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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Fox comes by the appellation "FAUX NEWS" honestly!

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COMMENTS:
*  Fox News should be called Fox Entertainment, since it's fiction.
*  Fox,,sly, cunning, and evasive.
*  Nothing newsworthy here. Fox is a propaganda machine for the right. Always was.
*  The fox viewers are looking for "news" that will reinforce their bigotry and fox feeds them for the profits.
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FOX Prefers Fabrication to Fact When It Comes to Muslims
By Richard Zombeck, January 16, 2015

What actually happens in this world is bad enough for most of us. For Fox News and its viewers, however, there seems to be a need to take it up a notch, add a little something and in some cases, completely fabricate events and situations to tweak and frighten the most gullible. If it a tragedy can be used for political advantage and to slam a group or individual, so much the better. The recent shooting in France is no exception.

Right out of the gate the right-wing press claimed that the first police officers to arrive on the scene were unarmed and on bicycles. They used that claim to illustrate how unsafe and unprotected liberal countries are. The whole bad-guy-with-a-gun and good-guy-with-a-gun argument. You would think that the Paris police are rolling around on bicycles with a baguette and a bottle of wine. They took full advantage of the cheese-eating-surrender-monkey view Americans have of the French. Of course they ran away. The French run away from everything.

An investigative reporter for Fox's DC affiliate, Emily Miller, said this on air to millions of Fox viewers who trust her: "So, gun-free zones like France, which unfortunately even the poor police aren't carrying guns, is just very attractive to somebody who is going to go in with a gun."

A news reporter claiming that the French police don't carry guns is absurd. Anyone having been to France will tell you that the French police are very well-armed -- in some cases better armed than American police.

[Major, major snippage: please go here to read the rest]
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