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Just found this funny.

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I found it funny too that the Dem contender doesn't reply to requests for interviews from FOX, and the FOX gets blamed for not being balanced.
It's refreshing, though, that the anchor had the integrity to realize the imbalance, and the stones to apologize.

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Says the video has been removed by the user. At least when I tried to view it on my phone.

Knowing Shepard Smith, it was a bit tongue in cheek. Not that he wouldn't want that Fox news girl to get time with Corzine or anything, but... Shepard Smith says a lot that he probably shouldn't. Not in an OMG-political-bias kind of way either, just in a very plainly unprofessional kind of way. I've been down this path before on the Glade, however. :p

He probably still deserves points for this one, but I don't think it's quite as by-the-book journalistic as you make it sound.

But he's the Great Uniter! He said so!

So it's obviously those teabaggers' fault we haven't healed.

I'm with Noggel here, that was obviously a tongue-in-cheek dig at Fox's critics. It's also well deserved, though; because this is the kind of thing that Fox gets slammed for, and it's often not in their control.

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It really is the tea party protester's fault we haven't healed. Well, at least in large part (and more at fault are the mouthpieces and funding machines for those protests). Their message is hateful, in many cases racist, and utterly confused. But very, very angry. Are they tax protesters? Where were they during the Bush administration? Are they immigration radicals? Where were they duringt he Bush administration?

It's not the first time a somewhat incoherent movement like the Tea Party protest has popped up in America. The most recent time, I think, was when segregation was at issue, and interracial marriage was a possibility. Similar rage, similarly disconnected messages. Just anger at "government" being "oppressive".

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Umm... considering that I live in Arizona, I can say with absolute certainty that there were plenty of anti-illegal immigration people during Bush's administration. There were also plenty of people against the first stimulus bill passed under Bush.

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And none of those people had the support and funding of the Fox News/Newscorp Republican alliance. They were just fringe radicals (like the tea party protesters) without much of a platform. And they certainly didn't have the numbers that came about when Fox started sponsoring and promoting anti-government protest movements.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

You know, that's funny. Because my friend who's on the Search and Rescue team for the Minutemen Civil Defense Corp is still waiting for his check. Who the hell is he supposed to be getting paid by?

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Can you please stop with the outright lies? George Sorros. End of discussion. He's the deepest of pockets cheerfully funding the most leftist of lefties.

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