Fox News Attacks The Tucson Memorial

It didn’t last 24 hours. The good feelings and hopes for unity that were universally expressed at the Tucson memorial for the victims of the shootings on January 8, were unceremoniously cast into a ditch by Fox News at their Fox Nation web site.

The featured headline on Fox Nation reads: Obama Distances Himself From Loons on the Left. The Fox Nationalists are apparently incapable of refraining from disparaging rhetoric for even a few hours. They are also incapable of noting the sick irony that their own insulting headline article began with a call for thoughtfulness and civility:

“President Barack Obama called on the nation to resist the temptation to assign blame for a shooting rampage here that may never fully be explained, but to emerge from the tragedy a more thoughtful, civil nation.”

At Fox they have emerged a more thoughtless, uncivil Fox Nation. The portrayal of the left as “loons” was an editorial invention of Fox. There was no such language in the article to which they linked. And their proclivity for animus was extended by posting five additional stories that were critical of the memorial, the left, or the President, even as most of the country was touched and inspired by the event and Obama’s speech.

They just can’t help themselves. They were born to be a repulsive purveyor of nasty propaganda, and they are living up to their mandate. Rupert Murdoch must be so proud.

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4 thoughts on “Fox News Attacks The Tucson Memorial

  1. I never expected them to change a thing. It’s what people do when they have no solutions to offer to any problems. They create non-troversies and use propaganda outlets like Pox Snooze and rw media to promote them.

  2. “It did not.”

    Those are the 3 words that President Obama inserted into his speech. Those words addressed the question about whether political incivility had anything to do with this shooting.

    “It did not.”

    It is now clear that MSNBC is the repulsive purveyor of nasty proganda. That entire clown brigade tried to claim either directly or tangentially that Palin and Beack and Limbaugh and the Tea Partiers had something to do with this evil act. That narrative has now collapsed. Completely and fully collapsed. It’s over for that network.

    • They did not. You are making the same mistake that most of the right-wing media has made. No one on MSNBC said that Palin or Beck, et al, either directly of indirectly were responsible for Loughner’s actions. They said that the violent rhetoric and imagery from the right created a hostile environment. Period.

  3. If the two factors involved here (Tucson shooting and “hostile enviroment”) had no relation to each other, then why did Olbermann and Krugman and the other clowns spit their comments out just hours after the shooting? MSNBC is utter crap. Period.

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