‘Tale of Two Protests’: Fox News Compares Media Coverage of Town Halls vs. G20

"I believe there were fewer violent acts during the entire month of August than there were in one day at the G20 protests," Mary Katharine Ham of the Weekly Standard said.

September 28, 2009 at 4:59 pm - Fox News
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taggart   September 28th, 2009 - 1:03 pm

If Fox is so desperately trying to co-opt the libertarians, why take this stance? This is just further supportive of arguments that Beck, et al, at Fox are shills to co-opt the movement against more and more govt. Whether your freedoms are trampled by jackboot thugs on the left-side (of the video), or legislated away on the right-side (of the video) it’s still a trashing of the Constitution and a violation of the oaths these baton wielding or pen wielding mercenaries took. Either way, they’re following orders, and those orders are “get the American people in line.”

Drano   September 28th, 2009 - 2:01 pm

From MaoBama’s little red book 1:1 Where ever 3 or more gather in my name there shall be an angry, violent mob.

SteveR   September 28th, 2009 - 2:22 pm

Anarchists doing damage to public property and marching without a permit can’t be compared to people going to town halls, or staging a peaceful protest with a permit. The 9/12 protest was over 1 million strong and their were no arrests. In fact the protestors left Washington, DC at least as clean as they found it.

Dophina   September 28th, 2009 - 3:33 pm

Steve, the comparison isn’t the protesters but the coverage of the protesters by the left leaning media.

The left does have reason to be scared of the Tea Parties – as does the right, only they don’t know it yet. ;)

liberty   September 28th, 2009 - 5:11 pm

Dophina : what do you mean that we have to be scared of the patriots at the tea parties? We did not have anyone arrested or any one commiting violence . but yet you had violence at this G20 meeting from communist/anarchrist

bishopcruz   September 28th, 2009 - 6:22 pm

@taggart

I agree somewhat, the Pittsburg stuff was a gigantic cluster.. er screw on all sides and while the anarchists did need to be taken care of, the Police response was well over the top. Far far too many bystanders got caught up in the retaliation, and it really did seem like the Pittsburg PD were going out of their way to seem like a bunch of thugs out of 1984 or some other dystopia. It was bad down here in Miami, but not this bad, and the fact that the cops ended up tear gassing student housing areas there was no excuse for.

From everything I have seen, much of the crowd might have been liberal and clueless, but it was a minority that was actually violent. The police chief, or who ever was in charge of the op needs to be reprimanded or fired. It is atrocious that many innocents, who were doing nothing but being curious ended up being gassed. On the other hand the anarchists are also pretty evil, one can tell that their whole goal was to create an overreaction, and they didn’t care how many innocents were caught up in it. Even with that provocation that was no excuse for the actions of the police.

FastFacts   September 28th, 2009 - 6:24 pm

Oh I so wanted to do this. I was going to make a comparison video of the March on DC and the G20 but with no time to spare and no money for the right software, it just wasn’t going to happen. But this is the point that should be made from this. Look at the right wing extremists protesting, so peaceful the DC Officials were amazed and the left-wing G20 Protests and the stir they made with the city. Why are we called the extremists and under this president put on terror watch lists. Sorry if they know anything about history they would know that we are the passive protesters while the left, the anti-war protesters are the violent and in your face crowd. They are the young to middle age when the right are middle to upper age, we had old people in wheel chairs and they had people causing vandalism. So Obama’s Administration, get a clue…
SOURCE of DC videos: http://www.americanparchment.com/archive/2009/sep/sep_13_2009.html. And the G20 videos: http://www.americanparchment.com/archive/2009/sep/sep_25_2009.html. I rest my case.

peter c   September 28th, 2009 - 6:31 pm

Last week Olbermann attacked S.Palin 56 times…and never even once mentioned the arrest of the three Islamic terrorists who were about to attack N.Y. on Sept 11.

The MSM is guilty of lying and covering up ALL of their Messiah Obama’s past and liberal voting..They white washed Rev Wright…The did the same about Obama’s LONG TIME friendship with the Marxist terrorist Bill Ayers.

They covered up Obama’s LONG TIME relationship with ACORN and SEIU…and his votes to deny medical help for babies who survived induced abortions…his birth records…his High School and College and Law School records.

They cover up all his associations with the Tide Foundation…The Unions…George Soros…the Saudi that paid for his Harvard schooling…. his 100% rating with Planned Parenthood…His and his wife’s actions to keep Late Term Abortions legal…. That he said there are 57 States….It goes on and one.

Even that rat liar Chris Matthews said it is now his job to make Obama successful as a Leftist President.

NBC, CBS,ABC,CNN,PBS..all take calls from Obama’s creepy lying Chief of Staff every day one what they should report on and not report on.

So why would it be news that the MSM covered and sympathized with all the violent Anarchists in Pittsburgh and nothing close to what happened at all the tea party Events…like reporting that 1.7 million where in DC a few weeks ago…or tat 98% were regular respectful folks who see through Obama and the Democrats and the lies they push…they even called us all Racists and reported on Jimmy Carter and others who have this outrageous claim of racism if you are against Obama’s policies.

Nooooo…the MSM is complicit in treasonous reporting and have been and will be for a long time..

The Hate the show is also unbelievable. This is why all of their numbers are going dowm the toilet….We are FED UP with them…Obama…and the Dems…and the G@y movement…The Socialist Dems and the Lies! They even are shocked that a man who drugged a 13 year old girl…raped her…sodomized her…and ran away from justice…was actually arrested by Swiss police… this from those who say they are Feminists…supporters of children???

Ignore these Godless liars…Vote ALL Dems out in 2010 and their dumb Messiah in 2012.

Hooter   September 28th, 2009 - 6:56 pm

Yah those AARP, house moms, Veterans are the true threat to America in the world of MSNBC and CNN.

notinmycountry   September 28th, 2009 - 7:09 pm

We have to bring back midnight basketball. It solved all of the worlds problems then, and I’m sure will do the same now. And it only cost $95,000,000. Now in todays currency that would equal out to 5,000,000,000,000,000 world dollars/yen/diablos/cientas/pesos/etc

Fox & Breitbart   September 28th, 2009 - 7:18 pm

It has come to the point that there are only a few news outlets I can really trust, Fox, Breitbart, and Drudge are the top by far. If you compare all the stories and trully look from the middle, these groups cover the facts better than the rest, unfortunatly many people refuse to be “confused with the facts”!

pepito cojones   September 28th, 2009 - 7:29 pm

Dophina, you’re right. The reason the LEFT is so scared of the “Tea Parties” is simply because they’re going to lose “big time” come 2010 and 2012.

Ha Ha   September 28th, 2009 - 7:51 pm

Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices were used on the G20 protesters.This has been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.Police used tear gas, dogs, and full riot gear.

If the Government opposed the Corporate Sponsored Tea Parties, I am sure we would have seen these in Washington D.C. two weeks ago, right.

Hope the tea baggers get theirs next time.

Larse   September 28th, 2009 - 7:59 pm

FOX ‘pumping’ “news” only to justify their pathetic selves :D

Give Beck a new monkey to play with…

claspur   September 28th, 2009 - 8:04 pm

HaHa…

I like that heat machine better. It’s like a laser beam…just no light.
You get an intense spot of heat on your body, and chit, you move. lmao

pepito cojones   September 28th, 2009 - 8:09 pm

Ha Ha, the reason the government used sonic weapons, tear gas, dogs and full riot gear at the G20 Summit is simple. They are violent Anarchist. The Tea Party protesters are not. What is it that you don’t understand?

Larsehol   September 28th, 2009 - 8:10 pm

“Yeah those AARP, house moms, and Veterans are the true threat to America in the world of MSNBC and CNN.”

Because they have been around long enough to recognize Nazi tactics and see through the Faux-Communism.. therefore they are “too wise” to leave alone..

Larsehol   September 28th, 2009 - 8:13 pm

“Ha Ha, the reason the government used sonic weapons, tear gas, dogs and full riot gear at the G20 Summit is simple. They are violent Anarchist. ”

Well… that and they didn’t want to get close enough to catch whatever STD the bend-over bois’s were carrying..

Don’t forget the fruit that ran in on Dan Rathers news years ago… “Fight aids not Arabs..”

And, as always.. you can contact me at larse@gloryhole9.com

@ Ha Ha   September 28th, 2009 - 8:21 pm

By “tea baggers” of course you mean Anderson Cooper, the turnip shaped talking head that works for CNN. And yourself too most likely.

If you mean tea party people I guess you didn’t notice the thousands who were in Washington without a single arrest. Something a leftist mob could never hope to pull off since you people are incapable of gathering without it turning to violence and vandalism of public and private property. So you will be the ones who serve as useful idiots for testing the latest mob control methods by the military and police.

pepito cojones   September 28th, 2009 - 8:41 pm

Anderson Cooper… what a doofus!

Calvin&Hobbes   September 28th, 2009 - 9:09 pm

MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, PBS where are you?

Are these anarchists fighting the good and justifiable fight while the Tea
Party People were out of control and unjustifiably protesting in your opinion?

No wonder people are NOT WATCHING YOU IN DROVES.

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Gandhi's Fist   September 28th, 2009 - 11:06 pm

Fox news, only one doing legit reporting on the tube. Otherwise it’s the internet: Drudge, BB, instapundit etc. When a pair of untrained 20 year old kids can scoop ABC, NBC, CBS, NY Times MSNBC, CNN and the Washington Post, you know it’s time for the liberal news media to quit. Oddly, the people these so-called news outlets serve–ideologically–barely read anyhow. The highly literate conservative community have canceled their subscriptions and now the free press is looking to be shackled, via a government bailout. They call more than 1.5 million at a rally in D.C.; thousands. Talk about the “dark undercurrents” in the crowd.

The liberal media no longer can control what people see. They strive mightily to serve up lies that maintain their power, but we’re just not buying it anymore. Watch and see what a better informed public do to the dems come 2010.

fantum   September 29th, 2009 - 3:41 am

OBAMA WANT’S AMERICA TO FAIL!

Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.

Obama want’s America to fail…
http://usataxpayer.org/Public/obamafail.asp

Obama Headlines…
http://usataxpayer.org/page.asp?Get=headlines

Steve   September 29th, 2009 - 8:12 am

Conservatives have been co-opted by douche-baggery. Very ugly to us centrists. Not that I care, but Bush started the whole bail out thing. What you indicate with your vitriol about Obama is thinly veiled racism. I don’t agree much with the Obama administration, but it’s not because he’s black, it’s because he’s Bush III. Smoke up, Johnny!

Norm   September 29th, 2009 - 9:33 am

That’s right Steve, you stupid sunofabtch, it’s all Bush’s fault and we all hate Obama, not because he’s a stupid, filthy, stinking, communist crook and a fraud but because he’s only half white.

You better get yourself some milk and cookies and go back to watching Sesame Street.

Ex-Pittsburgher   September 29th, 2009 - 9:56 am

Uh, hate to tell you this, but your own footage doesn’t show a single act of protester violence. It’s all coming from the police, including smoke and tear gas, baton strikes and that sonic weapon. Most of the “protesters” appear to actually be reporters filming and documenting, so there should be plenty of material. If you want me to believe they’re worse than the teabaggers, you really should find some better footage.

In the end, the teabagger protest is more important, and so deserve more coverage: the G20 protests are simply to get attention, and have no chance of actually changing policy, while the teabagger protests do actually have a chance of changing policy – after all, that’s what the townhall meetings were for: to get feedback.

Note: People, it is “Pittsburgh”, with an “h” at the end. I try to spell your home town’s name correctly, please try to spell mine correctly.

Glenn   September 29th, 2009 - 11:38 am

Fox is no friend of libertarians, not giving voice to the legitimate criticism of government. The anarchists don’t helps themselves by acting like an angry, revolutionary mob. Sigh, once again, libertarians do themselves no favors.

Watcher   September 29th, 2009 - 12:50 pm

hmmm,…..notice the G20 protesters all wearing hoods and masking their faces. I don’t recall seeing that at the tea parties, or the town halls.

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