{"id":8316,"date":"2012-10-28T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2012-10-28T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:54:51","slug":"fox-nations-phony-outrage-somebody-think-of-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8316","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation&#8217;s Phony Outrage: Somebody Think Of The Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploiting children for partisan political purposes is something with which Fox News is well acquainted. They frequently try to corral kids into political controversies for the benefit of a conservative agenda. Sometimes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7662\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t work out so well<\/a> for them. But they soldier on with overtly biased reporting that exhibits a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6198\" target=\"_blank\">rampant hypocrisy<\/a>. Here is the story they have been flogging this weekend:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/FoxNation\/foxnation-children-singing.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation - Children Singing\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>What the Fox Nationalists find so outrageous is that a group of patriotic kids who are concerned about their country would dare to express themselves in a manner that indicts the right-wing extremism that imperils their future. The video was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurechildrenproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Future Children Project<\/a>, and it is an admirable display of the sort of civic participation that should be encouraged in our society. Take a look at the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fwlW4lx6TTo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a travesty! Young people with knowledge, awareness and an opinion. The conservative martinets of virtue think this must be stopped. Along with Fox, Noel Sheppard of the uber-rightist NewsBusters, posted a comically hyperbolic critique of this video, comparing it to the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Daisy Ad&#8221;<\/a> produced by President Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s campaign nearly fifty years ago. That ad connected the election of Barry Goldwater with a visual of a nuclear bomb exploding. See&#8230;the two videos are exactly the same. Sheppard went completely off the deep end in his analysis saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein &#038; Partners has just released a pro-Obama commercial eerily reminscent of Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s controversial Daisy ad featuring children singing about a variety of horrors including an America &#8211; supposedly under President Romney &#8211; where &#8216;sick people just die&#8217; and &#8216;oil fills the sea.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But more importantly, it&#8217;s one thing to write such disgusting lyrics. It&#8217;s quite another to get children to sing them. If the folks at this agency possess such a thing, they should be ashamed of themselves for involving youngsters in this project. Or do they believe like Goebbels did that it&#8217;s okay to involve children in spreading propaganda?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So according to Sheppard, this video of children singing is not only analogous to a nuclear holocaust, but also to Hitler&#8217;s Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Coming from someone who works for NewsBusters, that&#8217;s pretty darned ironic.<\/p>\n<p>To top it off, no one at Fox is cognizant of their hypocrisy in that they had no problem with kids singing an anti-Obama song. When a group of kids decided to protest Michelle Obama&#8217;s school lunch program that advocated for healthier food and providing for underprivileged students, they produced a Glee-like video complaining that the new standards left them unsatisfied.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/FoxNation\/foxnation-students-hungry.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation - We Are Hungry\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t agree with the content, the production is really quite good and I commend the students for their involvement. <a href=\"We Are Hungry: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=2IB7NDUSBOo\" target=\"_blank\">The video<\/a> expresses the feelings of these kids, and that&#8217;s a good thing. The problem is that the hypocrites at Fox News, NewsBusters and elsewhere in the conservative world are so myopic that they only see value in children when they can be exploited to advance right-wing themes. Kids who have a different opinion are <em>&#8220;outrageous&#8221;<\/em> little Hitlers and should shut the hell up. That&#8217;s the pattern of thought that produces a robotic, incurious, ignorant society. And it&#8217;s also a pretty good description of the Fox News audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploiting children for partisan political purposes is something with which Fox News is well acquainted. They frequently try to corral kids into political controversies for the benefit of a conservative agenda. Sometimes that doesn&#8217;t work out so well for them. But they soldier on with overtly biased reporting that exhibits a rampant hypocrisy. 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