You know things are bad when even Republicans don't want to talk to Fox News hosts

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You know things are bad when even Republicans don't want to talk to Fox News hosts

September 21, 2010 11:27 am ET by Eric Boehlert


Fox News is beating up on Lisa Murkowski, and she's not even a Democrat.

An incumbent Republican senator from Alaska who last week lost her party's nomination to the Tea Party-backed candidate, Joe Miller, Murkowski announced that she plans to battle on to November as a write-in candidate.

But if you've been watching Fox News this week you know Murkowski's definitely not being portrayed as a plucky politician battling to the end. Instead, she's being vilified as a washed-up "sore loser." Why the put-downs? Because Fox News is backing Miller, so any obstacle to his path must be destroyed. And if Murkowski won't step aside (and worse, if she might siphon votes from Miller), then Fox News' team is more than willing to smear her from now until November.

It's weird. At this point, Fox News' unabashed slash-and-burn strategy, even against a sitting Republican senator, barely shocks us. Why? Because the cable channel has so thoroughly transformed itself into a purely political entity (aka The Opposition Party). And if it has to collectively trash the opponents of its handpicked candidate, even if those opponents reside within the GOP, Fox News is more than willing to do so. In terms of modern day American journalism, we've never seen anything like this from a "news" outlet during the campaign season.

How bizarre is Fox News' behavior? So bizarre that apparently Rupert Murdoch's team can't even get a Republican senator to appear on the air.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009210013

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1. Fox is nothing more than the official propaganda bureau of

the Republican party, a/k/a Tea Party.