I think you have a point, FOX has been unusually indifferent with the whole amnesty aliens swarming the border thing. What’s going on with that? No Joe Arpiao commentary or anything. What’s going on, have they turned?
I noticed the big change in FoxNews almost immediately after the 2010 midterm elections. Before then, they were covering live tea-party events, they had more grassroots-oriented issues, they even had Greta down on the border discussing the invasion of illegals.
But by the beginning of 2011, it seemed like the GOP-establishment types totally took over... Karl Rove became omnipresent, the tea-party was dropped like a hot rock, Palin suddenly started getting really shabby treatment by all the talking-heads, and the whole border/amnesty issue disappeared entirely. FoxNews became totally “beltway” centric. I guessed it was all a sort of a deliberate paving-the-way for a Romney run.
All this frankly drove away this long-time viewer. FoxNews used to practically be the ‘default’ position on my tv-set, going back to its inception. Nowadays, I hardly ever watch the channel. Maybe 30-minutes per month, at most.