Fox "News" subhuman scum: "And now we have what ... uh... some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama ... uh... Osama ... um... Obama ... well, both if we could [laughing]"
Wow. Just ... wow.
Jeff Feldman at HuffPo:
When we hear such "jokes" about assassinating a member of the Senate--a member of our government--we do not laugh, but instead wonder. We wonder what has happened to broadcast media in our country. We wonder to ourselves, to our families, and to our friends: How have we arrived at this point? How has our broadcast media so utterly lost its moral compass?Indeed.
The reason for a free press--for our free press--is not to degrade our political institutions, undermine our elections, and threaten our politicians, but to strengthen and sustain our deliberative democracy.
If FOX News or any other broadcast media outlet cannot live up to that standard, then they should shut off their lights, sell their equipment, and choose another line of work.
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How is it that FOX can mention and advocate ('lightly' perhaps) assassination of our national public figures on national TV and -- aside from well-written protest essays like this one -- nothing much happens, but let a high school student in some podunk town (like the one I grew up in) wear a T-shirt with Bush's picture in a rifle-scope a few years ago, and he gets a visit from the FBI?? Now I'm not saying that either of these deserves a visit from the FBI, but IF it supposedly has to happen, shouldn't there be some sense of proportionality? After all, which case could (if you believe the idea that suggestions alone influence people) influence the most people and do the most damage? Or is it a case where -- under the W regime -- the various federal/state law enforcement organizations become nothing more than personal advocacy arms of the 'unitary' Executive branch? Or is it just the chronic IOKIYAFR?
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