Jon Stewart: Is Fox News A Terrorist Command Center? (VIDEO)

Fox? Terrorist Command Center? More like Bunghole Gizz Recepticle?

Sanity, thy name is Stewart.

It's actually not even funny that Stewart says Fox might be a terrorist command center - they are. They've been propagating fear, terror and lies for years. It's no wonder Americans are afraid of their own shadows.

I can't understand why right-wingers don't freak out about the connections between people like the Bush Crime Family or Murdoch-Fox and the Saudi Royal Family (hey, they're Muslim and swarthy too).

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That was a good one, but I think Jon Stewart may have missed a subtly on the Charleton Heston thing. The proposed ground zero mosque is ostensibly an instrument of bridge-building between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities. It is reconciliatory in nature. If memory serves (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), the NRA held its annual meeting near Columbine DESPITE the shooting, and their tone was not conciliatory but defiant. That's kind of a big difference. If the NRA had come to Columbine with a message of "We want to reach out to the victims of this tragedy and their families" and placed an extra priority safety and responsibility with guns, that would have been different.

Nick Kristof's column in yesterday's NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/opinion/22kristof.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage) gets to the nub of this issue pretty well, I think. Gingrich also deserves to be placed alongside Palin in this respect.

I can only marvel at how massively irresponsible these folks are acting. Palin (and Newt) are presidential aspirants. They presumably think they can win in 2012 or 2016. Given that, how on Earth can they think it's a good idea to demean the religion of one quarter of the world's population? How can someone who hopes to lead this country in today's world think they've done anything but set US foreign relations and national security back 30 years by preemptively declaring that anyone of the Muslim faith is an enemy of the American way of life?

No doubt Palin and Newt's rationale would have something to do with a careful parsing of their speeches on the issue. But today's media, especially Fox, is a blunt instrument. Gingrich and Palin might (and I stress, MIGHT) think their comments on the topic leave them some wiggle room to back away from what appears to be a slur and call to religious conflict, but subtlety is not really possible in this media environment. You can be darn sure that the majority of citizens of, say, Indonesia, aren't going to appreciate the nuance when Newt tries to explain that he wasn't comparing ALL Muslims to Nazis...

On NPR over the weekend, George W's former speech writer Michael Gerson pointed out this obvious fact in commenting that President Obama really had no choice but to go on record in support of the Park51 developers' right to build an Islamic cultural center in downtown Manhattan. Beyond the obvious point that a sitting President (and Presidential candidate) would damage our international relations if he were to affront a quater of the people on this planet, Gerson also pointed out the President as Commander-in-Chief must think of the soldiers under his command, many of whom are either Muslim or deployed in Muslim countries where their mission is to build trust among Muslim populations.

Finally, an anecdote: my dad is a tried and true Republican. Over the weekend, he and I talked about the Park51 issue, and he expressed nothing short of disgust for the Palin/Gingrich comments. He expected this kind of stuff from Palin, who he called a "dolt," but not of Gingrich.

In other words, this stuff might play for the Tea Party element, but if my old man is any indication, this may be driving truly "conservative" folks in the Republican party back toward the center.