Conservative-correcting non-profit Media Matters for America wants you to "Drop Fox"—and they're launching their campaign from the bottom up. As in, the bottom of a subway tunnel.

A bevy of advertisements for the campaign against Fox News Channel hit stations across the Metro system last night. Picking up on the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally rhetoric, the ads proclaim that "Fox Keeps Fear Alive" and urge rally-goers to "Restore Sanity, Fight Fox." Media Matters' schtick is that fear-mongering Fox is "is not a news organization, it is a right-wing political operation."

The latest insertion into this weekend's frenzy is described as such:

"Each day, Fox News 'keeps fear alive' with a steady stream of false and misleading attacks on President Obama, progressive members of Congress, and policy initiatives like reforming health care, fixing the economy, and fighting climate change.

Fox hosts like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly play on the fears and prejudices of their audiences and help create a climate of uncertainty, paranoia, and hate. Network contributors like Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, and Newt Gingrich appear as political experts while trafficking in lies and misinformation."

Media Matters will, naturally, be present on the Mall on Saturday. They'll be armed with rally signs, lapel stickers, and t-shirts to gather signatures for the Drop Fox petition.

We don't necessarily know if this campaign is going to work—for one, most of the people coming to the rally probably hate Fox News with a passion already anyway—but hey, can't complain about anything that puts a little revenue in Metro's coffers without another fare increase!

Photo courtesy of Media Matters for America

Military politics, insular media rambling, and medical marijuana, after the jump.

• The Illinois State Senate passed a bill yesterday legalizing medical marijuana. Pot, along with gay marriage, is going to make this country a better place. I can feel it. (I actually don't have any more to say on this. Let's just bask in the THC glow for a bit.)
• Jon Soltz writes in the Stimulist that military men and women are moving left politically: "The trend gained momentum with President Obama and Hillary Clinton during the primaries, and it’s about to get fast-tracked with Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney taking control of Republican messaging, ideals, practices, and policies." This is a great chance to plug Babylon By Bus, a first-person account written by two U.S. employees of their time in Baghdad in 2003. Based on their book, and on accounts from imbedded reporters, I'd wager that the rank-and-file switched political allegiances long before the top brass decided it wouldn't kill their careers to do the right thing.
• In media land: Tim Cavanaugh, former editor of Suck.com and a contributing editor at Reason and reason.com, is now blogging regularly for the latter. This is good news for all human beings who can use an Internet, as Cavanaugh was a pioneer of snarky outgoing links, snarky essays, and snarky snark-snark. He's mellowed out in the years since, but is no less great a read. (Srsly, I'm not just schilling for a some-time employer). In somewhat less groundbreaking news, I just saw that Jake Tapper pissed off a whole army of progressive idiots by twittering, "Have MediaMatters or CAP said one critical word about POTUS support of "state secrets," or military commissions, or indefinite detention?" Ha. He's just asking, people!