Another leaked internal Fox News memo, and the crap it inspired

"And let's be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress."


reprinted from The Huffington Post. Click to enlarge.


The story of the memo, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann

The (unattributed?) reference to "reports of insurgents cheering in the streets" is intruiging. Assuming that Iraqis really are cheering in the street, how can anyone tell if they are insurgents?

It's amazing how Craig Gutman's commentary on Fox, (linked below) matches up with this memo pretty much exactly, in spite of apparently needing to weave the narrative of "Dems and Insurgents on the same page" out of thin air (few specifics, no quotes.).

What really gets me, though, is the single direct quote that is offered up by Fox in connection with the Gutman piece, by the Iranian Ayatollah who said that the Democratic electoral victories were " a defeat for Bush's Hawkish policies." Seriously, is that the best they could come up with? Not exactly "Death to America", is it?


Craig Gutman, formerly of Maxim, has recieved a political awakening... and obviously, he got the memo.

This is the kind of bullshit that gives bullshit a bad name. Obnoxious Right Wing Blogger with a buzz cut points out the striking similarity between terrorist reaction and liberal reaction to Democratic victories in midterm elections, without giving one single example of either. (Is this new generation of Right Wing commentators lazy? Sean Hannity would at least have shown enough initiative to make something up.) Mr. Gut then contradicts himself by saying that the policies are different, but the giddyness is the same. So how is that saying "exactly" the same thing?

We pontificate. You decide.