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July 11, 2012 5:57 PM
The Perfect Fox Story
So if you have any lingering doubts that the conservative “base” will be “energized” in November, keep in mind that most of these folks get their “news” from Fox, which keeps coming up with “stories” like this one:
A treaty being hammered out this month at the United Nations — with Iran playing a key role — could expose the records of America’s gun owners to foreign governments — and, critics warn, eventually put the Second Amendment on global trial.
You can read the whole thing, or just take my word for it that this “threat” is largely imaginary. But I do wonder if Fox has somebody sitting in a cubicle doing nothing but searching the wires for “stories” that include words like “guns” and “United Nations” and “Iran.” If so, the worker bee who found this one probably got a gold star on his or her calendar.
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Nancy B. on July 11, 2012 6:03 PM:
They forgot ACORN.
Marc in Denver on July 11, 2012 6:13 PM:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
c u n d gulag on July 11, 2012 6:19 PM:
OY!
Really?
This is epically, too stooooopid to eat your boogers or your own snot, stupid!
These ""Morans" will believe anything, I swear!!!
Bokonon on July 11, 2012 6:21 PM:
Because Iranians want to show up in your backyard, riding on black UN helicopters, and take away your guns.
And then steal your pickup truck. And use it to impose Sharia law.
Critics warn about this. You know, the sorts of expert critics who send around those chain e-mails about government conspiracies and Janet Reno and flag burning and Hanoi Jane (still).
T-Rex on July 11, 2012 6:22 PM:
But Ted Nugent will believe it, repeat it, and cite it as grounds for secession and/or assassinations.
delNorte on July 11, 2012 6:39 PM:
As we get closer to November - especially if it appears Obama has a lead - stories like these will seem quaint and amusing compared to the stuff that will be rolled out to scare the right wing masses to the polls.
We ain't seen nothin' yet...
MaryRC on July 11, 2012 8:04 PM:
Another typical Fox story that's spreading through the wingnut blogopshere:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/10/closure-border-patrol-stations-across-four-states-triggers-alarm/
Most of the 9 Border Patrol stations facing closure are in northern or central Texas. Of the other 3, one is in Idaho, one in Montana and one is near Los Angeles.
The article quotes US Customs & Border Control as saying that it wants to re-assign these agents closer to the actual US-Mexico border. Which, the last I heard, runs along the southern borders of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Not Idaho.
But nevertheless, this "triggers alarms". Because Border Patrols!
Of course, Idaho does share a slice of the US-Canada border, so Border Patrol stations in this state would make sense. Except that Twin Falls, where this station is situated, is at the opposite end of Idaho from the Canadian border. But somehow I feel that's not the border that Fox News is alarmed about anyway.
Steve P on July 11, 2012 9:03 PM:
Yeah. I got the push-pin call a few weeks ago; when they asked me if I approved I punched 2 for "yes".
I like to think that when this happens, a sub-demon sticks another hot iron into Lee Atwater.
T2 on July 11, 2012 10:34 PM:
Why watch FOX?
Skip on July 11, 2012 11:38 PM:
When Fox News speaks, idiocy listens.
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