On the anniversary of 9/11 Americans stopping to take time out to think about the country they live in and respecting each other in honor of the victims, in my opinion should be what this day in particular should be about. Certainly people of all political persuasions perished on that day. I cannot tell you how many times I have that the office of the President was to be respected, no matter what, and nothing could be more unpatriotic than to use 9/11 for political purposes.
Simply put, 9/11 was off limits for point scoring.
So as with the theme of my previous diary, I took special interest in Fox and its approach to bringing America together on this one day, when all partisan differences should be put aside in honor of the fallen.
And as a foreigner on September 11, this is what I saw.
On 9/11 Fox Nation had this page up.
As I described in a previous diary, Fox use all means of subliminal, colorful and association graphics so even without reading the words, people get a message from what they see. That message is intended to inflame passions, increase adrenalin and more and more often incite hatred of other Americans.
Here were the main photos and associated headlines as you would scroll down the Fox Nation page on September 11 2009.
We Will Never Forget
The first graphic very simple, Fox claiming the high ground, patriotism, association of sorrow, rememberance and respect.
Explosive Undercover ACORN Video!
Straight into the adrenalin raising media. An attack on ACORN which Fox have obviously planned their day to release to inflict the most political harm. Association will obviously be President Obama having worked there for some time. This condoning of hypothetical illegitimate behavior captured through entrapment media is intended to tar Obama with the same brush and being the day of 9/11, forever attach him to something disrespectful on what should have been a day of rememberance.
Obama calls Palin a Liar During Speech
One photo next to another and the word liar invoked.
Administration Moves to Downplay 9/11
Two issues here. Firstly the initial association is followed up on that Obama is completely disrespectful, doesn't care about this day, the fallen. The second is the photograph and the association is clear. You do the translation.
Is the Trigger Option a Trojan Horse for the Public Option-Gov't Run?
Easy enough to figure this one out. Obama in a photo with a Trojan horse, inferring he is telling a lie to get his way through the back door. It has been included in the same block of headlines as the previous incitement to hatred was that a black man was calling a white woman a liar, ensuring the connection is made that in fact it is Obama who is not being honest. ie. Not only is he disrespectful of 9/11, white women, he has been associated with ACORN a community group condoning criminal activities BUT he is not telling the truth himself.
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Unfortunately Fox wasn't turning off the hate on a day which should have been treated with some level of amnesty in honor of the fallen. The comments, headlines, conversations from these shows are in blockquotes.
Video embedding from youtube is only working sometimes, please watch the video here.
Bill O'Reilly Introduction Talking Points Memo 9/11/2009
Breakdown of Bill O'Reilly's show on 9-11.
The subliminal
Running intro with the title “Liberal Apathy” with twin towers footage in the background
The Patriotic used to for political point scoring
Remembering 9-11
The deligitimization/dehumanization of Liberals
A few Liberals are actively helping the terrorists. Why do the far left help Al Queada?
Those far left nuts. Insidious. Unbelievable. Despicable. Putting Americans in danger.
Some liberal Americans dont want to confront Iran.
Islamist fascism is still very dangerous – someone please tell the Liberal community.
Bill O'Reilly to Liberals You have no solution to stop Iran
The ACLU has used every single measure to help terrorists
The Proof
He interviews 2 guests for their reactions and says now we know the view from the left but in fact mostly just talks over them making many of the same conclusions above.
The full intro is here including the interview above.
OK at this point if you are watching without being critical, you should have built up an incredible outrage at Liberals as Bill O'Reilly has just constructed a complete dialog called 'remembering 9/11' which he uses to attack Liberals (the other team) make his viewers believe that they not only don't value national security, they are actively helping terrorists. That true patriots must have nothing but complete outrage for them. He brings some guests on and spits these talking points at them as though this is a legitimate interview without bias. There is no other reason for these guests on Fox except to allow the viewers to make a visual connection and see the faces of these so called nasty people he has just tried to paint as less than human. The entire segment dedicated to raising the amount of adrenalin in your system by invoking the emotion of outrage or uncontrolled anger.
What Fox News does next is even worse. There is a Fox News Extra segment which is always slotted into these shows immediately after a constructed outrage incitement session. So just to fully convince you that you are not human, you are Un-American if you don't buy into this faux outrage, a story comes on which always shows people doing great things. Patriotic things. Things you yourself could imagine doing in your daily life. In other words it is a psychological manipulation IN THE MIDDLE OF A TALK SHOW to subliminally make you feel good about yourself, human nature and the fact that you are watching this wonderful example of humanity in these segments. You have to really pay attention to when Fox plants these segments, as even I found the emotive element would lead me to simply relax and not pay attention when these segments come on.
Fox News Extra
Approximately 5 minute story on oil spill treated penguins and rehabilitation Emma Hurst, Sky News Alison Camarada
Second Run of Bill O'Reilly
5 minute story on a new mechanical knee for an Iraq veteran who'd lost both legs.
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Back to the Show and Bill O'Reilly brings on an agreeable guest to make you understand that he is not alone in his condemnation of Liberals. So that you see first hand the reinforcement by other people of Bills position. To make you really believe that these people are really bad. That it is not wrong to feel bad about hating your country men, because others do it too.
Geraldo – The far left vis a vis 9-11
And of course they have evidence of another crazy Liberal thereby proving the construct that all Liberals are bad
Charlie Sheen 9-11 calling for a truly independent
investigation.
Group slandering, peer group reinforcement
Geraldo – very cruel. Charlie is a teflon guy no matter what
he does with the drugs and the hookers nothing sticks. He has swallowed
the cool aid.
I Am sure Charlie is hurting the victims survivors. That the government
would use the destruction of the towers to create the pretext of going to
war in afghanistan.
Geraldo believes Sheen is crazy, has a trick gene or a screw
loose.
Next segment is another area Fox News has much expertise in. It is the practice of creating 'false equivalencies'
Pro-life Activist Jim Pouillon murdered according to O'Reilly sought out and because of a position he held that abortion is wrong.
He was shot by a drive by shooter, Bill O'Reilly claims this is equivalent
to the Tiller murder. Claims it wont get media play in this way.
Geraldo points out the killer also killed his boss from the gravel
pit.
Note the comment about the media not playing this the way Fox News wants them to. Thereby trying to prove, at least to the viewers, there is some sort of conspiratorial collusion in the mainstream media. And finally the proof that the presenters and Fox is protecting people as a criminal they targeted has been prevented from being release
State of Oklahoma refile charge on child rapist. All due to
Geraldo and Bill O to each other: "you did a great job"
"you did a great job."
So again - construct or build the outrage, direct it at Liberals, this time introduce a false equivalency and follow it up with an example where Bill and Geraldo were able to stop a criminal from being released. Makes you feel good.
The segment goes to advertisement with a set up for further deligitimization of the Obama Administration. A prelude to where you need to direct your outrage next.
Coming up – where's Bin Laden, how come the Obama administration can't get him?
More great human interest stories then follow to keep you believing this must all be true as these stories are wonderful, and could be just like your own
Fox News Extra
5 minutes Care medical emergency bracelets
Second run of Bill O
5 minute story on IVF process and interviews with mother etc.
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President Obama is committed to Afghanistan whilst Liberals
are not
Why can't Obama get Osama Bin Laden
The proof that they simply are not trying hard enough, that politicians are stopping capture of Bin Laden
Col David Hunt claims they cant get Osama as it is lack of political will
An advisor makes his point but is dismissed with a talking point from Bill
Dan Senor says more troops on ground are needed. Bill butts in with that is a long term strategy.
The Subliminal
Scrolling along the bottom screen endlessly is Joe Wilson receiving support and donations.
The final outrage before the break
Bill O How much money, how many lives do you want to spend in
a primitive country?
Fox Extra
Boston Tech industry booming - 21st Century technology with Genzyme Biotech company
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Body Language (no video) segment to destroy any effectiveness a prior interview Bill had with one of his guests. A guest who just happens to be a spokesperson for Barack Obama, Bill dehumanizes David Axelrod with the help of a very good looking body language expert.
Expert analysis of body language - Axelrod has a look of Irony. So he disagrees with you. Has contempt for you. Disdain for you Bill.
See Axelrod pull a face of disgust, a snarl. He is aggravated.
See his mouth straighten out as if to say to you Bill 'I don't think
so'
Second Video was of Van Jones and when he called President Bush a crack head
Expert - See flashes of anger from Van Jones. See he is acting. It is a basic performance to a crew who will react. He is an actor.
Now the last video, as the News Extra segments are intended to do, to calm the outrage with a benign story. In other words two of Obama's administration people have just been subjected to something only criminals are usually put under, examination of their body language, their presence itself maligned, but now its time to tone it down.
Expert on Erin Andrews some reporter and something about
photos in a hotel room says her interview shows uncertainty about whether
or not she is being truthful about whether or not she wants to be
interviewed.
In other words a puff piece after two hit pieces.
Ad break in here which showed local advertisements.
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Has some video taken at a rock concert of some Rapper called
Jay Z who says something like this:
"No more white Lies, my President is black"
This rapper is now attending some benefit to raise funds for a cause. Bill O tries to push the outrage button once again by saying he shouldn't. Goes on to work this guy into this fabricated outrage trying to show the whole hip-hop community must be equally bad.
Let me explain what this is about - No one is safe if they are a Liberal and say things even slightly supportive of the President even at a Rock Concert. In other words if you watch this as a Liberal what Bill O'Reilly is trying to do is show that if you ever go to any rally, concert, protest meeting, march and film or blog anything, Fox News, Big Brother will be watching and will put it on their show and Spin it completely out of context. This segment, like a lot of the previous segments was designed to make you fear speaking out because they will find it and spin it against you. It also creates the thought in the viewers minds who support Rupert Murdoch, an Australian (ex) relentless campaign to bring down Barack Obama's government, to be suspicious of any thing they hear from Liberals, at rock concerts and to have a camera ready to film subversive behavior. Make a spy out of every viewer.
Glenn Beck is now on Bill's show. Goes straight into completely outrageous, blanket accusations and guilt by association.
Claims that Acorn is a Corrupt organization. Says equally so then so must be the SEIU because they have offices in the same building. Holds up one hand then the other says this is ACORN, this is the SEIU, and Barack Obama has surrounded himself with them.
So the first bit only some people will agree with. What Beck does straight away then is construct an argument which because many people will agree with the part about the ACORN video showing people condoning doing bad things, give his claim that ACORN = SEIU = Barack Obama legitimacy.
Says he cannot understand why it only took 400 days to build the Empire state building and is ANGRY why they haven't yet built a building on the site of the twin towers.
Even I thought about that. Not necessarily the getting angry, but it does seem strange that after 8 years nothing has been built on the site.
So when Beck has you kind of thinking he has a legitimate point he immediately makes a connection which isn't rational, in order to make it seem rational. He always tells people who to blame.
It must be the systems fault. Politicians are corrupt. Its the corrupt power structure. All politicians are in bed with special interests
The fact that the channel MOST in bed with corporate interests carrying on like they are doing some community service here, is not lost on me.
The next advertisement break, immediately after Glenn Beck being a guest
on Bill O'Reilly's show, is one for the Tea Party Rallies to be held on
9-12.
This is followed up with a Fox News Extra
Racing cars - relationship between speed and safety. Shows the stopping
distance at different speeds when slamming on the brakes.
So Glenn Beck. Outrage over 2 organisations. Links them to Barack Obama.
Outrage over twin towers which some rational people could agree with. Claims the problem is therefore corrupt politicians. The outrage is not toned down before we are thrown to a commercial where the Tea Parties are first up. Make the connection anyone.
Next, to make people feel good again, is Racing cars (with safety the
message as Fox News 'cares' about your health).
Brilliant psychological manipulation if you ask me.
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Next Bill O'Reilly segment
Subliminal to make you think that Liberals are the ones who will employ dishonorable or any tactics in politics. This gives Fox the excuse they need to propgandize by claiming it is the other side using 9/11 for political purposes. Even though that video was rejected outright the smear will stick.
Worldwildlife Fund Advertisement commissioned from a Brazilian ad firm which shows many planes crashing into the twin towers.
Bill O Shows the ad
Note it is mentioned that the WWF rejected the ad. However the following words from Bill O.
Disgusting, Beneath Contempt, shows disregard for the
victims.
Now it must be noted here that the point was also clearly made that this advertisement was designed to bring to prominence the issue of Climate change. So the reason for showing it was not just to smear WWF, who Bill O says rejected it, but also any mention of climate change in advertising.
So to get you to agree with these sentiments if you are a Liberal watching
Bill O says this next.
About Joe Wilson saying "You Lie". Bill says when the
President is speaking in this format, you keep your mouth shut. That it was insulting. That Mr Wilson should respect the office of the President.
Do you see what Bill O did. He got viewers who disagree with almost the entire show to begin to think, well maybe he is not so crazy after all. Because every other Right wing presenter has completely supported what Joe Wilson did interrupting the Presidents Speech. But remember the previous segment was smearing the concept of climate disruption, the WWF and Liberals misuse of 9/11 as being beneath contempt.
Next segment is Dumbest thing of the week.
Says Howard Dean lied when he denied saying Republicans are undermining the country. Shows video of Dean saying something to this effect and then an ambush interview where some Fox guy asks something and Dean dismisses him saying he didn't say this.
Note the timing and the what this person is most recognized for, immediately after he has criticized Wilson, who yelled 'You Lie" at a speech on health care.
Bill reconciles his criticism at Joe Wilson here as he says he called Joe
Wilson and asked if Joe would say to the world Howard Dean - YOU
LIE
The show then breaks for an advertisement this time one for local areas.
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Final Segment Pinheads and Patriots
Patriot - Eva Longoria who is raising funds for kids
Pinhead - Some guy attacks a lady in an elevator and she uses Judo on him
and body slams the mugger
Patriot - Congressman Joe Wilson was right after all as Barack Obama was
not telling the truth
So after creating a sense of agreement immediately following his construct
that climate ads will all be somehow coming from the minds of dishonorable
people and calling Joe Wilson on his behavior to impress Liberal viewers,
Bill O'Reilly then says Joe Wilson was right after all.
This is the link to Fox interpretation of this show of 9-11.
http://www.billoreilly.com/...
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Before coming to the United States, on occasion I had watched Fox and Friends, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Greta and believed a slanted bias existed directed at the Liberal administration. However after visiting for
about a month whilst the health care debates took place, the only conclusion you can come to is that Rupert Murdoch has decided that he doesn't like Barack Obama's administration and is not concerned about the hate and outrage he is stirring up. Rather he is using that hate in the belief it will motivate people to work AGAINST their own interests and trick them into working FOR whatever Rupert Murdoch and his backers interests are.
Rupert Murdoch knows well the power of the media. In fact what I think he has done with the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity's shows is turn politics into the same as following a sports team.
If you think about the baseball, grid iron, basketball, football or other sports team you have been following since a kid, you would recognize within yourself a propensity for basic, blind loyalty.
Consider
- It is likely you follow them because one of your parents does. Either the same team to get along, or a competitor to rebel.
- You grew up watching them on TV with the game having moments of incredible excitement which raised the adrenalin with periods where things were just so, so
- It is a common interest for many of your friends to talk about and often people see themselves in the lives of other 'team supporters'
- Even when your team doesn't do well, you stick with them. Any one criticizing them is the enemy, or is working for the enemy.
- The umpires are 'maggots'. Thats right, although necessary they are the guys we love to hate. Your team doesn't do well, its easy to blame the umpire.
There are many more analogies I am sure.
IMO Murdoch's 'News' channel religiously follows this construct. The team they support, Fox News that is, makes sure people know they must go out of their way to prove they are true believers. There is a big team of like minded supporters as well which people see every night on the station, and the opposition are the Liberals which at every opportunity they will bring them on and body slam them, tackle them, rig the game to show them up.
The umpires or referees in politics are supposed to be other media, who are criticized because they don't buy into this one eyed supporters blind allegiance, do not present the stories in the way that Fox News does. Fox is also trying to make them change that by constantly berating them about it.
A Fox News show starts, the adrenalin kicks in and the adverts are the intermission or play breaks. But instead of beer ads you get stories any American will appreciate, Fox News Extras.
Repetition is the key and making sure it continues across all Fox shows important.
Continuously saying 'we are number one', 'we are America's greatest panel, news network, patriots', we are the most 'fair and balanced' creates the sense that you want to be watching, because you are watching the winner. The one who is telling you every few minutes that they are the only ones who will tell you the truth, they are the best.
Backing this up by criticizing the other media establishments as per above calling them the Liberal press or the crazy left loons creates a negative impression in your mind.
Rupert Murdoch understands very well, that you are only going to believe and continue to watch the people that validate and continually reinforce the reasons for your support. That make you always feel you are cheering for the team that stands for everything good the one who is always battling evil or the bad guy for you, the one who they tell you is winning.
He never lets you stop to think though -
Has this team ever improved or are things getting worse?
Or are they skipping out on practice, cheating at the game, losing and then telling everyone else it was someone elses fault?
That is until Glenn Beck of course. I will come to Beck in a future diary, as he is even worse than every other manipulation Murdoch uses, and if you dont already, you need to know why.
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Hannitys show on 9/11 was equally political and showed no class on the anniversary of this day.
Acorn entrapment prostitute video. Interviews the two people who went out to entrap the Acorn employees.
How much health care money was spent.
How ACORN already have a lawyer in Barack Obama.
For months Hannity has waged a war of misinformation on ACORN and continued incessantly to make the association of Barack Obama with them known. This is simply another guilt by association angle.
Fox News Extra – 5 minutes – Liz Clayman from Fox business network. Introduced by Colin McShay.
Mr Gusberg has computer chips in 500 million cameras. Zoran Chip.
Nice story on how successful this guy had made.
Ad showing add 9-11 timeline of terror.
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Prostitute video in Baltimore.
Tax advisor tells her the deductions. How to evade taxes.
Comes out of the playbook of Saul Alinsky.
Underage prostitution ring with my money. I don't understand where the money is going.
The corruption is deep set, it goes beyond voter fraud.
Shocked they were willing to aid and abet corrupt behaviour which wanted to harm children.
Fox News Extra Dr Manny
73 year old Hans weber heart check
Non-invasive catscan
Another Fox News special
Sunshine and vitamen D helping the body and heart health.
Dr John McCormick talking about the health of our teens and the babies.
We should encourage children and young adults getting exercise or maybe better food or vitamin D.
Interviews a teenager.
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Tea Party Express.
Interviews them and we are told the whole movement is completely spontaneous.
What is the big message? It's these are working stiff Americans being abused by their government and the government is calling them Nazis. Leave us alone get out of the way and let us bring the economy back.
Hannity – I'm sure the media will down play it but we'll straighten that out on Monday.
The hardworking organizers. The people who get up pay their taxes,
The people are tired of being kicked around.
They love their country and want to take their country back.
Free promotion for one side of politics on a channel which calls itself "Fair and Balanced"
Coming up more video of Cass Sunstein
Advert 5 minute Short piece on a new TV show
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In a mostly partisan vote Sunsteins was confirmed
Sunstein believes that animals should have the rights to a lawyer and can sue humans.
A horse is more rational than a baby.
The radical team of Obama.
Anne Coulter – This is mainstream liberal thinking. Said that they believe we should be killing disabled babies. With respect to Liberals: If you are godless, you have no morals.
This is mainstream liberal thinking said many many times- they think its OK to kill babies.
Joe Wilson – the greatest living American statesman.
Hannity then goes on to say that the president was wrong.
Coulter says if the Democrats are allowed to give standing ovations.
When he's lying by the way. Harry Reid didn't apologize when he called President Bush a liar.
I was at a tea party said Coulter
Goes out with a song called let freedom ring.
This is too much. Fox calls the other side partisan and follows it up, on the anniversary of 9/11 with ongoing attacks directed at Barack Obama which sink into incitement of hatred once again. Killing babies, I mean come on, where are the responsible adults?
News Extra
School tutoring on Maths
Story on Dubai and how it has become a great city attracting younger generation and giving fuel to their dreams.
Dubai's survival is vital.
There is tolerance, there is respect in Dubai.
Everyone has got something riding on Dubai's survival.
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Hannity Great American Panel
Julia Pasquetelli, Ed Gillespie, Brent Bozell
Acorn Video. Prostitutes, El Salvador,
Conservatives have been saying this about ACORN for a long time.
This is our taxpayer dollars at work and congress should investigate if they are not responsible.
George Bush was called every name in the book. Is this just feigned outrage?
President Obama contributes to a very partisan attitude.
He apologized and none of the democrats have ever apologized.
They booed George Bush in the chamber.
The president did lie in that speech.
On immigration, on medicare, on abortion, on medicare.
False equivalencies, equating Barack Obamas speech on HEALTH CARE and the reaction of the right Wing with the reaction of the "other team supporters" attacks on George Bush after he failed to prevent 9/11, took the whole world to war over made up Weapons of Mass Destruction, didn't catch the bad guy Osama Bin Laden, failed to react and save those people in New Orleans. These things are somehow equal in terms of the level condemnation they get?
Do we now live in a world where there are facts, and there are Fox 'made up' Facts?
Fox News Extra
Alec Greven talks about how to talk to Mums and how to talk to Dads.
Young ten – eleven year old writes a book and it is published.
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8 years ago George Bush said the world will hear us
Claims Obama admin Sending Gitmo prisoners off to tourist resorts
Says he fears a lull into a false sense of security
Sean Hannity defines the question and asks with all these horrible things happening which he just made into a melodrama, are liberals happy that is what is happening?
America is going back to a 9-11 mentality according to Sean Hannity
I think this adminstration is OK with this
Now we are going to go after CIA agents?
A career agent
What CIA agent will ever question another terrorist.
No FBI or CIA agent will ever question another terrorist.
The questions Bill O'Reilly and Hannity ask are catch 22. What happens in all these segments is the presenter has full control over the direction of the conversation. It is not a debate.
Whenever a Liberal guest is on the Fox presenters paint a picture, a hypothetical in most cases of horrible things that can happen, they then endeavour to associate it with something or someone they can call 'Liberal' and claim they are or will be somehow responsible, then ask the Liberals if these are the things they believe in.
If they agree that this scary, horrid hypothetical constructed story the presenter just conjured up is something they don't like, Hannity paints them as traitors to Liberals, if they don't agree and argue the pretext of his hypothetical, he simply talks over them.
Again psychological manipulation 101.
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Just to prove this is an International slander campaign, let me add this, the large front page spread from Rupert Murdochs Agricultural, farming newspaper, the Herald And Weekly Times from Australia.
And its not just me who can see what is going on.
Look, I think it's important to talk about black male violence, or at least as important as it is to talk about any other important social trend. I don't think we should be squeamish about discussing it in a responsible and fair-minded way, despite what the politically correct say. But good grief, Limbaugh is up to something wicked. He's plainly trying to rally white conservatives into thinking that now that we have a black president, blacks are rising up to attack white kids! Christ have mercy, what is wrong with these people?
I won't have anything to do with it, not even tangentially, which is why I took down the post. I can't see this as anything other than Limbaugh deliberately trying to whip up racial fear and loathing of the president. This goes far, far beyond tough criticism of Obama. Does that man Limbaugh have any idea what rough beast he's calling forth? [...]
It's undeniably true that black males, as a group, are disproportionately responsible for violent crimes today (and blacks are disproportionately victims, too). This is important to talk about. This means something. I hate the kind of political correctness that demands we pretend not to see what we see. But as far as I'm concerned, if the Limbaughs of the world are going to be doing this kind of thing, and trying to blame, with no logical grounds whatsoever, a black president for black-on-white violence, and if they're going to do this in an increasingly hysterical atmosphere of protest against that black president, I don't want to talk about these things at all. Now is not the time. With this kind of inflammatory rhetoric, they are quite simply tearing the country apart.
Link
Is this the playbook that on 9/11 Fox decided to operate from?
...must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
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Murdoch media has played along fielding guests and conspiracy theorists who claim that Obama was not born in America, that there is some long term secret plan to destroy the government, destroy the United States.
But what would be closer to the truth if there was any thing going on?
Who only became a US citizen in 1985?
Who has no fundamental allegiance to the United States having been a foreign citizen until age 54?
Who has a greater public platform which operates 24/7?
Don't any red blooded Americans think it strange that the News channel which is trying to destroy this Presidency as it has done before, is run by someone who is foreign born?
Throwing out these accusations would be laughable if it were not so serious.
In fact since 1996, when Fox News started, on both sides of the aisle, what has been happening to the respect which Americans had for the office of the President? Think about that.
Trivialization, marginalization come to mind?
And is Murdoch press pushing the opinion that the entire US customs department is somehow part of this so called 'birther' conspiracy?
'asked me if I was an American. I nodded and handed him my passport.'
Barack Obama "Dreams from my Father", Page 54, relating his recollection at a young age going through customs on his way back from overseas.
What do you need to get an international American passport which is checked vigorously?
As you can tell, by the time Sean Hannity's show came on, I lost a large part of my enthusiasm for seeking out the Youtube videos. Needless to say, there is no doubt in my mind that Fox News exists purely and simply right now with the intention of dividing Americans and tearing your country apart. It does not want to find common ground with other Americans, it wants people fighting each other.
The ridiculous constructs it creates, the talking points is uses, its interviewing techniques, graphics, adrenalin outrage followed by ordinary America stories, employing the methods that coaches and sports announcers use to stir up the crowd, and its downright hatred for your President who has been in power less than 8 months and only wants the country to heal, to pull together at a difficult time, is scary coming from a Television station which calls itself 'the Greatest American whatever'.
I guess it isn't so hard to understand though as the owner was Australian born and raised.