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Rupert Murdoch nixes Sean Hannity Tea Party appearance

Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 09:41 PM

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Fox owner Rupert Murdoch has issued his own Tea Party manifesto.

Speaking earlier this week he said he did not think Fox News "should be supporting the Tea Party."

So now it seems the romance might have faded for Fox News and the Tea Party.

The fair and balanced news channel is practically falling over itself to put quite some distance between Fox and the Tea Partyers.

Thursday the channel pulled mega conservative host Sean Hannity from a well-publicized spot at the Tea Party convention in Cincinatti.

Hannity was supposed to broadcast his show Thursday night from the rally but he was pulled out at the last minute.

The honchos at Fox said they had to pull Hannity out when they learned the rally organizers were charging the audience.

Head executive Bill Shine said, "Fox News never agreed to allow the Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to use Sean Hannity's television program to profit from broadcasting his show from the event."

“We asked him to come back to New York once I realized the seriousness of what’s was going on there,” said Shine. “The Tea Party people were literally selling better seats of the program” based on the Hannity show. “That crossed the line, yeah. We told him to come back home.”

Bet you dollars to donuts that it was Rupert Murdoch's order that got carried out super pronto.

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Monsoonman | Apr 28, 2010, 07:59 PM EDT

So Sean me boy! What you are saying is a far cry from painting the entire tea party movement as a racist and violent movement. OK, I'll give it to you that out of the 50 million or so tea partiers there may be a few and I mean very few, fringe types, say .000000001%. BTW: Out here in the west carrying a firearm is not considered a violent or aggressive act...Guns are not a bad thing. Guns saved my life and continue to be used in my defense, because what's faster? 911? Or a .45?

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seanomelbourne | Apr 26, 2010, 01:42 AM EDT

Monsoonman where have I made the below accusations? but now that you mention it you are not so naive to believe that there are not some racist among your flock or people taking their firearms to rallies are not symbolising some form of violence. I would even agree that similar traits exist on the far left.

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Monsoonman | Apr 23, 2010, 04:40 PM EDT

Sean: Instead of sniping from behind a rock, I suggest you be busy posting proof to back up your assertions that Tea party members are racists & violent and have been shootingt bullets through democrats windows...I have been patiently waiting for one of your tribe to put the proof up there, patiently I might add.

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seanomelbourne | Apr 23, 2010, 12:20 AM EDT

Monsoonman would have been in good company as he waded through the cess pool,Limbaugh,Palin,Malkin,Hannity,Beck and so on.

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:30 PM EDT

I waded through the cess pool and gave you 3 links guiness girl, one by the impeached former president clinton likening tim mcveigh with the tea parties....Words do mean something, even the definition of is.

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:26 PM EDT

http://article.wn.com/view/2010/04/17/Clinton_links_McVeigh_to_Tea_Parties/

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galway2001 | Apr 19, 2010, 08:25 PM EDT

he should not, not be fired,

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:24 PM EDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/12/105254/524

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 08:21 PM EDT

http://www.docudharma.com/diary/20298/mcveigh-wannabes-promote-tea-parties-glenn-beck-on-their-website-tell-me-about-that-snark-again

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GuinnessGrrl | Apr 19, 2010, 04:13 PM EDT

"Posted by Monsoonman on Apr 18, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT You guys aren't looking at the whole story here. Last year the tea party was referred to negatively as "Tim McVeigh wannabes" and "gangsters" by some paranoid left wing/communist kooks." Really? Name & give date & source when one of those "paranoid left wing/communist kooks" said that.

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 03:17 PM EDT

McBro: The founding Fathers thought it important to keep an armed citizenry. I agree with them.

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McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 02:16 PM EDT

Monsoonman Be sure to catch the "Bring your Guns to Washington Rally held today” Listen to the quotes from the participants..."It's us vs them", "Us vs the Communists", "War against Socialism" My guess, 89% listen to Beck

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McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 12:44 PM EDT

Monsoonnman My comments address the bigoted fringe of the Tea Party. Agreed, they are taxpayers, so are the skin heads and the Arian Nation. And, the motto, “I want to take my country back” To where? I think it's a place in history that most of us don't want to go.

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 12:06 PM EDT

I liken the tea Party protests to the canaries in the political mineshaft....Washingtons politicians better listen.

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Monsoonman | Apr 19, 2010, 11:48 AM EDT

It's all well and good to be out on the streets demanding free stuff from your government. But when the ones who actually foot the bill for the governments largesse(the geese who lay the golden eggs) get out on the streets. Houston, there is a problem.

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