After Relentlessly Promoting Tea Party Protests, Fox Attacks Wall Street Protesters

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http://mediamatters.org/research/201110030017

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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.

Fox Attacks "Deluded" Protesters Who Have "Absolutely No Purpose Or Focus In Life"
Johnson: "I Would Think" Wall Street Protesters "Are Deluded In A Lot Of Ways." On the October 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. attacked the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters, claiming, "Clearly, I would think these folks are deluded in a lot of ways and probably provide the best argument for national service for 18-year-olds that we have ever seen." Johnson later said of the protests: "I don't know what it is. I don't think they know what it is. But it's costing Americans millions of dollars in tax dollars in order to arrest them."

Fox's Watters: Wall Street Protesters Are "The Sludge" Of "Every Left-Wing Cause." On the September 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News producer Jesse Watters said of the protests: "I think if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender and hit power this is the sludge you'd get. And it's basically anti-capitalism. And they want to redistribute the wealth. But if you eliminate capitalism, there is no wealth to redistribute."

[JuniperLea]

1. All of the signs employing correct spelling and grammar...

Must really be freaking them out.

They don't like anything that will ultimately reflect in a positive way on Obama. This is a fight with those he's trying to tax, and it won't be pretty. Fox doesn't care how hypocritical they appear... their audience doesn't have the wherewithal to 'get' the hypocrisy.

[tabasco]

2. There's a shocker.

Propaganda network is biased.

[randr]

3. Unfair and Unbalanced

[tomg]

4. No. Not Fox and Friends!

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

[RagAss]

5. They seriously need to go fuck themselves.

[Tutankhamun]

6. I think Dildo Reilly does a lot of that

lately. Ever since his "wife" (a couple decades plus younger than he) decided to get sex from someone else who could presumably do a far better job. I wonder who Sean Insanity is married to...

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Why is Fox News and its Repuke allies calling for a return of the

draft ("National Service")?? Why don't we start by drafting Fox news legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr? I hear there are some latrines in Afghanistan that badly need cleaning.