Fox News has graduated from being just a Republican propaganda machine to something more diabolical. In whipping up hatred towards President Obama, Fox News host Glenn Beck has led the way by calling him a Nazi, a Communist, a Socialist, a Marxist, a Muslim, and a non-US Citizen. On Mar 23, 2010 he went so far as to suggest that the Obama administration was "coming after him" and may actually kill him. Fox News efforts to discredit Obama is fair game, but their efforts to demonize and destroy him is poisoning people’s minds; and Fox has more than a little to do with the fact that President Obama receives more than 30 death threats a day, an unprecedented number. Remember how in 1901 an anarchist assassinated President McKinley after being strongly influenced by the New York Journal’s non-stop hate campaign against McKinley. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201003230049
Now with the assassination attempt on Democratic House of Representative Gabrielle Giffords Jan 8th everyone is scrambling for answers, including Fox News; and Fox and Friends were quick to say that the Congresswoman should have had better security, but gave no hint of being culpable. The assassin, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, has connections to anti-government American Renaissance who are closely aligned with the white supremacist New Century Foundation, an anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic hate group (Giffords is Jewish).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/american-renaissance-jared-loughner_n_806472.html
Loughner’s “Myspace” page posted anti-government text and videos. They provide strong clues that he was a close follower of Fox News, and in particular Glenn Beck. For example, he was obsessed with a prophecy that predicts the world will end in 2012. Where did he get this wacky idea? In July 2010 Glenn Beck on Fox News plugged John Hagee's book, “Can America Survive? 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are the Terminal Generation.” And recently on Dec 14, 2010, Glenn Beck on Fox News talked with Joel Rosenberg about the end times coming.
In another Loughner video he made reference to revolution and told viewers: "You don't have to accept the federalist laws," claiming that the government was imposing "mind control and brainwash on the people." Did Glenn Beck put this idea into Loughner’s head? On March 5, 2010 Glenn Beck on Fox News did a special on “Indoctrination of Your Kids: An American Epidemic.” He said while you’re going about your day, your kids and grandkids were being brainwashed into little “progressives.” He said, “Add this to the Top 10 list of reasons to ditch your public school.” In one of Beck’s frequently topics, “big government takeovers committed by the brainwashing Leninist-liberal-socialist-fascist-Marxists,” he puts blame squarely on the democrats. These were powerful accusations that must have been the kickoff for Loughner to start his planning to get everyone’s attention. http://hef.org.nz/2010/glenn-beck-on-the-brainwashing-of-your-kids-in-public-school-youtube-15310
http://nyunews.com/opinion/2010/04/13/14surico
Another Loughner video called for a return to the gold standard, a common theme on Fox News. The parallels all fall into place.
Loughner targeted Representative Gabrielle Giffords because she voted for Obama Care, and then beat out Tea party favorite Jesse Kelly in Nov 2001. Living just down the street from Congresswoman Giffords, she became the obvious target for his plans. Here are some of the Fox News propaganda clips Loughner was sure to have seen as his anger slowly built to a point that he felt he was forced, in the name of God and country, to take action.
*Jun 2009. Glenn Beck on Fox News stated that Obama Care would dismantle the U.S. health care system and strengthening the power of the federal government.
* June - Sep 2009. During his campaign effort to unseat Giffords, Republican Tea Party challenger Jesse Kelly held fundraisers where he urged supporters to help remove Giffords from office by joining him to shoot a fully loaded M-16 rifle. Kelly is a former Marine who served in Iraq and was pictured on Fox News in military gear holding his automatic weapon. He held several M16 Shooting Events labeled, “Help Remove Gabrielle Giffords from Office,” and "Get On Target for Victory," all faithfully reported on Fox.
* Mar 2010. Giffords was a “target” on Sarah Palin’s list of politicians who needed to be taken down. As a consultant on Fox News she showed a map of the United States, with crosshair targets located over 20 districts whose representatives voted for Obama Care including Giffords. The caption said "Take Back the 20!" and, "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" If Loughner saw a target almost over his mother’s house, he must have gone berserk.
* Jan 7, 2011. On Friday night's edition of "The O'Reilly Factor," on Fox Glenn Beck said he felt that Obama Care was "destroying our country." For Loughner this must have been the final straw, because the very next morning he carried out the plan that Fox might have imbedded into his distorted little mind.
When Beck preaches a fraudulently anti-government insane theory, there will be always someone who believes in what he is saying; a person who feels he/she can right the world by doing something that has tragic consequences; and 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner did just that.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/9/934592/-Loughner-believed-in-tea-party-ideas
4 comments:
it is frustrating to hear conservatives claim liberals are just as "radical" when we do not wear guns to rallies, say "reload" against politicians, stomp on liberal faces, or now shoot politicians. The republicans will publically denounce actions like this however silently they embrace the hatred that drives action for their party. Conservatism is the party of "keep it the same" and decay.
ok first off, it is no way FOX news fault that some mentally unstable man decided to shoot a congresswoman. Secondly, THE MAN WAS LIBERAL! he was a fuggin democrat. Thirdly, this congresswoman is a strong supporter of gun rights and has carried a weapon openly in the past. This is absolutely ridiculous to take the freedom of the press and make the reason 6 people are dead and countless injured. I AM disgusted and appalled by the fact that instead of joining the nation in a time of mourning, the LIBERALS have decided to make it into a friggin political showdown. HOW ABOUT YOU GET A HEART.
didn't believe in US currency or want to pay taxes, believed the government is evil, mentally unstable, uses violence over words... sounds like a righty to me.
I am disgusted that CONSERVATIVES continue to irresponsibly use words to charge up their base but will never take responsibility for their influence. Leadership is understanding your influence... where have the good leaders of the Republican party gone? Where are the Ronald Regans the Abraham Lincolns? Is the best the Republican party has are Shock Jokes like Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh?
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