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John Oliver busts Fox News using 5-year-old clip of chanting Muslims to create fear of terrorist refugees
by Tom Boggioni at The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/john-oliver-busts-fox-news-using-5-year-old-clip-of-chanting-muslims-to-create-fear-of-terrorist-refugees/
"SNIP..............
The anchor then cautioned, Were not saying that any of those people are terrorists or in any way affiliated with a terror group, but it does highlight just how many of these refugees who are fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria are Muslim.
Oliver then unloaded on the network.
OK, first, you dont get to claim that youre not calling those people terrorists when your lower third says, Terrorists Inbound? question mark. If youre really not saying theyre terrorists, maybe change that to something more accurate, like People Take Train, or Some Wear Hats, Others Less So.' he lectured. And second, describing that as a new video that sheds light on the migrant crisis is a little misleading, because in researching this story, we found a version of that same video uploaded onto YouTube back in 2010, well before this migrant crisis even began. And, if you are going to use misleading, old footage to make people frightened of Muslims, why stop there? Just go the whole way and use a clip from True Lies.
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