Lincoln showed Fox a message he was sending to Governor Pickens in South Carolina.
VOA: special.2009.08.06
Republicans are extraordinarily disciplined and on message all the time, and their activists on Fox and in the Tea Party are just as disciplined or more so.
It's almost as if the AP were following the script of pollster and Fox News contributor Frank Luntz, considered the foremost GOP expert on crafting the perfect conservative political message.