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New York Observer: For Fox Business, Big Government Is Enemy Number One (10/16/07) by Felix Gillette
A review of the first day of broadcasting at Fox Business Network finds about what you'd expect: "constantly stoking the threat of higher taxes and runaway spending."At one point, reporting from Washington, D.C., correspondent Adam Shapiro explained how federal earmarks to study shrimp and catfish showed that government spending has gotten out of hand.... Soon, the new network pulled out the big gun of economic conservatism: Grover Norquist....—the right-wing activist who once gleefully announced he’d like to get government down to a size where it could be drowned in a bathtub—explained to FBN viewers how the various Democratic presidential candidates were likely to threaten the livelihood of Americans.... In the months to come, look for Runaway Government to play a similar role on FBN to the one that Runaway Liberalism plays on the Fox News Channel.
"As if viewers might not have gotten the message" when editor Liz MacDonald quoted Ronald Reagan disparaging all government programs, "she added: 'Pat Buchanan said, "Like Thelma and Louise, Social Security and Medicare are heading right for that cliff, and taxpayers are in the back seat."' The implication: Fox will put you in front."
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