Discussion for article #232147
It’s only because they were ridiculed because of it.
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And how. I tossed this to a conservative relative and she lost it.
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I looked this guy up and he’s had a fairly serious, even creditable career in journalism, but it looks like he decided it was more lucrative to be a fear monger. It’s completely implausible that a large British city would be 100 percent Muslim, or that Islamic police are beating people in the streets of London, and he certainly, certainly knew it. This wasn’t a “mistake.” It was entertainment in the form of ludicrous scary nonsense that would be laughable if it didn’t have real-world consequences like unnecessary wars and all that fun stuff. So if he ends up living on the street, too bad.
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This “expert” has testified before Congress and has consulted police departments. Scary.
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It sure is. We live in a world bristling with arms and peopled by a species with no particular commitment to acting rationally or basing those actions on solid information. We would do well to be less that way. So as my friend Captain Commonsense says, fuck this guy. : )
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Fox does not have airtime to issue corrections for all the wlidly-wrong spoken on their air
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Yeah, it’s like the exhibits at the Smithsonian, if they apologized one minute for every wild wrongness it would take a year.
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I choked on my porridge when I heard Fox “News” is issueing a correction.
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When are they going to dump the mooslim judge, with the big mouth, no brains and 1960’s hairdoo?
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Not only did he say something patently absurd, but the host of the show didn’t even bat an eye at it. I think without Cameron calling them out, this “correction” wouldn’t be happening. The Young Turks pointed out that Fox has been hammering away on “no-go zones” in Europe across multiple shows and what they’re saying isn’t far removed from what this guy said, he just got a bit too specific.
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In other news, Satan is handing out ice skates…
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I agree. Normally Fox could give a sh*t what anyone else thinks of whatver garbage they spew.
But PM Cameron got very vocal and ugly about this which, I’m assuming, made Murdoch jump right up this “terror expert’s” ass.
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I don’t watch Fox but it figures. Every city in every land in every time that ever was has had dicey sections. I went through a neighborhood or two like that in Copenhagen decades ago. No Muslims, just scowly, mean-looking Danes. And there are redneck bars in Real America I might avoid, actually. Typical Fox BS.
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I guess we are meant to pretend that Faux didn’t know exactly what the Faux expert was going to go off on and that the Faux Judge didn’t know any better?
OK, everyone pretend hard starting now…
Issuing a correction doesn’t correct the damage done in something this intentional and “Wildly Wrong”. They need to run the correction on the banner at the bottom of every screen that they have for at least a week with a link to all of the proper info and a slapdown of their clownish expert and the Faux Judge.
This last week or so of being called out as the idiots they are, by England’s Prime Minister no less, and the dude that laid Lemon flat out has forced Faux to take a very tiny step back and to realize that everyone isn’t as willfully stupid and hungry for misinformation as their core audience is.
Terrorists call Faux, America’s terror cell, or so I’ve heard.
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STOP THE PRESSES!!! Faux News is issuing a retraction!
Now when are they going to apologize for the other 23 hours and 58 minute of lies they told that day?
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Judge Jeanine has been wrong far more often than their guest “Terror Export”, how come they haven’t issued corrections before?
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They do have the leverage with cable companies to add the Fox Corrections Channel to their lineup. But even then, they might have trouble keeping up.
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Yeah, it’s like…have they never heard of Harlem or 8 Mile or South Central? Inner cities tend to have high crime, high poverty, low employment zones that more affluent people would have no reason to go to, but they slap a Muslim face on it and suddenly it’s another front in the war on radical Islam.
Never mind that there are parts of rural America full of good ol’ boys who’d look at you askance if you went there wearing a Ralph Lauren polo.
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