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Originally Posted by whell
How are Murdoch and Fox a threat to America at all?
Clearly a central tenet of your support for building the Mosque at near Ground Zero is based on Freedom of religion. You would subordinate the sensibilities of the 9/11 survivors and families of the victims to the right of Imam Rouf and company to build their mosque and "community center". Don't Murdoch and Fox have the same character of rights under the First Amendment as you would guarantee to Imam Rouf? If so, I'd guess that we'd also have to take the Huffington Post, The Nation, etc. off line to be consistent?
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I said nothing about taking Murdoch and Fox offline. It was just a comment concerning a previous post I made whereby this kerfuffle was demonstrably "manufactured outrage" on the part of a wingnut blogger and her enablers/cheering section at Fox, and above all the fact that it's sad that the nation gets its knickers in a twist about such contrived outrage.
Actually, I'm quite indifferent about the "mosque." However, the Right's outrage about Obama not doing anything about it runs counter to their "bedrock conservative principles" of limited government, property rights and defending the constitution. Bedrock, indeed.
For the very same reason (the First Amendment), I support Fox/Murdoch's right to exist and the Imam's right to build his "cultural center" wherever he and the city fathers of NYC deem appropriate.
That said, Fox News' deliberate misleading "advocacy journalism" is not the best way to an informed electorate and an elevation of political discourse. Same applies to Maddow and Olbermann, BTW.