Fox News Host: "We Have Saved the Planet" with Wars like Iraq

[n2doc]

Remember the planet before America started invading parts of it? God, what a shithole. Just a total mess. Since then, though: pretty much perfect, right? That's the improbable assessment Fox News' Charles Payne delivered on Sunday while discussing criticism of American Sniper.

"It's a pretty simple thing, you watch the movie, he saved American lives," said Payne of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. "And he went through a tough struggle to do it, but it was a job that had to be done." A mostly empty if not unfamiliar sentiment about the war in Iraq. Payne, however, was just getting started:

Look at the death toll that we had protecting people in a different country because that's what America does. We've been the world's policeman, and guess what's happened over the time we've become the world's policeman?

A billion people in other countries have moved into the middle class. We had India on TV earlier. If it wasn't for Americans dying around the world, the rest of the world would be in abject poverty.

"We have saved the planet," concluded Payne, "and if we go away as [the world's] policeman, it's going to be hell to pay for everyone."
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http://gawker.com/fox-news-host-invasions-like-iraq-saved-the-planet-1681668551

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Gandhi

[ND-Dem]

9. +100. "Saved" for western capital.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Yup!! He speakith for the 1%ers.

Yup,we got the money and you all got the shaft(bill). What do you expect from Fake Noise? Reality not!!!!

[Octafish]

3. Rupert Murdoch works for CIA

Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda

Special Report: The rapid expansion of America’s right-wing media began in the 1980s as the Reagan administration coordinated foreign policy initiatives with conservative media executives, including Rupert Murdoch, and then cleared away regulatory hurdles, reports Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews.com, December 31, 2014

EXCERPT...

Helping Murdoch

Murdoch, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1985 to meet a regulatory requirement that U.S. TV stations must be owned by Americans, benefited from his close ties to both U.S. and British officialdom.

On Monday, the UK’s Independent reported that Ed Richards, the retiring head of the British media regulatory agency Ofcom, accused British government representatives of showing favoritism to Murdoch’s companies.

Richards said he was “surprised” by the informality, closeness and frequency of contact between executives and ministers during the failed bid by Murdoch’s News Corp. for the satellite network BSkyB in 2011. The deal was abandoned when it was discovered that journalists at Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid had hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and others.

“What surprised everyone about it – not just me – was quite how close it was and the informality of it,” Richards said, confirming what had been widely reported regarding Murdoch’s access to powerful British politicians dating back at least to the reign of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. The Reagan documents suggest that Murdoch built similarly close ties to leading U.S. politicians in the same era.

In 1983, Murdoch’s rising media empire was still based in Australia with only a few U.S. properties, such as the Star tabloid and the New York Post. But he was eyeing expansion into the U.S. media market. In 1984, he bought a stake in 20th Century Fox and then six Metromedia television stations, which would form the nucleus of Fox Broadcasting Company, which was founded on Oct. 9, 1986.

At the time, Murdoch and other media moguls were lobbying for a relaxation of regulations from the Federal Communications Commission, a goal that Reagan shared. Under FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, the Reagan administration undertook a number of steps favorable to Murdoch’s interests, including increasing the number of TV stations that any single entity could own from seven in 1981 to 12 in 1985.

In 1987, the “Fairness Doctrine,” which required political balance in broadcasting, was eliminated, which enabled Murdoch to pioneer a more aggressive conservatism on his TV network. In the mid-1990s, Murdoch expanded his political reach by founding the neoconservative Weekly Standard in 1995 and Fox News on cable in 1996. At Fox News, Murdoch has hired scores of prominent politicians, mostly Republicans, putting them on his payroll as commentators.

Last decade, Murdoch continued to expand his reach into U.S. mass media, acquiring DirecTV and the financial news giant Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal, America’s leading business news journal.

CONTINUED...

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/31/murdoch-scaife-and-cia-propaganda/

While they may've saved the planet for themselves, they're in the process of getting rid of those unfit to inhabit their dream world through war, want, disease, and other deprivations.

[TimeToEvolve]

12. THIS!!!!!!!

thanks for posting this!

[arcane1]

4. "Americans dying around the world" is a good thing? Sounds like something Fred Phelps would say.

If dead soldiers are a good thing, then God loves it when they die, right? And we should thank God for their deaths, if we follow this idiot's logic.

[mountain grammy]

5. what can anyone say? It's so divorced from reality.

The network that will say literally anything to see if it sticks.

[spanone]

6. idjit

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Correction! "We have saved the planet FOR THE ELITES with Wars like Iraq."

That war and all the other wars in our history has always been about making more money through taking and controlling oil and other natural resources of the invaded countries for the American elites.

They don't give a good goddamn about innocent people dying. NO ONE should believe their tripe! If they cared about the lives of innocent people - specifically, Americans - we'd have universal health care ever since the New Deal and a $25 living wage instead of trying to repeal health care insurance and denying health care to the "least among us" while impoverishing Americans with slave wages. Let us be clear at least on that.

So they can take their bullshit propaganda and shove it where the moon don't shine.

[Archae]

8. Charles is a Payne.

In the ass.

[ND-Dem]

10. and a crook.

In 1999 Payne settled with the SEC over a complaint alleging that on at least eight occasions, Wall Street Strategies recommended that its clients purchase Members stock through recorded messages on its telephonic stock recommendation service. The Complaint also alleged that Payne failed to disclose that he received payments from Members to promote Members stock. Without admitting or denying the alleged violations, Payne consented to the entry of a permanent injunction against violations of Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933. In addition, Payne agreed to pay a civil penalty of $25,000.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Payne_(journalist)


is there anybody who's not on the take these days?

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Who is this "we" he is referring to???

[catbyte]

13. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny,

"What a maroon."

[yuiyoshida]

14. What an Arrogant Ass he is...

Who is pinning BADGES on Americans, to go Police other Nations? Its not the United Nations.. we have self-appointed ourselves, because Republicans are arrogant blowhards. We haven't even fixed things here in America yet...

Goman na hito ga Kirada... I hate Arrogance.