Fox's Gibson: "golden opportunity" missed: If France had been selected...

[LynneSin]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507080002

GIBSON: By the way, just wanted to tell you people, we missed -- the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity today. If they had picked France, if they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?

How is this asshole still on the air. Newspeople should not be advocating crap like this. But then again it's FAUX news so I suspect this is just the norm.

:grr:

[Coventina]

1. Wow, just when you think they couldn't sink any lower!

:puke:

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Pure scum.

I shall use the parental controls on my TV when I get home to block that channel once and for all.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Yeah, blow up the city where all the tourists flock for genuine culture.

Are the Faux pundits trying to outdo one another in an attempt to take the heat off Hume? Is this their idea of circling the wagons, by making themselves even more offensive?

I really really really want France to wean itself from the U.S. market. Maybe they need to start selling their goods to China at a lower cost so they can make up the difference of selling less goods to the U.S. This is going too far.

edit to add more words, hey, I could go on and on about this nutcase

[justinsb]

4. It's absurd at any rate

Assuming this was Al Queda, which still may be a bad assumption, it likely had nothing to do with the Olympics. Al Queda did nothing and did not attempt to do anything in Athens. So far every one of their moves have been tactical, not random. I think part of the reason the US has lost the 'war on terror' is that people like this still assume that Bin Laden and his compatriots are stupid. They may be psychotic, but I've yet to see any indication that they are dumb.

[Miss Chybil]

5. Absolutely appalling. nt

[stepnw1f]

6. Jesus... These Right Wingers Are Sick

And imagine... they get upset when people draw parrallels between them and the Nazis.

[Mari333]

7. Scum. France did not participate in the illegal war in Iraq

so even if they had been picked for the Olympics, they would not have been bombed..the only reason London was bombed is because Bush and Blair are world terrorists and criminals..but the morons at Fox are too damned stupid to get it..

[marmar]

8. What an absolute scum-sucking beast

Pardon, mes amies francaises. Sadly, loudmouthed Nazi trash like this is overrepresented on the airwaves.

[Clark2008]

9. John Gibson is a freak

I think I'll write him and ask if he wants us to give the French back the Statue of Liberty - and then accuse him of being anti-American.

That should make him blow his stack.

[mwb970]

49. Get out of the way, then.

Something bad is sure to happen when that hair lets go.

[meganmonkey]

10. No fucking way....

I can't even believe people say shit like this on a 'News' channel.

That is so fucked up

x(

[GeekMonkey]

16. It's not a news channel, it's FOX

[Goldmund]

Fuckin' freaks

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

11. This is just so wrong and hateful.

Unbelievable. So he is applauding terrorism when it is used against the French...what a vile piece of sh*t.:grr:

[wicket]

12. I fucking hate these SOBs

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. O-M-G!!!!!! Now they're advocating terrorism?

What the hell is wrong with those people??? I thought they were concerned about stopping terrorism? I hate John Gibson. I am so glad I don't watch that network anymore. They suck!

I want to move to France!

[City Lights]

14. Frickin' a-hole prick!

The epitome of the ugly 'Murikan:

[Daphne08]

19. He looks like a preacher.

:eyes:

[Dulcinea]

23. It's a shame when cousins marry.

He looks dangerously inbred.

[im10ashus]

35. DAMN!

What a vile comment. And that PICTURE! Were his parents brother and sister. That looks like inbreeding at work.

[alarimer]

36. Indeed

He represents the very worst of the Ugly Americans. Despicable.

[AuntiBush]

47. What is it about all Rethug's "eyes?" So Sinister! All of them.

Each and everyone of them.

The eyes are the windows of the soul..." My God. What's that tell you about their souls, I ask? Shew.

[stevedeshazer]

66. I like this photo better

:)

[City Lights]

68. I'll see your distortion and raise ya one!

:evilgrin:

[stevedeshazer]

74. Woo-hoo!!

Distortion is the name of the game!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

75. my EEEEEYYYYEEEESSS!!!

warning next time, please.

[GeekMonkey]

15. what a redneck

[msrbly]

17. I'm all for 1st Amendment Rights

but if assholes this this guy can't say anything nice they should shut their dirty spit caves. Who in their right mind watches crap like this and really believes they are getting the news?

[newyawker99]

42. Hi msrbly!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[spindoctor]

18. It says more about the choir to which they preach. (N/T)

[DBoon]

20. Even Hitler had more respect for French culture than Fox

sad.

[Initech]

21. Wow, another Faux News idiot!

*does Chandler impression*

Really, could they BE any more selfish, greedy, idiotic, and downright assholeish than they are right now?

[geek tragedy]

22. Fox News is an abominable disgrace. Where is Wesley Clark's

voice to denounce these statements?

[dogday]

24. It is time to let Faux know this sh*t has to stop

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Please, please someone tell me this is a joke.

Please tell me NEWSCASTERS are not ON THE AIR saying that NO ONE WOULD CARE if a particular city was blown up?

Oh dear God. I know it's true. I don't watch that TV news shite, but I know it's something one of those assholes would say, but part of me just can't believe that things have gotten so bad.

My God, innocent people would die.......

and he's saying no one would care?

Well, guess what? *I* would care. I care about the loss of innocent life ANYWHERE.

[LynneSin]

28. It's Faux News - that should answer your questions

:cry:

[Supersedeas]

26. they fascists have their chickenhawk panties in a wadd

[KayLaw]

27. Who would care?

How about Rush Limbaugh who admitted he vacations in Paris and loves expensive French wines. ( Google Cigar Aficionado interview.)

What the hell is wrong with these scumbags

[gulliver]

29. But it's so funny! What a funny, funny joke! Why can't ...

... liberal comedians like Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and Robin Williams come up with funny, original stuff like that?

If you want to make an asshole laugh, you aren't going to do better than Gibson's funny, hip humor.

[global1]

30. Mount A Campaign To Have Him Apologize Or Be Fired.....

They brought Dick Durbin down on his knees to apologize for what was an correct observation - we should have Gibson's head for this one - either an on-air apology or fire his ass and black list him from the business.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

76. you're kidding right

ya see, when they say shit like this they get promotions.

[CottonBear]

31. First Kilmeade, then Hume and now Gibson spew evil and hate.

:grr: Faux news should fire them but they'll probably give them raises instead. The sheeple love to hear this kind of crap.

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Why do these sick CONservatives always advocate violence

for anyone who doesn't follow their deranged way of thinking? All these assholes want to do is kill, bomb and destroy. No wonder the World hates us, what with these sickos wanting to kill everyone on the planet, and then actually setting out to do so.

[Initech]

44. Probably because you cant spell the word "conservative" without "CON"

[kenny blankenship]

33. I know I'm not supposed to call them Nazis

But I can't see why on earth not to.

They speak just like Nazis and Fascists did.

A Joke From Salo: or the 120 days of Sodom by Pasolini

Guard 1: Hey how does a communist go when you push him out of airplane into the sea?
Guard 2: ?
Guard 1: SPLASH !!!

(both laugh)

This was an actual joke among the Fascists during Mussolini's rule, Pasolini worked it into the end of his film, Salo, a fictional story but the joke is non-fiction.

I have no trouble hearing this joke retold as light banter between FOX News personalities like Gibson or O'Reilley and their anchors and guests.

[Ganja Ninja]

34. If there wasn't a reason for boycotting FOX before there is now.

They have gone right off the deep end. There isn't a reporter/journalist that's worthy of sitting down with and talking to. They are really just total assholes.

[Jack Rabbit]

37. It's not funny

And I don't expect an apology from the privatized Pravda.

[warrens]

38. I just sent the thug an email

It basically said, you know you're insane, right?

[Taxloss]

39. I have now brought this scumbaggery to the attention of London:

http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/07/keeping_it_in_p.php

[Vladimir]

50. Nice one

what a knob, but then it is Fox news. The best argument one needs against the 1st Amendment... :P

[Bluebear]

52. kick

[KamaAina]

40. I don't believe I just read that

Can I rescind my Top Ten nomination of Brian "Terrorism is to Our Advantage" Kilmeade (from yesterday) and award it to this vicious creep, or better yet, to the entire Faux network (Brit Hume's got this particular bee under his rug, too; his reaction was that he wanted to go out and buy futures while they were low!)?

[Babel_17]

41. Amazing and revealing

This needs to be known. Nominated. I swiped this for posting in another forum.

[Generator]

43. Advocating murder and terrorism because one doesn't agree

with their politics. That sums up Fox news and the current administration. SEE I love these guys! They tell the truth. Life is only important if that life agrees with you, otherwise fuck them and let them die.

They'd blow up Paris and who cares? Man, that's funny because okay I'm going off now..the rednecks from..fill in Southern state here..never are going to go to Paris. WHO CARES? But Disneyland..oh boy that's sacred. That has more historical worth plus..an AMERICAN could die..oh how sad..only American life matters..and maybe the Brits IF they agree with us.

[Catherine Vincent]

45. What a shame!

How can he look at himself in the mirror?! And to think I defended this guy a while back for taking a job at Faux News. Sigh!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

77. he probably can't look himself in the mirror

and it has nothing to do with his conscience.

[AuntiBush]

46. Gibson, Hume - all of them at Faux leave one speechless...

I honestly feel sorry for their viewers, what few left they have. How do these people sleep at nights? Have they absolutely no conscious? I'll never understand people like this. Wait, they're not classified as "humans." No. Rather inhumane, and not part of the human race.

Sick. They should make any normal, decent or even halfway decent human being just sick.

[nashville_brook]

48. who'd miss PARIS? gee, why not just blow up the Sistine Chapel

draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

put wheels on it and ride the Sphinx to Las Vegas.

who'd miss 'em? just a bunch a wine-swilling humanities majors? holy cripes -- is there no sense of civilization? no sense of humanity? these people are beasts.

[Swamp Rat]

51. NAZI

[journalist3072]

53. One word: Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!

Al Franken played another clip on this show today. It was from the Fox News channel. The folks on there were getting all orgasmic about the bombing, like they were happy about it. They said it put terrorism back at the top of the agenda where it should be, and knocked off stuff like global warming and aid to Africa.

They were acting like global warming and aid to Africa had no business being on the G8's agenda. Imagine that!

[roguevalley]

54. Hume said the first thought on his mind was to buy stocks. They

all suck bigly.

[MisterP]

55. maybe when we conquer Paris the Resistance can take footage of him

stomping and loop it so it looks like he's doing a jig...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

56. If the Bush Administration had listened to French Intelligence before 9/11

who tried to warn them about Moussaoui, and if they'd paid attention to Coleen Rowley, maybe we wouldn't even be discussing this.

[really annoyed]

57. "Culture of Life"

Gee, whatever happened to that philosophy the right-wing likes to embrace? :sarcasm:

:puke: at Faux News

[sunnystarr]

58. What's scary is that this sentiment about France is only one

short step away from Liberals. They'd advocate blowing up Liberals and would say ... who cares! This is really frightening. I've already heard 2 callers on C-Span advocate it.

[Gay Green]

59. Gays and Liberals (esp. Jewish Liberals) Next

These people really ARE Nazi scum.

[Skip Intro]

60. The mouthpiece for the bush regime. And rush:

Rush Limbaugh, meanwhile, suggested that everyone should just get over it, implying that "40 people dead" just isn't a big deal:

That's, ah, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Very powerful, excellent. And it was such a great contrast to what we're seeing in our own media this morning with the hand-wringing I was speaking about and the "Oh, woe is us" and "Oh, what did we do to cause this?" and "Oh, does this mean we're going to get hit?" and "Oh ..." It's like I said -- 40 people dead, 150 seriously wounded, 1,000 wounded, out of over 1 million people in that transit tube. It's not a successful terrorist attack, folks.

Limbaugh also accused Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Democrats, and critics of the prisoner treatment at Abu Ghraib of "aiding and abetting" the terrorists, adding that Osama bin Laden "sounds like John Kerry":

When bin Laden talks about the "evils" of the United States and why it must be attacked -- it sounds like John Kerry in his 2004 presidential campaign. When whoever did this in London explains why they did it -- sounds like any liberal criticizing a successful capitalist country to me. So when you want to talk about, Sen. Boxer, the insurgents are winning the propaganda war, my question is, "Who's helping them? Who's assisting them? Who's going ape and bananas over Abu Ghraib and Gitmo? Who is aiding and abetting them? Who, who is it when they speak in this country -- the terrorists sit back and laugh themselves silly?" It's you, Sen. Boxer, and members of your party.

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assboil hero calls anyone who steps out of line terrorists. they're back.

[CAG]

83. Rush didn't do his talking points homework.. Livingstone was being

paraded around as a liberal bordering on communist (in their words) on an AM christian right program as I was flipping thru some channels this afternoon

[cire4]

61. This may very well be the worst thing to ever come from Faux

Faux has spewn alot of bullshit in its days, but advocating and supporting terrorism on-air is on a whole different level.

Gibson needs to either apologize or be fired. No exceptions...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

79. don't hold your breath.

nt

[readermostly]

62. This does not surprise me. Do you remember his MSNBC show during

the Monica situation? He was so smug, even when he was trying to be "impartial". (Yeah, right!) It was one big yell fest, and he was the head cheerleader. I've only caught a few minutes of his Fox rants, but I can see he is exactly where he belongs.

[WCGreen]

63. Doesn't that funny looking young man

know that Paris has been subjected to many terrorists attacks over the last 50 years or so....

Why that funny looking young man just can't learn a thing from history.....

I guess cause all them low paid teachers are liberals and they just can't teach.....

Oh well, the funny looking young man on the funny little program on that funny little cable news channel just has to remind himself that he has a certain amount of responsibility when he shouts out his funny little words in that funny little microphone....

Or maybe some other folks should remind the people who advertise on that funny little news channel that they don't appreciated it when funny little men start talking without considering what it is they are saying.....

Remember, there are more of us than there are of them.....

Only 2.2 million people watch that trash everyday. That's less than 1% of the US population........

WE OUT NUMBER THEM

[Theduckno2]

64. Just finished with Gwynne Dyers "Future Tense".

It seems that as things spiral downwards in Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror, the neocon right will bitterly try to scapegoat someone else (French, foreign infiltrators). They won't accept responsibiltiy for their actions and the consequences of their actions. I say all the more reason to bring our troops home (Brits too) and try to turn Iraq over to the UN.
P.S. To No Surrender and alarimer - He sure puts the 'Ugly' in the phrase 'Ugly American'. :)
The book is a great read!

[CAG]

65. Heres my email to Fox news with the media matters summary page linked...

______________________________________________
Real proud day to be associated with Fox "News," eh? Real nice quotes from "fair and balanced" hosts. To summarize the Fox message, it seems that one should think it is advantageous (Kilmeade) that innocent regular people - you know, not those arabs - (Marks) life should be shed because at least it will give us all the opportunity to be more rich (Hume)... its just too bad it was the Brits and not the French (Gibson).
______________________________________________

Also, caught a bit on Countdown where Olbermann named Hume the "worst person in the world" for the day thanks to his comments.

[Roland99]

69. Who's this Marks guy and what did he say?

[CAG]

70. Here's his quote....

From media matters:
_________________________________________________________________
Fox News contributing correspondent Simon Marks distinguished between Arabs and "regular" Londoners, in reporting on the scope of the attacks, as the weblog Daily Kos noted. From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 9 and 10 a.m. ET:

MARKS: "It is an area that has a very large Arab population. Surrounding that station, a large number of Middle Eastern restaurants. So, it's a further indication, if in fact these attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda-affiliated cells, that these people are, if necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of non-Arab people living in London."
__________________________________________________________________
I don't know who Marks is, but I would guess he would classify himself as one of the "regular" people.

[Roland99]

71. Too bad they're on cable...FCC should shut them down.

[brettdale]

82. The FCC cant do nothing?

Bummer. Although I'm sure the cable company that carries them and the advertisers would be interested in his remarks.

My email to John Gibson. (not a great letter , but I was too p*ssed off to think it out.

In regards to your comment, about no one would care if it was France.

Well people with friends and relatives in France would.

The french said Iraq had no WMD's, they were right.

The French caught their terrorists. E.T.A, we haven't caught ours.

Perhaps if the current administration had of gone after Bin Laden like
they went after Secular Saddam, this bombing would of not happen.

The hatred you spew over a country that dared stand up to the Bush
administration is repugnant.



VIVA LA FRANCE

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[Roland99]

73. Thanks...I think. I just put them all on my blog with apologies to London

[Roland99]

67. Varney, Kilmeade, Hume, and Gibson need a one-way ticket to Abu Ghraib!!

Fuck these pricks!!

[NMMNG]

72. Repulsive

I posted an outraged comment on the site, although I'm sure it will be of no consequence to them.

[ekelly]

78. Why isn't Scotty

publicly slapping Gibson and Faux for encouraging terrorism?

[brettdale]

80. Send this to the FCC

Send this to the FCC.

[brettdale]

81. who to write to

Is there anyone beside the FCC we can wrtie to complain about these repugent comments, anyone have a list of eamils from companies that advertise with Faux, Im sure they wont be happy.