Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies

[groovedaddy]

(This is a re-post of a November 10, 2010 piece from Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR))


Bill O'Reilly's "joke" in November about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview.

During the cable channel's 2008 election coverage, in what she later called an attempt at humor, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta linked Osama bin Laden to Barack Obama as people who both should be assassinated:
"And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could."

A week before Trotta's "joke," Republican primary candidate Mike Huckabee was apologizing for his own Obama assassination quip. Addressing a gathering of the National Rifle Association, Huckabee joked that a loud thud heard backstage during his address was Barack Obama diving to the floor to avoid gun shots. Months later, Huckabee was given his own Fox News show.

With its biggest new star, Glenn Beck, Fox News hired a host well-known for on-air death fantasies--for instance, chattering about killing filmmaker Michael Moore with his bare hands and hoping out loud that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) would burn to death. In a Fox News skit in September 2009, Beck portrayed himself poisoning Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.alternet.org/story/149496/fox_news%3A_the_no._1_name_in_murder_fantasies

[Democrats_win]

1. These guys are being paid millions to make irresponsible statements: meritocracy?

Most employers would fire someone for saying things like these but Fox pays them. How back wards is Fox?

[fasttense]

2. People who claim Sarah and Fox have no responsibility for the shooting spree in Tuscon.

seem to think commercial ads have no influence on people's behavior.

Just like those commercials make many of us purchase products, the content of corporate controlled media is just as influential on our behavior. With the constant dehumanization of liberals and the repetition of violent imagery and opinions, corporations set up Loughner, just like they set us up to buy their toothpaste.

Sarah, Glenn, Rush and Fox are their tools of mass destruction.

[groovedaddy]

3. There words ARE terroristic, plain and simple. I know people who are affraid to say what they

really think because you never know if some nutcase is lurking near by. Same with putting a bumpersticker on your car.

[theoldman]

4. "Someone should take that guy out and shoot him".

I have heard this statement made in jest many times. An example would be when men talk about a guy who cheats on his wife and beats his children.

[Blacksheep214]

5. There is a big difference

between a single reference which we have grown up with and a daily drumbeat of violent rhetoric.

Notice that the right can't pin these statements on the same person but they need to collect one from many different people. Unlike the right and FauxPac people who repeat this crap on a regular basis.

That my friends is the BIG difference!