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Ah! Excellent! I was worried Phlog was going to chicken out on bashing people who are not absolutely demonstrably terrorists but are related to them. People who have been watching have seen this building for a week or so.




Me..."chicken out"? Never! Porn forums must be kept safe from Islamic terrorists and their domestic lackeys!

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I've never seen this before, but their endorsement does make al-Jazeera look bad. However if you learned that the Christian Coalition played Fox News at breaks during their political conventions, would this mean Fox supported the War on Pornography or zealous anti-abortion laws?




I am unsure what the collective politics of the Fox network execs may be. They may be ideological conservatives, or maybe they found a niche market - specifically the vast majority of Americans who aren't liberal Democrats. Chistian groups are definitely a part of this niche market, although I have yet see a Fox host endorse the violent excesses of these groups, by, for example, airing propaganda videos on behalf of Eric Rudolf like AJ does Osama or Zarqawi.


Fox's bias is a bit different from that of other networks, since Fox's on-air talent consists of people openly identified as commentators: O'Reilly, Hannity, Colmes, Rivera, etc. They aren't expected to do much else than offer opinions. I don't think there is a Fox equivalent of Dan Rather, who is identified as a journalist, yet attached an editorial slant to much of his reporting. So, although it is reasonable to see a bias in Fox, it is coming from people openly designated as ideologues, so I am a bit more forgiving than ABC, NBC, NPR, etc.


And, finally, if it unclear to anyone, I am not advocating any censorship. I think keeping this propagandized "news" within the monitoring eyes of America's security apparatus may actually prove to have substantial benefits. I just hope the NSA has every phone at AJ's offices monitored, and an agent creeping behind every Al-Qaeda courier dropping off the latest propaganda video. I actually think AJ might be an unwitting tool against terrorism in this regard.