If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful, vigilante-style rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points to spin away the consequences of the right-wing madness they're so eager to incite.
They need a better line of defense because the one they trotted out in the wake of the right-wing assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was wholly unconvincing.
It was just as feeble as the defense Fox News' Glenn Beck tried to employ in May to distance himself from the accused right-wing cop killer in Pittsburgh who seemed to mimic Beck's language about how President Obama was coming to take away everyone's guns.
The Fox News crew is going to need better talking points because I fear the violence -- the bouts of right-wing domestic terrorism -- are likely to continue. As long as Fox News and the Noise Machine refuse to back off the incendiary language that they're actively mainstreaming, the political violence, visible just months into Obama's historic first term, may have only begun.
Read the full Media Matters column here.
A boycott of certain programs on Fox is one way--or send your complaints to the FCC. Let's get something done.
Here's their info:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Complaints
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
The completed complaint form (obtained from FCC website) may be faxed toll-free to: 1-866-418-0232. Be sure to include all required information to prevent delay in the processing of your complaint.
You may email your completed complaint form and supporting documents to fccinfo@fcc.gov
I think so. They're dangerous and always have been.
A boycott is one way...or complaints to the FCC perhaps? Let's get something done. Here's their info:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Complaints
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
The completed complaint form (obtained from FCC website) may be faxed toll-free to: 1-866-418-0232. Be sure to include all required information to prevent delay in the processing of your complaint.
You may email your completed complaint form and supporting documents to fccinfo@fcc.gov
Their hysterical - at times apocalyptical - doomsaying may be emotionally satisfying, given their current poltiical irrelevance, but it is utterly irresponsible.
These people were the first to slam anybody who dared criticise Bush or question his policies by calling them un-American or America-haters and accusing them of wishing Bush would fail. But let them now be judged by their own words. They proudly - and overtly - wish Obama to fail and use their media echo chamber to contribute to a climate of fear, hysteria and violent hatred amongst their hard-Right supporters towards Liberals and the Obama Administration - a hatred which they have the temerity to label "patriotism". The Republican Party's slide into conspiracy theory territory only makes the situation worst.
It is dangerouslsy irresponsible and needs to stop.
A boycott is one way...or complaints to the FCC perhaps? Let's get something done. Here's their info:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Complaints
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
The completed complaint form (obtained from FCC website) may be faxed toll-free to: 1-866-418-0232. Be sure to include all required information to prevent delay in the processing of your complaint.
You may email your completed complaint form and supporting documents to fccinfo@fcc.gov