Fox News, go to Hell!
More names to add to the vile scum such as George Galloway and Nick Griffin who are exploiting the terrible tragedy for political ends. Some of the presenters and guests on Rupert Murdoch's pro-Bush propaganda organ Fox News.
This is what their talking heads had to say.
KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 --believe it or not-- was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it's important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again.
KILMEADE: Yeah.
So it's a good thing that 50+ people died, so that western governments will pay less attention to Africa and global warning?
This is just vile. Unlike the BNP's brand of stupidly visceral bigotry, this is cynical, calculating evil. Somehow it seems even worse. It's a mindset that considers innocent British civilians as expendable pawns to further the agenda of corporate elites. It makes them no better than the vile slime that planted the bombs.
I don't know who Varney and Kilmeade are; they might just be a couple of blowhard idiots. But I wonder how much their words reflect the real thinking of some of the neo-con right?
(Link from The Ministry of Information)
Posted by TimHall at July 11, 2005 07:06 PM | TrackBackSo 9/11 was good thing? Making sure Aficans die will be a good thing? More hurricanes in Florida will be a good thing? What sort of morons are there in the USA? Has the rest of the mainstream US media condemed this? Or is that one American life is worth more than a British, African or Iraqi one?
Posted by: Chris on July 11, 2005 09:15 PMSounds like kind of circular reasoning to me: we need terrorist attacks to remind us that terrorist attacks are a problem? Hokay, then.
(And while I *am* in the US, I'm afraid I can't help as to who Varney and Kilmeade are. TV news, Fox or otherwise, is just too stupid to watch, regardless of any given network/station's political leanings.)
Karen, it wasn't so much the spurious circular logic that offended me, it was the callous cynicism of it all. Dozens of my countrymen are smeared across the inside of a tube tunnel, and these morons witter on about supposed political benefits.
I made the mistake of posting the same link to pyramid.chatter.politics, and got a really offensive by that appalling knee-jerk idiot Jon Biggar who accused me of being in denial about terrorism. That post left me literally shaking with anger.
Posted by: Tim Hall on July 12, 2005 09:46 PM