The truth about the Fox News Tea Parties


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  • Open Memo to Media: This is What Astroturf Looks Like
    04/15/2009 - 12:07

    "Astro Turf." Fake grassroots. It’s what you get when big business and rich zealots hire pricey consultants to manufacture public outrage. With big budgets, limitless manpower, sophisticated targeting, and a sympathetic media channel, it's not difficult to generate anger. And that’s exactly what’s going on with today’s tea parties

    Whether these so-called tea parties originated as grassroots events or not, they have become nothing more than Astroturf outrage generated by Fox News and corporate-financed consultants. $aveTheRich.com is dedicated to documenting these efforts, so we created a clearinghouse of information to expose the truth behind the so-called “Tax Day Tea Parties” being held around the country. And so far, the tell-tale signs of Astro Turf are everywhere:

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Planning for FreedomWorks' 9/12 rally began hours before Beck introduced his 9/12 project on air

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:19

FreedomWorks began planning for a Washington rally over a month ago. Specifically, based on timestamps on their message board, they began applying for permits for a September 12th rally in the early afternoon of March 13th, 2009. March 13th sounded familiar last night, but I didn't make an important connection.

As it turns out that, March 13th was also the day that Glenn Beck took to Fox News for his "We Surround Them" special. That night, he introduced his 9/12 project:

There was an air of mystery surrounding Beck's special. Fox News had organized national viewing parties in anticipation of a big announcement on the program. What he would say was not public.

Yet, somehow, FreedomWorks had a heads up. They applied for a permit for the same day, on the same day. Yet, still they deny the obvious coordination at the top of their recent tantrum. I'm not sure that Fox and FreedomWorks can sustain that position any more.

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