So, who was on the other end of that phone . . . ?

And meanwhile the reporter on camera gushes about how totally spontaneous and "grass roots" it all is. Fox News redefines unprofessionalism and dishonesty.

Surprised nobody's put this together with the on-air harassment of the MSNBC reporter at this week's so-called Values Voters summit. It's all about controlling the message, and some are a lot more blatant, or, Jonah Goldberg might agree, the word is fascistic, than others.

fox news lies.

35 years ago the liberal MSM hounded a Republican president from office. How is his different?

[chuckle]

This is a problem because? The term "grassroots" means that the people came of their own accord, were not paid to attend, and were not there in association with some group such as a union or "community organizer".

Whooping the crowd up? Okay, maybe she stepped over some "truth in advertising" line there, but how does this diminish the people who attended, or their true outrage at what's happening?

You folks are really starting to whistle past the graveyard when you start screaming "partisan political coverage!" Let's ignore the issues, ignore the American people, and babble on about how Bad Fox News is fomenting disruption.

Once you've got Nancy Pelosi crying about how dangerous this all is, the only thing I can think is, "Yeah, Nancy, dangerous to your job!"

As for the idea that pointing out that a Fox producer was trying to kick up the volume will somehow diminish the reality of the situation: good luck with that.

Hey, you won, remember? :)

The cheerleading producer, obviously, is out of camera range.

Isn't the green-shirted woman in the foreground the producer?

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so FOX is evil and crude. big deal. come on.

journalism? please. this episode is just a minor stretch in what all of them do.

so the "little" producer "erroneously" did some pre-filming massaging... the impact of post-filming editing and commentary writing surpasses this little cheerleading routine any day of the week for "spinning" a message the producer decides needs to be spun. that's what its all about... it's all hokey pokey...

the teevee is a spectacle producing machine. so how do you think those spectacles keep getting produced? they're all just natural organic "happenings"? sure they are...

Whoops, I see what Steve meant.

I need more caffeine.

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As best I can make from the bad video resolution, the little producer is pretty cute, I'm sure she's got quite a future in cable "journalism."

I'm totally in agreement with AJsDaddie. When you have a news network endlessly promote an upcoming rally, have a corporate sponsored bus tour cross the country, and at the end of it all have 2 million...... er [chuckle]..... 60,000 people show up, it is a totally freaking awesome and organic showing of Americans' distaste of government. Anybody arguing otherwise is afraid of the next election cycle.

I agree, AJsDaddie is the cat's pajamas when it comes to defending FOX News...

I would love to hear such lucidity and depth from him(?) as to exactly what the fucking point was --besides, of course, the indirect racism we all agree was essential to the recruitment and deployment of these "2 million" people.

do they all work for medical insurance companies?
do they all make $250,000+ a year?
do they all have the comprehension of third graders when it comes to defining socialism and understanding the rudiments of macro-economics?
Huh?
huh?
huh?

A clip of these funny activists calling themselves "billionaires for wealthcare" probably didn't make it on to Fox "news," although you can see a Fox truck in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1I9xsV-g9Y

That was hilarious!

Did you see her?

Pumping up the crowd while talking on her phone.

She turns around, sees she is being filmed and, "Oops! I'm being filmed. I better duck."

Too funny.

LOL!

Ah yes. The Million Morons March.

Al, did the Washington Post organize and promote marches of protest against Richard Nixon, and bus in people to make an impressive crowd? Did any of the TV networks or other news outlets? I don't recall any such event. What they DID do was report information about his breaches of ethics and his efforts to stifle honest investigation into them. There's an enormous difference between reporting facts that make the public angry and stage-managing demonstrations of that anger. Fox is creating the "news event" that it then covers.

You got it, T-Rex...

anger is the essential ingredient of the FOX business plan...

Breaches of ethics? Nixon and his "ratfuckers" committed domestic felonies to go with their war crimes. I don't think Obama's had anyone's office burglarized.

Al, you're obviously not even trying any more. What you produced there isn't really worth swinging at, it's that dumb.

The supposed "liberal media" was Nixon's way of trying to duck what he'd done.

Funny that this "liberal media" helped the right wing torture Clinton and gin up non-scandal after non-scandal. And,led republicans to issue over 1052 subpeonas in the process and came up empty.

Funny that the same republicans could only generate only 5 subpeonas to investigate while their party was in power.

And, who can forget how the "liberal media" allowed Bush to gin up fear over non-existent WMD's

Did anybody catch the chant during the last few seconds of the video? "Fox News Rocks! Fox News Rocks! Fox News Rocks!" A protest movement that hearts a cable television channel. Wierd.

great stuff.....faux promotes the f@ck out of an event where only 70,000 or so folks who didn't vote for obama show up to be concerned or resentful or angry about what the candidate they didn't vote for is doing and faux takes out an ad in the wapo claiming other news networks didn't cover the faux promoted event enough...and now a cheerleader...all we need is malkin's schoolgirl outfit

http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/be-a-billionaire/
Excellent site! Such a potent weapon, satire.
Just a sampling of the one liners:
"What health care problem? I feel just fine.
Let them eat Advil.
Whatever happened to an apple a day?
Band-Aids are affordable.
Nothing Says “Freedom” Like Denying Claims
Don’t Tread My Freedom to Deny Your Claim
Don’t Blame Me for Your Pre-Existing Condition
Skyrocketing Premiums: What’s Not to Like?"

BE A BILLIONAIRE...and have a lot of fun.

Democrats should demand that a republican politician agree to be interrogated by the DNC each time one of them agrees to appear on FOX "news". That would be "fair and balanced"

Disciplined? By Fox News? The associate producer was probably given a raise and a corner office.

AJsDaddie on September 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, said:

"Whooping the crowd up? Okay, maybe she stepped over some 'truth in advertising' line there, but how does this diminish the people who attended, or their true outrage at what's happening?"

Hey douche - no one said it diminishes the teabaggers or their outrage, what it diminishes is the veracithy of Fox News constant claim of "fair and balanced" coverage.

Maybe to correct this misstep, Fox could attend a pro-immigration or anti-war rally and actively cheer on the participants.

Face the facts dude, Fox has been exposed (again) as an unabashed propaganda tool of the American rightwing.

The next time I hear a Conservative complain about the "liberal media" I'm going to spam them this video a hundred times.

Shitheads.

Whooping the crowd up? Okay, maybe she stepped over some "truth in advertising" line there, but how does this diminish the people who attended, or their true outrage at what's happening?

What exactly is "happening"?

Let me rephrase that: what exactly is happening now that wasn't happening when Bush was president and all these same people waited in line in their hometowns to fellate Bush and Cheney in case they came to visit?

It certainly can't be tax or spending related, because Bush and the Republican Congress were spending and putting the country into debt like it was going out of style.

Hmmm, I wonder what all the "true outrage" really is about. Why is it that in addition to rallying all over the country, right-wingers are shooting up holocaust museums or female exercise classs or assassinating abortion doctors or are caught stockpiling bombs or waving signs about watering the tree of liberty -- presumably with the blood of Obama and Nancy Pelosi -- and it's only right-wing kooks doing it?

Can you explain that one to me, princess, in a way that suggests there is any honesty and integrity to this "movement"?

No, you can't. Funny story: I have a lot of family members and friends who are teabaggers, and I'm close enough to them to know what really motivates them, and in this instance it's nothing honest, good, or true.

FoxNews is nothing more than Pravda for the GOP.

She can't really be an RNN news person, they are all blond.

Er, just a sec, there, Steve.

"activist Griff Jenkins"?

If you can tolerate even the first 30 sec or so of the on-air segment posted at Beck's 9/12 project site (nope, not linkin' it), you'll hear Beck very clearly introduce Jenkins as "Fox's Griff Jenkins".

Kind of understandable you'd assume no actual news organization or journalist with any professional integrity or credibility would ever engage in such openly partisan cheerleading (and of course, none would; he works for Fox "News").

Really kinda hard to see how the producer Noonan's (any relation to Peggy, I wonder?) off-camera cheerleading is any significantly greater offense against journalistic ethics and professionalism than Jenkins' blatant on-air cheerleading. Or maybe that's just getting overlooked cuz it's such unremarkable SOP coming from Fox "News" (case-in-point, obviously, Beck hisownself)?

Heck out the ratings...

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/cable-news