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	<title>FAIR Blog &#187; Osama bin Laden</title>
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		<title>Know Your Enemy</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/10/19/know-your-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Naureckas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politico (10/14/09) published a list of top topics on Glenn Beck's Fox News show, based on a search of Nexis transcripts since the show's January 2009 debut. It's instructive to look at the placement of some individuals, groups and places in the news as an indication of Beck's sense of whom  and what his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Politico</strong> (<a title="Politico: The War on Beck" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1009/The_war_on_Beck.html" target="_blank">10/14/09</a>) published a list of top topics on Glenn Beck's <strong>Fox News</strong> show, based on a search of Nexis transcripts since the show's January 2009 debut. It's instructive to look at the placement of some individuals, groups and places in the news as an indication of Beck's sense of whom  and what his audience should be informed about:</p>
<blockquote><p>ACORN: 1,224</p>
<p>Van Jones: 267</p>
<p>SEIU: 259</p>
<p>Afghanistan: 97</p>
<p>Iraq: 95</p>
<p>Valerie Jarrett: 52</p>
<p>Mark Lloyd: 50</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda: 50</p>
<p>Bill Ayers: 46</p>
<p>John Holdren: 43</p>
<p>Jeremiah Wright: 42</p>
<p>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: 41</p>
<p>Osama Bin Laden: 40</p>
<p>Taliban: 38</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Fox: New 9/11 Needed for U.S. to Become Violent Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/07/02/fox-new-911-needed-for-us-to-become-violent-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Voiles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Fox News, so quick to denounce dissent as unpatriotic during the George W. Bush era, have now moved from generally hoping for the failure of the Obama government to wishing another September 11 upon a country too slow to violence for their taste. Mark Howard of News Corpse (7/1/09) gives us video [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The folks at <strong>Fox News</strong>, so quick to denounce dissent as <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1096">unpatriotic</a> during the George W. Bush era, have now moved from generally <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/04/01/listening-to-limbaugh/">hoping for</a> the failure of the Obama government to wishing another September 11 upon a country too slow to violence for their taste. Mark Howard of <strong>News Corpse</strong> (<a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1319" target="_blank">7/1/09</a>) gives us <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQJVhNH99c" target="_blank">video</a> and a transcript of Glenn Beck &amp; Co.'s</p>
<blockquote><p>suggestion for a remedy for our diseased nation that is so far gone now that there is only one solution: Another 9/11....</p>
<blockquote><p>[guest <strong>Michael] Scheuer:</strong> ...The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. Because it's going to take a grassroots, bottom-up pressure, because these politicians prize their office, prize the praise of the media and the Europeans. Only--it's an absurd situation. Again, only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently and with as much violence as necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Beck:</strong> Which is why I was thinking this weekend if I were him, that would be the last thing I would do right now.</p></blockquote>
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While "sure Bin Laden appreciates Beck's advice," Howard still thinks it's "a bit shocking that Beck's counsel to Bin Laden is to refrain from attacking the U.S. because it would benefit the country by motivating Americans to demand protection against such an attack"--which means, Howard explains, that Beck "actually believes that the slaughter of untold thousands of innocent Americans is not only beneficial, but is 'the only <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1997">chance</a> we have.'"</p>
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		<title>O&#039;Reilly Tortures Fox Torture Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/04/27/oreilly-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Hart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News Channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fox host Bill O'Reilly has been passionately defending Bush-era torture for some time. But on April 23 he went further; not only does torture "work," but it is actually broadly popular, too:
According to a new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, most Americans want tough interrogations of top terror killers. When asked if they would support using torture on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Fox</strong> host Bill O'Reilly has been passionately defending Bush-era torture for some time. But on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517596,00.html">April 23</a> he went further; not only does torture "work," but it is actually broadly popular, too:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to a new <strong>Fox News</strong>/Opinion Dynamics poll, most Americans want tough interrogations of top terror killers. When asked if they would support using torture on Osama bin Laden to get information, 56 percent say they favor doing that, including 42 percent of the Democrats polled. Thirty-nine percent oppose.</p>
<p>So there is little doubt that most Americans believe, in rare cases, tough interrogation is necessary.</p></blockquote>
<p>A poll that asks whether Americans support torture Osama bin Laden wouldn't seem to tell us much; you might as well ask if people support torturing Satan.</p>
<p>But did <strong>Fox</strong> really just ask about torturing bin Laden? No. But O'Reilly <em>had</em> to cite that response, because the other responses from the same poll undermine his case. (It would appear to be the only relevant <strong>Fox</strong> poll on their site; it's a few months old, but the figures are the same as those cited by O'Reilly.) In reality, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485148,00.html">the <strong>Fox</strong> poll</a> found the public far more ambivalent about torture than Man-of-the-People Bill O'Reilly:</p>
<blockquote><p>Opinions on the use of torture are sharply divided. Forty-three percent of Americans favor allowing the CIA to use torture in extreme circumstances to obtain information from prisoners that "might protect the United States from terrorist attacks" and 48 percent oppose it. These results are consistent with findings from polling conducted in 2003 and 2002.</p>
<p>The number in favor of allowing the use of torture increases to 56 percent when the suspect in custody is Osama bin Laden.</p></blockquote>
<p>So do most Americans favor torture captured "top terror killers?" Apparently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012909releaseweb.pdf">not</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>17. Do you favor or oppose allowing the CIA, in extreme circumstances, to use enhanced interrogation techniques, even torture, to obtain information from prisoners that might protect the United States from terrorist attacks?</p>
<p>Favor 43%<br />
Oppose 48%<br />
(Depends) 7%<br />
(Don't know) 3%</p></blockquote>
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