BREAKING: Obama Does Something, Fox News Opposes It

This just in from our Washington bureau. The White House has announced that President Obama will be taking decisive action on a critical foreign and/or domestic policy matter effective immediately.

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The American people are paying close attention and we will be monitoring their reaction to this story as we indoctrinate them with the approved response. In the meantime, we have twenty or thirty Fox News contributors and Republican operatives standing by to renounce the President’s move as irresponsible, premature, overdue, and too costly, divisive, and impractical. Some analysts are already saying that it won’t work and is politically motivated.


That is pretty much the standard Fox News response to anything that President Obama has done for the past five years. And today is no exception. Shortly after the news broke that the administration had filed charges against several suspects in the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Fox went to work implementing the above protocol. One of the most entertaining, and farthest removed from reality, instances occurred (where else) on Fox & Friends.

Substitute host Clayton Morris asked Fox legal analyst (and Rupert Murdoch’s personal attorney) Peter Johnson, Jr. “What took so long?” Johnson bit into the leading question with a tirade of absurdity that began with his accusation that the filing was purely political.

Johnson: After a terroristic act, after an act of war in which four Americans were killed and others wounded, we’re gonna take this to the civil courts […] because there’s no will in this government today to bring people to task in a military sense. If we’re really engaged in a worldwide war on terror, which the White House doesn’t like to admit, then we’re gonna act in ways that are consistent with times of war.”

Johnson’s assertion that these charges will bring the suspects into a civil court illustrate just how dishonest he is from the start. He is a lawyer and knows very well that the charges filed are for criminal, not civil, violations. Johnson and Morris also belittled the filing of charges because they were not followed up with an arrest, even though they well know that the United States has no power to arrest foreigners in other countries. These charges are a preliminary measure taken so that if the suspects are apprehended by Libyan authorities, there is a pretext for requesting extradition.

But even more ridiculous is Johnson’s characterization that the Obama administration “has no will” to prosecute terrorists “in a military sense,” or that his actions are not “consistent with times of war.” After all, this is the President who orchestrated the killing of Osama Bin Laden and dozens of high-ranking Al Qaeda operatives. Johnson is aware of these facts, he just chooses to suppress them in order to disseminate his lies.

This is an all too predictable reaction from the Fox News team that is more fixated on disparaging the President than on delivering actual news. They regard their mission as misinforming their audience of weak-minded goons and muddying the political discourse. It’s something they are quite good at as long as they are dealing with gullible and incurious viewers. Fortunately for Fox, that is pretty much their key demographic.

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10 thoughts on “BREAKING: Obama Does Something, Fox News Opposes It

  1. No No No! You missed the memo. Obama did not order the strike on bin Laden. George Bush and Cheney did. See, because they have known for years where he was, and Cheney still has friends in the military, and THEY ordered the strike. No matter that that would be illegal (who is Cheney to worry about the Constitution at this point? What Constitution?) And that rise in the stock market? Again. All due to Bush’s monetary policies, which in turn have led to the 2 million jobs created since 2009. So, see, Obama is ONLY responsible for killing those 4 in Benghazi, for spying on Americans, and for the housing and banking crises that happened before he was elected. No matter, he’s black and proud and to blame.
    There. You really should read your Ailes’ talking points before posting these lies about Fox. Wink Wink.

    • Right, and don’t forget that good ole W kept us so safe! There were no terrorist attacks during his presidency! Just ask Fox & Fiends!!!

    • I believe the proper term is “reflexive” when discussing grammar.

      • yep. spellcheck strikes again!

        • What does spellcheck have to do with it? “reflective” and “reflexive” are both correctly spelled—they just happen to mean different things. A good workman does not blame his tools.

  2. What does grammar have to do with the facts..? I’m sure you Good Ole Folks can read between the lines, instead of doing what the GOP is infamous for.. Diversion Tactics! How’s that for grammar..?

    • Oops!! You see, I mean famous. But I’m sure you caught that..

  3. Oopsie!! You see, I meant famous.

  4. I have to wonder why the people responsible for this are still alive in the first place. I mean you praise Obama for his hunting down and killing Bin-Laden (this was in the works for a long time, and was down by intelligence workers, Obama only had to say “go ahead”), while at the same time saying that the government filed these charges for future extradition. Libbya is never going to give us these guys.

    We shouldn’t be involved in Libya anyway, but since we are there, how about we just let a damn seal team kill these guys already?

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