Fox Nation says "yes" again to "biased media," claiming "Taliban Copies Democrat Playbook"
SUMMARY: The Fox Nation featured the headline, "Taliban Copies Democrat Playbook," but the New York Times article to which it linked -- which described insurgency tactics such as roadside bombs -- made no mention of the Democratic Party.
An April 17 headline posted on TheFoxNation.com -- Fox News' new and allegedly bias-free website -- claimed that the "Taliban Copies Democrat Playbook." The headline linked to an April 16 New York Times article headlined, "Taliban Exploit Class Rifts in Pakistan." In fact, the Times article -- which described insurgency tactics such as roadside bombs -- made no mention of the Democratic Party.
In promoting The Fox Nation, Fox News has run advertisements telling viewers that "[i]t's time to say 'no' to biased media and 'yes' to fair play and free speech." Media Matters for America has documented numerous examples that contradict this claim.
From the Times article:
The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants, according to government officials and analysts here.
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Then, in late 2007, Shujaat Ali Khan, the richest of the landowners, his brothers and his son, Jamal Nasir, the mayor of Swat, became targets.
After Shujaat Ali Khan, a senior politician in the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, narrowly missed being killed by a roadside bomb, he fled to London. A brother, Fateh Ali Mohammed, a former senator, left, too, and now lives in Islamabad. Mr. Nasir also fled.
Later, the Taliban published a "most wanted" list of 43 prominent names, said Muhammad Sher Khan, a landlord who is a politician with the Pakistan Peoples Party, and whose name was on the list. All those named were ordered to present themselves to the Taliban courts or risk being killed, he said. "When you know that they will hang and kill you, how will you dare go back there?" Mr. Khan, hiding in Punjab, said in a telephone interview. "Being on the list meant 'Don't come back to Swat.' "
From The Fox Nation:
"exploits class rifts"
Oh, I get it... the old "class warfare" canard.
By shamelessly promoting the Teabaggers, who were all either rich or clueless about their own tax rates, wasn't FOX also engaging in a little "class warfare"?
Even saying the word "class" means you let the terrorist win.
Took a short look at the coment section. wingnuts galore of course, but a number of opposing views were present as well.
Thats interesting because they won't post me, nor receive my e-mails@ Fox, they come back access denied and I use the addreses provided here and they are devoid of foul language and are merely asking why ?
I didn't try myself. We're probably both on a list somewhere under, Don't let these MFs on.
hahaha I'am hip!
Yeah, we wouldn't have gotten that minimum wage increase if it wasn't for all of those improvised explosives.
Yeah I know, when did Dems start using bombs?
How about Spain "caving"? I love how they make it sound like the Spaniards are saying, "we must stop this, O'Reilly has mentioned a boycott."
Sorry Seeryer. I wrote my post but didn't hit the send button for some time after I wrote it. I see that you said the same thing.
Both of you forgot to mention the editorial in this morning's Madrid Business Review, which proclaims that O'Reilly's threat of boycott was indeed the determining factor in the decision to call off prosecutions.
Those poor Spaniards. Not only do they have al Qaeda and ETA to fear, now they have to deal with the wrath of O'Reilly.
The flaunt of falafel.
No problem. I am glad CF picked up on it as well. I love it. Spain "caved" becasue of Billo. Forget Obamaor the state department, send O'Reilly to get the French, Germans and Spanish to stimulate their economies and send combat troops to Afghanistan. "World Caves, O'Reilly gets every F-ing thing USA wants" FOXNATION.com
actually, spain didn't cave. they are pressing ahead with their own trial of bush's war crimes.
Am I the only one who's noticed the picture on the bottom left that states the "fact" that another of Bill O'Reilly's boycotts has worked? First France knuckles under and now Spain has caved under the threat of the mighty giant head.
Thanks for lookin' out fer us Bill.
Does bill-o take credit for boycotting Cuba? The cigar boycott hasn't worked very well, however...
Real constructive thread here. Bash fox, no bash o'reailly, wait hannity, oh darn got to get beck in there to, oops forgort cavuto, oh yeah fox and friends also cannot be forgotten either, wow.
I do not remember you liberals bashing beck when he was at HLN? Why is that? Easy to refute left wingers...............................................hahahahahahaha
Your a real clown! It's real revealing how you characterize combating misinformation as bashing! But anyway here you go : http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200812120005
Then you weren't paying attention.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808060009
http://mediamatters.org/items/200802150011
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803200009
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801230006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801100009
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801090005
http://mediamatters.org/items/200710240001
http://mediamatters.org/items/200710220003
http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010003
Do you need anymore?
This is Toooooooooo easy ! It's like anbriated,james,Djnate/PC are not even trying anymore!?
I guess waking up to a new reality every single day of your life and reading todays talking points can be pretty soothing.
Wouldn't a life of no responsibilities or regrets be terrific? Do we need to have our brains completely washed to become a Republican or can we go if for a quick rinse?
I assume a lobotomy would be involved.
And in either Beck saying he is Howard Beale, or some other media source naming him so, completely and egregiously ignores the point of the character and film. Typical
We know you are drunk. You don't have to get it away with your name.
Do you EVER know what you are talking about? Do you think that silly Dr Evil manical laughter thing makes you more credible? Are you an infant?
Beck was "bashed" when he was on HLN. Debate solved. Regarding Fox News, they're playbook is from the GOP. Just ask any Fox News office employee-off News Corporation property.
Bill really has no power. If he did, he would still be on the radio. He's just a mouthpiece for the GOP publicity machine called Fox News. The man behind the Iron Bill Curtain is bossmn Roger Ailes Roger's been in the political circles for decades and knows the movers and shakers well.
He's more powerful than Bill. Besides, who has the power to fire and hire, and sign Fox employees' paychecks?
It is readily apparant that Fox's headline refers to the class warfare drummed up by the Taliban in Pakistan and the same class warfare drummed up the Democratic Party. You can see variations of the same playbook when the Democrats say they want to "tax the rich".
Of course the Democrats aren't setting off roadside bombs, but they just passively encourage lawlessness by Democrat-front-groups such as Acorn, the latest outrage advocating illegal squatting in foreclosed homes.
This playbook is used daily as the Democrats play the "class" card day after day, openly admitting they want to "spread the wealth around".
This picture previously posted by juliajayne:
AA, YOU have lost your freaking mind!
Yes.
Wait until the Taleban gets wind of those tea parties!!!! I imagine they'll throw opium poppies at politicians.
Better yet, maybe they'll get a playbook from Fox news and R. Murdock and create a 24 hour news network that is fair, follows sharia law and balanced.
You need to change your name to Gump, everyday for you is "stupid is as stupid does". Acorn? That was so last November but you repugs just can't get over the ass whooping you got. Repugs are done, repugs have no future in this country. Deal with it.
Unfortunately people like AA believe that America can only be a conservative, christian nation. No matter how poorly our nation has performed under republican rule, it will always be liberals that weaken are country and give aid and confort to the enemy. Therefore an organization like Acorn, no matter how marginal, poses a serious threat to our way of life.
In their mind, suffering makes you stronger. It also makes you more reliant on the church. Ergo, incompetant government whenever the GOP is in power. It pleases their base to no end thinking you will be asking the church for help.
Clutching thier religion and guns.....when things get tough or they lose an election.
And concerning ACORN, the Cons are playing a race card because most people think it is a black organization. Our local racists prove that everyday by mentioning them. (Today, Hannity was ranting about Bill ayres and if he "hung out" with him, he'd be investingated..HUNG OUT...funny)
Ahhh... You had me at ACORN! I hadn't heard about them in a while. Got to keep that fire stoked.
Petulant, broadbrushing, dishonest, partisan bitterness. I don't know how else to sum that up. What a miserable disposition you've entrenched yourself in.
So the Dems wanting a small tax increase on those most able to pay it, the very ones who got the lions share of the tax CUTS the last thirty years is class warfare but lowering taxes while paying for it by cutting programs that benfit the lower classes ISNT tax warfare? There is no amount of butt kissing to power that is beneath you is there?
Oh my goodness. I missed where you LIED about ACORN AGAIN. I guess you just repeat whatever brainwashing Rush gives you no matter how ridiculous and no matter how many times its been debunked dont you? You really dont care in the LEAST whether or not what you say is true. You are completely willing to just lie to slander anyone to the left of Attilla the Hun. You have embarassed yourself. Have you no shame?
The Republicans were certainly exploiting a class rift by whipping up fear and loathing of "elites".
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The NYT article, “Taliban Exploit Class Rifts to Gain Ground in Pakistan” brilliantly points out that, “The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants, according to government officials and analysts here.”
Well, --- “Surprise, surprise” (as Gomer Pyle used to say) ---- this radical division between poor working class and ruling-elite (who control the economy and the government) seems to have produced the fertile soil for ‘civil unrest’ and even ‘revolution’. What a surprise.
But this is not a surprise to our own CIA, which warns in its Country Case Book that a GINI Coefficient of Income INEQUALITY greater than 0.45 is an accurate predictor of just such ‘civil unrest’ and potential revolt by the masses against the ruling-elite of any country so divided and so perverted in government being used as an arm of the entrenched elite.
But the real surprise here is not that the Taliban can leverage such non-democratic, and phony government control of the working class to delay ‘land reform’ (or ‘capital reform’), and allow a quietly hidden ruling-elite to rule the country of Pakistan as if it is a virtual ‘landed financial Empire’, but rather the surprise that the perversely skewed GINI index (which the CIA knows is a barometer of such guileful anti-democracy) is worse in the US than in Pakistan!
To review, the GINI Coefficient of Income INEQUALITY is, by our own CIA’s judgment the best indicator of ‘civil unrest’ and potential revolt, and warns that anything higher than 0.45 in inequality is in the danger zone for revolution..
The GINI index runs from 0 to 1, where 0 represents exact income equality, and 1 represents all national income being in the hands of only one person. (Obviously, neither extreme can exist).
The GINI index of all modern and functioning post-WWII and post-Empire real democracies (social democracies) in Europe and Japan is quite egalitarian and fair, between 0.23 and 0.31.
Pakistan’s GINI index of income inequality is 0.30 (although the landed elite’s land holding distort this index downward, and a GINI of wealth, rather than income, would be higher).
Zimbabwe’s GINI index of income inequality is 0.53, and thus, as predicted, is in a revolution by an abused ‘working class’ against an entrenched ruling-elite – Mugabe.
The U.S. GINI index of income inequality is 0.49 (and rising fast), which places America in the ranks of what used to be called South American ‘banana republics’, and precisely within what are now actual African kleptocracy Empires, and Middle East royal family oil plutocracies.
The accurate NYT report further describes a situation in Pakistan where the Taliban are leveraging explosive class divisions and control of government power by the landed ruling-elite to radicalize the working class population and overturn this “feudal” state.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/world/asia/17pstan.html?hp
“The Taliban’s ability to exploit class divisions adds a new dimension to the insurgency and is raising alarm about the risks to Pakistan, which remains largely feudal.”
But if we change the description of the ruling-elite from, “landed” elite to “Banking and Hedge Fund bandits, corporate CEO’s, and elite media moguls”, and change the description of the government from a thinly veiled “militarist Pakistan phony democracy” to a well disguised “ruling-elite ‘corporate financial Empire’ hiding behind the façade of a sophisticated two-party, ‘Vichy’ sham of democracy”, and change the description of Taliban radicalization to ‘tea party’ radicalization, then quite possibly the shoe fits a virtual global Empire headquartered right here in ‘River City’.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine