{"id":20851,"date":"2014-10-04T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2014-10-04T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:24:40","slug":"fear-factor-fox-news-fabricating-terror-pure-and-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20851","title":{"rendered":"Fear Factor: Fox News Fabricating Terror, Pure And Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from their special programming highlighting the fake pandemic of Ebola<\/a>, Fox News returned to their fake fear mongering over rampant domestic terrorism. This morning on Forbes On Fox, the panel took a demented view of the Oklahoma murder case wherein a disgruntled former employee decapitated a former coworker. The theme of the segment was whether this crime was workplace violence or terrorism. However, that question was quickly dismissed in favor a blatant position that was summarized by the program’s namesake:<\/p>\n

Steve Forbes:<\/strong> This was a terrorist act, pure and simple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Having set the stage for a mostly one-sided discussion, the host, David Asman, dutifully agreed that all signs pointed to terrorism, ignoring the actual known facts.<\/p>\n

Asman:<\/strong> It’s tough enough even to get them to say the word terrorism. To head off a threat though, you’ve got to be willing to acknowledge it first. That’s part of what led to the growth of ISIS, isn’t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly. There would have been no ISIS at all if only people had said the word “terrorism”<\/em> more often. Or maybe they just needed to clap louder so that Tinkerbell would have survived to kick the terrorists’ butts.<\/p>\n

The only problem with these alarmist rants is that they are not in alignment with reality. First of all, Terrorists generally target victims either randomly or at a specific enemy, but these victims were the perpetrator’s former coworkers whom he knew personally and against whom he had grudges.<\/p>\n

Secondly, terrorists strive to create as much damage, and thus fear, as possible in order to send a message. They seek out highly populated targets where they can harm the most number of people. But this crime scene was sparsely populated, remote, and chosen only for its connection to the perpetrator.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, terrorists generally plan their missions in advance to have the greatest impact. This crime was spontaneous, occurring on the same day that the perp was fired, and directed at those he felt were responsible for his firing. He even used a weapon that was available at the scene, rather than acquiring or building something more broadly destructive.<\/p>\n

So contrary to the ranting by Fox News, and other panicky fear merchants, all signs actually point to workplace violence. Is it possible that the murderer was also influenced to decapitate his victim by his exposure to radical jihadists? Might he have wanted to falsely project that as his motivation? Sure, but that would only be a secondary component of the crime. From all of the actual evidence, the motivation was personal and the perp acted spontaneously out of rage resulting from his being fired. Had he been an actual terrorist he would not have timed his crime to coincide with his termination. He would not have confined his victims to those he knew and from whom he sought revenge.<\/p>\n

The purpose of Fox News passing judgment on this as “a terrorist act, pure and simple”<\/em> is that it fits squarely into their mission to raise the boiling point of hate and fear regardless of the facts. Fox needs people to be frantic and disoriented in order to effectively brainwash them with their phony horror stories. That makes it much easier to blame liberals for all of the world’s ills and argue that only the courageous billionaires, corporations, and defense contractors have our best interests at heart.<\/p>\n

If you buy into this you are a member of the Psycho-Chicken Little Society, and have willingly abandoned your common sense. Reality tells you that the doomsday scenarios that right-wingers preach are fiction. There is no epidemic of terrorism in America. There will always be crime, and there will likely be other attempted terrorist attacks, but to dawn combat helmets and take up defensive postures in backyard bunkers is the behavior of crackpots. With serious issues to face in this country, this is no time to let the nut cases rule our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from their special programming highlighting the fake pandemic of Ebola, Fox News returned to their fake fear mongering over rampant domestic terrorism. This morning on Forbes On Fox, the panel took a demented view of the Oklahoma murder case wherein a disgruntled former employee decapitated a former coworker. 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