Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line

[8bitagent]

I swear we're in retro mode.

9/11 like hysteria over terror attack(being used by politicians to say we need torture/bend civil liberties, etc), poison sent to politicians in the mail oh and talk of US invading Syria based on alleged chemical weapons.

Is this the bad b grade sequel to 2001-2003?

[Iamwhomiam]

Let's see what the mainstream media handles the questions. Maybe a few will continue doing so.
Let's hope so.

[Iamwhomiam]

Somewhere in a lonely hotel room
There's a guy starting to realize that eternal
Fate has turned its back on him.
It's two a.m.

It's two a.m.
The fear has gone
I'm sitting her waitin'
The gun's still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of taking chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose
Sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence
All circuits are dead
Cannot decode my whole life spins into a frenzy

[Chorus]
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved
Under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far [Repeat]
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

I'm falling down a spiral
Destination unknown
Double crossed messenger, all alone
Can't get no connection
Can't get through where are you

Well the night weighs heavy
On his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hit-man comes
He knows damn well
He has been cheated
And he says

[Chorus]
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved
Under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far [Repeat]
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

[FourthBase]

Here's a post of mine I thought would've gotten more attention:

by FourthBase » 18 Apr 2013 04:46

viewtopic.php?p=498188#p498188

http://www.policymic.com/articles/36089/president-obama-signs-massachusetts-emergency-declaration

"The President today declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from explosions on April 15, 2013, and covering eligible activities through April 22, 2013. The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.

W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named James N. Russo as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION MEDIA SHOULD CONTACT: FEMA NEWS DESK AT (202) 646-3272 OR FEMA-NEWS-DESK@DHS.GOV"

The emergency was Monday.
It took place within a single city block.
(JFK Library being semi-related.)

So, what emergency? The emergency is over...isn't it?
"To lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk"?
What the fuck? Now I know why people tune in to scare-porn shit like Alex Jones.

Little did we know!

But, please, someone more rational, explain why that was just routine?

[Iamwhomiam]

I heard this announced at the time, but it could hardly be called routine. The potential for further acts of terrorism from an unknown number of assailants?

[compared2what?]

All I know is that it sure as hell is not generally needed to have armored personnel carriers and paramilitary forcing people out of there homes block by block. I really don't care where you live. That shit just isn't good, sure as hell isn't following precedent. It was one guy they were after, it was an overwhelming overblown show of force. But boy oh boy did a lot of people get sucked into it.

Especially considering that it didn't happen. People were not forced out of their homes block by block.

I'm pretty sure that there weren't armored personnel carriers, either.

There was a lot of force on display, though.

Also, it's repellent and vile if they opened fire on him when he was unarmed. But that's kind of unrelated. It's just the kind of thing they do and get away with all the time that's a lot worse than a show of force. I'd be fine with them showing it more, if the trade-off was that they used it less.

Not that I'd expect it to work that way. I meant theoretically.

[compared2what?]

I heard this announced at the time, but it could hardly be called routine. The potential for further acts of terrorism from an unknown number of assailants?

It's to release funds and other federal aid to the state with the emergency. They do it for hurricanes, too. Might still be in effect here for Sandy.

[FourthBase]

I heard this announced at the time, but it could hardly be called routine. The potential for further acts of terrorism from an unknown number of assailants?

It's to release funds and other federal aid to the state with the emergency. They do it for hurricanes, too. Might still be in effect here for Sandy.

The same wording, though? The same ominous-seeming wording?

[compared2what?]

I heard this announced at the time, but it could hardly be called routine. The potential for further acts of terrorism from an unknown number of assailants?

It's to release funds and other federal aid to the state with the emergency. They do it for hurricanes, too. Might still be in effect here for Sandy.

The same wording, though? The same ominous-seeming wording?

Similar. Maybe the same.

Release date:
October 28, 2012
Release Number:
HQ-12-114

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the State of New York to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy beginning on October 27, 2012, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all counties in the State of New York.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.

Doesn't seem like it was as long ago as October. Time flies.

(Link.)

[lupercal]

"Police have arrested at least three people during a protest march in Dallas near the dedication site of the George W. Bush Presidential Center." http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prot ... y-19040174

I don't think it's a cosmic coinky that Boston Benghazi goes down a week before the Dumya Presidential Boondoggle opens in Dallas. Brother Jeb has also been much in the fake-news of late. As usual there's a Texas connection a few slim degrees of separation away from the big show (the Waco explosion). Texans aplenty mixed up in Aurora too.

[stickdog99]

Still don;'t know the dude's name, but now the story has reached "Let's Roll" heights

The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming to a stop. A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window. It was nearly 11 p.m. last Thursday.

The man rapped on the glass, speaking quickly. Danny, unable to hear him, lowered the window — and the man reached an arm through, unlocked the door, and climbed in, brandishing a silver handgun.

“Don’t be stupid,” he told Danny. He asked if he had followed the news about the previous Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. Danny had, down to the release of the grainy photos of suspects less than six hours earlier.

“I did that,” said the man, who would later be identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev. “And I just killed a policeman in Cambridge.”

He ordered Danny to drive — right on Fordham Road, right again on Commonwealth Avenue — the beginning of an achingly slow odyssey last Thursday night and Friday morning in which Danny felt the possibility of death pressing on him like a vise.

In an exclusive interview with the Globe, Danny — the victim of the Tsarnaev brothers’ much-discussed but previously little-understood carjacking — filled in some of the last missing pieces in the timeline between the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, just before 10:30 p.m. on April 18, and the Watertown shoot-out that ended just before 1 a.m. Danny asked that he be identified only by his American nickname.

The story of that night unfolds like a Tarantino movie, bursts of harrowing action laced with dark humor and dialogue absurd for its ordinariness, reminders of just how young the men in the car were. Girls, credit limits for students, the marvels of the Mercedes-Benz ML 350 and the iPhone­ 5, whether anyone still listens to CDs — all were discussed by the two 26-year-olds and the 19-year-old driving around on a Thursday night.

Danny described 90 harrowing minutes, first with the younger brother following in a second car, then with both brothers in the Mercedes, where they openly discussed driving to New York, though Danny could not make out if they were planning another attack. Throughout the ordeal, he did as they asked while silently analyzing every threatened command, every overheard snatch of dialogue for clues about where and when they might kill him.

“Death is so close to me,” Danny recalled thinking. His life had until that moment seemed ascendant, from a province in Central China to graduate school at Northeastern University to a Kendall Square start-up.

“I don’t want to die,” he thought. “I have a lot of dreams that haven’t come true yet.”

After a zigzagging trek through Brighton, Watertown, and back to Cambridge, Danny would seize his chance for escape at the Shell Station on Memorial Drive, his break turning on two words — “cash only” — that had rarely seemed so welcome.

When the younger brother, Dzhokhar, was forced to go inside the Shell Food Mart to pay, older brother Tamerlan put his gun in the door pocket to fiddle with a navigation device — letting his guard down briefly after a night on the run. Danny then did what he had been rehearsing in his head. In a flash, he unbuckled his seat belt, opened the door, stepped through, slammed it behind, and sprinted off at an angle that would be a hard shot for any marksman.

“F---!” he heard Tamerlan say, feeling the rush of a near-miss grab at his back, but the man did not follow. Danny reached the haven of a Mobil station across the street, seeking cover in the supply room, shouting for the clerk to call 911.

His quick-thinking escape, authorities say, allowed police to swiftly track down the Mercedes, abating a possible attack by the brothers on New York City and precipitating a wild shoot-out in Watertown that would seriously wound one officer, kill Tamerlan, and leave a severely injured Dzhokhar hiding in the neighborhood. He was caught the following night, ending a harrowing week across Greater Boston.

Danny spoke softly but steadily in a 2½-hour interview at his Cambridge apartment with a Globe reporter and a Northeastern criminology professor, James Alan Fox, who had counseled Danny after the former graduate student approached his engineering adviser at Northeastern.

Danny, who offered his account only on the condition that the Globe not reveal his Chinese name, said he does not want attention. But he suspects his full name may come out if and when he testifies against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

“I don’t want to be a famous person talking on the TV,” Danny said, kneading his hands, uncomfortable with the praise he has received from the few friends he has shared the story with, some of whom encouraged him to go public. “I don’t feel like a hero. . . . I was trying to save myself.”

Danny, trained as an engineer, made scrupulous mental notes of street signs and passing details, even as he abided the older Tsarnaev’s command not to study his face.

“Don’t look at me!” Tamerlan shouted at one point. “Do you remember my face?”

“No, no, I don’t remember anything,” he said.

Tamerlan laughed. “It’s like white guys, they look at black guys and think all black guys look the same,” he said. “And maybe you think all white guys look the same.”

“Exactly,” Danny said, though he thought nothing of the sort. It was one of many moments in their mental chess match, Danny playing up his outsider status in America and playing down his wealth — he claimed the car was older than it was, and he understated his lease payments — in a desperate hope of extending his life.

Danny had come to the United States in 2009 for a master’s degree, graduated in January 2012, and returned to China to await a work visa. He came back two months ago, leasing a Mercedes and moving into a high-rise with two Chinese friends while diving into a startup. But he told Tamerlan he was still a student and that he had been here barely a year. It seemed to help that Tamerlan had trouble understanding even Danny’s pronunciation of the word “China.”

“Oh, that’s why your English is not very good,” the brother replied, finally figuring it out. “OK, you’re Chinese . . . I’m a Muslim.”

“Chinese are very friendly to Muslims!” Danny said. “We are so friendly to Muslims.”

When the ordeal had started, Danny prayed it would be a quick robbery. Tamerlan demanded money, but Danny had just $45 in cash — kept in the armrest — and a wallet full of plastic. Evidently disappointed to get so little out of holding up a $50,000 car, he told Danny to drive. The old sedan followed.

“Relax,” Tamerlan said, when Danny’s nerves made it hard for him to stay in the lane. Danny, recalling the moment, said, “My heart is pounding so fast.”

They lapped Brighton and crossed the Charles River into Watertown, following Arsenal Street. Looking through Danny’s wallet, Tamerlan asked for his ATM code — a friend’s birthdate.

Directed to a quiet neighborhood in East Watertown, Danny pulled up as instructed on an unfamiliar side street. The sedan stopped behind him. A man approached — the skinnier, floppy-haired “Suspect No. 2” in the photos and videos released by investigators earlier that evening — and Tamerlan got out, ordering Danny into the passenger seat, making it clear that if he tried anything he would shoot him. For several minutes, the brothers transferred heavy objects from the smaller car into Danny’s SUV. “Luggage,” Danny thought.

With Tamerlan driving now, Danny in the passenger seat, and Dzhokhar behind Danny, they stopped in Watertown Center so Dzhokhar could withdraw money from the Bank of America ATM using Danny’s card. Danny, shivering from fear but claiming to be cold, asked for his jacket. Guarded by just one brother, Danny wondered if this was his chance, but he saw around him only locked storefronts. A police car drove by, lights off.

Tamerlan agreed to retrieve Danny’s jacket from the back seat. Danny unbuckled, put on the jacket, then tried to buckle the seat belt behind him to make an escape easier. “Don’t do that,” Tamerlan said, studying him. “Don’t be stupid.”

Danny thought about his burgeoning start-up and about a girl he secretly liked in New York. “I think, ‘Oh my god, I have no chance to meet you again,’ ” he recalled.

Dzhokhar was back now. “We both have guns,” Tamerlan said, though Danny had not seen a second weapon. He overheard them speak in a foreign language — “Manhattan” the only intelligible word to him — and then ask in English if Danny’s car could be driven out of state. “What do you mean?” Danny said, confused. “Like New York,” one brother said.

They continued west on Route 20, in the direction of Waltham and Interstate 95, passing a police station. Danny tried to send telepathic messages to the officers inside, imagined dropping and rolling from the moving car.

Tamerlan asked him to turn on and demonstrate the radio. The older brother then quickly flipped through stations, seemingly avoiding the news. He asked if Danny had any CDs. No, he replied, he listens to music on his phone. The tank nearly empty, they stopped at a gas station, but the pumps were closed.

Doubling back, they returned to the Watertown neighborhood — “Fairfield Street,” Danny saw on the sign — and grabbed a few more things from the parked car, but nothing from the trunk. They put on an instrumental CD that sounded to Danny like a call to prayer.

Suddenly, Danny’s iPhone buzzed. A text from his roommate, wondering in Chinese where he was. Barking at Danny for instructions, Tamerlan used an English-to-Chinese app to text a clunky reply. “I am sick. I am sleeping in a friend’s place tonight.” In a moment, another text, then a call. No one answered. Seconds later, the phone rang again.

“If you say a single word in Chinese, I will kill you right now,” Tamerlan said. Danny understood. His roommate’s boyfriend was on the other end, speaking Mandarin. “I’m sleeping in my friend’s home tonight,” Danny replied in English. “I have to go.”

“Good boy,” Tamerlan said. “Good job.”

The SUV headed for the lights of Soldiers Field Road, banking across River Street to the two open gas stations. Dzhokhar went to fill up using Danny’s credit card, but quickly knocked on the window. “Cash only,” he said, at least at that hour. Tamerlan peeled off $50.

Danny watched Dzhokhar head to the store, struggling to decide if this was his moment — until he stopped thinking about it, and let reflexes kick in.

“I was thinking I must do two things: unfasten my seat belt and open the door and jump out as quick as I can. If I didn’t make it, he would kill me right out, he would kill me right away,” Danny said. “I just did it. I did it very fast, using my left hand and right hand simultaneously to open the door, unfasten my seat belt, jump out . . . and go.” Danny sprinted between the passenger side of the Mercedes and the pumps and darted into the street, not looking back, drawn to the Mobil station’s lights. “I didn’t know if it was open or not,” he said. “In that moment, I prayed.”

The brothers took off. The clerk, after brief confusion, dialed 911 on a portable phone, bringing it to Danny in the storeroom. The dispatcher told him to take a deep breath. The officers, arriving in minutes, took his story, with Danny noting the car could be tracked by his iPhone and by a Mercedes satellite system, mbrace.

After an hour or more — as the shoot-out and manhunt erupted in Watertown — police brought Danny to Watertown for a “drive-by lineup,” studying faces of detained suspects in the street from the safety of a cruiser. He recognized none of them. He spent the night talking to police and the FBI, appreciating the kindness of a state trooper who gave him a bagel and coffee. At 3 the next afternoon, they dropped Danny back in Cambridge.

“I think, Tamerlan is dead, I feel good, obviously safer. But the younger brother — I don’t know,” Danny recalled thinking, wondering if Dzhokhar would come looking for him. But the police knew the wallet and registration were still in the bullet-riddled Mercedes, and that a wounded Dzhokhar had probably not gotten far. That night, they found him in a boat.

When news of the capture broke, Danny’s roommate called to him from in front of the television. Danny was on the phone at the time, talking to the girl in New York.

[justdrew]

hey, check this out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al_A ... .80.932002

it presents a lot of these factettes in more context. Totally explains why he was invited to talk at a Bs pentagon luncheon... the peon tasked with finding a moderate imam looked in the media, and found him. post 9/11 he was making the rounds in media as a moderate American Muslim cleric.

The arrest and release are also explained, including the name of the persons responsible and the reasons.

This get's played up a lot, but the primary pusher of this factette was Rupert Murdock's FOX news, his NY Post and a couple of his republican congressmen. They constantly want to play both ends, "don't take our liberty" while calling for it to be taken from any and every convenient target for their faux-populist wrath.

The overriding purpose is to make americans distrust and hate their own government, for carrying out the very policies they constantly push for. RIGHT THERE is the nexus of the beast and in the end, I bet the whole shit storm of terrorism could be tracked right back to them. No doubt murdock is just a small part of it, but we're looking for a network of OLD, RICH, WHITE (and blue?), MEN, who're orchestrating this. The Church committee happened, the citizens assassinations review board happened. All that and more can happen again, with the political will to act on findings, but NOT if most everyone who pays attention is politically disabled by a psiwar agenda that removes their votes from the equations. We CAN still clean house.

Does this script sound familiar???

< ... >

A prominent Saudi has stock in Fox News Corp, yet Fox News aired an hour long documentary exposing Saudi intelligence and Awlaki's role in 9/11. Which in a way makes the Bush people look bad and certainly makes the Bush era CIA look bad.

neither of which looked particularly good to begin with. Anyway, occasionally they run something like that, the main psiwar purpose of which is to accomplish their job #1... Make the government look incompetent and agitate for more violations of civil liberties, so they can then cry about and point to as a reason why we need more freedumb loving republicans in office.

Also any re-thug will happily point out, "it was still Clinton's CIA at the time"

[stickdog99]

More on Danny Boy

There are many harrowing tales of tragedy as well as of survival in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Amid the terrible misfortune of the victims who lost life or limb there were also countless race-day spectators within range of the blasts who benefited from some element of luck or heroism.

Dozens of the injured were fortunate that the Boston Athletic Association’s reception tent was well staffed with emergency medical personnel ready to administer first aid and that top-notch Level 1 trauma centers were within minutes of the bombing site. Several people near the finish line were spared serious injury or death because obstacles or other spectators stood between them and the explosion.

Perhaps no one was more fortunate than a 26-year-old native of China who was not even at the Marathon, but had the most prolonged contact with the suspects. Going by the pseudonym of Danny to avoid attention, he came face-to-face with terror but lived to tell and someday testify about the encounter. His car and money were taken, but not his life.

Imagine how frightening it would be to stare down the barrel of a gun, only then to have your assailant announce he was one of the Marathon bombers. In many similar situations, shrewd criminals have executed innocent victims and bystanders merely to eliminate potential witnesses to their crimes. This carjacking victim was smart enough to convince his assailants he was not a threat, at least long enough to seize an opportunity for escape.

Whether it involved stupidity or sloppiness on the part of the assailants, certain factors helped to buffer Danny from harm and possible death. As the drive around Brighton, Cambridge, Somerville, and then back to Cambridge dragged on for well over an hour, a personal connection was formed between Danny and the two suspects. With prolonged interaction, the Tsarnaev brothers would have come to view Danny as a human being, whereas all those they allegedly killed or injured at the Marathon were to them just faceless targets.

Criminals often find it easier to murder those with whom they have no direct contact. The bombing seems to have been an attack against American life, not specifically American lives. Those killed and injured were unfortunate surrogates of the intended target: America and the freedoms we enjoy.

The other critical element that may have served Danny well was his nationality — the way he looked and the way he spoke. Given his limited time in the United States, his English is far from polished.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reportedly confessed that he and his older brother were indeed motivated by ideology.

As Islamist extremists, they hated America — and by association Americans — for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As soldiers in their holy struggle, they would have identified Danny as anything but American. He was not blameworthy, directly or by association. And Danny did his clever best to portray himself as a newcomer, telling his abductors he had been in the United States for a much shorter time than he actually had.

The 90-minute confrontation between suspected terrorists and victim finally ended when Danny managed to escape by running from the car as they were stopped for gas. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, obviously lulled by Danny’s compliance, made but a token gesture at stopping him.

No one can say for sure what might have happened had Danny’s car not needed refueling. Even so, Danny certainly can count his blessings that his only victimization came in the form of intense fear and a few dollars, but not even a scratch to his body.

There is no doubt that Danny’s actions and composure under unimaginable stress remain a critical part of what brought this case to a close.

[justdrew]

Check it out... this is JUST ONE DAYS worth of atrocity from the corporation most in need of a corporate death penalty...

thanks to http://www.newshounds.us/

Bret Baier’s Lapdog Interview With President And Laura Bush
Posted by Brian and Ellen · April 25, 2013 11:41 PM · 2 reactions

Special Report today featured a lengthy interview with former President and Mrs. George W Bush. The interview aired on the day Bush’s Presidential Library opened. There were no questions about WMD’s, Katrina or the Great Recession. But Baier did not take long before giving Bush openings to criticize President Obama over the Boston bombings. Bush was gracious enough to turn them aside. But he did hint that he and Baier are palsy by making such comments as, “You know me well enough to know…” and later, “I play golf like you play golf.”


Fox Demands Answers About Welfare Payments to Boston Bombers
Posted by Margarita · April 25, 2013 6:55 PM · 3 reactions

Further to previous posts about Fox News getting its knickers in a twist over reports that the Boston bombers received support from government programs ("bombed the hands that fed them" as one Fox headline puts it): pundits have spent a fair bit of time in the past 24 hours trying to whip up anger at the Massachusetts government for refusing to release information about government payments to the bombers. So far they don't seem to have had massive amounts of success.


Dennis Miller Uses Boston Marathon Bombing To Advocate Ending Lifeline Telephone Program
Posted by Ellen · April 25, 2013 5:42 PM · 2 reactions

Dennis Miller picked up the Fox News ball of using the news that Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had received public assistance as a means to smear social welfare programs. Just as Sean Hannity later used the information to suggest that welfare recipients are, or should be known as, enemies of good Americans, Dennis Miller got more specific and suggested that the Lifeline telephone program, misnamed as “Obamaphones” by Fox Newsies, is likely to become a tool for terrorists.


Fox News Features Extremist Anti-Abortion Priest Who Wants To Conduct Funerals For Remains In Gosnell Clinic
Posted by Priscilla · April 25, 2013 3:54 PM · 6 reactions

As part of their week long anti-Islamic hate fest, Fox News braying heads continue to bray about the dangers of "radical Islam." So it was interesting to see that their "news" programming would feature a man who is part of an all male religious group dedicated to extremist views that pose a real threat to women and doctors. No, I'm not talking about some radical jihadist mullah, but Catholic priest Fr. Frank Pavone who is part of an order of Catholic priests devoted to putting an end to safe, legal abortion. Pavone was last seen on Fox touting his daring "rescue" of a terminally ill Canadian child. Today, he was on Fox's "news" show "Happening Now" where he spoke about his desire to obtain the bodies from Gosnell's clinic so he can give them a Catholic funeral. While he seems benign enough, his writings say otherwise. But he's pro-life and that's all that matters on "fair & balanced" Fox News which is always happy to provide him with a pulpit for "pro-life" propaganda.


Blackburn Uses Gosnell Case To Feign Concern For Minorities
Posted by Ellen · April 25, 2013 3:50 PM · 3 reactions

As News Hounds Priscilla has pointed out, Fox has been exploiting the criminal case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell to advance its anti-abortion agenda and its “liberal” media victimhood. But nothing, in my opinion, has matched the howler of Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn – whose voting record earned her a 25% rating from the NAACP and 0% from NARAL – going on The O’Reilly Factor and pretending to be acting out of concern for minority women. Bill O’Reilly – who has his own dubious record on minorities and women – gave her a pass.


Jon Stewart Skewers Fox News Eager Shredding Of The Constitution In Wake Of Boston Bombings
Posted by Ellen · April 25, 2013 1:43 PM · 6 reactions

After a week of Fox News hate mongering and disrespect for the Constitution, all I can say is, thank God we have Jon Stewart on our side!


Fox Nation Gay Baiting Headline Cites "Lesbian Rape"
Posted by Priscilla · April 25, 2013 12:28 PM · 7 reactions

According to our legal system, rape is rape regardless of the perpetrators sexual orientation. But in the homophobic world of Fox Nation, not all rapes are created equal. According to one of its headlines, when a gay person is accused of rape, it's not just rape - but a gay rape as evidenced by this morning's "Blonde Teacher Busted for Lesbian Rape." Given the hostility of the denizens of Fox Nation towards the LGBT community, one wonders if this special designation is meant to reinforce the right wing belief that gays are scary, sexual predators and *pedophiles who shouldn't be allowed near children. Go figure!


Steve Doocy Hosts Conservative Student To Smear MI School Superintendent For "Liberal Bias"
Posted by Priscilla · April 25, 2013 11:11 AM · 4 reactions

After having his speech, at a Grosse Pointe high school cancelled, Rick Santorum was subsequently allowed to give his address after the school was assured that the speech would be about leadership and not divisive social issues - not, as claimed by Bill O'Reilly, because "The Factor" complained. The school's right wing "Young Americans for Freedom," however, asserts that the initial decision was due to Santorum's social views - something that the school denies. But as this allegation dovetails nicely with the Fox News meme about "liberal bias" in the schools, it wasn't surprising to see Steve Doocy, during a "Trouble With Schools" segment, interview a YAF student about liberal persecution, which OMG included a requirement that students get permission to attend the speech. Aww...


Hannity Guest: Obama’s Middle Name ‘A Clue’ To His ‘Weakness’ On Terrorism
Posted by Ellen · April 25, 2013 8:00 AM · 10 reactions

In a night of all hate all the time on Fox, the Hannity show’s segment with Bill Cunningham stood out last night both for the bigoted level he and Sean Hannity happily sank to in order to smear President Obama and for the fact that Fox passed off as legitimate opinion the preposterous allegation that Obama's caution in using the term "Islamic terrorism" has endangered the country.

[stickdog99]

Introducing Danny Boy's Media Handler, James Allan Fox

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public
Policy, holding a joint faculty appointment in the College of Criminal Justice and the
Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. He has written 18 books,
including The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder (Allyn & Bacon), Extreme
Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (Sage) and Violence and Security on
Campus: From Preschool through College (Praeger). He has published dozens of
journal and magazine articles, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, youth crime,
school and campus violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment. He has also
published nearly 200 op-ed columns in newspapers around the country, including the
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Boston
Globe and USA Today, and wrote a bi-weekly column in the Boston Herald in 2006-
2007. He also writes a Crime and Punishment blog for the Boston Globe.. As an
authority on homicide, he frequently appears on national television news programs,
including the Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline, and 20/20, and is regularly
interviewed by the press. He was profiled in a two-part cover story in USA Today, in
feature stories in the New York Times and the Scientific American, as well as in other
media outlets. He also served as a consulting contributor for Fox News following the
9/11 terrorist attack and as an NBC News Analyst during the DC Sniper case. Fox often
gives lectures and expert testimony, including over 100 keynote or campus-wide
addresses around the country, 16 appearances before the U.S. Congress, White House
meetings with President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice President Gore on youth violence,
private briefings to Attorney General Reno on trends in violence, and a presentation for
Princess Anne of Great Britain. He served on President Clinton‘s advisory committee on
school shootings, and a Department of Education Expert Panel on Safe, Disciplined and
Drug-Free Schools. ...

Profiled in CBS 48 Hours and CNN Anderson Cooper. Hundreds of
interviews on national programs, including Face the Nation, The CBS
Evening News, and The CBS Morning News (CBS); Good Morning
America, Primetime Live, Nightline, 20/20 and World News Tonight (ABC);
Meet the Press, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, Unsolved Mysteries,
and The NBC Evening News (NBC); The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The
90's (PBS); The News with Brian Williams, MSNBC Investigative Reports,
Donahue (MSNBC); Anderson Cooper 360, Larry King Live, Reliable
Sources, Inside Politics, Connie Chung, Nancy Grace, Crossfire, and Late
Edition Live, News Stand (CNN); On the Record, A Current Affair, Under
Scrutiny, Fox Network News, On the record with Greta, Fox and Friends,
O’Reilly Factor, America’s Most Wanted (FOX); Rivera Live (CNBC);
Washington Journal (C-SPAN); Primetime Justice, Cochran & Company,
Pros and Cons ((COURT); The 700 Club (CBN), American Justice and
The 20th Century with Mike Wallace (HISTORY); Investigative Reports
(A&E); Our Home (Learning Channel); on nationally syndicated programs,
including Oprah, Geraldo, Leeza Gibbons; Donahue, Sally Jessy Raphael,
Bertice Berry, Montel Williams, Maury Povich, Rolanda, Hour Magazine,
Inside Edition, Hard Copy, EXTRA, USA Today on TV, Sonya, The Shirley
Show (Canada) and The Dini Petty Show (Canada); and local programs
across the country.

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Who better to call in for this job than the guy who literally wrote the book Explaining Senseless Murder?