Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies

[nadinbrzezinski]

Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview.

During the cable channel's 2008 election coverage, in what she later called an attempt at humor, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta linked Osama bin Laden to Barack Obama as people who both should be assassinated:

And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could.

A week before Trotta's "joke," Republican primary candidate Mike Huckabee was apologizing for his own Obama assassination quip. Addressing a gathering of the National Rifle Association, Huckabee joked that a loud thud heard backstage during his address was Barack Obama diving to the floor to avoid gun shots. Months later, Huckabee was given his own Fox News show.

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[gateley]

1. You know, I was thinking that not so many years ago most of us wouldn't have

given a thought to crap like this -- including Palin's crosshairs on the target, because we KNEW people wouldn't take it seriously. Not to mention when we had genuine news organizations, they didn't snark, give opinions, LIE, rally people to protest.

What a crazy world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I have said for years that this talk was

rising to something very serious. I HOPE that Rush tones it down tomorrow, he is the leader after all. He don't... civil war is coming, as in a hot phase.

[gateley]

5. Rush won't tone it down, I bet he'll be blaming liberals for blaming this lone

shooter, that we're the ones trying to stir up unrest. Or something like that.

[Initech]

3. Didn't O'Reilly target George Tiller the same way?

[Kurovski]

4. "Killer Tiller", is what O'Rantly would say.