Steve In Ink: Words Have Consequences…Depending Who You Speak To At Fox News
While reporting on the latest hate-kill, this one by a certified white supremacist at Washington’s Holocaust Museum, Smith took after those who questioned Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano’s earlier report revealing increased possibility for right wing fanatical action; a warning that the Republican leaders and right wing talk show host, especially on Fox News, pressured her to apologize for because, as Rush Limbaugh said…
That, even though the word “conservative” was not in the report. And that, because the right felt there was nothing there to see.
“There are no Timothy’s McVeighs out there right now,” said former Focus on the Family head, Dr. James Dobson.
Or they pulled out the time-honored classic, “because they hate the troops.”
“I do believe that there are people within the Obama administration, on that bizarre Hollywood-Harvard access — axis — who really have a disdainful view of our troops,” said Fox News strategic analyst, Ralph Peters. To which O’Reilly responded, “No, I — listen, I understand the anger, because if you read the memo, it is unnecessary — that’s the word. This memo is unnecessary.
Even MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough laughed it off while saying, “Janet Napolitano is goin’ nuts.”
But trying to digest the horror that had just taken place at the Holocaust Museum, Shepard Smith wasn’t laughing.
“The right went absolutely bonkers on (the memo),” said Smith. “They were warning us for a reason. Not for something political or social. They saw signs and now it has begun… The email(s), to me, has become more and more frightening. It’s not a new thing. It’s been happening over the past few month. It’s been happening to a degree since the election”
He then read an email he said was a “representative sample of what we get here.”
“I cannot stand Hussein. He is a socialist, Marxist, who is at fast rate destroying this country.”“If you’re one who believers abortion is murder,” Smith continued, “at what point do you go out and kill one who performs abortions…. If you’re one who believes these type of things about the President of the United States - and I could read a hundred like this - I mean from today. People who are so amped up and so angry for reasons that are absolutely wrong, ridiculous, preposterous… hate that is not based in fact and it’s ginning itself up. But more and more people are taking the extra step and taking the gun out.”
Smith may be on to something. Jim David Adkisson walked into a Tennessee Unitarian Church last year and started shooting, killing two. He had written in his manifesto that Fox News contributor, Bernard Goldberg sparked his actions.
This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book (”100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”). I’d like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn’t get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickes**t liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It’s the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence.In Pittsburgh, cop killer Richard Poplawski, said he was fearful that his guns would be taken away and had posted a Fox News’ Glenn Beck video to a website where Beck advanced the conspiracy that the Obama administration was forming FEMA camps to confine citizens and taking away their guns.
“Hate that is not based in fact and it’s ginning itself up,” says Smith, referring to blogs feeding hate-speech. If Smith wanted to investigate one step further and find out where millions more are getting their factless hatred, he might have looked in the next cubicle or just checked out the rest of the Fox News schedule.
Steve
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I am a regular viewer of Fox News. I have been for many years now. I happen to be pro-life. I don’t own a gun, nor will I ever own a gun. I now consider myself a conservative, but in the past have voted for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. I tried the liberal route for a few years, but found it was basically against everything I valued, so I returned to my roots.
The reason I watch Fox News is that it IS fair and balanced. They have guests on from BOTH sides of an argument. “We report, you decide” is their mantra — and I do just that. It’s MY decision.
Is ESPN responsible for the riots out in LA? No. Were the rioters down on South Street Fox viewers or conservatives? I doubt it. They were idiot pinheads! As O’Reilly would say, “A pinhead is a pinhead.” O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Bernie Goldberg are no more responsible for pinhead reactions than ESPN is.
To set the record straight about Glenn Beck and the “concentration camps” — he DEBUNKED the theory. I know because I watched the program that day. He had been hounded by people asking about FEMA camps. He had his staff look into them. It took them four weeks to find the source of these so-called FEMA camp pictures. He had the editor of Popular Mechanics who had debunked the 911 conspiracy on to explain the pictures. The aerial pictures were of an actual concentration camp in North Korea. The long buildings were of sheds where trains are repaired. The watch towers were of fire towers out in the woods somewhere. In no way does Glenn “advance the conspiracy theory” of FEMA camps, but you continually accuse him of it. Get your story straight!
If you want to talk about hate, it exists on all sides, not just on the right. All you have to do is go on AOL or other Internet wbsites and read the letters on whatever topic comes up that might be controversial. Bush-haters, Palin-haters, anyone who isn’t for gay marriage-haters, pro-life-haters — yes, they are all out there as well. Conservatives have not cornered the market on hate.
People “feed where they are nourished.” Fox is the only channel that offers conservatives any type of moral support. The mainstream media and other cable stations (as well as the Inquirer, I might add)offer nothing to those who are concerned about the mounting debt that we have incurred these past months, to those who see abortion as this century’s moral equivalent of slavery and as a human rights issue, to those who still see marriage as between a man and a woman, to those who value traditional norms of behavior. We are roundly mocked as religious fanatics if we happen to go to church on Sunday or believe in God and try to live by the Ten Commandments . We must stand by and watch as our Constitutional rights are being diluted and/or altered, and then are called “racist” when we protest and say it’s not okay. Our politicians ignore our pleas to actually read bills before voting on them, and we are vilified for standing in the president’s way.
Maybe when the media starts to do their job again and my needs can be met, I’ll return to the mainstream, but until then, I’ll stay with Fox.
You can blame Fox news for Tiller’s murder as long as your willing to blame MSNBC, left wing bloggers and virtually every news organization in the country for the death of Private Long in Arkansas by a convert to Islam who was avenging what he called the murder of innocent Muslims. For years now we’ve been fed this line about American soldiers from the “objective” (what a laugh)press intentionaly killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you conveniently left out the fact that the murder suspect in the Tiller killing stated that he hated Fox news, Christians and everyone who wasn’t a Nazi but that would have put the lie to your whole point wouldn’t it Steve. There’s nothing that left loons like you won’t try to politicize. Your pathetic.
Far lefties like Young and Obama sure have thin skin.
They love to dish it out but can’t take it themselves.
Since the Homeland Security report smearing white Christians, veterans and other conservatives we have had four incidents of violence or attempted political violence.
Two of them were by black militants - the black Muslims in New York who were planning to bomb Jewish Synagogs and commercial airliners as well as the black man who murdered a US soldier in Little Rock - and two white men who need no introduction because the lib news media has talked about them constantly.
Liberals are just looking for any excuse they can to silence the voices of opposition to Obama and his agenda.
But America was founded on dissent. Without it we are no better than any 2-cent dictatorship.
And there have been far too many of those throughout history already.
According to the Pew Research Center the election coverage of Fox News was far more fair and balanced than any other far left networks.
http://www.journalism.org/node/13307
And I would guess Fox News is more balanced than the Philadelphia Enquirer and Steve Young also.