After Relentlessly Promoting Tea Party Protests, Fox Attacks Wall Street Protesters:
Fox News has begun attacking participants of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests across the country, claiming they are "deluded" and have "absolutely no purpose or focus in life." Fox's attacks stand in stark contrast with its relentless promotion and support of the tea party protests of 2009 and 2010. Read on...
Of course no one was there to remind Cavuto or Meckler that CNN, or as we like to call them here, TeaNN has been promoting those "tea parties" just as heavily as Fox has. Meckler also more or less admitted that their groups were and are not grass roots when he talked about the amount of organization that was in place when they first got started.
MECKLER: [T]he very first tea parties held on Feb. 27th, 2009, there were forty nine of them around the country, so it was a much larger starting point. And within six weeks there were eight hundred and fifty of them around the country. So it didn't start so localized. It started as a national movement.
A national movement paid for and organized by whom Mark? Meckler also called the people protesting on Wall Street law breakers because they were camping out in unauthorized areas and heaven forbid marching across bridges that they ended up being arrested on and said that wasn't "tea party" type behavior. Yeah, because we all know it's so much more "American" to show up at a rally or a protest packing heat or with signs portraying the President of the United States as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose.