Saturday, October 03, 2009

Foxnews posts stupid, ludicrous, and paranoid pap

Once again Foxnews has posted a story that is paranoid drivel for who-knows-what purpose--the only use I can see for posting this kind of diarrhea is to keep Americans ignorant and scared. Are people actually afraid that bands of Somali nationalists are planning to come to the US to open a new front in their worldwide war against democracy and Christian values and yo mama? How about an alternative explanation of the news-- that Washington honchos are engaged in hyperbole in order to protect their massive Department of Homeland Security grants, and will say just about anything to keep the funds moving their way. Then, Foxnews, who's never grasped the idea of "nuance" listens to some pundit's "hypothetical" and reports their own "inevitable," mostly because they don't trust their audience to be able to discern the subtle difference. The Fox story poses a much higher security threat to US society than hordes of starving Somali teenage pirates in outboards. And their reporting is irresponsible as well, because it's dishonest and distracts people from the real threats that exist to our society and way of life. Listen up America! You're getting f****d over all right, but it ain't by Osama Bin Laden and his vicious lieutenants, it's by Rupert Murdoch and the rapacious and vicious bands of Capitalists he's distracting you from noticing. Foxnews is pointing you toward those crazy radical Somalis while the truck is barreling down on you from the other way. We don't need to worry about al-Shabaab, we need to worry about Bank of America. Wait and see.

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