(1) Footsoldiers First, “Journalists” Second

Somebody should tell those jokers over at Fox News that they need to stay in character at all times:

Fox News host Neil Cavuto regularly claims that when he aggressively advocates for the anti-Obama “tea party” protests on air, he is simply covering them as a journalist. But Stuart Varney, Cavuto’s fill-in host, admitted this afternoon that the the network is actually promoting the right-wing protests. After telling a guest that the tea parties were in protest to President Obama’s policies, Varney closed a segment by saying, “It’s now my great duty to promote the tea parties. Here we go!”

(2) Collaborative Blogging

Steve Benen at The Washington Monthly explains the motivations of some of the people who intend to enthusiastically participate in carefully scripted spontaneous tea-baggery today (if you haven’t already been giggling away at the tea-bag label attached to these events, you need to look up “tea-bagging” in a slang dictionary):

And then there are the activists who are looking forward to tomorrow because they think the president is a secret Muslim fascist/socialist who wasn’t born in the U.S. and intends to impose a global currency on us while building concentration camps with FEMA money.

He almost got it right. That should have read:

And then there are the activists who are looking forward to tomorrow because they think the president is a secret Muslim fascist/socialist who wasn’t born in the U.S. and intends to impose a global currency on us while building concentration camps with FEMA money without awarding a no-bid contract to Halliburton or one of its tentacles.

Maybe if we whisper it around from blog to blog a few times, we can send it back to Steve vastly improved?