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A group of Tea Partyers organized a three-day boycott of Fox News in protest of its coverage of Benghazi, tepid opposition immigration reform, and in general \u201cturning to the left\u201d since the election.<\/p>\n

David Freedlander of the\u00a0Daily Beast<\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n

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The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the network\u2019s regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website,\u00a0Benghazi-Truth<\/a>. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox News\u2019s complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as \u201cProe Graphique,\u201d and who other members of boycott described as someone who works \u201cin New York media.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cParticularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,\u201d Stan Hjerlied, one of the boycotters, told the Beast.\u00a0\u201cSo we are really losing our only conservative network.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more I research into Fox\u2013I saw that they\u00a0donate more to Democratic candidates than conservative or Republican candidates\u2013I was like holy cow! Maybe they are just trying to snatch our pockets. Maybe they are just talking the talk, because it sure doesn\u2019t look like they are walking the walk,\u201d said another boycotter,\u00a0Donnie Farner.<\/p>\n

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