It Couldn’t Happen to Nicer Guys
by Ian Mosley
A large part of the moral responsibility for what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan comes down to the atrocious Fox News Network. Owned by Australian neocon tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Fox News has become the official Bush Network, roughly equivalent to Pravda in the old Soviet Union. Fox News is largely responsible for feeding the American people masses of disinformation about the war in Iraq and the state of Israel, and thus keeping Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack in a state of catatonic stupor as to what is really going on, and why.
The Muslims seem finally to be waking up to the crucial role that Fox News plays in keeping their people enslaved. A Reuters news article reports that “Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News Channel in Gaza on Monday….A Fox spokeswoman in New York named the two journalists as correspondent Steve Centanni, an American, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, from New Zealand…Two vehicles blocked the journalists’ transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to a bodyguard’s head, forcing him to the ground. The kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists.”
The same article continues “A Fox news report said the network did not know who had seized them but that negotiations were under way to secure their release.” One wonders if the kidnappers will insist on mere money for the release of the two neocon flacks, or if they will have sense enough to demand payment in kind, in the form of a public retraction by Fox News of the thousand and one lies that these neocon stooges have been telling the American people about the Palestinian situation, the occupation of Iraq, and the atrocious Israeli assault on Lebanon.
We need to bear in mind, always, that the neocon George W. Bush regime does not exist in a hermetically sealed little vacuum bubble in the Oval Office, although that seems to be the way our illustrious chief executive in fact spends his days. There are thousands of willing and eager collaborators to the neocons’ crimes against humanity, not the least of whom are flacks in the news media.
These people are motivated by a twisted and mutated “patriotism” that calls for America to conquer the world, or else by a weirded-out Rapture cult that believes there has to be a nuclear war in the valley of Megiddo (Armageddon) in Palestine in order to make Jesus come back, or else they’re motivated purely by money. While the neocons and Fox News continue to get away with their lies here in America (with the recent exception of Joe Lieberman), the Muslims are apparently waking up to Fox News and making them pay for their lies.