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Fox Apologizes for Jews Killed Jesus Poll But Not For Smearing US Muslims
It’s not just here in the US that Fox News takes its religious cultism and hate mongering to dangerous lows.
The propaganda network is global. Over Christmas, Fox Latin America staffers put a poll on a Facebook page promoting the National Geographic Channels’ Christmas special that asked whether Jews killed Jesus. The poll asked whether they thought Pontius Pilate, the Jewish People, or the High Priests were responsible for killing Christ.
MSNBC reports:
The Simon Weisenthal Center in Buenos Aires calls it a defamatory reference to Vatican propaganda that “resulted in the persecution and murder of Jews for two millennia.”
The Jewish group says it’s outraged that Fox would perpetuate an idea that the Vatican annulled back in 1965.
The notion that Jews killed Jesus Christ has damaged Jewish-Christian relations for centuries and even the Vatican renounced the notion forty years ago.
Fox spokeswoman Guadalupe Lucero apologized for the poll, saying, “We sincerely apologize for the publication of a poll that might have unintentionally given place to interpretations, opinions or expressions of intolerance affecting the Jewish community. We deeply regret the incident.”
It’s great that Fox Latin America apologized for hate-baiting. Now, what about all of the Muslim-bashing, liberal-bashing, Obama-bashing, Democrat-bashing, poor-bashing, and basic other-bashing they do here in the United States?
Here’s a few examples of Fox News Muslim bashing courtesy of Media Matters:
Discussing NYC Islamic center, Beck asks, “[A]fter you’ve killed 3,000 people, you’re going to now build your mosque”?
Fox Business promotes discredited activist Pam Geller, who says Obama has “an anti-Semitic history”
Morris: Park51 would be a “command center for terrorism”
Beck, Geller push falsehood that Ground Zero “mosque” will open on September 11
Limbaugh on NYC Islamic center: “Why not have” KSM trial there? “Pick the jurors from the congregants”
After stoking fears about Muslim birth rate, Beck says we’re on “edge of the precipice,” across which is “Dark Ages”
Limbaugh compares NYC Islamic center to Tim McVeigh memorial near Murrah Federal Building
Media Matters breaks this down:
Insert “Jewish” or “Catholic” into the Islamic references above and see if you think the press would make a big deal about a similar Fox News and far-right hate crusade that targeted a different faith in America….
And yes, there’s a connection between the recent race-baiting and today’s fresh Muslim-bashing as Fox News remains at the forefront of a long-running smear effort (see “terrorist fist jab”) to depict the president of the United States as some sort of Manchurian Candidate whose true allegiance lays elsewhere. The NAACP? The New Black Panther Party? Mecca? That answer bounces around from week to week. But the implication is clear and unbending: Obama is not like you and me, and Obama will destroy the United States the first chance he gets.
He’s “anti-American.”
Yet once again, you can practically hear the audible justifications: “Well, it’s just Fox being Fox.” Or, “It’s just Rush being Rush.”
I realize I’m repeating myself from last month when I asked why Fox News’ proud race-baiting hadn’t become the story, but honestly, when the most-watched cable news channel relentlessly depicts moderate Muslims as being part of a murderous cult, that’s news. When it routinely provides a national forum for a hatemonger like Pam Geller who calls the president of the United States an anti-Semite and claims he’s allied with Islamic terrorists, that’s news.
Yes, just why hasn’t Fox News’ race-baiting and hate-mongering been news here? Why does our media bend over for Fox News’ hate, contorting themselves into all manner of distortions in order to justify the indefensible? And most importantly, why are we not all speaking out more loudly against it?
We recall Fox News and the right wing politicians in its pockets who spent weeks demonizing Park 51 and only chose to distance themselves from their hate-mongering once the Catholic Church, General Petraeus and two other generals denounced extremist Pastor Terry Jones, who was threatening to burn the Quran because he shared the beliefs as Fox News expressed relentlessly in the time period leading up to the Jones burning debacle.
Fox News’ Bill Hemmer said Park51 could be “the first stop for a radical jihadist who comes to America who wants to go pray.” Fred Barnes on Fox’s Bret Baier called Park 51 an unnecessary provocation back then. What do they call their own behavior?
In response to Lowe’s bigotry, Christians, Jews and Muslims joined together to take a stand for tolerance. When will Americans of all faiths, colors and political ideology do the same in response to the blatant, outrageous bigotry of Fox News? Fox News needs to apologize for their hate-mongering in the United States. Or is that they only apologize to certain groups and not to others for perpetrating the exact same bigotry and ugliness.
Can we get an apology, or at least an amen?
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17 Responses to Fox Apologizes for Jews Killed Jesus Poll But Not For Smearing US Muslims
Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
It’s a subject that has never been far from their minds since Jesus was executed according to Roman law, by Romans, c. 30 C.E. But of course, they won’t apologize to Islam or to Muslims for their many, shall we say, mis-characterizations(?) of that religion. The Jews are essential for their end-time fantasies while the Muslims, like Pagans and all the rest, are irrelevant outside of a blood-sport context
Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
They have also taken to Girl-Scout- bashing. Fox & Friends, as of yesterday, started promoting the idea that Girl Scouts of America has joined with Planned Parenthood to turn little girls of America into “boot-stomping, sexualized radicals”. This is of a piece with McCarthy’s accusation, almost sixty years back, that the GSA was turning little girls into International Communists. The translation is that this organization has taught that one sex is not inherently superior to another, one race or nationality is not inherently superior to another, and one religion is not inherently superior to another. It has fairly consistently promoted intercultural understanding and skill, competence, and self-worth in girls. For the same reason that Joe McCarthy targeted them over half a century ago, they are now in the much more lethal crosshairs of the Rupert Murder empire.
This bloodsucking demon and his minions live on stirring up hate, repression, persecution, and ultimately slaughter. They won’t stop at anything until they have turned the globe into an ever-shrinking cage of desperate cannibals- or until they themselves are given the quietus.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
No matter who killed this imaginery creature named jesus, the jews are at the base responsible for it.
This myth must be propagated
David Ashton
Jan. 1st, 2012 at 6:18 am
Keep up with the science! Jesus was a real, historical figure as most historians will tell you.
I have never been able to figure out how the Jewish people being responsible for His death makes the rest of us superior to them.
We all are responsible for putting Him to death, as anyone who claims to be a christian and reads the Bible can tell you.
Uzoozy
Jan. 1st, 2012 at 11:08 am
Not me I was not around at that time.
Good luck in making that rediculus argument.
One must call a spade a spade its not a Ipad.
J
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
So you’re complaining that Fox News has not apologized for the opinions of its talk show hosts? Come on.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
It apologizes to the Jews, but not the muslims that they really bash
Come on. Fox is responsible for what its people say
MoonDoggie
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
As if Muslims have not heavily sinned against the rest of us… If anything, their silence while the monsters they embrace as kin damns them. They should all grovel for forgiveness.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Wrong. many of their leaders have spoken out against what happens in the Middle East. What, Fox didn’t tell you that?
Fox must have been too busy covering all the car bombings we have daily here in the US.
Moron.
Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Really? They have personally sinned against you, you dumb dog? You mean your wife or your girlfriend prefers nice, clean, well-spoken, circumcised men who furthermore know how to cook? Dammit, you give me boohoo fever just thinking about it.
Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Ah, and sober. I shan’t overlook the sober part, even if you do.
J
Dec. 31st, 2011 at 1:48 pm
It apologized for a poll that the Fox News NETWORK released. If the network had done the same with Muslims, then an apology would certainly be necessary. That doesn’t justify the ridiculous things that they say about Muslims, but it is still different.
SinghX
Dec. 31st, 2011 at 10:08 am
In the immortal words of the “Android Sisters”* in their bit called “Electric Sheep”:
“Do you watch the nightly news?
Do you watch it faithfully?
When the anchorman goes, blah, blah, blah,
Do you go bah, bah, bah?
And you ask us, do androids dream of electric sheep?
Yes. We dream of you.”
*Angel & Angel the Android Sisters are characters in the audio series “Ruby, the Intergalactic Gumshoe”. (XM book radio-check the schedule for local time).
mathazar
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Park 51 is being run by Sufi Muslims.
The most peaceful Muslims, the Quakers of the Muslim world.
david
Dec. 31st, 2011 at 12:45 pm
stop blaming the muslim world wake up and open your eyes to the beast in the middle east called israel they lie they kill and steal your mind has been hijacked funk cnn & funk the fox news crew they want muslims and christians to fight while israel sits back and watches dont you people get it and if you do some research muslims believe in jesus more then what the christians do so stop bashing these people they are over a billion strong time is near and they are awake…………………while you people still sleeping
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 31st, 2011 at 12:56 pm
David, please try not using all caps.
SinghX
Dec. 31st, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Or, as Frank Zappa once said to calm a non-fan, “Please, stop shouting…you’ll hurt your throat”.