You’re right about them leaving stuff out, Jane – which makes it all the more hypocritical when they actually build segments (especially BOR and F&F) about the bias and reporting failures of those OTHER media outlets. The FOX talking heads are not standing on high enough ground to be accusing OTHERS of selective reporting, that’s for sure.

And you may be right in that they really are deliberately uninformed themselves. If that’s the case, it’s pitiful – here we are just regular folks and we are aware that the leaders of Boko Haram were put on the terrorist list in June 2012 — but the FOXies and The Blaze’s National Security Editor don’t know? LOL!

Thanks, Jane S. And you’re probably, right, Ellen – if an arrest was made, FOX and the right-wing pundits would scream distraction! LOL!

Side note: In case the readers here haven’t heard, Larry Wilmore (the Senior Black Correspondent on “The Daily Show”) is going to be taking over Colbert’s time slot when he leaves to replace Letterman. His new show is going to be called “The Minority Report” (I can just imagine the fits that show title will cause over at FOX “news”) and it will be produced by Jon Stewart. Wilmore is hysterical on TDS so it should be good.

d d — leaving stuff out is Fox’s long-time propaganda tactic. They do it regularly in their correspondent reports on the sainted “Special Report” news show, and have from the very beginning.

It’s actually not clear that the hosts are deliberately withholding the info. My sense is they do almost no reading on their own, only the summaries and links their producers give them. That allows their “outrage” to seem more genuine in cases like Boko Haram and the terrorist list.

And btw, the president of Nigeria strenuously pushed not to put the group on the list when he came to visit with Obama a few years ago.

I’ve seen a couple of segments on this Boko Haram matter via F&F – segments which were specifically designed to attack Hillary over it. If they want to question why the group as whole was not placed on the list, fair enough – have that discussion. It means, of course, that the FOXies get to paint the State Dept. decision not to do so (because they didn’t want to elevate the group’s profile which some African experts advised “could backfire by enhancing the group’s reputation among potential recruits and other militants”) as “bizarre”, “silly” and as “not playing well” for Hillary’s “narrative” as I just heard a few moments ago on this morning’s F&F.

But with regards to Reuters report that states that the leaders of Boko Haram were indeed placed on the terrorist list in June 2014, I have yet to hear FOX “news” report it. Anyone else hear them point this fact out? In fact, in this F&F segment that I saw today, Kooiman, Tucker and their guest – Buck Sexton from Glenn Bek’s “The Blaze” – had the perfect opportunity to tell their viewers these facts but it wasn’t mentioned by anyone. Sexton noted that being put on this terrorists list “does come with some very specific tools that are attached to that. You can do things when someone or in a group and the individuals in it are designated that you can’t do otherwise and she decided not to do it.”

But, Buck, “someone” and “individuals in it” (3 leaders of Boko Haram!) WERE put on the list in June 2012. Why didn’t you at least tell the viewers that? You could even take the opportunity to call it insufficient but you didn’t – instead you said nothing about it opting instead to try and make Hillary look soft on terror. Someone from Bek’s “Blaze” and the FOXies keeping facts from the folks? Yeah, I know, no surprise there. Why tell the folks all the facts when a poorly informed audience is so much easier to manipulate?

Btw, in this segment about Boko Haram, er, Hillary, F&F gratuitously slipped in a video clip of Hillary’s Benghazi testimony which included an introduction by the right-wing tool, Anna Kooiman, in which she quipped, “and we can’t forget the time she downplayed Benghazi.” Geez.
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Excerpts (from the above Reuters link) that pertain to the 3 leaders being placed on the list – you know, some facts that the FOX “news” viewers should know as a part of FOX’s supposed “fair & balanced” coverage…

“The United States on Thursday named three alleged leaders of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram as “foreign terrorists,” the first time it has blacklisted members of the Islamist group blamed for attacks across Africa’s most populous nation."

“These designations demonstrate the United States’ resolve in diminishing the capacity of Boko Haram to execute violent attacks,” it said, saying that Boko Haram or associated militants were responsible for more than 1,000 deaths in the past 18 months."

“The action by the State and Treasury Departments, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, followed growing pressure on the Obama administration to take stronger action against Boko Haram, which has stepped up attacks on Christian places of worship this year in its drive to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria.”

Oh, the list of black people behaving badly is endless on Fox. You’ve got your regulars: Jackson Lee, NAACP, Eric Holder, Oprah, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Al Sharpton and, of course, Obama. But there are lots of “occasionals”: Snoop Dogg, Melissa Harris-Perry, the Obamaphone lady, etc.

Great points about the covert ops we are almost certainly running in Libya. My guess is that Libya or some other country will arrest whoever it was when it can all be worked out. Of course, the GOP will shout that it was timed to distract from their Benghazi impeachment/2016 investigation.

Ellen— be my guest! (If you think your readers will get it, my original thought was “Blah people behaving badly,” in honor of Rick Santorum.)

But that’s really the essence of Fox’s ugly campaign. It can be Boko Haram or urban street thugs or the head of the NAACP or the attorney general of the United States, never mind the POTUS.

Oh, and I hope you don’t mind if I use the “Black people behaving badly” meme. It’s exactly what they should call it.

Jane S wrote:

Boko Haram is a perfect villain for Fox. They’re both radical Islamists (well,sorta, actually, they’re mostly just very violent gangsters) and black. What could possibly be more wonderful for the Fox agenda!!

So true. But if only they came from Benghazi! Maybe Fox reporters are digging around for a connection now!

@jane S. The only villain more wonderful for the Fux Noise agenda would be a homosexual black Muslim.

Good rundown, d d. Of course the U.S. has a whole bunch of covert agents of one kind or another in Libya, and I assume they’re doing, among other things, exactly what you said, monitoring and tracking this guy Khattala.

One detail, though— they can’t arrest him because Libya has denied the U.S. permission to arrest anybody there. They’d have to do an incredibly dangerous covert “snatch and grab,” which would look just great to the domestic audience here, but not accomplish much and enrage the LIbyans.

I’ve noticed that FOX “news” is always very quick to mention that the parties responsible for the Benghazi deaths have not yet been brought to justice. They paint a picture for the folks that makes it look as if no one in the CIA, FBI, etc. is pursuing info and that the Obama Admin is not interested in bringing the responsible parties to justice. It’s just another talking point that they use to make the folks believe that Obama is supposedly soft on terror.

FOX “news” talking heads have often commented that there’s one particular guy that everyone suspects is at least partially responsible and they go into apoplectic fits that this guy has not yet been arrested. Pundits such as Ingraham, BOR, the F&F stooges, Hannity, etc. are not in a position to REALLY know what is going on with regards to the investigation. As per 2 of my friends/former neighbors (retired CIA and NSA), it is highly likely that we have undercover agents, double agents and local assets in country that are surveilling this guy, other suspects and the people they come into contact with. They strongly believe that the guy that the FOXies are so pissed off about (because he has not been arrested) has persons keeping tabs on him. My friends insist that it’s a smarter move to surveil this guy, get contact names/evidence to build a case and to see how wide a circle of terrorists they can discover through this guy and his contacts than it is to arrest him now. They insist that patience, persistence and smart moves by our assets are key to bringing the perpetrators of Benghazi to justice.

Of course, none of this is top secret info and makes some sense from an investigative standpoint. But it’s as if none of these surveillance scenarios/tactics have even occurred to the FOXies. If they have, they don’t seem to have an interest in discussing them in front of the folks (as that might damage the right-wing spin against Obama). Nah, instead we see FOXies who are impatient and want someone arrested (killed?) now – and, if that doesn’t happen, they are going to beat Obama over the head with it. Funny how they didn’t seem to have this same demanding sense of impatience when it came to Bush getting Bin Laden but now, with Obama and Benghazi, it’s 24/7 politically-driven outrage.

Plus…once you throw in the CIA op that was being run out of Benghazi (and the suspicions that Amb. Stevens was helping facilitate the op), it does complicate matters. The link is to some interesting Benghazi info that doesn’t get the deserved (any?) attention on FOX “news” as the FOXies are far more interested in going after Hillary and Obama…
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-cia-mission-in-benghazi-2013-8

Hmmm. Maybe I need to remind Laura of another time when “foreigners” were deemed more important than “Americans.” Of course, then it was George W Bush deciding that the people of IRAQ needed to be freed from the “tyranny” of Saddam Hussein and his depraved sons. Never mind that the ensuing invasion and following occupation led to the deaths of thousands of Americans, Dubya and his little cabal as well as his FoxNoise cheerleaders were more concerned about the “poor Iraqis.”

It must be so nice for FoxNoise and its bobbleheads to have such short-term memories.

Sheila Jackson Lee is black, right? That’s pretty much all you need to know about this segment. The should just be honest and have a running segment on all shows called “Blah People Behaving Badly.”

Boko Haram is a perfect villain for Fox. They’re both radical Islamists (well,sorta, actually, they’re mostly just very violent gangsters) and black. What could possibly be more wonderful for the Fox agenda!!

All these Fox “News” frauds care about is Benghazi. Here is a bright idea for the amateur suits at this third-rate “news” network. Send their reporters to the region, and ask the residents about the incident.

Send Ms. Laura to Benghazi. We won’t miss her.

It takes a special person to sink as low as Ingraham did in this segment. But, clearly, she's down for the job.