Monday, April 21, 2014

Difference Between Lying Skunk and Lowdown Fox = Zero

FOX Positive Coverage of Criminal Cliven Bundy - Yes, Criminal


A few details on this from here:

Media Matters examined Fox News' weekday programming from 4 p.m. through 11 p.m. ET since it first started covering the Bundy-Cattle-BLM story in Nevada.

Fox News began agitating for a range war on April 9, sympathetically portraying Cliven Bundy as a folk hero based on the Nevada rancher's refusal for two decades to pay the required fees for grazing his cattle on public land.

While Nevada reporters have made clear that Bundy is “clearly wrong and breaking the law,” Fox has waged a PR campaign romanticizing Bundy and the armed militia groups that fled to his ranch and forced a standoff with federal agents who were executing a court order that allowed them to impound his cattle.

Fox Radio host Todd Starnes fanned the flames by implying that federal agents could be “strung up” for confiscating Bundy's cattle, regardless of a court order. Even after the Bureau of Land Management announced that it would return the cattle to Bundy, Sean Hannity asked Bundy whether he was worried that government agents might kill him.

Hannity has effectively turned his Fox News show into a public-relations firm for Bundy and the militias backing him, dedicating more than 1 1/2 hours of coverage since April 9 to effectively agitating for armed conflict with the federal government.

To add insult to injury, Bundy now calls Hannity a hero. Give me a frickin' break. I call this another WTF moment. 

If anyone or anything is undermining America, and under the protected cover of “freedom of the press,” it would have to be FOX and Rupert Murdoch looking the other way, or is he? What a great propaganda machine, that is if Fox wants to memorialize Herr Doktor Goebbels and his comparable work.

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