Offering frequent news and analysis from the majestic Evergreen State and beyond, The Cascadia Advocate is the Northwest Progressive Institute's unconventional perspective on world, national, and local politics.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Fox anchor calls Senator Ted Kennedy "hostile enemy" of United States

This is not very civil.
This morning on Fox News, anchor Gretchen Carlson called Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) a “hostile enemy” of the United States because he has demanded that Congress vote on whether to approve funding for escalation in Iraq. In an interview with White House counselor Dan Bartlett, Carlson compared Kennedy to insurgents and terrorists in Iraq, saying that Kennedy represented the same kind of force “right here on the home front.”
This is a stupid game and the American people aren't buying it any more. Anyone who thinks Fox News is real also believes professional wrestling is real. It's widely known that Fox gets it marching orders from the White House and the RNC, so this stunt is just typical right wing posturing.

Has it dawned on Rovian spawn Bartlett that one reason Democrats at the grass roots got off the mat is because they got tired of being called traitors for disagreeing with administration policy?

Keep it up, Fox Republicans, keep it up. You call Ted Kennedy a traitor, you call all of us traitors. Basically what you're doing is allowing us to laugh in the faces of reporters who want to talk about civility and bi-partisanship. We always knew you would never be able to conduct yourselves in a civil fashion, so I don't know why the press kept pushing that silly idea in the first place.

There are other things that should be said, and will be said elsewhere, but I'm not allowed to say them on this particular blog. But when I go fishing and I put a worm on a hook, I pretend to be the worm talking to the fish, encouraging the fish to take the bait.

<< Home