Fox News Now Overtly Supporting Treason Over Nevada Ranch

Those "America loving" folks over at Fox Nation are now officially on board with treason. Their latest top story is called, "The Case for a Little Sedition." It likens Nevada's scofflaw rancher, Cliven Bundy, to Gandhi and Thoreau. Seriously.

Excerpting an article from The National Review, Fox Nation says:

Of course the law is against Cliven Bundy. How could it be otherwise? The law was against Mohandas Gandhi, too, when he was tried for sedition; Mr. Gandhi himself habitually was among the first to acknowledge that fact, refusing to offer a defense in his sedition case and arguing that the judge had no choice but to resign, in protest of the perfectly legal injustice unfolding in his courtroom, or to sentence him to the harshest sentence possible, there being no extenuating circumstances for Mr. Gandhi’s intentional violation of the law. Henry David Thoreau was happy to spend his time in jail, knowing that the law was against him, whatever side justice was on.

Gandhi and Thoreau were concerned about issues of social justice and slavery. Rancher Bundy's cause, as far as I can tell, is to declare he doesn't believe in the federal government - and putting federal agents in harm's way for trying to enforce the law.

Yet, Fox Nation still pretends to love this country. Its "Statement of Purpose" says:

The Fox Nation was created for people who believe in the United States of America and its ideals, as expressed in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a community that believes in the American Dream: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One that believes being an American is an honor, as well as a great responsibility – and a wonderful adventure.

Apparently, that American Dream now includes the right to declare you don't believe in the federal government, refuse to pay your bills to it and then threaten an armed insurrection when the government tries to enforce the rule of law.

We get it, Fox Nation. Your brand of "patriotism" is coming in loud and clear.

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commented 2014-04-17 00:53:24 -0400 · Flag

Lou Dobbs on Fox Biz was right in with this last night. He’s resorting these days to that cheapest of tricks for increasing Web traffic on his personal Web site, the on-line viewer “poll.” Last night, the poll was something to do with whether you think that when the government has unfair laws, people are justified in refusing to obey them.

I was fascinated tonight to learn that this poll garnered a whopping 29 percent “no” vote from Dobbs’s viewers, which is a landslide defeat for this kind of thing. Normally, the questions are so obviously slanted, they get a 93 percent or so approval rate. Interesting. This may be, amazingly, a bridge too far for at least a substantial minority of conservative voters.

commented 2014-04-16 18:22:07 -0400 · Flag

Is it out of line to wish for an errant drone?

commented 2014-04-16 15:31:44 -0400 · Flag

Joseph, you took what I was gonna say- If this was happening under Bush, these same people would be demanding the feds go in there and kill Bundy. Not even take him alive, straight-up kill him. But now there’s a black man with an ethnic sounding name that has a (D) next to it in the White House, so it’s patriotic, because the US government became the real-life 1984 on January 20th, 2009.

Even the trolls have to admit that the double standard out of the right is really saying something. Especially since the left has been consistent in outrage over the force employed when the feds go too far, but have been just as consistent in admitting the person on the other side was a freakin’ criminal. Meanwhile, the right is making every excuse for Bundy, and keeping as quiet as possible on that JCC shooter.

commented 2014-04-16 14:46:26 -0400 · Flag

I doubt if Gandhi would have used women and children as human shields. I know he wouldn’t have threatened bullshit like these mopes. He would have stood there, silently, without a weapon. And if he got beaten up, he would have gotten beaten up, and if there was shooting, he might have been shot. Gandhi won with Satyagraha.

commented 2014-04-16 14:42:56 -0400 · Flag

It’s too bad somebody didn’t suggest there were WMD’s on the Bundy Ranch back in 2001/2002. FoxNoise would’ve been cheerleading for the man’s execution for his treasonous actions.

What a difference a decade (and a different President) can make in a “news” network’s perspective.

commented 2014-04-16 14:25:34 -0400 · Flag

Comparing the greedy, mooching Bundy Klan to Gandhi is like comparing KKKlannity to Walter Cronkite.

NewsHounds posted about Fox News Now Overtly Supporting Treason Over Nevada Ranch on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2014-04-16 14:19:29 -0400

Treason is now an official part of Fox News patriotism.