As a horrific child molestation scandal has rocked Penn State and gripped the nation, Fox News declared that Occupy Wall Street is every parent’s worst nightmare.
Here is the video from Media Matters:
After roughly a minute of the standard Fox News bashing of Occupy Oakland, Brian Kilmeade asked, “What is the biggest nightmare for a parent? Waking up in the morning and spotting one of your kids on one of the Occupy movements.”
No, Brian Kilmeade, Occupy Wall Street isn’t a parent’s worst nightmare, not even close. A parent’s worst nightmare is the sexual molestation of their child. A parent’s worst nightmare is that other adults knew of the abuse, but turned a blind eye and did not call the police. The scandal that has shattered the Pennsylvania State University is every parent’s worst nightmare.
A parent’s worst nightmare shouldn’t be college aged students engaged in a peaceful protest against corruption, greed, and inequality. Parents should be horrified by thousands of their children rioting because legendary football coach Joe Paterno was abruptly fired on Wednesday night. Parents should be horrified that their children are more concerned about the fate of an 84 year old figurehead of a football coach than they are the children who were the innocent victims of a sexual predator.
For anyone who thinks that Joe Paterno was unjustly fired because he lived up to legal responsibility consider that Paterno was not only the football coach, the former athletic director, and a legend, but he was also the man whose football success funded the athletic department and brought the university immeasurable prestige. Joe Paterno was a very powerful man. Paterno was not another employee of the athletic department. In some ways, he was the athletic department.
One phone call from Paterno to the police would have stopped sexual predator Jerry Sandusky years ago. If Paterno wanted the administration to notify the authorities, it would have happened. It’s about priorities. Paterno placed concern for the university that he loves and his football program ahead of a sexual predator’s victims. Joe Paterno didn’t break the law, but his decision led to the shattering of the myth of the Penn State Way.
It was mind blowingly out of touch for Brian Kilmeade to have suggested that attendance at Occupy Wall Street is every parent’s worst nightmare. No matter when it was uttered, it would have been a gross exaggeration, but for a Fox News personality to utter those words now, in the midst of this scandal is simply inexcusable and unfathomable.
To Fox News, protesters exercising their constitutional rights are worse than a sexual predator abusing young children while those around him turn a blind eye.
From Fox News to student rioters and Joe Paterno, at the end of the day it really is all about priorities.
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Reynardine
Nov. 10th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
With all the crises facing middle earth, it disgusted me that a rabble at Penn State erupted because their coach, with one foot over the croak-hole and the other on a banana peel anyway, was fired for this kind of nonfeasance. As for the demographics of that rabble – res ipsa loquitur.
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Anne
Nov. 10th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
The OWS protesters are acting on behalf of millions of Americans who have been short-changed by the rampant greed embodied by Wall Street and its political lackeys. The protest at the coach’s firing stems directly from the kind of cruelly self-centered immaturity which fails to take the suffering of the true victims into account–namely, those little boys that no one at Penn State took up for when it counted.
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mathazar
Nov. 10th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
And a child’s worst nightmare is to wake up and find their parents watching POX News. (happened to me) :(
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SinghX
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 8:55 am
I cannot apologize enough…an act such as this on you soul makes me sad. I feel your pain…I know…I have a sister who thinks Palin is terrific.
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KatzKids
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Or a parent finding out her son watches Fox News. It happened to me.
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Zookeeper
Nov. 10th, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Fux Gnus is a major symptom of what’s wrong with our society today.
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Cha
Nov. 10th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Mediawhore$$ like fox screws is our Nation’s Worst Nightmare..thanks to the facist billionaire plunderer, rupert murdoch, and his puppet, roger ailes.
They’re so scared of OWS because they know they could be coming for them next. That’s right fox..try to make OWS the boogie man..you dripping morons.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Doocy, Gretchen and Kilmeade. The biggest example of bad propaganda on earth. You have to ask yourself, does the head of Fox News smile when he goes to bed at how dumb people are to watch these 3, or at how dumb these 3 are.
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Dr K
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
These three are walking poster children for abortion. Too bad their parents didn’t take advantage of the opportunity to use a condom.
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Robert
Nov. 12th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Fox not-News and the morning three stooges news. The program is just so silly, it pretty much is what you would expect the news to look like if the three stooges we hosting and you can’t tell there would be no one better to play Mo that Gretchen, she has got the Mo charcter down pat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtwlHV1-O8&feature=related.
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Deni
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Gretchen…Stanford called…they want their diploma back. Sheesh. Three idiots speaking to hundreds of thousands of idiots on a daily basis.
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kimbutgar
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Everyone I know who defends Paterno I say to them, “what if it was your child and no one reported it how would you feel if Paterno did not notify the authorities”? They get silent and say you have a good point. That said those three idiots on the couch at fake news are so clueless about the suffering that the unemployed and working people are experiencing now. Eventually as to why OWS is out there, will help to peel away the viewers of the fake news channel. This time their propaganda is not going to work there are bigger forces at work and those old people who watch fake news will slowly wake up to the realization that republicans want to do away with social security and medicare. The repukes say they won’t harm current beneficiaries well I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn real cheap.
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Joanne Hook
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Faux Gnus is one of the four worse sources of “neo-conservative” propaganda out there. The other three being Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. Oh they have all the answers alright! :-P “All the answers you need to know…” apparently. They are just not the answers that are right for anyone living on a salary of less than a million dollars a year.
We are in the midst of an agenda where a plutocracy is attempting to further solidify itself, by posing as a theocracy, and keeping people focused on anti-abortion and same sex marriage, while buying out politicians and generally driving the once middle class out of existence – which is what the OWS movement is out to stop. Even so, these dirt bags at Faux seem to have their traditional values mixed up and their priorities are those who those who are pulling their puppet strings – as well as pulling off the largest confidence scam in the history of mankind.
This is just another example where they are hypocritical. If one is truly in favor of right to life, then this must run from conception to the grave – and not an early grave caused by lack of food, housing, medical care or equality under the law. To rephrase George Carlin, “If you are prenatal, you are OK. If you are preschool, you are screwed.” How can anyone protect an embryo but fail in their concern about children and young adults?
No wonder Don Henley dedicated “Dirty laundry” to Mr. Murdoch.
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Rick
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
I have friends whose son is currently serving in Afghanistan. I’m guessing they would give everything they have to see him at an OWS rally instead.
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Reynardine
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Over at News Hounds, they have posted more Foxhead commentary calling for the maiming and murder of OWS protesters, as well as more incitement in the form of “queries” as to whether Eric Holder has committed treason. I suggest: (a) reviving Beauharnais v. Illinois, just for them; (b) shutting down Fox broadcast stations for not operating in the public interest; (c) replacing Eric Holder… With Alan Grayson.
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Aaron
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Is this a joke? I don’t even like Faux News, but trying to lambaste them for an offhanded JOKE is ridiculous.
If they had JUST come off the story about the disgusting Penn State allegations, yeah, ok, maybe you have a point, but the comment the guy makes has NO REFERENCE to that story. It was just a comment.
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Inez
Nov. 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
I gave up watching Fox News many months ago. This latest “reporting” is just an example oftheir priorities. Sick! Molestation of a child evidently is insignifant compared to OWS. Boycott Fox, as I have done…
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A Walkaway
Nov. 12th, 2011 at 9:26 am
On the topic… there was an editorial in our paper today about the seeming lack of concern about the children and why the crimes weren’t reported – and the editorial seemed to be asking why the school seemed to be covering things up.
I thought about writing a letter telling about all of the men and women I’ve communicated with (or listened to) who had been sexually abused by their preacher/pastor/priest/”youth minister”, and how the church not only denied that it happened, but even went so far as to punish the victim for saying anything. That is such a common story among walkaways that I look at most (not all) clergy as potential pedophiles – at least, I consider the chance that they are to be very high.
There is a relationship between sexual abuse like they reported and authority. The more authoritarian a structure is, the more likely the people at the top will be involved. That sort of structure seems to attract pedophiles (and rapists and abusive people) because it gives them the protection and “Position” they need to further their activities.
And the news… they wonder why things like this happen? They need to look in the mirror – they’re part of the problem!
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