Alex Jones' Prison Planet website is the kind of place you expect to find very right wing viewpoints and so when I find agreement that Fox News lies, I feel good about it. It gives me a defense when people behind the Fox curtain accuse me of being a far-left Commie/Liberal liar, which seems to be the best they can do, considering all the evidence that Fox is indeed a lie factory and propaganda machine -- more than just simply being affiliated with and a sponsor of the GOP.
"The latest example comes from Fox News, who completely manufactured the claim that Gaddafi was using western journalists as human shields to prevent fighter jets from bombing his compound,"writes blog editor Paul Joseph Watson today.
In a piece entitled, EXCLUSIVE: Libyans Use Journalists as Human Shields, Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin & Justin Fishel wrote, says Watson:
“An attack on the compound of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday had to be curtailed because of journalists nearby, Fox News has learned.”But there’s a problem, he says. One of the CNN journalists supposedly used by Gaddafi as a human shield subsequently appeared on CNN and labeled the claim,
“Outrageous and absolutely hypocritical. The idea that we were some kind of human shields is nuts,” CNN international correspondent Nic Robertson told Wolf Blitzer.
"Fox News has proven itself to be a complete tool of the US military-industrial complex. Nothing it now reports about the attack on Libya can ever be trusted."says Prison Planet, QED -- and who can dispute it?
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Prison Planet is not at all what I expected, which was extreme right wing news/opinion. I've been checking it out since the G20 in Toronto. Thought much of their reporting was all but total BS. Checking alternative sources proved them correct.
To me, it's an encouraging sign that there is a right wing point of view that isn't part of the Fox/Beck retail lunacy and I've heard some sensible things from Jones. Yes, Beck would make anyone look good in comparison, but checks and balances are supposed to be the preserver of our system and we need to be open minded about it.
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