Saturday, July 09, 2005

London Explosions: Fox news - proud to be the Ugly American

Quotes from Fox news regarding the London bombings.

Brit Hume, Washington managing editor

"Just on a personal basis ... I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought 'hmm, time to buy'

Brian Kilmeade (speaking about the G8 African agenda being replaced by terrorism)

"I think that works to our advantage, in the western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened."

John Gibson (about the decision to pick London as host of the 2012 Olympics)

"If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?"

"This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics - let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while."


I wonder if they were that uncaring about Sept 11? Of course, we all know the answer to that. They and others like them, introduced the concept of "sympathy on demand." It is because of the above attitude, that the well has become dry