As expected, Fox News is trying to sow the seeds of discontent with President Obama by blaming him for the recent beheadings of two American journalists by ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
In the latest installment of Fox Faux Outrage, Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarland, Fox News National Security Analyst and host of FoxNews.com’s “DefCon 3,” tries to manipulate the emotions of views turn them against President Obama by invoking the worst-case scenario – the possible beheading of a”26-year-old girl who’s an aid worker.”
Speaking with Gretchen Carlson, anchor of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, the two had the following exchange:
GRETCHEN CARLSON: A sad day for America, right?
K.T. McFARLAND: You bet. And I’m not sure it’s a day that had to happen. You know, the president has stuck his head in the sand. We now have evidence that he’s known about the threat that was mounting, coming, the ability of ISIS to take large areas, be well-funded, be well-armed, and have this jihadist agenda of killing, murdering, raping, crucifying, beheading anybody who gets in their way. Americans, Christians, religious minorities, even other Muslims. And the president stuck his head in the sand, and now we’ve seen two Americans have lost their heads. And this is not where it’s going to be over, Gretchen. That’s what’s so upsetting. There are some 20 other unaccounted-for journalists who have been missing for the last year in Syria and in Iraq. There’s one American — 26-year-old girl who’s an aid worker. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans now in Iraq and doing — in the oil industry, in the energy industry — and doing aid workers and working at hospitals teaching at schools; they’re all vulnerable.
The problem I have with this sort of pseudo-journalism is the way McFarland focused her attention on a 26-year-old aid worker. By her own admission, there were “hundreds, if not thousand, of Americans” who were “all vulnerable,” including those working “in the oil industry, in the energy industry.” God forbit McFarland mention a middle-aged oil executive or a Blackwater mercenary as the next possible victim of an ISIS beheading. Nope, let’s find the one potential victim out of “thousands” who will deliver the most scorn against the President.
As the Washington Post reported last week, “The 26-year-old woman was captured last year while working with three humanitarian groups in Syria. A representative for the family and U.S. officials asked that the woman not be identified out of fear for her safety.”
What a horrible time this must be for this young woman, her family and loved ones. And how dare Fox News make her a pawn in ongoing their war on President Obama.
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