All Fox News needs to do is: (1) Only play Republicans reading their Frank Lutz script that the bill is a big taypayer bailout and (2) only show those Democrats or liberals who are willing to complain about the bill in return for 15 seconds of fame. Viola! You have bi-partisan opposition to the bill! Heck, why not raise the spectre of death panels and forfeiture of assets. Just make shit up. Finally, ignore or interrupt any Democrat who dares to contradict these lies.
The average Fox viewer will be blissfully ignorant of the truth. The only reality they will see is that which is outlined in Frank Lutz's approved version of reality. Thus, such viewers can be your ground troops in the next demonstration on Washington D.C., as average Americans are deluded into thinking that regulation of Wall Street is attack on Freedom!
You think I kid, but here is Fox News with its up is down news coverage:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201004200014
Fox & Friends misrepresents financial reform bill
Fox & Friends and guest Glenn Beck falsely suggested that a $50 billion liquidation fund in Sen. Chris Dodd's financial regulation reform bill would "save" failing financial institutions and "keep them in business." In fact, the fund, which would be paid for by financial institutions, would be used to dismantle a failing firm and "is anything but a bailout," in the words of Republican Sen. Bob Corker.
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): And part of the reform is -- and it's over a thousand pages, I understand, as they try to work this out -- part of the reform --
BECK: The Constitution was four -- was four pages
KILMEADE: Right.
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Way too simple, Glenn.
KILMEADE: And they had to keep dipping back for ink, and the paper was so brittle --
BECK: I know.
KILMEADE: But let me ask you, Glenn, just not to throw me off track - Steve does that professionally --
BECK: I'm sorry. ADD?
KILMEADE: They're going to be able to decide, OK, that company is too big, let's break it down. And we're going to use this $50 billion to finance it.
BECK: Are you out of your mind?
KILMEADE: And it's just the executive branch that will be able to do it as it exists right now.
BECK: Here's the way we break up big, huge companies. We let them fail. All of these big, huge companies that we're afraid of -- we just kept them in business, and we're still keeping them in business. They would have broken up because of failure, and the mom-and-pop banks, the small banks, the state banks, would have survived. Instead, our government propped up the big ones and are killing the small ones.
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Do you think the guy down on the corner, if he goes belly-up, the government is going to step in and save him?
BECK: No.
DOOCY: Absolutely not.
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PolitiFact.com: "he bill makes it clear that the money must be used to liquidate -- not keep alive -- failing firms." In an analysis of Republican claims that the legislation establishes a $50 billion fund for future bailouts, PolitiFact called the claim "false" and stated, "The legislative language is pretty clear that the money must be used to dissolve -- meaning completely shut down -- failing firms." PolitiFact further stated, "The fund cannot be used to keep faltering institutions alive."