{"id":3631,"date":"2011-01-13T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2011-01-13T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:13:22","slug":"fox-news-attacks-the-tucson-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3631","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Attacks The Tucson Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-obama-tucson.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The featured headline on Fox Nation reads: <strong>Obama Distances Himself From Loons on the Left.<\/strong> 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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At Fox they have emerged a more thoughtless, uncivil Fox Nation. The portrayal of the left as <em>&#8220;loons&#8221;<\/em> 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&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n<p>They just can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[183,527],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-Wz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5375,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5375","url_meta":{"origin":3631,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On Obama&#8217;s Stock Market Voodoo","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/9\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to believe that the Fox Nation web site is published by an organization that considers itself a news enterprise. Anyone who takes the site seriously is gravely in danger of becoming irreversibly idiotized. For example, this morning the Fox Nationalists posted this item declaring that \"Stocks Tumble Worldwide\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4867,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4867","url_meta":{"origin":3631,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On The Debt Ceiling","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/12\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Nation has posted another item that grossly misrepresents reality. Their featured story this morning concerns an interview that President Obama gave to CBS News. Notice the headline from the Reuters article to which the Fox Nationalists linked: Obama: Seniors could be hurt without debt deal. The article quotes Obama\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8002,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8002","url_meta":{"origin":3631,"position":2},"title":"A Disgusting New Low: Fox News Calls Obama A &#8216;Pimp&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an actual story from the Fox News web site, Fox Nation. The headline, \"Obama \"Pimp With The Limp\" on 9\/11,\" marks a new low for an alleged \"news\" organization that has already sunk far lower than any other news organization. The \"article\" is nothing more than the posting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2629,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2629","url_meta":{"origin":3631,"position":3},"title":"Dishonoring 9\/11: Fox Nation&#8217;s Calendar For Obama, Palin And Beck","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/7\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at the Fox Nation, where every news item is a right-wing attack piece, they have been alerted to the fact that President Obama will be spending September 11 at the Pentagon, one of the sites targeted by the terrorists ten years ago. But rather than publishing a story with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11263,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11263","url_meta":{"origin":3631,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Obama Terrorist Amnesty Myth","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/14\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"From nearly the beginning of Barack Obama's first campaign for the presidency, he had advocated shutting down the Constitutional cesspool that is Guantanamo Bay. The very concept of it violates legal principles that have been part of the American ethic for decades. Plus , Obama's predecessor, George W. 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Below is the headline for an article Fox Nation cribbed from the Washington Post's Romney flunky,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}