Saudi Royal Backs Imam and Fox News

[babsbunny]

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/saudi-royal-backs-imam-and-fox-news/

By ROBERT MACKEY

In an awkward moment on Fox News this week, a pundit suggested that a member of the Saudi royal family who has supported the bridge-building work of the imam behind a planned Muslim community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan “funds radical madrasas all over the world.” The awkwardness came from the fact — unmentioned by anyone on the Fox set — that the same Saudi, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, also happens to be the second-largest shareholder in News Corp., the parent company of the Fox News Channel.

During his appearance on Fox News on Monday, Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official, hinted darkly that Feisal Abdul Rauf — an imam who was first recruited to promote religious tolerance in the Middle East on behalf of the United States government by the Bush administration — had, in the past, received financial support from a Saudi foundation established by a man with supposed radical ties. Mr. Senor did not mention the prince’s name but said:

The Kingdom Foundation, so you know, is this Saudi organization, headed up by the guy who tried to give Rudy Giuliani $10 million after 9/11 that was sent back, funds radical madrasas all over the world.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Fox (R) fails to tell the truth about its Saudi roots...

Why do Republicons embrace media terrorism?

[orwell]

2. Why can't the Dems...

...hang this around the Cons necks the way the Cons hung Soros around theirs.

This is a far more nefarious connection - a rich, shadowy Muslim oil sheik.

Do they even have oppo research or a media strategy on the Democratic side?