Fox News and Megyn Kelly, not to mention Trace Gallagher, owe their viewers an apology. OK…let’s wait together. Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm, Hmm. Megyn? Hello? Apology please. Still waiting….Can someone get Roger Ailes on the phone?
While reporting on the the Philadelphia voter intimidation case, Megyn, Trace and a hand full of undisclosed producers at Fox News teased a video of the New Black Panthers Samir Shabaz just before a commercial. You know SS. The guy with the club standing outside the voting booths in Philly that sparked the current DOJ case. When the show returned and Megyn tossed it to Trace Gallagher, he claims the video “too incendiary” to air. What? “We report. You decide.” Huh? What?
FOX NEWS: We redact. You decide.
Megyn, Megyn, Megyn. Show us. Don’t shield us.
Now, true, the video is an angry, verbally-violent and racist rant by Mr. Shabaz. As a “cracker” not an easy clip to sit through. That this type of racial anger still exists is truly sad and unfortunate. The only thing more disappointing is the decision by Fox News to “protect us” from news that they perceive to be “too incendiary.”
FOX bleeped out the vulgarity during the first airing; OK. If FOX wants to air a warning, a disclaimer prior to the video, OK as well. But to tease the video and then chicken out during the commercial break is not what we need.
Today, some news is “incendiary.” Here’s the thing, though. That news is combustible makes it worthy of broadcast. News, albeit too hot to handle, should not be too hot to report. In the end it’s the only news we can use; why shield us from the news we need to see? Reporting the truth, as despicable and explosive as it can be, is the only news that stands a chance of making a difference in our world.
“Brian, Brian, Brian why let truth taint the process?”
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Ask Sakineh Why Iran Must Never Obtain a Nuclear Weapon
Warning: This post contains nauseating content.
Imagine, for a moment, burying a person in the dirt up to their collarbones. Then, with an utterly defenseless human neck and face exposed, you pick up a baseball-sized rock or bigger and hurl it with enough force to begin inflicting the slow process of death. The skull, the jaw, the cheeks, they eyes, the nose and teeth all targets for a group of evil sadists. Unimaginable pain must certainly match the horrific inhumanity of a stoning.
Your eyes swell shut, your teeth battered and bleeding as your jaw and nose fracture, your skull cracks open yet the pain only builds. Never before has death been so recruited and welcomed.
Think about it.
What person, what government, what religion could stomach and sanction such brutal savagery? What absolute dearth of a being could do such a thing? That type of vicious, depraved cruelty takes a unique mammal to perpetrate, one certainly devoid of any human trait of compassion or empathy.
As we watch the horror of the Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani sentencing unfold, remember that any country engaging in such cruel and wicked “justice” would not think twice about inflicting sever pain, suffering and violent death on “the others” they contrive to be guilty. The next time you hear of UN actions, the United Nations Security Council and their “sanctions with teeth” against the Iran’s nuclear ambitions, please remember this.
Once you cross the hell-drawn line of satanically killing with a handful of rocks, hurling a rocket is a layup.
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