FOX News not only reported on the "9-12" protests, they organized them, and encouraged them to appear excited on camera.

Did any of you see this report on FOX News?



Were you struck by how energized the crowd was? Well don't be. They had more than a little help from a Fox producer to reach that level of excitement.

Did you see her? The producer in the green shirt, waving her arms to give the "grass roots" crowd direction on how to behave? Now Fox News wants to you to believe that she was just a "young, relatively inexperienced associate producer who realizes she made a mistake and has been disciplined". But of course we know that is just bullshit.

This whole "9-12" movement came out of the schizophrenic mind of Glenn Beck, and has been promoted non-stop by Fox News ever since. Don't believe me? Well here is the video from Beck's show the day he introduced the "9-12 Project".



How "grass roots" is a project that is conceived by a giant corporation right on national television?

I have personally been involved in a few real "grass roots" projects, like the Obama rally on the Park Strip, and the "Hold Sarah Accountable" rally, and the upcoming "True Diversity Dinner" in Anchorage. I can honestly tell you that each of those was imagined and brought to fruition by regular people who came together in support of a cause. We sought media coverage AFTER we organized the events, not the other way around.

So the 9-12 teabaggers rally was the sole creation of FOX News who then pissed and moaned when the other news outlets did not share their enthusiasm over the event.

Which of course brought this famous response from Rick Sanchez.

CNN became so incensed over the accusations coming from FOX News that it is now broadcasting this ad.



Damn I love that ad!

For years the only news outlet to regularly go after FOX was Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Sadly that was labeled a "rivalry" and the accusations by Keith and other MSNBC hosts were minimized by creating the meme that it was simply a feud.

However those of us who have been paying attention to what Keith, and Rachel, and Ed, and Chris, have been saying, (not to mention Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central) are aware that this has not been simply a feud. It has been ONE cable news network pointing out that another "so-called" cable news network, is NOT a cable news network, but rather a propaganda tool for the Republican party and big business.

So I encourage CNN to stop trying to play referee, and get into the game. When FOX News makes a false report, call them on it! By doing what they have been successfully doing for the last fourteen years, pandering to a specific demographic and shaping the message specifically for them, they have damaged the credibility of ALL news outlets.

Including CNN.