When Fox News Didn't Blame the (GOP) President for Beheadings

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When Fox News Didn't Blame the (GOP) President for Beheadings

by Eric Boehlert at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/when-fox-news-didnt-blame_b_5773824.html

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After terrorists kidnapped and beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, while releasing gruesome videos of the act, Fox News focused much of its ire on President Obama, portraying him as a source of troubling weakness.

"The president stuck his head in the sand, and now we've seen two Americans have lost their heads," insisted Fox analyst K.T. McFarland. Colleague Ralph Peters claimed of the president's foreign policy, "We have a president who has a real physiological problem: that he can't face responsibility and certainly not the responsibilities of his office," while Sean Hannity wondered if Obama's "radical indoctrination" had clouded his judgment.

On and on it goes, as the blame-America finger pointing takes up hour after hour of programming. The Washington Times' Charles Hurt on Wednesday wanted to know when Obama would stop acting like a community organizer and start hunting down the killers. Charles Krauthammer condemned Obama for not rising to the occasion, while former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Fox to claim world leaders see the president as "weak and ineffective" in the wake of the most recent beheading.

That last part is telling because in the spring of 2004, when Cheney was vice president and the misbegotten war he championed was raging in Iraq, two American citizens, Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, were also kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and were also beheaded for the world to see. But of course, Cheney didn't see that as a sign of President Bush's weakness and ineffectiveness, and neither did the White House's loyal band of professional defenders at Fox News.





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[randys1]

1. Fox hasnt been seized by the govt yet for treason?

Man, I often wonder what will it take for the American people to first wake up to the treason conducted by fox and republicans and teaparty and then demand their heads.

[underpants]

2. Nick Berg and Paul Johnson

Read this or something like it and it is a great point