FOX News Fascist, Gretchen Carlson, Swift-boats Sen. Kennedy's Opposition to
Bush's "Surge"

By Walter C. Uhler
Created Jan 11 2007 - 9:31am

Although none of the following news nuggets were found in the speech that
President Bush delivered tonight, recently, we learned: (1) that an official
from the Bush administration admitted to NBC News that President Bush's
decision to "surge" troop levels in Iraq "is more a political decision than
a military one," (2) that General John Abazaid, commander of the U.S. forces
in the Middle East, "asked every top commander in Iraq whether more troops
would add considerably to the odds of success.they all said no," and (3)
that as many as nine Republican Senators oppose Bush's proposed "surge," as
do the majority of polled Americans.

However, we also recently learned that most of the recommendations of the
Iraq Study Group had been blown off by the Bush administration, due to the
resurgent influence of discredited and disgraced chickenhawk
neoconservatives, such as Frederick Kagan and that obnoxious girlie-man,
William Kristol. Why the resurgence? Because, the neocons and Bush need each
other. After all, the criminality and incompetence attending the "cake walk"
in Iraq tars them both. Unfortunately, both appear quite willing to see many
more American soldiers killed and wounded in order to rescue their pathetic
reputations.

You'll recall that it was a few Holocaust-traumatized and/or Israel-first
necons (as distinct from the overwhelming majority of American Jews, who
opposed the invasion of Iraq), who provided both the ideology and the
attention-grabbing clamor for invading Iraq. For their role in destroying
Iraq (which was far better off under Saddam Hussein), for the untold
thousands of deaths in Iraq, for the thousands of American soldiers killed
and wounded, for rendering the U.S. less secure than it was before the
invasion, for causing the proliferation of terrorists around the world, and
for besmirching the good name of the U.S., even among our allies; neocons
Kristol, Wolfowitz, Feith and Perle should rot in hell. Yet, amazingly, the
mainstream media still seeks their advice.

Knowing all of this, I was outraged by the comments made this morning by
Gretchen Carlson at FOX News. Talking about Senator Ted Kennedy's proposed
legislation to prevent the funding of Bush's "surge," Ms. Carlson said the
following to White House counselor, Dan Bartlett: "You talk about the
hostile enemy, obviously being Iraq, but hostile enemies right here on the
home front. Yesterday Senator Ted Kennedy, proposing that any kind of a
troop surge should mean there should be congressional approval of that. A
lot of democrats not coming to his side on this. But obviously this is not
going to be an easy sell on Capitol Hill, even if it's not an easy sell to
the American Public."

Ms. Carlson's outrageous assertion prompted me to send the following email
to FOX News:

Dear Gretchen Carlson:

Just when I was beginning to think that FOX News -- out of common human
decency -- had placed numerical limits on the number of Fascists and/or
smacked asses who could work at its network, I learned today that you
suggested that Senator Ted Kennedy was a "hostile enemy" inside the U.S.,
simply because he seeks to end the no-win carnage in Iraq that the our Punk
President Bush set in motion with his illegal, immoral and incompetent
invasion. Your "Swift-boating" slander of Kennedy reveals your dishonesty or
stupidity -- or both. And although your slime is far worse than the mistakes
that got Dan Rather fired at CBS, it probably will get you a promotion at
FOX.

Finally, talk is cheap. As an Army vet, I say: "Get off your fascist ass and
enlist!" As Country Joe McDonald might say: "Be the first one on your block
to have your ass brought home in a box!" Go "surge" for your country!

Sincerely,
Walter C. Uhler

I'll be flying to Memphis tomorrow to participate in the National Conference
on Media Reform. And I'll be energized, not only by the knowledge that the
mainstream news media still turns to discredited neocons, but also by the
new evidence indicating that FOX News still cultivates fascists like potted
plants.
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About author Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer
whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The
Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military
History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is
President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).
waltuhler@aol.com [1]

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