Brit Hume Washington Managing Editor for FOX News on the London Bombing from Media Matters
I mean, my first thought when I heard — just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Hmmm, time to buy.
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Time to buy? Your first thought is how can I make a profit out of the deaths and mutilations of others? On any other network you’d be fired on the spot for that. I guess Fox’s corporate culture is different.
Fox News contributing correspondent Simon Marks distinguished between Arabs and “regular” Londoners, in reporting on the scope of the attacks, as the weblog Daily Kos noted.
Fox News host John Gibson echoed previous day’s comments that if IOC had picked France, terrorists would “blow up Paris, and who cares?”
Where do they hire these lunatics from? Right out of the asylum? Why aren’t people in the US calling for their heads on a platter?
A Counter balance to the Fox Propagandists (I wouldn’t call them journalists, see the movie outfoxed )
This sign (post deleted) was spotted in the window of a cafe in Covent Garden. The text says ‘DURING EMERGENCY Please feel free to come in and stay as long as you like. Join us for tea, soft drinks, coffee, soup on the house.'”
Some people do know how to be human beings. Which group of people would you rather spend time with?