Friday, June 20, 2003

March 14:  On The Fox Report anchor Shepard Smith reports that Saddam is planning to use flood water as a weapon by blowing up dams and causing severe flood damage.

March 19:  Fox anchor Shepard Smith reports that Iraqis are planning to detonate large stores of napalm buried deep below the earth to scorch coalition forces....

March 28:  Repeated assertions by Fox News anchors of a red ring around Baghdad in which Republican Guard forces were planning to use chemical weapons on coalition forces.  A Fox "Breaking News" flash reports that Iraqi soldiers were seen by coalition forces moving 55-gallon drums almost certainly containing chemical agents....


--excerpts from Dale Steinreich's rant "Fibbing It Up at Fox"

This is the kind of crap that's being fed to hundreds of thousands of Americans at any given time as "news." It's powerful propaganda that goes straight to the fight-or-flight part of the brain. It divides the world into pure good and pure evil. And no one ever rebuts it. Then America votes GOP, and we wonder why.

(Thanks to Cursor for the link.)

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