Fox Nation Website graphic points Rifle at Obama

This was screencapped today from Fox Nation, Fox News' month old conservative opinion site, which is already being pegged for something racial today. Notice anything?

Fox Nation's "Statement of Purpose" notes that the Website "is for those opposed to intolerance," but since it also is against "attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought expression," then I guess they're not being too inconsistent.

Tip of the hat to a Raw reader who sent this in to us.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/buy-one-get-two-free/

We know they are crazy. we have to live with it.

"Yawn" is either disturbingly naive or downright ignorant as a respomse.

Can't it be both naive and ignorant?

This is extremely unsophisticated compared to the way content is generally presented on TV or the Internet or in other areas of graphic design. I'm more inclined to suspect a lazy uncreative intern than any kind of attempt to send a message.

Crazy people can find signs in the paving cracks.

If there's a picture of Obama opposite a car, does that mean we have to worry about people trying to drive cars into Obama as a result? No.

in terms of pucker factor, there's no comparison.

The absolute best face you can put on this is that it's one of the more execrable lapses of judgement in some time (and the fact that this is Fox, makes it tough for me to cut them that kind of slack). The only other take is that this is an oblique threat against a President whom Fox has made no secret of their disdain for. Your call.

:puke:

so now Fox makes it more graphic.

disturbing.

:puke:

They're not even trying to be transparent.

I'm beginning to think that people who say we're headed for a civil war are right.

imagine their outrage if it was a DEMOCRATIC site during the WAR Crmininal's Regime...

Like, for instance, maybe an internet message board for Democrats that had quarterly fundraisers that measured progress towards the fundraising goal by showing a clenched fist in a boxing glove taking aim at a sitting president, and finally punching him in the face when the goal was reached! Can you imagine the outrage that would have ensued?

I guess they're not afraid to show it (stupid.. stupid.. stupid).

taxing multi-nationals hurts them in some way. IGNORANCE is the culprit.

That is disgusting, and its done on purpose!!!!!!!!!!!

They should be had up.

repigs watch that crap channel/website.

This is a serious question, sure during the tea party protests and their broadcasts they always say "NON violent protests" but isn't that just a way to protect themselves?

Aren't they inciting now? now that picture was not an accident, and they are going to get worse and worse, their commentators always get so emotional, its like they want some nutjob to go do something.

I really think people are playing this picture down, IMHO its not just the usual bias Faux stunt, it goes beyond that.

They have to be called up on it, and not just on sites like newshounds, or rawstory, could someone please send this picture to all mainstream/independent media and also to people in congress, I know they have taken it down now but they cannot be allowed to get away with it.

kick

That's.... taking it too far.

They might say otherwise when they are called to task on it, but the
weasels at ClusterFox are blatant liars and the whole world knows it.

Rifle pointed toward 2 black men,...hmmmmm. 'opposed to intolerance', hmmmm that includes more of the population than the two men shown....pretty blatant to me.

Fox News is pretty damn horrible for a lot of other things, but this just looks like one of those retarded oversights.

This was done on purpose, no doubt, please send this out around the web.

;)

I think is so dangerous, and I will be surprised if they dont get in trouble for it.

Fucking Fox scum

This is Murdoch of course. We all know the intent of this one.

:puke:

Other victims of right wing aggression:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_XvmA-Z34&feature=related

Look it up..

kick

Assume them to be amoral, and willing to provoke an assassination if that would advance their goals. Assume them, however, to have some modicum of intelligence in assessing likely consequences.

Obama's death wouldn't make McCain the President. It would put Biden in office, and he'd call on Congress to pass Obama's program, as the most fitting memorial to our martyred leader. It would be like the climate in which LBJ was able to push through JFK's Civil Rights Act, which might not have been enacted otherwise.

I understand the outrage of people who consider it deliberate. I'm certainly not saying that Fox would never be that evil. It just seems like a more plausible explanation is that these graphics were posted at different times, and/or by different people, or by one harried staffer who was busy getting the trees in place and didn't happen to notice the forest.

kick

You know, to block out all the crazy that the tin foil hat crowd might be projecting.