Comments on: Time to get beyond blaming Fox News

By: Alleged cop killer asks to have statements suppressed: Should media play fair? - Matt Stroud - The Prison Dilemma - True/Slant

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:17:43 +0000

[...] public defender argued in a hearing yesterday to suppress statements Poplawski made following his horrifying gun battle with City of Pittsburgh police last April. The public defender sought to persuade the court that [...]

By: Matt Stroud - The Prison Dilemma – Crowdsourcing the Capital Murder Debate to Facebook - True/Slant

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:07:20 +0000

[...] killing three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4. The shooting — which I detailed briefly here, and which involved a terrifying four-hour standoff in a tree-lined residential block on an [...]

By: Matt Stroud - The Prison Dilemma – Is it the guns? The fear of Big Government? The psychotic agendas? - True/Slant

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:46:44 +0000

[...] rampage came from news that he wasn’t a Birther, or a Prison Planet devotee, or any other form of Right Wing Nut. Amid The New York Daily News‘ oddly extensive coverage (they provided more information than [...]

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:11:24 +0000

I hear what you are saying…I don’t think the responsibility for the Kennedy brothers or Martin Luther King is our responsibility either. The poorly argued point I was trying to make are there are those who can reduce the volume on emotionally charged speech. McCain didn’t think Obama needed to be killed or was a terrorist but he took a damn long time to finally admit that he was a nice family man to his fervent admirers.

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:04:32 +0000

Maybe someone brainwashed me in my sleep…republican talking points…if you mean personal responsibility…there is very little to disagree with there…but the talking heads of the right never take a hit for what they say…while Letterman fesses up or Obama says he screwed up. They get the idea. If I somehow sound like an apologist that was not my intention…should have paid more attention to the clarity portion of my high school composition class. I did not intend to shield Rush or their ilk, I just wish they would back up their “facts” so we can really decide.

By: iskid2astop

iskid2astop — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:14:26 +0000

Lib, I would have to take issue with your conclusion. I call hate speech when I see it, and do my best to counter those ideas, and never say such things myself, how does that make me responsible for the demise of Dr. Tiller or the shootings at the Holocaust museum?

There are lots of things I am to some degree responsible for; climate change, human trafficking, opportunity disparity, but I don’t think the shootings are in any way my fault. These men were not enabled, or even influenced by mainstream society. The fringes are responsible for their actions. Hannity, Limbaugh, and their ilk are the link between my everyday reality and the fringes I rarely glimpse.

By: torgo

torgo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:09:46 +0000

libtree09, you have those republican talking points down! When it comes down to it, you can’t excite people to act out and not take resposibility.

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:26:22 +0000

I agree with you. While rightfully Fox News is not directly responsible and Bill O’Reilly didn’t call for the murder of the Baby Killer there are those out there who can’t seperate an opinion from journalism. So when Beck and Limbaugh say the murder at the musuem was a left wing problem, or when O’Reilly keeps accusing a man of murdering babies when in fact he was acquitted of just that, they really don’t have to back any of it up with actual facts to support their case. Their appeal is to emotion, in most cases the emotion of anger and outrage rather than reason. That can be dangerous to any side of the fence one may be on. When someone says Obama is a socialist, read communist, in bed with extreme Islamic factions, call him a terrorist who is actually not a citizen of the United States or is being handled by Zionist Jews, as Wright has accused him, then those who consider themselves ultra-patriots find themselves raging against Obama. It only takes one, remember lone gunman kill.

Fox News and radio commentators have an obligation to tone down the rhetoric or at least build a case based on fact not emotion.

The over riding truth in your essay is “The real nightmare is that no one is to blame for the state of the world but ourselves.” We need to take responsibility for our actions and speech both domestically and internationally, stop demonizing and call out those who spew lies and hate”