10/14/09

Gay March Equally Attended As Fox's Tea Bag Protest, Why Didn't Fox Report It That Way?

Remember when Fox News was furious that other networks did not properly cover the Tea Bagger 9/12 circle jerk protest? Fox was so fed up with people not covering their self-promoted protests against the American government that it ran full-page ads in newspapers crying about the other networks' lack of coverage. For the record, other networks did cover the Tea Baggers but Fox wanted it promoted as the largest protest in world history, that millions attended, that Obama is unpopular and that Tea Baggers are Freedom Fighting Warriors. Unless Fox and their loonies are portrayed that way, they get really mad and throw hissy fits.

It's still debatable, but Fox's protest brought in about 60-80 thousand Tea Baggers to slap nut sacks with each other, talk about small government, balanced budgets, war without end and how Obama is a foreign-born enemy. You know, to reminisce about the good ol' days when George Bush and the Republicans reigned in spending, shrunk government, fought evil doers, put women in their place and launched America into the forefront of the 21st century. To Fox News, this was the largest crowd ever assembled in one place equivalent to the Civil Rights marches in the 60s. Hemorrhoid Glenn Beck reported without hesitation that the crowd numbered 1.7 million. Of course none of that is true. Fox has yet to issue any sort of correction to its lies and has moved on to promoting their next Tea Bagger protest scheduled in November.

Incredibly, it takes a comedian to level the playing field with Fox News. When 75 thousand people showed up in DC last weekend to march for gay rights, Fox News did not even send a camera crew to cover the event. A march of people equally attended as their Tea Bag protest and Fox does not even bother to cover it. They did the exact same thing they accused the other networks of doing last month, except for the fact that other networks didn't ignore it like Fox just did.

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According to Fox News' math, people marching for queers was the largest protest in history attended by millions. Networks that didn't cover this historical event should be ashamed. Fox News, how did you miss it?