Fox News Got GOP Into Shutdown Mess, But It Can't Get The GOP Out

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Source: mediamatters.org --- Friday, October 04, 2013
Like a little kid counting down the days until Christmas, Fox News' Sean Hannity was giddy with anticipation in recent weeks and months . As the threat of a federal government shutdown drew closer, he casually dismissed any concern about its impact and welcomed its arrival.?? Hannity was just one of many voice joining the right-wing cacophony , as Obama's fiercest critics eagerly touted the shutdown, cheered the GOP's radical strategy, and vowed to support the obstructionism.? ("Hold the line," the talker recently urged .)? The shutdown was to be celebrated and Republicans who engineered it were commended for their accomplishment. Not everyone on Fox News agrees with the strategy. But the cable channel has certainly served as a generous source of cheerleading, as have lots of Tea Party-aligned media outlets. Dutifully praising the unprecedented move of tying a bill funding the government to the demand that a previously passed law (Obamacare) be defunded, the GOP Noise Machine eagerly rushed into battle on behalf of the party's shutdown wing, convinced that a major political victory was at hand. But it hasn't worked out that way. Dealt an incoherent hand by Republican activists in Congress who seem to jump back and forth between proudly defending the shutdown's continuation and demanding Obama and Democrats end it immediately , the party's press allies have been caught up in confused messages and jumbled, often contradictory , tal ...

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