Fox News asks: "All-out civil war in Iraq...Could it be a good thing?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602240003

Only on Fox: "All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?"

Summary: Fox News featured two onscreen captions during a segment on escalating violence in Iraq that read: " 'Upside' To Civil War?" and "All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?"

A segment about escalating sectarian violence in Iraq on the February 23 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto featured onscreen captions that read: " 'Upside' To Civil War?" and "All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?"

The segment, guest-hosted by Fox News Live (noon-1:30 pm hour ET) anchor David Asman, featured commentary by Fox News military analyst Lt. Col. Bill Cowan and Center for American Progress senior fellow Col. P.J. Crowley.

[bullimiami]

1. is there no limit to what they will spin to try to cover bushs ass?

pitiful.

[theshadow]

2. "Getting cancer... a good thing! Coming up next!"

Talk about spin. And people believe this crap??

[area51]

20. I think that "Simpsons" episode wasn't far off the mark.

"Coming up next {on Faux} ... do Democrats cause cancer?"

[tinymontgomery]

3. So did they say

it was or wasn't?

[Neil Lisst]

4. Fox News Headlines are never subtle.

When an Osama tape is heard from and the market goes UP, it's
MARKET TELLS OSAMA 'YOU DON'T MATTER'

Same tape, market goes down and the headline reads
MARKET REACTS TO NEW TERROR FEARS

Of course, the market is usually not reacting to the tape at all, it's reacting to other factors.

[liberal N proud]

5. Sick bastards

What can be an upside to a Civil War that is happening because the bu$h regime had to stick their noses in the mid-east?
:mad:

[jimshoes]

6. Bubonic plague

could be a real boon to mankind.

Beneficial effects of tsunami's coming up after the break.

[Neverarepublican]

7. Advocating Death and Destruction

Unfu**ingbelievable!!!

What kind of upside is there to small babies dying in the crossfire?

How can they sleep at night after coming up with a story like that?

The amount of selfish Americans is incredible.

[rucky]

8. Now I'm suspecting we started it w/ the shrine.

I haven't thought that before, but FOX reports and I decide.

[rooboy]

9. If one replaced the words "Liberal" and "Democrats" with "Jew"...

it would become horrifyingly apparent how poisonous these pieces of shit are.

[GeorgeGist]

10. ...The Sheep Off in a Garbage Can...

kinda describes the Fox view of their audience.

[El Fuego]

11. Hey, let's ask the Iraqis!

How do you feel about your once prosperous stable society descending into total violent chaos? Is it good for you?

FOX MAKES ME SICK SICK SICK

[Armstead]

12. Nuclear War -- How YOU can profit from it

[chieftain]

13. Fat Tony Blankley was using a similar meme on a couple

of shows where he was a guest. His opinion was that maybe we need to side with the Shia in a civil war. Since its Fox and Fat Tony, this must be the new theory that is floating among the Neo cons. Since the civil war has started, Rove has to figure how to salvage W's sinking legacy. He and Doofus and the whole crowd do not care how many people are killed or maimed or how wrong headed the policy is. W must be protected no matter what the cost. Impeach the SOB before he sets the entire world on fire.

[truthisfreedom]

14. Fox: Cancer fights Plague... News at 11!

there's no truth left.

[Doctor_J]

15. BEB, why do you post Fox headlines here every day?

Do you need some sort of intervention to stop you from watching it?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. I don't watch it, these are from the Web Site...

...and while the school of thought on this is split somewhere around 50-50, I think it's important to keep an ear open to what the "other side" is saying...not because there's any VALUE to it...because "Bush voters" tune in to Hannity and Limbaugh and the rest and if they are being influenced and manipulated by this tripe, the only way to turn them around to the point where they NO LONGER vote for Bush and his ilk is if you know HOW they've been "programmed."

All through the Fox stuff, the Coulter and Limbaugh and the rest, you'll find Karl Rove's current agenda. His talking points, his strategy. It's like driving down the road after someone's hit a skunk...it's unmistakable, you can't miss it.

You cannot create a strategy to defeat an opponent by ignoring the opponent. Plus...like it or not, and I certainly DON'T...one of Rove's trademarks is that so far he's gotten away with determining the RULES of the game, choosing the PLAYING field, and that needs to stop.

There's a lot more to it than that, but that's close enough for rock & roll.

[salin]

17. Idiots.

Cheap snakeoil salesmen think that they can sell ANYTHING to the public.

[Toots]

18. If Americans are forced to leave because of it then I guess that is an up

There is no up side for Iraq, but if America can get the hell out now maybe a few more Americans will live for another day and that is indeed a good thing.

[Rocknrule]

19. "9/11 - was it a good thing after all?"

After all, it got the US into the War on Terra and resulted in Lord Bush's recorination and gave God's Own Party an excuse to attain absolute power :sarcasm:

[SONUVABUSH]

21. They must be right.

Because they are "compassionate conservatives" and they have the fluttering patriotic flag in the upper left hand corner.:patriot:

[July]

22. Just forget about those poor fucking Iraqis!!!

The shame of it.

[depakid]

23. Poster child for media re-regulation

It's gotten to the point where the vast majority of the country would support it- and if it went far enough- into cable, it's possible that Fox "news" might just get shut down- which it most assuredly deserves to be.