FOX "News" Invents Controversy Over CSI Episode

Last week's season premiere of the long running CSI: Crime Scene Investigation featured an extremist political group, full of anti-government types. They were against driver licenses, corporations and other things.  They were depicted as a nutty fringe group, and guest star (and inexplicable teen sensation) Justin Bieber was part of it.  The storyline hinged on a terrorist bombing at a Las Vegas policeman's funeral, and this fringe group was involved.

Now, it's funny that FOX "News" jumped to the conclusion that this was a slam of tea baggers.  The Tea Party was never referenced by name, and the beliefs expressed by the group didn't line up. In fact, the "expert" consulted here--while slamming CSI and Hollywood in general--ticked off a list of ways the group was different from the tea party.  As though there are no extremist political groups in existence aside from the Tea Party.  Still, I somehow knew this would be on FOX "News" when I watched the premiere.