With declarations of a conservative civil war being proclaimed this week, political combatants on the right are picking sides between Tea Party activists hungry for radical change within the GOP, and the Republican Establishment, which seeks to regain control of the party’s message and improve upon 2012’s election setbacks.
This week Karl Rove and his allies at the American Crossroads super PAC launched the “Conservative Victory Project,” a group that plans to support more traditional Republican candidates in an effort to end the streak of undisciplined Tea Party hopefuls who blew Republican-leaning races with controversial campaign comments. (Think: Todd Atkin.)
Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Eric Canton (R-Va) just launched an effort to rebrand brand the Republican Party and broaden its appeal by softening the harsh rhetoric and, theoretically, seeking common ground. That kind of bipartisan, bridge-building rhetoric is precisely what the Tea Party labels as conservative heresy.
The right-wing blowback, especially to the fight Rove so publicly picked, was immediate and unfiltered: Rush Limbaugh complained two mighty forces were now targeting the Tea Party: Democrats and Republicans, led by elites like Rove.
With shots now being fired, guess who’s stuck in the middle of the GOP’s fight? Fox News.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/07/as-gop-splits-whose-side-is-fox-news-on/192566
The Secular Jurist 
That is interesting. It reminds of the 2012 primaries. Right wing politicians are so used to crying “media bias!” that the likes of Rick Santorum were claiming Fox was biased against them!
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