Fox News' Warrior Tough Guys (2 Updates)

As I demonstrated the other day, people who watch Fox News-- and there are millions who do-- have been treated to a whole slew of conservative-aimed propaganda just this week. Their viewers have been brainwashed into believing:
  • Millions showed up to demonstrate at the 9/12 Tea Bagger protests
  • That it was the largest march in the history of DC
  • Those attending were "peaceful" and patriotic citizens wanting their country back
  • The ills facing this country are all cause by God-less Democrats
As if that isn't enough for five days time, there is also the issue of President Obama changing the plans on the missile defense program originally planned for Europe. It's not that Obama doesn't want to build a missile defense program, he doesn't want to do it in Europe. He also wants to do it cheaper and more technologically advanced than Republicans want. These so-called "fiscal conservatives" want to spend endless amounts of money building missile defense shields for foreign countries but raise a ruckus if one penny is spent here at home. And because of that, Fox News has unleashed their accustomed Warrior Tough Guy Patriots to tell its millions of viewers that President Obama has committed "treason," "surrendered" to the Russians, that he is "weak" and has created a situation worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis.

These are the people that brought us the war in Iraq. They strive for endless war, just as long as they don't have to fight it. Super macho tough talk is all they know. Anyone who does not agree that we should be in a state of perpetual war, that we should completely build Poland a trillion dollar missile defense system, that preventive war is a great idea, is a "weak" treasonous terrorist sympathizer that better vote Republican the next time or risk destroying the country forever. They are the same people that gave us 8 years of George Bush. They chest-thumped his Glorious War and advocated more invasions just for the smell of it. Now today they are mad that President Obama doesn't want to use Europe as a launching pad for a third world war. Millions of people will heed their words just by watching Fox News. It's no wonder Tea Baggers are angry.

*Update:

Not only did Fox News relentlessly promote and in many ways help organize the 9/12 Tea Bagger march, their very own pundit almost entirely devised the whole idea. What if CNN had organized anti-Bush rallies? Or what if Rachel Maddow organized a march on Washington to protest the invasion of Iraq? Of course in the Republican Fantasy World, CNN did promote Bush-hatred syndrome that motivated Bush protesters but GOP conspiracy theories are nothing short of abundant if not endless. After all, we are talking about people that still think Iraq had something to do with 9/11.

Even with that, with all the tough talking Super Patriots and the Tea Bagger promotions, Fox still owes a slight bit of decency to correct its employees when they purposely spread hate-filled conspiracy theories like Glenn Beck did today. He makes a 'Tree of Revolution' and links President Obama to Che Guevara.

Now c'mon! Obama has nothing to do with Che. If anything, people who call for uprisings against the government to overthrow tyranny and oppression like Beck, Fox News and Republicans are doing have almost everything to do with Che. But even I wouldn't go as far as to draw a line linking the GOP with Che. That's ignorant. And so is Beck and Fox News for letting this happen. No sane person would ever watch that channel. There's no reason for any of this. Why aren't other media organizations reporting the blatant bias of Fox? It won't end until they do.

**Update:

Fox News producer coaches Tea Baggers during commercial break.

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