The DNC is barely under way in Denver, but protesters are already making themselves heard. Their message: "Fuck corporate media!" and "Fuck FOX News!"
That's the response FOX's Griff Jenkins receives when he throws himself into a swarm of marching anti-war protesters. Jenkins plays incredulous well in this clip, asking over and over again why the protesters don't believe in freedom of speech—the irony of ironies, considering these protesters are exercising their first amendment rights with every step they take.
As Jenkins is drowned out by a "Fuck FOX News!" chorus and disappears among a sea of middle fingers flipped at the camera, he cries out, "That's just not necessary." Au contraire, Mr. Jenkins. These calls are entirely necessary, considering FOX has served as the propaganda arm of the Bush administration for the last eight years.
FOX has been Bush's biggest cheerleader in his war with Iraq. FOX joined the corporate media in drumming up support for the war, preying on a vulnerable nation by drawing the false connection between Iraq and 9/11 and touting the administration's so-called "evidence" of WMDs. Even as other corporate outlets realized their awful mistake when evidence proved the administration had no justification to go into Iraq, FOX offered no mea culpa. Instead, the network continued to pretend the war was succeeding, when the reality was it had become a brutal quagmire that continues to this day. But FOX didn't stop with Iraq. Oh, no. For more than a year now, the network has been war-whooping over Iran as well.
FOX is guilty of war- and fearmongering, spreading the administration's lies at every turn, and smearing those who try to set the record straight. So "Fuck FOX News?" I'd say these anti-war protesters get the message just right.
UPDATE: Think Progress notes that FOX sent Griff Jenkins out to that DNC protest specifically "to cause trouble."
Can't say I am exactly a big fan of FOX
as I realize behind it all
they're as beholden to the big-biz
"hide those genocide stats" Red China
lobby -as are CNN and most of the rest.
HOWEVER
Now that we ALL must admit the surge
has worked--
LETS HAVE A REALITY CHECK
During the entire 5 year campaign
in Iraq America has lost 3-4,000
people?
That doesn't even come close to
even matching the number STILL
missing in action from our 2 years
of REAL war defending Korea.
During the entire span of the "War on Terror"
America hasn't even had a draft!
Over those same 5 years -an estimated
40,000 people have been murdered
in Red China and North Korea --just for
their organs!
And let's not overlook the preceeding
decades since we left Korea unfinished.
Several million North Koreans and
70,000,000 Chinese are now known to
have been put to death in the pursuit
of "social progress".
And just so far this year 3,800 people
have been killed in Mexico's drug violence.
BTW many of those organs and much of
the dope is earmarked for the States
where they will be used to keep all
those aging narcissists in our pop music
industry looking young and chipper while they
protest the "immoral" war in Iraq.
Peace is hell too. In fact -ovwer time an
even worse -even creepier hell.