Honestly, I wish Fox News hadn't bothered with the Tea Parties like they did.

The Tea Parties did hit MSNBC they mentioned them from several different states, they just did not camp out there and report it all day long. They also spoke of the tea parties before they had happened. I am not sure where you get your info from but I myself watched the news and seen the reports.

"Give the folks at Fox News a break." I will not give them a break anymore than I will give CNN or MSNBC a break. They are supposed to report the news, not sell people into going to a protest. They overhyped it, which in turn attracted the likes of MSNBC and CNN to jump on the story and completely decimate the protests with lies. Because of Fox's interference, and because of their insistence that this was a great patriotic event, the anti-Fox forces at CNN and MSNBC (and of course nameless bloggers on the net), jumped on it like a pack of rabid wolves. "Frankly, I think that one more good thing that came out of these tea parties is that it exposed CNN. MSNBC and the rest of the left wing media for what they are." Perhaps to you, but to those who already didn't know how biased those companies were, it made little difference from what I can tell. I've seen people argue about how "balanced" Olberman is. If their heads are that far down in the sand, still, nothing will ever get through to them.

"They overhyped it, which in turn attracted the likes of MSNBC and CNN to jump on the story and completely decimate the protests with lies." I don't watch enough Fox to know how they overhyped it. O'Reilly reported on it very simply without any big endorsement, but I would assume Hannity and Beck were both big on the hype. O'Reilly is the only show I watch regularly. Either way, without Fox News the tea parties would have gotten ZERO national coverage. MSNBC didn't touch the tea parties until roughly 1 week prior and CNN didn't mention them till 5 days prior to the events. Obama's claiming he didn't even know about the tea parties. "I've seen people argue about how "balanced" Olberman is. If their heads are that far down in the sand, still, nothing will ever get through to them." True, there are still people on mylot watching the disgusting videos of their coverage who insist they are fair and unbiased. One person even said the reporter at CNN must have been attacked somehow to spew her filth and call the tea parties anti-government. Gotta make CNN the victim.

I agree I had been hearing about this for a while, before it was on the news, and I do not believe that those protesting are extremists, but some of the protesters may be. And I think that people should protest being robbed blind every day by the government because the government constantly has to find ways to support their latest entitlement programs, meaning that a whole lot of people are thinking they are entitled to things they are not, and people who are working are having a hard time making ends meet, because most of their paycheck is going to support people who won't work. The government is taking too much of the money that is hard earned by the people. And in my opinion it is not right. We have way too many taxes.

Well I had no doubt that the left leaning media would attack it some, but the question is, would they have attacked as much so that it completely skewed the point of it and caused as much confusion about it as it did? Honestly, I've met people who genuinely believe the protest was about hating Obama. They cite a bunch of biased of writings that might as well have come from DailyKos. I'm of the belief that it wouldn't have been AS bad if Fox News hadn't stamped it's logo on the event.

Oh I agree that Fox news covering it so heavily put out the war cry from the other news agencies. Sence Fox news was devoting so much time to it, they felt they had to justify why they were not going to cover it as heavily. I am not a big fan of Fox news. But I am telling you. If Fox would not have covered it then either they all would have ignored it completely or would have only put out things against it. As is such a big deal was made about it that it made international news. The news and our government could have just ignored the whole event.But so many people showed up that they have to react to it. I take all this criticism as a postive. It means we have actually gotten their attention. They may not like what we have to say....but we are now loud enough that htey have to at least listen and pay attention. It does not mean we are going to get a more fiscally responsible government. But we can just keep protesting until they get the message. Which could take a while.