In case you were wondering how Fox News was going to blame President Obama for the terrorist attack on a Nairobi, Kenya mall over the weekend, Bill O’Reilly came up with a way to connect the dots. No, O'Reilly didn't directly blame Obama for the attack but if our president only understood the evil nature of Islam the way he, O'Reilly, does - well, O'Reilly never really got beyond there.
In his Talking Points last night, O’Reilly set himself up as the one trustworthy truthteller about Islamic evil:
The world failing to confront the true nature, the true nature of Muslim terrorism.
Muslim jihadists want to kill Christians and Jews. That’s what this is about. Nothing more. The Muslim jihad believes that infidels do not deserve to live. But you will not hear the leaders of the world say that, including President Obama. They will not tell you what is really going on here.
Is that the race-hustling grievance industry? Oh, that’s right, that’s O’Reilly’s black crime “truth” in which he fingered the African American community as the real villains in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. No, this is O’Reilly’s Islamic truth in which he finds that the entire Muslim world is evil. And you should be very afraid.
This is simply about murder and if you are a Christian or a Jew, you are a target. …(Al Qaeda) will burn down churches, attack synagogues and, if they can, launch another 9/11.
But fear is not enough. As is almost always the case with Fox News, it’s loathing that really counts. As a banner on the screen reminded everyone that the real subject of O’Reilly’s commentary was, “FAILING TO CONFRONT MUSLIM TERRORISM,” O’Reilly catalogued a series of Muslims crimes before he honed in on his real target. He began shouting:
And what is the Muslim world doing about it? Nothing! …There is simply no coordinated leadership to confront the jihad. President Obama’s not going to do it! Great Britain and NATO not going to do it! In fact, the most aggressive country fighting the jihad is France, if you can believe it.
Wow, that boycott of O’Reilly’s must have really done its job, eh?
France gets it! The French understand the danger from fanatical Muslims! We are living in a cowardly world and the terrorists know it. Sadly, we can expect more death and destruction because the jihad is just getting started.
And we can fully expect that O’Reilly and Fox will find a way to vilify President Obama and up its ante of hate mongering for each and every tragedy. Constructive suggestions about what should be done? Not so much.
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