I sure hope major news orgs pick up on this and keep scratching this scab.

actually it all makes sense in a Manchurian Candidate sort of way. I mean, has anyone really done more to assist with terrorist recruiting, undermining the American way of life, and fomenting a clash of cultures than Fox News?

Well, this would certainly explain why they're behaving in ways that are objectively pro-Al Qaeda.

cue 182,000 repetitive and increasingly hysterical words from the demonstrably mentally ill theamericanist...

but in the world outside of crazytown, this is hilarious.

Let's not forget to mention that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's book "What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America," was published by the Murdoch owned HarperSanFrancisco.

I can't wait for FauxSnooze to respond by calling Stewart a mean nasty bigot. Maybe some of their viwers' heads will explode.

The only decision now is whether to start reflexively referring to Fox News, just as a matter of course, as being financed by questionable Saudi royalty with ties to radicals.

Some suggestions:
Fatwah News.
Jihadi TV.
Radical Madrassa Media.

Al-Waleed bin Talal funds madrassas. Madrasses according to Fox and Rudi Gulliani all teach radical Islam. Therefore everything funded by the Kingdom Foundation of Al-Waleed bin Talal is a radical Islamist terrorist network. Al-Waleed bin Talal funds Fox News. Therefore Fox News is a radical Islamist terror network. Q.E.D.

once again, Stewart does the job of the MSM.

For me, the high point was a photo of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal sharing a grip and grin with Rupert Murdoch.

-it even trumps Bush holding hands with his Saudi enabler as they tiptoed thru the Texas tulips. . .

It's a wonder any day's transcript of Fox and Friends isn't on the top 10 best seller's list for fiction! (No fiction writer could come close to making this shit up!) -Kevo

ARGH!

And why can't the MSM lead with this story???

Uh, uh, uh, uh....

Obama was born in Africa!

Death panels!

Mexican drug cartels taking over Texas ranches!

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

Guess what? We care, but the goopers and knuckle-draggers and the flying monkeys and the conservafascists and their mentally challenged followers and the racist repiggies......don't care. THEY DON'T CARE! If it's not slamming the President and the Dems, it ain't worthy. So, you are unlikely to hear much about it on the MSM. Where would we be without the few outlets of reality and sanity out there? It is amazing where we've come to in this country. The 'real' news is bullshit, the 'fake' comedy news is real.

Liked the Daily Show segment, but I really don't see why we should be forced to choose. Isn't Fox News both Stupid *and* Evil? Maybe that could replace Fair and Balanced as their motto.

He also invested heavily in Apple: bought 5% of the company when the stock was at $9.50.

That makes the iPod and the iPhone the tools of radical Islam.

Shameless obfuscation and hypocrisy, promoting ignorance and intolerance, the futility of pointing these things out, etc.

Another day in la-la land. At some point, reasonable people's heads are going to explode.

Could that be the rapture of which they speak? Discuss.

Can't wait to see Rachel and Keith's take on this.

I've often thought the Saudi royal family was pulling the strings of the neocons. Who benefited the most from 9/11? Bin Laden? He's spent the last ten years in a cave and he's probably dead. But the Saudis saw the price of oil quadruple, thanks to Bush's wars and (a little-remarked fact) the invasion of Iraq allowed the Bush administration to remove ALL American troops from our Saudi bases, something the royal family had been pleading for since the Gulf War. The militants who want to overthrow them were using U.S. troops on Saudi soil as a rallying point. But even I never imagined they controlled Fox News so directly. Yeah, I know. What a wild-ass conspiracy theory. Bush holding hands with Saudi princes really meant nothing. But as they say in murder investigations, cui bono? Who benefited most from those 3000 deaths? Dick Cheney, George Bush, the Republican party and the Saudi royal family, not necessarily in that order.

Even Monty Python couldn't have made this stuff up.

Steve, at this point I believe it would be perfectly appropriate for you to start referring to FOX News as the "Saudi-funded, Islamic news network"...

Both sides want a worldwide holy war, and are happy to work with each other to bring it to fruition. Simple as that...

@ The Answer WAS Orange on August 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM

Some suggestions:
Fatwah News.

G1
but may I morph it a bit into
Foxwa News

It's positively chilling and hilarious how closely Fox's arc matches that of UBC from Network. This is the part of the story where Jensen tells Howard Beale that he may have scotched the Arab money this time, but it's a molecular certainty that the global market will render his ravings meaningless. Having bought into Jensen's evangel, Beale's shtick grows tiresome and his ratings go into freefall.

There's always hoping.

On the evil vs stupid debate, I would argue that Fox News is evil and is actively working to make their audience as stupid as possible.

Excellent post except for one point where you were out Foxed. You write that Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is helping to finance Park51 suspect "the same guy funding "radical madrassas" and the Burlington Coat Factory community center."
. Watch Fox and Friends again -- Senor did not assert that at all. He just asserted that Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal helped finance other Iman Rauf activities in the past.

The utter idiocy (and evilness) of the Fox and Friends episode devoted to following the money is that there is hardly any money to follow. The community center would cost $100,000,000. Last I heard the organizing committee had raised $ 28,000. I suspect that Prince Al-Waleed would ever bother with such a trifling sum. I mean he has his dignity to maintain.

This won't put a dent in Fox's viewership. No doubt they've already decided that the entire story is just another fabrication by the librul media. Unlike, say, Obama's citizenship and religion, the Mexican drug gangs taking over Texas, the War Against Christmas, etc. etc. etc.

New Faux slogan: "Radical and Unbalanced."

What money is there to follow? None, according to a Politico article you, Steve B., linked us to last week. It reported that NO fundraising has been done by Rauf for the construction of the Park51 project. It is the only place, the ONLY place where I have seen this information. There is no money to follow in this project! They are making this up! Although that's hardly news from Fox News.

The lack of fundraising does, I think, put the viability of the project in question. And I think it raises credibility questions about Rauf regarding the project (not in general, just this project.)

Wouldn't it be interesting if Prince Al-Waleed and Rupert Murdoch decide the negative publicity is too much. Al-Waleed sells his NewsCorp interests, maybe even to Murdoch himself. Then, Al-Waleed donates the proceeds to the Cordoba Initiative to build the Park51 project.

The head exploding episode of "Fox and Friends" would be very special television indeed.

But... why is a teevee comedian digging this stuff up?

Why not Benen, or Sargent, or Greenwald, or... I don't know... how 'bout the New York Times?

Everything is upside down.

News Corp. owns Fox and just gave a big chunk of money to the Repub Party. If s Saudi prince is the 2nd biggest shareholder, then the Republican Party is financed by Muslim "terrorists".

Right?

Problem is that FOX has not and will never tell its viewers about this, and since all they watch is FOX, how will they know otherwise?

"Problem is that FOX has not and will never tell its viewers about this..." dweb @ 7:05 PM.
Don't worry about any dedicated FOX viewers, their minds are already set in concrete, in the 19th century.
The GOP can't win elections with just its base voting, it needs "independent" voters. Sometimes not a lot of them, but it does need some. Stories such as this just makes it that much harder to bamboozle those desperately-needed voters.
I fully expect the furor over the Islamic community center to continue to grow; what else have the Republicans to run on? The more strident the Islamaphobes get, the more voters will be turned off - and that worries the GOP powers-that-be.

Taking the money trail one step further: Since Fox News is being financed by questionable Saudi royalty with ties to radicals, and Fox News recently became a major donor to the GOP Gubernatorial candidates ... then Islamic Radicals are working to get Republicans elected!

Just to add more tin-foil to my hat: do we think Murdoch is trying to get this dude's financing frozen, so they can take his stock? Evil or Stupid is definitely the question.

"Foxwa News" gets the winner, winner chicken dinner
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