Fox News Gearing Up To Politicize Family Research Council Shooting

We still don't have a lot of details about the shooter at the Family Research Council headquarters today but Fox News is gearing up to use it against liberals. On the FoxNews.com homepage, the editors thought it important to include this in its thumbnail: URGENT: Gunman reportedly spoke of group's conservative policies before shooting guard at DC headquarters.

Similarly, the lede paragraph of the article reads:

A gunman posing as an intern shot a security guard at the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. after expressing disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions, Fox News has learned.

But please remember: Fox abhors the politicization of tragedies. So I'm sure they would never do such a thing unless they had to.

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commented 2012-08-15 22:14:05 -0400 · Flag

Crazy liberals can get guns just as easily as crazy conservatives. Neither should have the opportunity.

commented 2012-08-15 18:42:26 -0400 · Flag

Margarita: I saw that, as well and instantly wondered what the fact to Fox ratio was in that. Not only does the story sound too polished for something that’s breaking, but I mean come on- they don’t even have the names of the shooter or the guard, but they have this much detail about what happened in there?!

~~-MEMO TO FOX~~-

Reporting like this is why people think you’re full of shit.

commented 2012-08-15 17:17:09 -0400 · Flag

The Nation is now reporting that the shooter may have been carrying a Chick-Fil-A bag.

http://nation.foxnews.com/family-research-council/2012/08/15/wounded-family-research-council-headquarters-shooting

Not politicizing, just saying.

commented 2012-08-15 16:56:07 -0400 · Flag

After they virtually ignored the Sikh temple shooting and the Texas shooting. This, they’ll run with for days.

commented 2012-08-15 13:55:26 -0400 · Flag

This cowardly act needs to be condemned.

However, Fox “News” so-called “straight” anchor Megyn Kelly is calling this a case of “Domestic Terrorism.”

However, when people died after the shooting at the Sikh Temple, Judge Napolitano stated (and if I recall correctly, he said it to Meggy) that that was NOT Domestic Terrorism, but the Fort Hood shooting should have been classified as such.

These people are so fucking inconsistent.

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