{"id":20356,"date":"2014-08-28T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2015-08-28T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T23:35:21","slug":"isis-envy-fox-news-makes-every-enemy-of-america-the-worst-enemy-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20356","title":{"rendered":"ISIS ENVY: Fox News Makes Every Enemy Of America The Worst Enemy Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much time to notice that whenever America faces a new threat, it is immediately elevated to the most loathsome and horrifying threat that we have ever faced. The media, and especially the fear mongers at Fox News, work feverishly to instill the deepest sense of doom imaginable. That&#8217;s why Iraq was was said to be hoarding weapons of mass destruction that they never had. It&#8217;s why we were frantically warned against letting the nonexistent smoking gun become a mushroom cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Today the enemy is ISIS. And, make no mistake, they are not your average, friendly, cornershop terrorists. But neither are they superhuman demons from another world who wield magical powers that we cannot resist. Nevertheless, the media is determined to create an army of monsters who will shortly be on our doorsteps wagging their tongues and tails at our virgin daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart illustrated (video below) the absurdity of this cartoon characterization of these villains with a segment that contained clips from numerous news programs (mostly Fox) whose anchors were dripping with hysteria. They uttered the most cringe-worthy dread they could muster including that ISIS is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most feared terrorists in the world&#8230;never seen anything like this&#8230;this is Al Qaeda times two&#8230;ISIS is pure evil&#8230;ISIS is like a cancer&#8230;looks like they&#8217;re unstoppable&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s response to this parade of panic was simple yet profound: <em>&#8220;You know it is **** like this that makes you almost regret us destabilizing the region in the first place.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among the abominations awaiting us is the allegation that ISIS has amassed great wealth and that <em>&#8220;they learned how to self finance.&#8221;<\/em> Resident Fox News alarmist K.T. MacFarland told Greta Van Susteren that <em>&#8220;They&#8217;re thought to have roughly two billion in assets and cash,&#8221;<\/em> and that makes them <em>&#8220;not only the best-equipped military,&#8221;<\/em> but <em>&#8220;it makes them the richest.&#8221;<\/em> MacFarland then declared that <em>&#8220;Their goal is to bring the fight to America.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the record, there have been many abhorrent adversaries that America has had the misfortune to encounter. Among them the Nazis with their Final Solution, the Japanese and their Kamikazes, and our own national brothers in a civil war that is still the bloodiest conflict per capita in our history. And lest we forget the terrorist contenders that ISIS seems to have superseded, Al Qaeda. They were not exactly novices at the terror game. And even though Fox News, and other conservative Chicken Littles, have crowned ISIS the new leader in brutality and wealth with their two billion dollar nest egg, Osama Bin Laden <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/story?id=79634\" target=\"_blank\">had even more<\/a>, courtesy of America&#8217;s Super Patriot, Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the 1980s, bin Laden left his comfortable Saudi home for Afghanistan to participate in the Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the invading forces of the Soviet Union \u2014 a cause that, ironically, the United States funded, pouring $3 billion into the Afghan resistance via the CIA.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/GOP\/reagan-osama.jpg\" alt=\"Ronald Reagan \/ Osama Bin Laden\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>None of the above is meant to trivialize the very real dangers posed by ISIS, but it is important to remember that, despite their inhumane activities, they are as human as everyone else. They are not omnipotent, and they do not have capabilities greater than we have faced before. We defeated the Nazis who had the the strength and wealth of a nation behind them. They were also brutal and unbelievably savage, but they succumbed.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, in concert with our allies, can defeat ISIS, and we can do it with our sanity in tact and without resorting to delusions of beastly foes from the depths of Hades. Of course for some of us, that will mean not watching any more Fox News, who spend half their time spinning ghastly fables, and the other half whining that our current leaders are inept and worse, are aligned with the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a heap of anti-patriotic fervor to tell our enemies around the world that we are led by an incompetent whom they can easily outmaneuver. But that&#8217;s precisely what Republicans and right-wing media pundits are doing. Talk about emboldening the enemy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>News Corpse Presents: The ALL NEW 2nd volume of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:5aee2c34-e08c-4f86-a1e5-fd1d9c48c73e\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much time to notice that whenever America faces a new threat, it is immediately elevated to the most loathsome and horrifying threat that we have ever faced. The media, and especially the fear mongers at Fox News, work feverishly to instill the deepest sense of doom imaginable. That&#8217;s why Iraq was was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"ISIS ENVY: Fox News Makes Every Enemy Of America The Worst Enemy Ever","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[132,33,1146],"class_list":["post-20356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-al-qaeda","tag-fox-news","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/reagan-osama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5ik","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20365,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20365","url_meta":{"origin":20356,"position":0},"title":"(CR)ISIS Strategy: President Obama vs. Republicans And Fox News Pundits","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/29\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Much is being made of an off-hand sentence fragment taken from President Obama's press conference yesterday. 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