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Fox News host: ‘Punch’ Obama voters ‘in the face’
Posted by Joel Connelly, May 24, 2013
Fox News boss Roger Ailes is decrying what he alleges is the Obama administration’s “attempt to intimidate Fox News” and saying that administration explanations/excuses will not survive “the test of decency, nor the test of time.”
Ailes might talk to one of his own minions about intimidation.
Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, on her Thursday radio show, suggested that her listeners find Obama voters and “punch” them “in the face.”
The U.S. Justice Department has targeted Fox News reporter James Rosen in a leaks investigation and obtained access to his personal email and phone reports for five different lines into Fox News. The leak probe followed news that Justice had obtained months of phone records for seven reporters with The Associated Press.
The revelations have generated outrage among some Obama supporters, from The New York Times editorial page to bloggers at The Stranger.
Tantaros, however, chose to throw a broad-brush partisan tantrum.
“Let me tell you how people and journalists are being treated these days,” she declared. “They are being stalked. They are being spied on. In Missouri a news station fired an anchor who talked about the IRS shakedown. Yeah — fired. That is how corrupt the left is.”
Nor was she done. ”This is what’s happening to our press. This is Obama’s America. It’s like the Soviet Union. He said he would change the country. He said it . . . and a lot of people voted for him. And if you see any of those people today, do me a favor and punch them in the face.”
Tantaros is living, breathing evidence to support an Obama administration hope — namely that Republicans will overreach, as they did with the Clinton impeachment drive, with hyperbole, exaggeration, racy innuendo and outright untruths. Preaching to the choir can do that to you.
She should also look around for other examples of intimidation. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly once threatened to sic “Fox security” on a caller who vocally disagreed with him. BillO is famous for targeting a person for alleged sins (e.g. being an instrument of the “war on Christmas”) and bringing down an avalanche of obscene hate mail on the unlucky target.
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