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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 05:15 PM
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Fox: Bill Sammon pushes "Ft. Hood = 9/11" meme, says Bullhorn Bush "found his voice" at Ground Zero
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Fox's Bill Sammon pushes right's favorite new meme: Ft. Hood shootings were 'terrorist attack' like Oklahoma City, 9/11
By David Neiwert Wednesday Nov 11, 2009 9:00am

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/foxs-bill-sammon-pushes-rights-favor

Right wingers have been doing their damnedest since the Fort Hood shootings last week to use them as an excuse to attack Muslims and generally do their favorite schtick, aka fearmongering.

Yesterday, during the Fox News broadcast of the memorial service for the victims at Fort Hood, Fox contributor Bill Sammon took this the next step: He began openly referring to the Fort Hood case as a "terrorist attack" and actually compared it to Oklahoma City and 9/11:

Sammon: I think it's really going to be key to see the tone and tenor of the Commander in Chief when he addresses this crowd. Because it's actually a very important moment in his presidency.

Think about this. This is the first time that he's going to be responding in a major way to, really the first major act of terrorism against the United States on our soil. And there's some similarities and some analogies to when President Clinton addressed the nation after Oklahoma City, to when George W. Bush went to address the nation from Ground Zero -- both of those times, just like this, were early on in the presidencies, and really, in those earlier two examples, to some extent, they were, uh, forums in which the presidents sort of found their voices, especially if you think about Ground Zero, where President Bush had trouble sort of presenting a real strong, uh, public face for the first couple of days, and then he went to Ground Zero and said, 'I can hear you, and pretty soon the people here are going to hear from all of us.'

So it's an important moment when a president addresses the nation in the wake of a terrorist act against U.S. interests.


Throughout the day Fox was running a logo calling the event "Attack on Fort Hood," and featuring investigative reports suggesting that the shooter, Nidal Hasan, was acting at the bidding of radical imams -- even though none of the evidence so far actually concretely shows that Hasan was acting as an Islamic terrorist.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 05:17 PM
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1. bush found his freakin'
BULLHORN..nothing more and quite a bit less.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 06:11 PM
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2. THREE DAYS AFTER 9/11 btw
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