I sometimes watch bits and pieces of Fox News, most often at the gym where I'm a captive audience.  It's hard to do for more than a few minutes at a time, but it's revealing.

For example, a few nights ago, I watched about 10 minutes of a Fox special report on the threat of universal health care which never actually said "this is what will happen and how," it just showed people who were very sick but they got a smart doctor or a second opinion and are alive today because of it.  The implication is that you don't get those with the new health care plan.  Which of course is bullshit.

In a sad way they got all this from Michael Moore's "Sicko."  They noted the emotional punch this had and copied it but replaced the real villain, the insurance industry, with a fake nonexistent one, the government.  In fact, if you go back further in Moore's history, this kind of thing actually first happened on his TV show years ago, where he reported on a guy who had cancer and his insurance company wouldn't pay for a transplant.  Until his TV crews started interviewing people, then suddenly they found a way to do so.  Moore literally saved that guy's life and I invoke atheist blessings on him for it.

Anyway.  I saw a bit of the Fox coverage of the anti-tax "Tea Parties" on July 4, and I suddenly noticed the crawl.  On most news stations this is simply a short Twitter-sized summary of breaking news scrolling across the bottom of the screen.  In this case, instead of current news, it was all important information about how illegal immigrants are doing bad stuff, how taxes are crazy, how good people are losing their rights.

Sample of the Fox news Tea Party coverage.  In this you can see on the crawl reports of Gitmo detainees using cell phones to call Al-Jazeera, "Tax Facts" "FOREIGNERS AREN'T" something, "OREGON'S BEER TAX," "TOP TAX RATE 39.6%." 

OMG BEER TAX!!!!  Will the madness never end!