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Jane is right.  The fact that Fox is participating in these things doesn’t mean their coverage is invalid.  But it isn’t particularly strange that Fox wants to make it look like they aren’t involved.  The fact is that FNC is biased, but they don’t want you to know that.  Like any individual that tells large and intricate lies, they can’t maintain the entire thing, so they pick and choose talking points, which seem random to anyone who isn’t a part of the deception. This is one of them.  They’ll tell you Obama is a Muslim, but they won’t let you tie them to teabagging.

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I’m fine with Fox both participating in and covering the teabagging, and I don’t think it means their coverage is automatically invalid because they’re involved. It would be like saying Netroots Nation couldn’t be covered by Kos, or that CPAC couldn’t be covered by Snake Handlers Weekly. What’s weird is Fox’s denial that they’re involved, which they clearly are, and even weirder is the bizarre way that the teabaggers themselves are desperate to distance themselves from Fox .