Response to Fox Propaganda

 There are many theories and controversies about Aids' origins. The one Rev. Wright cites involving U.S. culpability may be on the fringe, but it’s in the mix. Wright has the experience of being part of the ethnic minority whom the U.S. Government experimented on with syphilis. His suspicions about Aids aren’t without roots and could be yours if you were in the group experimented upon earlier with a deadly disease. Not something you learn on the self proclaimed, but neither fair nor balanced channel.

 John McCain with endorsements he solicited had his own controversial pastor connections. The Rev. John Hagee, leader of a Texas mega-church, called the Catholic Church the great whore, a false cult system, and other damning phrases. The Rev. Rod Parseley maligned the Muslim religion; McCain said he rejected the view but didn't reject the endorsement. McCain got around to rejecting it after criticism and rejected Hagee's endorsement when it was reported Hagee made a remark offensive to Jews.

 On the other hand, Obama immediately renounced the support, which he did not seek, from Rev. Louis Farrakhan. Nonetheless, FNC persisted with: Obama associations with Farrakhan. Maybe we should excuse the FNC gaggle as slow learners, in need of remedial education, and send them to media special education classes.

 They told us Obama didn’t wear the flag pin; politicians are expected to wear their patriotism on their lapel. A patriotic person could easily be upset by a refusal to display the flag he believes he fought for. Obama maintained that superficial displays are empty. Patriotism's been called the last refuge of a scoundrel. Obama was attempting a more thoughtful, less demonstrative patriotism. But that’s too high minded for a country endeared with the superficial.  In order to end a useless argument, Obama wore the pin.

 A U.S. Marine who Marines may not be aware of was Major General Smedley Butler. At the time of his death (1940) Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history, including the medal of honor twice. In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler voiced fierce condemnation of the real motive, not patriotism or defending America, but profit motive, behind warfare. “I was a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism,” the most decorated Marine declared.

 The U.S. operates on multiple powerful fronts to enforce corporate interests. The international economic role of the U.S. is revealed by John Perkins in the 2004 book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. (They)...cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign aid organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources." Countries are muscled into loans they can't repay. The gap between rich and poor widens. Perkins cites country leaders who didn't go along and died under mysterious circumstances.

 This other U.S. role around the world (not the tale of promoting democracy) is not revealed by U.S. corporate media (liberal?). Yet, the world is aware of the facts even as the U.S. public, in whose name the abuses exist, is ignorant. But when citizens are hit in the face by reality, blame is scapegoated elsewhere.

 When the well educated, informed, Michelle Obama expresses pride in her country for the first time, our history has to be on her mind. You can be excoriated for knowledge. No wonder so few Americans confront reality. Acceptance of myths is safe and well rewarded. But there are critics. Lou Dobbs, the "pro- America" broadcaster, speaking on the Imus in the Morning radio program of his concerns about U.S. business and trade, asked when was the last time you could say you are proud of some of the deals the United States was making around the world. I can’t think of the last time anyone could have said that. Unfortunately, he might not even be aware of the economic hit men's activities. When Michelle Obama later insisted she was proud of her country, it was for the good things it has done. But that isn't emphasized by FNC.

 Barack Obama was maligned by FNC myth purveyors for stating the established fact that the U.S. had bombed Afghanistan villages. Discussing the facts is offensive to FNC operatives, except when their candidate does the same. President Bush stated: "(Afghan President Hamid Karzai) rightly expressed his concerns about civilian casualties. And I assured him that we share those concerns." Secretary of Defense Gates apologized for them. Factcheck.org reports that a senior U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. McKiernan, stated that increased reliance upon aerial bombing was to blame for the rise in civilian casualties. Obama was criticizing the administration's military strategy, not the troops.

 Will FNC equally repeat over and over that the highly respected former Marine Corps Commandant James Jones accepted the post of national security advisor under President-elect Obama? What! The top Marine now leading the national security team of a traitor to the U.S. military? And the Republican Secretary of Defense stays on in the Obama administration. FNC believers may suffer mental whiplash if they hear this and about Obama's other military support.

 The FNC bottom feeders decried that Obama attended dinners with a Palestinian rights activist, Rashid Khalidi. The charge was that anti-Israeli statements were uttered by someone at one dinner so another Obama association. However, a McCain chaired organization actually gave $448,873 in funding to Khalidi's work! We didn’t hear that. Incidentally, the Palestinian homeland cause is supported even by Bush. Fair and balanced reporting?

 The FNC myth purveyors told us repeatedly that indicted Chicago fund raiser Tony Rezko helped Obama purchase property (next to Obama’s home extending his yard) at reported market value but making Resko's own parcel less valuable for development. Although ethical, Obama says, it was a bonehead thing to accept, causing the appearance of impropriety. There is no evidence Obama gave anything to Rezko. Rezko had been a fundraiser for Obama and Republicans including George W. Bush! which FNC ignores.
 
The claim that Obama voted against a law for caring for a baby born after a failed abortion should outrage anyone, regardless of views on abortion.

 However, state senator Rick Winkel, Republican co-sponsor of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 5, 2008, stated regarding the bill in question: "None of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide...(language that Obama and others objected to that had amounted to a move to nullify Roe v. Wade, and language that the Illinois State Medical Society opposed in the bill was then changed). Republican Winkel continued "...I joined 116 state representatives and 54 senators in voting for HB-984, which contained the same born-alive definition and neutrality language as Senate Bill 1082, plus some extra language to satisfy the most zealous pro-choice legislators, yet harmless to the bill's purpose. No one voted against it. We had finally accomplished what we had set out to do - protect a newborn baby's life. "…which is what they should have done in the first place and which Obama supports along with a similar federal law, contrary to the FNC lies? NARAL itself supports it and was so quoted on the Christian Broadcast Network website. The egregious lie that Obama supports infanticide nonetheless remains in the right wing talking points.

 FNC's O'Reilly, Van Susteren, the intellectually challenged morning show and reporters all day and night presented these accusations and innuendo through election day as the issues to concern us over the real issues which their candidate McCain couldn’t win on. Hannity, week nights and weekends, with a program extolling his slanders as Hannity’s America, over and over repeated the accusations, and continues it now after the election, in machine gun litany: Obama associations---unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, pastor Jeremiah Wright who said 'goddamn America,' indicted fund raiser Tony Resko, Palestinian activist, voted against protecting children surviving abortion.

 Hannitys source for some of the charges was a man with the sometimes last name Martin. He has operated under different names, was barred from practicing law in Illinois due to a paranoid or psychotic history. Hannity gave this guy a platform to question Obama down to the existence of his birth certificate as an American citizen. The birth certificate was available on Obama’s website. Even conservative groups acknowledged it. Fact checking is not an impediment at the unfair and unbalanced channel.

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