Fox News must be a funny place to work. The biggest star there is constantly talking about how the Obama administration is leading us toward tyranny, slavery and dictatorship. Meanwhile, on the FoxNews.com website (10/25/10), you've got "frequent contributor" and Bush State Department alum Christian Whiton (you couldn't make these names up) complaining bitterly that Obama hasn't declared the WikiLeaks team to be "enemy combatants" and taken them out via "non-judicial actions."
It's hard to think of another country where the opposition news media complains that the government hasn't assassinated enough journalists.
About Jim NaureckasExtra! Magazine Editor Since 1990, Jim Naureckas has been the editor of Extra!, FAIR's bimonthly journal of media criticism. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s. He is also the co-manager of FAIR's website. He has worked as an investigative reporter for the newspaper In These Times, where he covered the Iran-Contra scandal, and was managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere, a newsletter on Latin America. Jim was born in Libertyville, Illinois, in 1964, and graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR's program director. You can follow Jim on Twitter at @JNaureckas.
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Well, Mr. Whiton, spoken like a true totalitarian, and someone who despises democracy and freedom. Keep up the good work.
They are so eager to have their boys in charge. Once they do the premature fascists will get their wish.
While this piece is amusing, it would be wise to remember that BHO is just another politician and is run by moneyed interests as was "W" and all other politicians. The "discovery" of terrorists "threats" right before a hotly contested election sounds exactly like the tactics of the Repugnicans. Does anyone really believe that the Democraps are any better?
IM bemused at this article. You climbed a hill and decided it was a mountain. Please Jim forward me your scathing articles against those who did that movie about how to assassinate Bush.Think I missed it. Actually I don't know if you have ever taken any stance that was not………….but you already know that.