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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 19, 2010, 11:44 AM EDT

McBro: You forgot one important figure: 95% are taxpayers.....nuff said.

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McNamara31 | Apr 19, 2010, 09:47 AM EDT

Monsoonman/Sean The numbers are far worse. Based on the CBS/NYT poll of Tea Party attendees, 59% are men, 89% are white, 63% watch Fox for their news, and 75% have a favorable opinion of Beck and Palin. I think that paints a little clearer picture. /2010/04/14/18-percent-of-americans-say-they-are-supporters-of-the-tea-party/

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seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 10:04 PM EDT

50% of the general population is not white male over 40 so why the anomaly(I fit bin to the category of white male over 40 but liberal)

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Monsoonman | Apr 18, 2010, 08:44 PM EDT

Sean, you say:"over 50% of them are 40 white males"? What is the other 50% made up of? Is it a crime to be a white male? It has been scientifically proven tea party members have higher educations, higher incomes and vote in every election. Unscientifically it has been proven tea party members enjoy life more, brush their teeth 3 times a day and are better looking than the average socialist.

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seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 07:22 PM EDT

Hannity's comment was 2 weeks ago and the crowd cheered his rabble rousing. What is the psyche of people who would cheer when they are compared to McVeigh,it beggars belief.the latest poll claim 18% of people are tea party sympathisers and over 50% of them are 40 white males.

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Monsoonman | 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. The usual MO of the left is to parrot something, usually false and misleading, but repeat it enough and it becomes truth in their fevered minds. To quote Vice President Dan Quayle: "A mind is a terrible thing to lose"

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McNamara31 | Apr 18, 2010, 11:30 AM EDT

I'm with Sean on this one,(no surprise to Monsoonman) Fox News and the Tea party stokers, Palin, Backman etc. continually use "Code talk" like Backman's recent comment about our "Gangster Government" to feed the hate and bigotry of their fringe, yet voting, wing nuts. When violence and threats arise soon after, they'll reply with a wink and a nod, "You know we didn't mean that." Just in time for the next Fox News cycle.

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seanomelbourne | Apr 18, 2010, 09:55 AM EDT

Dry humour about a mass murderer what an excuse.Hannity thrives on misrepresentation and you want to give him a pass,what's good for the goose! come on monsoonman

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Monsoonman | Apr 18, 2010, 12:03 AM EDT

sean: You need to give it a break. What Hannity and the tea partiers were saying was dry humor because the left, in their cujo-like logic, accused them of being mcveigh wannabes...geesh

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seanomelbourne | Apr 17, 2010, 10:19 PM EDT

It's a pleasure to see the prince of lies and misinformation (Hannity) reined in. The right are silent on his remarks 2 weeks ago that the tea party misfits are Timothy McVeigh wannabes and to think they cheered in reply how sad.

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Monsoonman | Apr 17, 2010, 05:03 PM EDT

Mc: Don't you think there should be at least one counter broadcast to the liberal press? What harm does it do, dude? Let some counter truth in to the mix. How do you think we found out john edwards was cheating on his cancer stricken wife? That there was an alternative candidate to the shoo in democrat nominee for "teddys seat". That the healtch care "reform" bill was 2700 pages of graft and corruption? How? By having an alternative to the main stream medias abc, cbs, nbc, pbs, nyt, et al.

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McNamara31 | Apr 17, 2010, 03:19 PM EDT

Fox News brought to you by its "two largest" investors Rupert Murdoch, and Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed. Hmmmmm? How about that anti clean energy no global warming position Fox squawks 24/7?

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Monsoonman | Apr 17, 2010, 02:02 PM EDT

Makes sense, it is a fair and blanced decision. Now how about ABC, CBS and NBC follow the same code and report the other side of the news rather than being the propaganda arm of the whitehouse.

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