FoxNews Anchors Spread Fears Of Al Qaeda Link To California Fires

Originally posted by jsobecky
Eco-terrorists

Wierd cooincidence, was at the exact moment I read that, just thinking about who was going to be next boogey man to justify the domestic agenda in this war on nouns.

Originally posted by Blaine91555
If everyone put their biases and hatreds aside, they would admit their first two thoughts were Terrorist or Global Warming.

Nope, that might have been your first two thoughts. I thought wow, they have big fires like this nearly every year now, and I hope nobody's getting hurt. The word terrorist didn't even enter my mind in regards to the fires until I read this thread about what Fox News construed. That's how it works, mere speculation from a person in a position of perceived authority and the seed is planted. If you never went to college, you should read up on the Milgrams Experiment, we really are suckers when it comes to authority.

reply to post by edbaseball17


I agree with you. Most posters here probably don't even watch fox. At least with fox news, you get facts, not propaganda!

Twitchy I am with you. I totally assumed this was due to things always catching fire out there. I heard a report about a man caught on a motorcycle starting a fire, but that was a day or 2 into it I thought. In any case FBI, ATF, and Orange County Fire Officials are claiming that it was arson. I have some links to CNN and I know CBS is also reporting this. www.abovetopsecret.com...'

It is important to blame the terrorists as frequently as possible.

Originally posted by housebroke2
At least with fox news, you get facts, not propaganda!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Oh my god! My sides hurt!
That's the funniest thing I've read on ATS.
EVER!

Thanks for the laugh, I was starting to feel a little down about how amazingly eager the masses are to be controlled by mainstream media, no matter how idiotic the "report" might be.

Come on, fires happen naturally around the world. That is nature's way of cleansing and starting over. True, arson is a bad thing, but is often started by teenagers with a hair to do something stupid. I'm sure a hoard of Al Queda (sic? who cares if it's spelled correctly, they don't deserve it) operatives just decided to burn California like they did every year for the last fifteen years in a row right? These fires are a common occurence on the news every year. (in California and Florida, I've lived in both states) Wake up. If you get a flat tire without a witness, do you blame terrorists?

reply to post by BitRaiser


Don't be so hasty, he is in ATS so he will get enlightened in due time

reply to post by venom79x


That is not even valid anymore. They have already declared it to be malicious. Either they will arrest some people for it, or they will go on a manhunt. They declared it to be Arson, they will find an arsonist. They are not going to go back and say never mind it was a crazy lighting bolt.

reply to post by marg6043


What?
I was appreciating his remarkable use of satire to illustrate the fact that Fox news rots your brain.

Oh wait... don't tell me you think he was serious??
That would be... ah... unfortunate.

Nah, couldn't be. There is rarely anything in my mind that is serious when it pertains to FOX news. Other than blatant lying on a daily basis, but that seems to be the norm for a lot of media outlets now. A lot, not all, after all I'm an optimistic pessimist. Or realist, whatever you want to call it. Or am I just p.o'd all the time?

Yeah, lets blame Al Qaeda and terrorists in general for everything bad happening in the world... NOT !

I don't buy it unless one is caught red handed.

Originally posted by Rilence
BTW, Aussie firefighters are on their way

Source?

I firmly believe the fires were deliberately set.
One question I do have though is, how do these "investigators" know if a fire was set on purpose? I mean I don't know the scientifics but is that even possible? Say someone threw a windproof match or something towards a dry bush area, there would be no way! Come to think of it, how can anyone say whether it was a natural fire? Maybe someone here can help me out?

Has anyone mentioned what was used to start these fires? I would think that would have to be confirmed before reporting that a fire was deliberately set, no?

Originally posted by CreeWolf
Fox News didn't pull the possibility of "Al Qaeda" out of their anal orifices. This WAS raised a few years ago. Even though it may not turn out to be the case with THESE wildfires, can you really berate Fox for exploring this possible angle on the story?

USA Today 07-11-2003

Maybe Fox News is just doing their job. You know, examining as many angles on the story as possible, rather than the myopic views of the likes of CNN, Al Jazeera, etc.

ohhh, and you must be Bill OReilly.
:shk:

Stop apologizing for those fools.

News Update: With no new evidence, Fox continues to ask: Did al Qaeda burn California?

Snippet:
For the second straight day, Fox News stood virtually alone in advancing thinly supported speculation to raise fears that the wildfires ravaging California are not the result of a confluence of arid heat and high winds but were set deliberately by al Qaeda terrorists bent on destroying America.

Fox & Friends, the conservative cable channel, was panned Wednesday for breathlessly reporting a sketchy, four-year-old FBI memo as if it offered new information linking America's enemies in the "Global War on Terror" with a plot to burn down southern California.


[edit on (10/25/07) by AllSeeingI]

reply to post by AllSeeingI


So what? Seriously. It is something they are discussing JUST like we are all discussing here.

And they mentioned in the news cast that it was from a 2003 memo. That came during the interview.

And if you listen to the whole interview, I see NOTHING that is "fear mongering". They are discussing possibilities. They are NOT suggesting. They are asking if it is possible, based on previous reports that it could be possible in the future.

"In a post-9/11 world, we have to consider all possibilities," Stakelbeck intoned.

The only fear mongering I see are people trying to tell the world that Fox News is evil and is out to get us. LOL!!

[edit on 25-10-2007 by greeneyedleo]

[edit on 25-10-2007 by greeneyedleo]

reply to post by BitRaiser


Thank god, he was just joking I was ready to offer my services and adopt him.

He is one of the enlighten ones

LiveLeak Video of FoxNews Firestorm Coverage

reply to post by tyranny22


Yeah sure, the California Illuminati say lite my fire you Arabs and
pay with innocent death in Shock and AWE.

Osama said to unite, perhaps this was a sign.

OSAMA WILL DIE when he realizes he is under Illuminati mind control
and confesses his sins... but is killed just before he does publicly.

Thus a new CT.

Good post T22... 3ndgam3 might be a little softer than TerrorStorm.
Video reporter AJ cuts no slack.
Let Give The Media ALL the Slack they need .... the better to catch them
all later on.

reply to post by sputniksteve


I'm saying that the jump from natural to arson to supposed terrorism seemed to happen pretty quickly. I understand it would be a stretch to start 14 fires of that size naturally. It is no surprise at all that it was arson. The lamest part of the reporting of the incident was the fact that Fox planted the question to begin with. I agree that it has been a pressing issue for the last few years, but the speculative fear is insane. As for the punks who did start these fires, hopefully they will get what they deserve. I hear there have been five arrests so far.

Oh wait, there's more. I'm watching Glenn Beck right now, and the screen says "Eco-Terror Threat" in large letters across the screen. So CNN is addressing the issue as well. He says it would be more likely to be caused by ALF or ELF groups operating here in the US. (first I've heard of them, but they are describing them as Eco-terrorist groups)