'Turn Off FOX Campaign' Penetrates the Military: FOX Dishonors Our GIs for Money
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by Jeffrey Joseph
As previously reported, the incredibly suspicious funding sources for FOX News has left more than a few people enraged that FOX can get preference for airtime in a place such as an armed forces base that should be free from media controlled by someone like Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who may also support terrorism. A network that touts someone who would stand alone in denying benefits to suffering people during a recession as "fearless" certainly deserves ire, but bin Talal evokes a special kind of ire that has rankled concerned people across the political spectrum. Here is a letter that a reader submitted in response to FOX broadcasting at a base:
To Fort Carson Public Affairs Officer,
I am a retired DOD Civilian from Washington State researching the destruction and loss of life caused by suicide bombers in the Iraqi and Afghan theaters. I have determined from a review of casualty lists posted in iCasualties that commands at Fort Carson have experienced a significant number of fatalities. My research has been motivated in part by the recent revelations that a member of the Saudi Royal Family who has been generously contributing to families of suicide bombers is now in a position to affect the media portrayal of how Islamic behavior is reported. This man owns a significant interest in major media which is viewed as a dependable and credible source of news and which many in the U.S. military watch daily. They might see things differently if they understood that they are contributing to an entity more concerned about making money than they are about our security here and abroad.
I have enclosed a letter I wrote to Stars and Stripes, my local press, Congressmen, and to as many PAOs as I can. If I could, I would write the families of the victims of these fanatics who would be outraged at discovering the truth about this betrayal. I have also enclosed the list of soldiers who died at the hands of suicide bombers.
Ft. Carson suicide bomber casualties:
4-10-2009 Woods Jr., Gary L. Staff Sergeant 24 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Kentucky Lebanon Junction
4-10-2009 Hall, Bryan E. Staff Sergeant 32 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division California Elk Grove
4-10-2009 Pautsch, Jason G. Corporal 20 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Iowa Davenport
4-10-2009 Gautier, Bryce E. Private 2nd Class 22 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division California Cypress
4-10-2009 Forrest, Edward Sergeant 25 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Missouri Fenton
4-10-2009 Hall, Bryan E. Staff Sergeant 32 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division California Elk Grove
4-10-2009 Pautsch, Jason G. Corporal 20 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Iowa Davenport
4-10-2009 Gautier, Bryce E. Private 2nd Class 22 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division California Cypress
4-10-2009 Forrest, Edward Sergeant 25 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide truck bomb Ninawa Mosul U.S. Army 1st BN, 67th Armor Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Missouri Fenton
11-07-2005 Reyes, Mario A. Private 1st Class 19 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb Baghdad Baghdad (south of) U.S. Army 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry REG New Mexico Las Cruces
11-07-2005 Pope II, Robert C. Corporal 22 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb Baghdad Baghdad (south of) U.S. Army 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry REG New York East Islip11-07-2005 Freeman, Brian L. Staff Sergeant 27 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb Baghdad Baghdad (south of) U.S. Army 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry REG Mississippi Caledonia
11-07-2005 Smith, Justin S. 1st Lieutenant 28 US Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb Baghdad Baghdad (south of) U.S. Army 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry REG Michigan Lansing
The Letter:
Al Quaida and other radical Islamists employment of suicide bombers as a tactic has destroyed more than 135 lives among our defense forces. One man in particular is renowned for his unabashed contributions of $25,000 to the families of the bombers who attack our troops and sacrifice themselves to their cause. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a member of the Royal Family, now owns a 7 percent interest in Robert Murdoch’s News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, making him the 4th largest investor. He funds and supports the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR which lobbies’ on behalf of Islamic Interests and is blacklisted by our government. CAIR is identified by the FBI as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator. Bill O’Reilly actually called CAIR’s National Communications Director a "stand up guy." FOX News is compromised and questions regarding loyalty to our troops and commitment to our foreign policy goals arise. Why would any military facility allow or encourage a viewership of Fox News at their bases? How does a commander explain to the troops that they are to watch this propaganda network and somehow ignore that the people helping to kill, murder and otherwise harm these viewers, are in fact principals of the media and support the efforts to reduce this viewership by killing them? Please explain how endorsing a "stand up guy" who aids and abets those who blow themselves and other people to bits isn’t an insult? I question the wisdom and policy of any DOD facility that encourages or promotes a business that attracts investors like Talal. Service members and their families deserve more respect than that.
Clearly, the members of the armed forces working so diligently to protect this nation, as well as their families, deserve better than to be subjected to media that bin Talal boasts of manipulating. By the response earned by news of bin Talal's stake in News Corporation, it appears transparent that FOX News has an ethical dilemma to deal with that refuses to go away. Show your own distaste for an alleged terrorist supporter controlling a portion of the national media by taking action like the reader above chose to do -- and by choosing to Turn Off FOX.
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I don't get the fear of Fox. It is another source of information, thats it. They all lie. Obermann is a total dope and CNN is practically useless. Stop fearing free speech. It has made us great.