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The Fox Nation runs photo of rifle pointed in same direction as photo of Obama's head

May 04, 2009 3:09 pm ET by Media Matters staff

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    • Author by mr. l (May 04, 2009 3:17 pm ET)
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      just waiting for all the yahoos who are gonna tell us this is nothing at all...
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    • Author by mk3872 (May 04, 2009 3:30 pm ET)
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      Gee, is there enough race-baiting on that home page?

      Obama next to Jackson headlines about dropping an atomic bomb on wall street and the NAACP.

      Good grief. Bunch of yahoos, indeed.
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    • Author by Victor Colorado (May 04, 2009 3:34 pm ET)
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      Revenge for not letting Fox News ask Pres. Obama a question last week?
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (May 04, 2009 4:19 pm ET)
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      The power of subliminal suggestion is dangerous when applied to politics involving our president. I don't mind pictures of soft drinks and popcorn being flashed on the screens at drive-in theaters to get you to buy stuff, but this is at a level that frightens me for the safety of our president. Some yahoos in this country might take this as a direction to take, and there is precedent for this.
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    • Author by MickD (May 04, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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      I hate to go to this again but imagine if Huffington or Moveon had done something similar with GWB. It would have run on Fox (and subsequent all the copycatters) for weeks.
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      • Author by thejbomb65 (May 05, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
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        ah but here is the difference.........neither huffington post or moveon would dare to do such a thing
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    • Author by union (May 04, 2009 4:47 pm ET)
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      I can't believe they think this is okay.
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      • Author by Victor Colorado (May 04, 2009 5:25 pm ET)
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        Fox News hates America. Its reporters have openly asked if Obama is a terrorist.
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    • Author by mjh (May 04, 2009 5:13 pm ET)
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      Heck, this ain't nothin'. In May of last year, the Roswell
      {GA} Beacon had then-candidate Obama in its crosshairs . . . literally:


      [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Celynthia/ObamaCrosshairs.jpg]
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    • Author by roninkannushi1711 (May 04, 2009 5:16 pm ET)
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      Come-on. Mediamatters.org must have cropped V.P. Cheney holding the rifle, to save space. Wait a minute... The caption under Pres. Obama says he dropped an atomic bomb? Does that mean we have less crooks on Wall Street? I get it. Fox Nation is mad because Pres. Obama wants to help our country. Pres. Bush will be on parade against this treasonous act. Terrorism, I tell you, terrorism. Or maybe...

      We all know what it means. They will deny it. Good. I see where the populace is trending. Thank you conservatives! Keep digging that hole, in the middle of the ocean.
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (May 04, 2009 5:16 pm ET)
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      Well, you know of someone gets an idea from this picture and acts on it, it isn't their fault...Just like it wasn't whomever's(I can't recall at the moment) fault when that yahoo down in Alabama made up a hit list based on one of their rants. Oh no, this is freedom of speech and the press and not meant to be taken seriously...right, and if you believe that, I have a bridge I'd like to show you for a very low asking price.
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      • Author by thejbomb65 (May 05, 2009 1:44 pm ET)
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        just like the guy in tenn. who shot up a church full of people as replacements for bernard goldberg's 100 people screwing up america
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    • Author by harley (May 04, 2009 7:18 pm ET)
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      MMFA is just "taking Fox out of context". Jeeez.

      /snark.
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (May 04, 2009 8:27 pm ET)
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      This is an obvious tactic called conditioning. Anyone involved in marketing, advertising, psychology, or mass communications will recognize it immediately -- subtly making people more likely to act a certain way or be accepting of a particular thought or act.

      Someone needs to step in and put a stop to this before something bad happens.
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    • Author by FNC Liberal (May 05, 2009 1:22 am ET)
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      They knew what they were doing. Can't wait for the feds to step in and investigate bossman Ailes. The people behind Fox News is a dangerous group.
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    • Author by FNC Liberal (May 05, 2009 1:24 am ET)
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      Send this screen shot to Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service. Let the bosses at Fox sweat.
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    • Author by Thorgrim (May 05, 2009 12:07 pm ET)
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      :)
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      • Author by thejbomb65 (May 05, 2009 1:45 pm ET)
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        what are you smiling at?

        what in the world do you have to smile about?
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    • Author by dobos (May 05, 2009 2:01 pm ET)
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      Fox News is by far the most hate-based, extream right wing propaganda spewing vomit media sorce their is. any one who watches Foxvomit News for well " The NEWS!" is insane. as absure as FoX News is their is NO Excuse for a GUN pointing at President OBAMA. this is careless and irresponcabul, an insane act of stupidy.
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