They're not even trying to pretend anymore. Fox 'News' is the public relations arm of the Republican party. In a stunning (even by their standards) display, they played a 60 minute campaign commercial promoting the GOP efforts in Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin. On Monday June 4, the day before the recall election, Neil Cavuto turned over his entire hour long Your World Fox programto Republican guests.
The first guest was Gov. Scott Walker who was interviewed for 12 solid minutes and kept repeating that his "reforms are working" despite all evidence to the contrary.
Other guests included Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Jim DeMint from South Carolina, and a Wisconsin business owner who is a Walker supporter and has ties to the GOP establishment.
Sen. Johnson and Sen. DeMint were interviewed separately. They both predicted Walker would win. They were extensively interviewed on the subject of the recall.
He then interviewed Michael Fredrich, CEO of MCM Composites whom he described as a small business owner. In reality Mr. Fredrich sits on the board of advisors of Koch-bankrolled Americans For Prosperity, and has testified in Congress in support of John Boehner's proposals. Cavuto made no mention of any of these ties to the GOP when interviewing him.
Watch Fredrich praise Walker's business tax plan as a long overdue glimmer of hope, moan about private workers having to pay public workers' salaries and say he'd move out if he had to have a union shop in his business, says President Obama has 'written off' the recall election and is therefore not showing up, and calls Madison a socialist city-state:
There was one lone guest favoring Tom Barrett - Jim Palmer, the executive director of the Wisconsin Professsional Policeman's Association. At the end of the program Cavuto said that he had invited Tom Barrett to be on the show.
Fox News (and the media in general) has already declared this a win for Walker. In this and other programming on Fox they have declared a recall election of a Republican governor a referendum on President Obama. You can practically see them rubbing their hands in glee in anticipation of Walker's billionaire-funded win. With this kind of partisan cheerleading (very unbecoming for a 'news' station), along with the vast amounts of corporate money supporting Walker, this has morphed into a David vs. Goliath situation for Tom Barrett. It will be quite an accomplishment if he wins.