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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.

The difference being that Osama is more significant to the middle east than Eric Raymond is to the United States, or even the South. You don't throw something out there in a responsible media organization just because somebody said it. But, if it's somebody with a following of at least tens of thousands...

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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.

True. But they've got that Fair and Balanced slogan, and then 90% of the commentators are conservative. Alan Colmes does not count, he's simply there to make the conservative bulldog Holmes look good. Hannity's not a bad good, but you put somebody intelligent in there with him, and they tear his blind rhetoric to pieces. Not to mention the "We Report, You Decide" slogan, but then Bill O'Reilly is screaming at you what to believe in prime time. I should start watch Special Report with Brit Hume again to see if Juan Williams is still in there trying to fight the good fight for the liberals.


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And, finally, if it unclear to anyone, I am not advocating any censorship.

Point taken. I did that on one of your other threads about Islamic converts. Was responding to that idiot Rick Savage I hear in my car on the radio at night. Even though you hadn't come close to saying half that.

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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.

We need to impeach Bush if they're not already spying on al-Jazeera. No way at least some of the reporters aren't hooked-up.