- Fool For a Day
To repeat a well known phrase from our beloved Diamond Tiger, Today’s AYFKM/Hypocrite Of The Day Award goes to:
RUPERT MURDOCH:
“I don’t think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party,” he said. Earlier this week, the network published an article to its website that was semi-critical of the tea party.
ROTFLMAO, at the risk of sounding cynical…when was the last time Rupert Murdoch didn’t take a side, especially when it has to do with money?! Recently having strengthened his alliance with the Saudi’s, whose holdings in FOX recently increased by 14% , Murdoch is hardly in a position to cry “FOUL!” at someone for taking a side.
From WorldNetDaily:
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MEDIA MATTERS
Fox pulls Hannity from tea-party rally
Host planned to broadcast show live from Cincinnati
Posted: April 15, 2010
8:26 pm Eastern© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Sean HannityWASHINGTON – Angry Fox News executives ordered Sean Hannity to abandon plans, announced as late as this afternoon on his nationally syndicated radio program, to broadcast his TV show from a Cincinnati tea-party rally he was headlining, a Los Angeles Times media blog reported.
Hannity, on a book tour for his No. 1 best-seller “Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda,” was scheduled to be the featured speaker at a four-hour rally at the University of Cincinnati – with as many as 13,000 in attendance. Proceeds from the event were to benefit a local tea-party organization.
But senior Fox News executives said they were not aware Hannity was being billed as the centerpiece of the event or that tea-party organizers were charging for admission to Hannity’s show as part of the rally. They first learned of it this morning from John Finley, Hannity’s executive producer, who was in Cincinnati to produce Hannity’s show, reported the Times’ media blog “Show Tracker.”
Attendees were being charged a minimum of $5, with seats near Hannity’s set going for $20.
The execs reportedly recalled Hannity to New York to do his show in his regular studio. The network plans to do an extensive post-mortem about the incident with Finley and Hannity’s staff.
“Fox News never agreed to allow the Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to use Sean Hannity’s television program to profit from broadcasting his show from the event,” said Bill Shine, the network’s executive vice president of programming, according to the Times blog. “When senior executives in New York were made aware of this, we changed our plans for tonight’s show.”
Last week, News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch said before a Washington, D.C. crowd that Fox News should not be supporting the movement.
“I don’t think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party,” he said. Earlier this week, the network published an article to its website that was semi-critical of the tea party.
Reached in New York, Hannity declined to comment other than to say he planned to do his show tonight in studio.
Recently, much to HuffPo’s delight, FOX published a semi critical article about the Tea Party Movement, giving sway to long time main stream media’s frenzied efforts to discount, demonize and derail the mounting number of Americans who have realized they are being tyrannized, lied to and swindled by their government and its complicit corporate media…
Ya gotta laugh, right? I mean…come ON folks…could they BE any less transparent??
Well, people, there you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth. The reports are out and, as we knew already, it isn’t pretty. As if to herald the sheer thrill of managing to stay IN the Oval Office this long, The One went wild this week, terrorizing innocent New Yorkers with a “flyover” guaranteed to render everyone in the Tri State area a permanent episode of post traumatic stress and flooding the public with Fear of Flu. Well…don’t say I didn’t warn you but… 
April 15, 2009. Tax Day. Tea Parties. Main stream media’s desperate attempt to portray non partisan patriots as “Right Wing Extremists, Loonies” and, horror of horrors, “returning vets.” Now, I understand full well the obligation corporate controlled, main stream media has to collude with and propound the Obama Agenda, and, things being what they are, this is not a recent revelation. But when they stoop to portraying some of the bravest, most patriotic and hard working people in the world, a/k/a our American Military, THAT is OVER THE LINE. Why is it that, since Vietnam, every veteran, especially those who have served our country with the greatest personal sacrifices of time, and sometimes their very own health and well being, is characterized by main stream media as a “right wing veteran lunatic fringe???” This make my blood boil. I am a moderate. I was a Democrat for many years before I saw that odious bunch hijack my party and my country for what is clearly an America hating, illegal alien who, by his own admission, will stand behind the Muslim world before the country whose leadership he has usurped. I have voted for candidates from all parties at one time or another, not because I am wishy washy in my beliefs, but because I believe in voting for the candidate I deem best suited for the job. I believe in our Constitution and in the troops sworn to preserve and protect it, from enemies within and without. I have the utmost admiration for our vets because they do what I feel I cannot–effectively protect our country and its citizens from the front lines. They count among my most treasured friends, and I do NOT like seeing them disparaged, dismissed and characterized as nuts, for they are smarter than most people in that they have seen things most of us have not, and they know what is real…and what is not.
The Dame Truth 