I agree with you that Wilders is getting a bum rap and conservatives everywhere need to come to his defense. In terms of new coverage, Fox is about ratings and fairness.
This story simply is not a ratings getter. Quite frankly, Americans are more concerned with what is going on here than elsewhere (no opinion offered if this is good or bad -- simply a stmt of fact). Furthermore, the healthcare reform and the crap going on under the supervision and direction of der Fuhrer is of major concern to Fox viewers.
Personally I am far more concerned about what is going on by our government and what it is doing to its people at the current moment. I support Wilders, but I feel like I am in a major fight for my own rights.
I agree with you in general mlocher, but I think that it is a shame that more attention isn’t paid here to what’s going on in the rest of the world. What happens in Europe affects the U.S. and vice-versa. The entire Western world has been infected with the same authoritarian, politically correct nonsense that allows for no contrary opinions. This is extremely dangerous to personal liberty. If it weren’t for the first amendment, the PC police would probably already be trying this in the U.S. The shutting down of free speech in Europe and the government take-over in the U.S. are all symptoms of the same Marxist disease in my opinion.
And besides, the most significant events in the Wilders trial happened earlier this year well before the health care bill was rammed down everyone’s throats. Fox could have covered both. After all, last year Fox did cover Wilders’ trial and short film, Fitna, a little bit. Beck and O’Reilly interviewed him then. However, the trial didn’t really get underway until this year—and now they’re ignoring it. Why the change?