rssFox News Host Slanders Muslim Soldiers by Association With Ft. Hood Shooter
Friday, November 06, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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You might think that that commentary about a deranged lone gunman ought to await the facts, but you’re not going to get a job at Fox News with that attitude. Raw Story catches Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asking a guest, “Do you think it’s time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim Army officers — anybody enlisted?” And with that, hundreds, if not thousands, of servicemembers with Muslim heritage are slandered.
My favorite response to that comes from VetVoice’s Richard Allen Smith:
A dumb f—— idea, not the least of reasons being that Major Hasan’s records indicated he had no religious preference”, so he wouldn’t have been screened anyway.
But this is the way it goes. We were told by Fox News that to blame right-wingers for the actions of George Tiller’s murderer or the anti-Semite who shot up the Holocaust Museum was out of line. But Muslim soldiers — people who guard the freedoms that Fox bleats about with jingoistic sanctimony — are to be slandered by association. This is a disgrace to the memories of Spc. Kareem R. Khan, Capt. Humayun Saqib Khan, and so many others who have given their lives for this country.
Update: Via Glenn Greenwald’s Twitter, conservative writer David Frum provides an elegant and moving illustration of this point.
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Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
Step aside, Spencer—-the news-cycle is poised for a weekend's worth of jingoistic sanctimony thanks to the shooter's non-anglo surname. “buckle up & endure”, as the Eels song says…
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
I was watching when the question was asked. But I don't recall Kilmeade SAYING that muslim army officers SHOULD be 'debriefed', which could be considered a slight. But he only ASKED the question. Are you sure you're not just trying to exploit a momentary suspension of political correctness in order to bash Fox News??
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Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
When you question the loyalty of an entire class of citizens based upon the actions of one person, how is that not a slight, even when put in the form of a question, and especially when that standard is not applied in anything close to uniformity?
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 1:14 am
Momentary suspension of political correctness?
Fox is not the news. Just in: Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Hannity and the rest are mouths, bought and paid for, by Rupert Murdoch. It's HIS views you are being fed on that network. Murdoch even admitted it. You have been duped by someone else's opinion, masquerading as real, veted news.
Anything from Fox should be treated as suspect. All this sounds like more race baiting to me. Remember the Zoot-Suit riots in Ca. in the 50's? Same old crap.
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