Didn’t you know it was just a matter of time until Fox News started politicizing the death of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene in Afghanistan? It was the Taliban that did the actual killing but Fox wasted little time pointing fingers at President Obama.
Tuesday night on The Kelly File, substitute host Shannon Bream suggested that Obama’s diplomacy is to blame when she “just asked” this question to impeachment-loving Andrew McCarthy (at about 8:40 in the first video below):
BREAM: You talk about how the Taliban’s not designated – at least in Afghanistan – as a foreign terrorist organization. Some of its allies have been but as you said, we haven’t cracked down on them. Why do you think that is? I mean, we know this administration has been much more about diplomacy, about working together with groups. It doesn’t seem like in this particular situation, they understand that. It seems like strength may be with these groups – maybe that’s the right answer.
Unfortunately for Fox, McCarthy didn’t take the hint. But yesterday, on Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy was more explicit: In a teaser just before a break, Doocy said, “Remember when our President declared the war in Afghanistan over?" Doocy played a clip of President Obama not exactly declaring the war over. In the clip Obama said, “The bottom line is, it’s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Doocy sneered, “Really? Well now it looks like the terrorists heard him loud and clearly and attacked. The victim: a U.S. Army General. What this says about President Obama’s foreign policy straight ahead.”
Watch Fox exploit the tragic death of a U.S. general below.
Why yes, Steve — I clearly remember when Dumbya stood on the flight deck of that carrier under a banner that read, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!”
Um — that IS who you were referring to, right?
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Plus, FoxNoise would have to accept its own fair share of responsibility and blame since it did so much cheerleading for BOTH of Dubya’s wars. And we all know, FoxNoise loves to preach the “responsibility” sermon but isn’t so big on living out the message.
