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You know whats sad is that
people really believe that stuff, and why shouldn't they,
it's coming from us...right? WRONG!
The real terror is the senseless BS reports and stories being thrown around ...
the false ones that make people frightened...like we don't have enough to worry about.
it's worse on the blogsphere . Someone did a c/p on a CNN story about the blaze and created a bogus report that MEChA (”Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan”) claimed responsibility . Here is the bogus link
If there was any truth to either of these claims (al Qaeda or MEChA) I would've been the first to post it.
But there is some plausibility to the alQaeda threat .The fact is that there was a detainee that discussed the idea of setting fires .Just because it did not go down as he described doesn't mean that a simular plan wasn't in the works.
Certainly the FBI report makes it clear that an alQaeda detainee had at least pondered the possibility. And it is a fact that there is a hunt for suspected arsonists related to this series of fires. At least one has already been shot and killed in a high speed chase. Arsonists blamed for starting California wildfires - Times Online
Steve Doocy was not reporting it as news but brought it up as speculation in a discussion format. I wonder if Raw Story reports every time the anchors of the dinosaur media raise speculation as legitimate news ? I kinda doubt it.
In her defense ;it could be the pain killers she is taking because of the header she took after her night of binge drinking ........or it could be the DTs . I'm only speculating .
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann says the realistic threat of terrorism is being so overstated by the Bush administration -- and in turn, by Fox News -- that it's downright funny.
"What happens when the culture of fear begins to inspire not terror or outrage, but laughter?" asked Olbermann. "Am I being too optimistic, or has giggling now passed paranoia in response to the president and these macabre parrots working at Fox?"
Olbermann cited a report yesterday carried by Fox News which suggested that Al Qaeda may be the true culprit behind the rash of recent California wildfires. Basing their coverage on an article it said ran "five days ago" in the Arizona Republic, the Fox and Friends morning program discussed an FBI memo stating that an Al Qaeda detainee had brought up the possibility of such a plan.
Calling the the report "almost all wrong," the host took the network to task for grossly misreporting the age of the memo:
"The memo was reported not...five days ago, but six days ago -- plus 1,560 more days ago," said Olbermann. "The memo is from July 11, 2003. The Arizona Republic is a newspaper. Congratulations, Fox. But it has not been carrying the story...the guy who reported it doesn't even work there anymore."
Later in the program, Olbermann made up his own terror rumor about Al Qaeda's far-reaching powers:
"I heard Al Qaeda causes night to fall," he warned.
Air America radio host Rachel Maddow, a guest during the segment, said reports like Fox's helped to aid a White House that profited from fear.
"They have to come up with superhuman powers for Al Qaeda because they want to use Al Qaeda to justify a super-extreme agenda for the United States of America," said Maddow of the Bush administration.
Citing controversial intelligence techniques and possible military action against Iran she described as a "radical agenda," Maddow said the administration required a "really radical justification for it...they've had to elevate this band of death-cult fundamentalist criminals into a threat that is greater to our country than the Soviet Union ever was."
"And because it's about such serious stuff," she concluded, "I feel a little guilty thinking that it's funny."
it's worse on the blogsphere . Someone did a c/p on a CNN story about the blaze and created a bogus report that MEChA (”Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan”) claimed responsibility . Here is the bogus link
If there was any truth to either of these claims (al Qaeda or MEChA) I would've been the first to post it.
But there is some plausibility to the alQaeda threat .The fact is that there was a detainee that discussed the idea of setting fires .Just because it did not go down as he described doesn't mean that a simular plan wasn't in the works.
Certainly the FBI report makes it clear that an alQaeda detainee had at least pondered the possibility. And it is a fact that there is a hunt for suspected arsonists related to this series of fires. At least one has already been shot and killed in a high speed chase. Arsonists blamed for starting California wildfires - Times Online
Steve Doocy was not reporting it as news but brought it up as speculation in a discussion format. I wonder if Raw Story reports every time the anchors of the dinosaur media raise speculation as legitimate news ? I kinda doubt it.
In her defense ;it could be the pain killers she is taking because of the header she took after her night of binge drinking ........or it could be the DTs . I'm only speculating .
Most of these wildfires gives some nut the idea of setting another one; it seems the dry season every year we experience the same thing.
I think it telling that Keith Olberman (the real life Howard Beal) would interview an Air America personality about the Fox News speculations and not bring up the Rhandi Rhodes rant or the fact that another Air America personalityMike Malloy made the speculation that it was a member of "the Bush crime family " that started the fires. YouTube - Now Malloy Says Bush Family Set The Fires!
I think it telling that Keith Olberman (the real life Howard Beal) would interview an Air America personality about the Fox News speculations and not bring up the Rhandi Rhodes rant or the fact that another Air America personalityMike Malloy made the speculation that it was a member of "the Bush crime family " that started the fires. YouTube - Now Malloy Says Bush Family Set The Fires!
Too funny; thanks for the link; what some people won’t do. I guess it’s normal for people to speculate when confronted with something they don’t understand…but this takes the cake.
Governing by fear and uncertainty has been a policy for years.
What is scary is the request for $88 million to modify B2 stealth bombers so that they can carry a 30,000lb bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator. The MOP is an advanced form of a "bunker buster", an air-delivered weapon with an explosive capacity to destroy targets deep underground. Explaining the request, the Administration says it is in response to an "urgent operational need from theatre commanders". What kind of emergency could that be? Well, how about to use in our war with Iran.
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