More Hypocrisy from Fox “News”
November 12, 2009 at 7:41 PM Leave a comment
So Much Hypocrisy, So Little Time
When Fox “News” was jumping up and down about ACORN a month or so ago, it was doing so because, in a nutshell, ACORN operates in the inner cities and it helps poor people register to vote and poor people generally vote for Democrats. But that wasn’t what Fox told its viewers. It claimed to be worried about “the folks;” about taxpayer dollars that were going to ACORN, a supposedly corrupt organization.
So why isn’t Fox jumping all over Blackwater today? Blackwater has been accused of “authorizing secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.”
The United States has paid Blackwater (now known as “Xe”), millions of dollars for the ahem, work it has done in Iraq, yet it is taking some of that money and bribing Iraqi officials?
Hey Fox? Where’s the outrage? There is none because Eric Prince, the founder, owner and CEO of Blackwater Xe is an extremely conservative, multi-millionaire fundamentalist Christian who floats in the same circles as George W. Bush and many of the talking heads who appear on Fox, like John Bolten and Karl Rove. He is one of them. So they look the other way.
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