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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDISGUSTING: The Fox News Response To Obama’s Statement On Foley Murder By ISIS
President Obama gave a statement (video below) this afternoon on the barbaric murder of journalist Jim Foley who had been held in captivity by ISIS for two years. The statement was powerful and resolute, condemning ISIS as terrorists who brutalize Muslims, Christians, and other innocents in pursuit of an extremist agenda. Obama said in part
Today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of Jim Foley by the terrorist group, ISIL. [...]
Lets be clear about ISIL. They have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent, unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct women and children and subject them to torture and rape and slavery. They have murdered Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, by the thousands. They target Christians and religious minorities, driving them from their homes, murdering them when they can, for no other reason than they practice a different religion. [...]
We will be vigilant and we will be relentless. When people harm Americans, anywhere, we do whats necessary to see that justice is done.
Within seconds of the completion of the statement, Fox News broadcast responses from a couple of their regular contributors, Andrea Tantaros and Pete Hegseth. Their remarks were utterly repulsive, dismissive, and disrespectful to the President, the memory of Mr. Foley, his family, and the nation.
Tantaros, reaching back to a favorite of Foxs well worn anti-Obama themes, said Where is that Rose Garden press conference for Benghazi? (See update below) This remark is an affront to Foley whose sad fate had nothing to do with Benghazi. It was just an attempt by Tantaros to brazenly exploit Foleys tragedy in pursuit of her own noxious political goals. But it was also something that Fox News does routinely. They have tied everything from ObamaCare to missing Malaysian planes to Benghazi. They will bring up Benghazi in any circumstance no matter how absurdly unrelated. And in this case they overstepped the bounds of decency by taking advantage of a gruesome murder before even one day had passed. On top that, Tantaros was wrong on the substance of her vile remark because Obama actually did give a statement about Benghazi in the Rose Garden the day following the attack.
Hegseth is supposedly a veterans advocate who appears on Fox News to bash the Commander-in-Chief. His remark following Obamas statement was I wish hed put on a tie. Really? That was what he came away with after the President denounced a horrific act of terrorism against an American citizen? Hegseth is apparently more concerned about the Presidents attire than the fate of American victims or the state of our nations campaign against terrorism. He is so obsessed with finding fault with Obama that he ignored the tribute to Foley and the passionate promise to exact justice, in favor of acting as the spokesman for the Fox News Fashion Police.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=20272
msongs
(67,395 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)But, Benghazi!
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Properganda
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)Ferguson?
edbermac
(15,938 posts)Well that's grounds for impeachment, isn't it?
Assholes!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Because it has been determined there was not the stand down orders nor was it possible to get air strikes during the siege. I know they only listen to FOX but you would think after a while they may be able to read the truth in the check out lines.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)If there was no FOX News?
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)I just found one on AT&T called One America - nothing but Republican propaganda
They always have Newsmax TV too
Or even ABC-CBS-NBC on Sunday mornings