Check out FNC's Obama, um, "coverage"

Happy Sunday morning - I thought I'd share a sage video clip to start off the day. It's a pretty good montage of the sewage Fox News has been pushing about Barack Obama, and it's only February 2007, folks. In this clip, we get such Earth-shattering events as the bogus and thoroughly debunked Madrassa story, Obama's cigarette habit, and photos of Obama in a bathing suit. Obama in a bathing suit is newsworthy?!? Christ, I didn't know Britney Spears is running for president!

Without question, media "coverage" of the candidates can and will get a whole lot worse before 2008, which only makes me relish the fight and challenges ahead for all of us.

I'm getting that 2004 feeling all over again, and it gives me goosebumps. For me, '04 was an incredibly empowering year, (At left, attending a John Kerry Love Park rally) and I put my activities where my mouth was, spending lots of time at phone banks, rallies, going door-to-door and spending the last seven days before the election working full time for the Kerry campaign in Bucks County, Pa. It was bittersweet, but I'd do it all again, and I plan to during the '08 presidential election. (Although I doubt I'll be able to take a week off from work, wherever I'm working or wherever we're living, and by then I hope it's sunny Southern California. Maybe a personal day or two and some weekend work, and of course, blogging! ;o)

Anyway, I found the video above from a Website called Fox Attacks. The site and the clip above really are worth 10 minutes of your time. These are the same people who brought us OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. If you haven't seen that movie yet, I strongly urge you to do so; when you rip the Fair and Balanced scab of Fox News, you uncover a lot of puss. (To see the trailer for OUTFOXED, scroll down the right side of my home page until you get to movie trailers - take a look.)

Anyway, I love the video above, and I love what the people at Fox Attacks are doing. These are the kinds of sites I'm working on visiting and writing about - sites that urge and help you do something, instead of just blabbering on and on and whining about the current state of affairs. (And I'm guilty of more than a little of that.)

On Fox Attacks, you can sign a petition, watch videos like the one above (and others), and take action against advertisers who insist on advertising on Fox Noise Channel. I don't know about the effectiveness of some of this stuff, but I know it's better than just complaining.

It's empowering.