ERRORS AND NO FACTS

Business as Usual at Fox News
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The Shirley Sherrod case further deepens Fox News Channel's credibility problem -- which is a good thing for the Obama Administration.
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I won't do it again. I promise!
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Trust me on this one. Just as soon as a Fox News Channel political commentator announces that the earth is flat – and one way or another, Fox will indeed “break” that story – the first thing anyone in America who swears by Fox will do is instruct their children not to stray too close to earth’s edge. Then immediately after, they’ll unleash an attack on the conservative-hating egg-heads of the liberal media for ignoring the flat earth story in favor of all that reporting on the “global warming hoax.”

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Hyperbole? No doubt. But only if we’re talking about the word some Fox News viewers would use to characterize any report that warns of climate change. After all, consider the following:

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Spook Juice for the Conspiracy-Minded

PERCEPTION IS REALITY

My perception of reality has been shaped, in part, by a near transcendent fascination with odd "coincidences," juicy cover-ups, furtive conspiracies, and mind-boggling mysteries. You know, the kind that stretch way beyond the often easy-to-debunk urban legends. I have vivid memories of being so thoroughly captivated, at age nine, by the mysterious and still-unexplained disappearance of Joan Risch that I established my own unofficial, one-kid search for the Lincoln, Massachusetts housewife. I spent a more than a week engaging Keystone Cops kind of search for clues to her disappearance -- in fields, back alleys and abandoned buildings of my Boston neighborhood over 25 miles away!

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Israel's Shame

Palestinians Suffer for the Sins of Others

Palestine's Future - Children of the Deheishe Refugee Camp, 1995

By Anthony Barnes / July 2010

"We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day." -- Former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair, 2002

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My boyhood occurred during an era when Jewish delicatessens, not McDonald's or Burger Kings, were the norm in many neighborhoods of Boston, particularly mine – Roxbury – which, until the late 1960’s, was a predominantly Jewish enclave. So, as it turned out, my earliest exposure to persons of the Jewish faith was largely a product of my fondness for the outstanding kosher hot dogs my friends and I regularly devoured at Max Andrews. “Max-Ann’s,” as we called it then, was a Jewish deli located on Blue Hill Avenue in close proximity to the Nation of Islam’s Temple No. 11, whose minister at one time, Louis Farrakhan, graduated from the school I later attended – Boston English, the nation’s oldest public high school.

At that time, even if out of sheer ignorance I accepted a crass, stereotypical description of what Jews looked like – white people with large noses – I was far more clueless as to what a Jew actually is. Perhaps not surprisingly, in that context, Jewish-ness, if you will, sort of flew under the radar. It held little, if any relevancy to me. That is, until Carl Zidel helped make it relevant. But more about that later.

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