://turnofffox.org/

MountainMan23's picture

The ONLY place I "watch" Fox News is here at C&L and other sites that embed Fox News clips.

And I betcha I already "boycott" all Fox News advertisers, tho I have no idea who they are.

:)

Taibbi is 100% correct: all the race-baiting & xenophobia is from political expediency.

Granted, there are sincere racists in the mob, but not necessarily among the propagandists themselves.


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Peter G's picture

Is Heather going to be out of a job?


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Andy K's picture

...ads for LifeAlert and The Clapper so we don't have to. Thus it is, thus it shall always be.

Peter G's picture

I'd hate for her to have to fall on her sword,as it were, in support of this boycott.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Andy K's picture

There's always Morning Joe, Matthews and the gang at CNN for her to capture.

pvel's picture

Where can I find a list of organizers?

pvel's picture

I meant advertisers.

Rich H's picture

I won't even watch anything on FOX at all. I won't support them and haven't supported them. A boycott is fine, but I wonder if there are more intelligent people in the US than morons. Remember, morons put Bush in office twice.

I know this is a free speach issue, but hate speach shouldn't be allowed on the airwaves. Just ask that cabbie in NY.

And all the others who can no longer reply. Maybe we could ask their families.

Peter G's picture

to decide what is hate speech? Will that person or group be political appointees? I'm not being facetious. We gave that a try up here in Canada. The results were embarrassing.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Rich H's picture

Perhaps calling someone Tiller the Baby Killer until some right wing wacko decides to kill him would be a place to start. After all, your not allowed to yell "fire" in a crowded theater if there isn't one.

Peter G's picture

but that rationale came from a judicial decision used to throw a couple of lefty pacifists in jail for quite a long time.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Rich H's picture

In Germany, Nazi symbols, parties, speach etc... is outlawed. It's not really a stretch to think we could do the same via racist hate speach because of our history of slavery.

Oh, and the new post above is about the burning of a Mosque site. I think this could accurately be traced back to broadcasts on FOX, just like the shooter in Oakland.

I did say it would be problematic, however, letting FOX spew whatever racist, anti-Obama (black, Muslim) hate speach shouldn't be allowed. Hopefully this country would be educated enough to disagree on substance - there style of broadcast only serves fear and hatred.

ricky's picture

"hate speach shouldn't be allowed on the airwaves. Just ask that cabbie in NY."

To date there is more evidence linking the attack on the cab driver to alcohol than hate speech.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

There's the holocaust shooter, the fellow who killed Dr. Tiller, the shooter in Oakland, the fellow who shot up a bunch of peaceful churchgoers who left a diatribe regarding FOX. The list is long and growing longer, and those are just a few I recall. I'm sure there's been many, many more.

hate speech is, as between to two of you, you know everything!

"When you defend everything, you defend nothing." Frederick the Great.

Save your rebuttals for another time. I just quickly dropped in to see what happened yesterday. I'm gone, but continue your condensation.

ricky's picture

LSMFT.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

Back later.

Peter G's picture

and I have retained just enough brain cells to know it and to not trust other people who pretend to know it. I prefer to stick with free speech. Idiots should and must be allowed to make their idiocy known. I'll defend that each and every day. Now assuming you meant condescension I'll suggest that you review the thread. Just about every other thread here seems to be about political extremes, or dysfunctional useless government and even when it isn't it often turns into one. Exactly who are you suggesting be appointed to determine what constitutes "hate speech". I think that's a pretty fair and very important question. And that's the one I asked.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Bluestocking's picture

Mind you, I have to acknowledge (but at least am able/willing to acknowledge) that I've often been guilty of this on the political level -- but I think it's safe to say that whenever you hear someone start a condemnatory statement with something akin to "the problem with all you/those __________ are...", the odds are actually rather good that you're looking at an example of hate speech because the person is unfairly attributing the characteristics of the few to the group as a whole...and is that not the fundamental definition of prejudice??


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

Peter G's picture

Is prejudice against tea partiers and aspersions cast on their intelligence "hate speech"?


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Bluestocking's picture

...I think that it could potentially qualify as such, yes.

I can only speak for myself, of course(!) -- but part of my spiritual development over the past few years has been trying to acknowledge and accept the fact that other people (or at least adults!) are fully entitled to live their lives in whatever way they think fit. (In my experience, there are a lot of people in the world who don't recognize this and who think that they have both the power and the right to make decisions for other people, even though this is mostly unconscious and springs from intentions which are primarily self-serving rather than malevolent.) This does not excuse other people from dealing with the consequences of their actions -- far from it! -- but even if I don't understand or agree with their choices, even if those choices seem unethical or self-destructive to me, it's really not my prerogative to tell them that they cannot make those choices (although it is my prerogative to disagree, to point out alternatives, and even be uncooperative if people want me to do something which is in conflict with my own principles). Let's face it...even if I had the right to tell them what to do, I wouldn't have the power to make them do it because you can lead a horse to water but cannot make him drink! This is primarily the reason why even though I don't always succeed(!), I always make an effort to address people respectfully even when I disagree with their opinions and arguments.


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

Peter G's picture

The problem as I see it is entirely about who decides what constitutes hate speech. In a time where everything is politicized I cannot see a way that this would not be.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Revolution will not be televised's picture

As I pointed out above...

If you pay a cable or satellite bill you ALREADY are giving Fox money. It doesnt matter whether you watch the channel or not. Fox, like other content distributors, get a certain percentage of payments based on the subscription TOTAL of the cable/satellite company.

Unless you give up watching TV, part of your monthly payment goes directly to fox.

Still serious about it? Or are you only serious when its not too much trouble for your lifestyle?

Bluestocking's picture

With all due respect, one of the people who frequently writes for this site (David Neiwert) has been pointing out the growing parallels between American right-wing rhetoric and hate propaganda such as that broadcast in Rwanda by Radio Television Libres de Milles Collines for several years now...


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

cherokee9's picture

I was in a waiting room a long time on Friday, and they had FN blaring on the tv, so I got up and asked the lady behind the glass if they (she and a young, male coworker) could not only turn down the sound but also change the station. They both smiled nicely and asked me why I wanted to change the channel, so I replied that I believe strongly that Fox is not news, that it is a propagandist arm of the GOP, and that they incite hate with lies and misinformation. They looked at each other and both laughed while stating that I must be a LIBERAL! I answered affirmatively, and watched their smiles turn into frowns when I proclaimed that I was very proud of it too. To my amusement, and then anger, they did not change the channel. We are fighting an uphill battle, Mt. Everest-style!

ikalbertus's picture

Some time ago the right wing succeeded in making "LIBERAL" a dirty word, always spoken with contempt. Same with "Obamacare" today. Most of the country then went along this nonsense. We had a LIBERAL media, except it wasn't. These are people who don't want to think, who only want to maintain the power structure that permits them to subsist in their narcissistic world of self-pity and victimization of themselves and others. Not only are they willling to throw any Americans not like themselves under the bus in order to maintain a sense of security in their delusional world, they are completely willing to throw generations to come under the bus for the same reason. They are truly selfish fucks. I'm more than happy to refer to them as WING NUT WACKOS.

ckerst7734's picture

IT"S TIME TO BOYCOTT FOX????!!!!??????? What? Where have you been for for the past ten years? This is the progressive movement in a nutshelf, ignore the threat until it bites your @ss, amd then do nothing some more.

ricky's picture

What sez those who have been touting the genius of Taibbi and are now forced to confront the fact that he is apparently so out of touch he did not know people have been on the web trying to generate this kind of a boycott for years.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

ricky's picture

The Diamondbacks have fallen from fifth best road attendance to ninth. Of course their record is 27th best.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

Matt wonders why an effective boycott of Fox has not materialized. Maybe it is because his article calling for one on Rolling Stone's web page has generated all of five comments since it was posted three days ago.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

insipid's picture

Especially since, for reasons passing understanding, people equate viewership with being right. Right and wrong is no longer a matter of facts, but a matter of how much money you have.

Not only should we boycott it, we should insist that bars and hotel lobbies we check into turn that crap off.

ikalbertus's picture
But

if Fox News no longer existed, where would ex-beauty pageant winners find meaningful work interacting with the public?

will have to get maps and such as to locate South Carolina and the Iraq and other places of employment.


"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter

Susie Madrak's picture

If I have to wait anywhere that Fox News is playing, I ask them to change the station. But there's a very good reason it's everywhere: the Fox network pays for those TVs, on the condition that they leave them tuned to Fox. It's a pretty good marketing technique, because seeing that station everywhere gives passersby the impression that they're very popular.

I just tell them I find it very offensive, and that I'll have to leave if they can't change the channel -- or turn it off. Once, when I was stuck all night in a hospital waiting room, my friend and I offered loud rebuttals to everything their bobbleheads said. That went on for hours.


A former award-winning journalist and lifelong class warrior, keeping a jaundiced eye on the Washington elite.

Nixxon-sTheOne's picture

It isn't Fox News, it is the Murdoch empire. Boycott all of it. No "My Space" No Fox Sports. No Wall St. Journal. A half-boycott is no boycott at all.

taller ghost walt's picture

isn't that like the ghetto of the internets now anyway?

Isn't that why News Corp bought out Facebook? Everyone willing to boycott that govt/biz spying trap too? Didn't think so.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Diabolus est Deus Inversus

miss_kitty's picture

as usual. The Prototype. I never watched FOX 'News' at all. I've only seen it when, in ancient times, the hospital used to have it on in the waiting rooms.

And while I got cable for some years that had FOX 'News' on it, I was never paying for it. Kabletown messed up and gave me that extra tier for free for 15 years or so.

Zen66's picture

A boycott of Faux would be pointless really. Many of my fellow liberals have already handed millions over to the right wing dogs when they repeatedly viewed that 'leftie' movie Avatar made by that leftist Jim Cameron. Don't forget to pick up the Blu-ray, the extras are supposed to be way cool.

No, the tendrils are too entwined in our culture and society. Faux took a page from the Oil Barren's SOP book, they are deeply rooted in everything we do.

Maybe what we need to do is to stop being so enraged. Stop reacting. Stop letting them dictate our moves, stop being predictable. Think of it like a chess game. If one player, White, can cause the other player, Black, to react to White's move than Black can't ever make a move of his own. Black is forever trapped to only moving into or out of White's way, Black can't really attack if he is only avoiding. Take August 28th for example. Beck's rally was just a bloated sermon, meaningless and banal. The walk up to the rally was the real assault. Our fear of what we thought Beck had to say kept us reacting. Beck stayed in the news for weeks, he got to play victim and when the day came he drowned MLK out of the news. Sure MLK was mentioned by name occasionally. Compared to previous years though, MLK was all but forgotten. No replay of the speech, no bios, the counter-rally was billed as Al Sharpton's rally. The right knocked off MLK a second time and we helped them and they knew we would. Checkmate, White.

Our reactions need to become actions. For an idea of what I mean here is a rebuttal to a Rush comment:
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/dependable_...
Its a move that counters a move. Its not a move out of the way, its an attack move. It hits the heart of Rush's comment and turns it around. Now Rush needs to avoid this. Or at least he would if we could get this into the news cycle. That's White's trump card, the queen we need to defeat. We need to stomp our feet louder for these kinds of arguments to get in front of more people. Maybe some 'God hates Conservatives' signs just to be provocative.

elzenmahn's picture

First, Foxy Noise pushes an ideological agenda that is favorable to corporate interests, and as such is perfectly willling to absorb whatever losses come their way. In the first few years of their existence, Foxy Noise lost $100 million per year before they made a single penny.

Second, Foxy Noise is but a part of the NewsCorp empire. You'd have to boycott the entirety of NewsCorp - 20th Century Fox films, Fox Broadcasting, all their newspapers and magazines, DirecTV, all of it.

I'd be all for a boycott on principle - but I don't see the effect. Personally, I make every effort to avoid anything with Rupert's bloody paws on it. But try to get millions to do that?

elzenmahn's picture

...perhaps a new game plan is in order.

patasalada's picture

Someone above said, essentially, that only the stupid and ignorant believe that what Faux presents is actually news. I would add that, no matter what is one's political bent, only the stupid, ignorant, or uneducated can stomach watching the trash.

I have chosen to not watch Faux News for the past four years and "Oh what a relief it's been"!

kimbutgar's picture

This was also brought up in discussion on the Thom Hartman show some time back. He also compared right wing radio as well as FOX News with the propaganda radio broadcasts that helped propel the German people to get behind the Nazi Party and its leader, Hitler. There are striking parallels of the kind of fear mongering put forth by right wing media machine that has produced (manufactured) irrational behavior of fear and paranoia and anger towards others who don't fit in their box. If this kind messaging steeped in bigotry and ignorance is allowed to infest and control the narrative on the airwaves under the guise of "free speech" it will only further drive this nation down the wrong road.

mujinronsha's picture

But I am fairly certain Fox is why 8 people got shot at that beer distributor's place last month.

stewartm0205's picture

a Radio Rwanda like genocide. I do expect that the hate they broadcast will get stronger and stronger until one day the tea party followers that watch them will stream out of their homes to shoot and kill everyone they think is different from them. You see they will think they are taking their country back. The end result is that most of the Fox TV people will be charged with treason, tried and hung. If I survive I will be looking forward to that day.

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

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Alien_Overlord's picture

Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.

Alien_Overlord's picture

Get your lemonade, watch the traitors hang.
Congress' TREASON have no boundaries, so does M$M's brainwashing/sidetracking.
Republicans for Voldemort.

chadche's picture

...boycott the sponsors, and not just boycott Fox itself.

chadche's picture

Go to http://foxnewsboycott.com/ and click on the "Fox News Sponsors" tab to get a list of their sponsors.

akovia's picture

try again?


We have surrendered our passion for freedom to the acquisition of stuff. We cannot even mount a decent opposition to wars that are destroying what little we have left in our treasury or to resist the oligarchy that has taken over our electoral process.

akovia's picture

You are a blogger, a journalist. You don't get to boycott Fox, or any other source. Me, on the other hand, I have choices. I boycott Fox, and every company that advertises there.


We have surrendered our passion for freedom to the acquisition of stuff. We cannot even mount a decent opposition to wars that are destroying what little we have left in our treasury or to resist the oligarchy that has taken over our electoral process.

Trittydi's picture

We've commented on this so many times in our home.

Who better to bring it than the marvelous Matt Taibbi?
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This was a great column explain what Corporate Wingnuts are doing to excite the ignorate of any change that may happen by people who want government to help us. History keeps repeating itself. There are 7 plus TVs at my health club I go to any time I see Fox on any them and get the chance to change them I do. I wish I could get McDonalds to take fox off their tv, at least it has no volumn.

Andy K's picture

...Fox actually pays businesses to tune their TVs to Fox News.

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