Thursday, October 25, 2007

FOX CALLS THE SOCAL FIRES ON AL QAEDA

Check out the below excerpt nicked from an October 24, 2007 post at ThinkProgress.org that reported on how Fox news claimed Al Qaeda could have caused the SoCal wildfires:
DOOCY: You're looking live at pictures from San Diego — Santiago, CA, where the wildfires continue. We were talking earlier in today's telecast with Adam Housley and apparently police officers in a hovering helicopter saw a guy starting one of these fires. And Allison Allison Camerota, an FBI memo from late in June of this year is popping up this morning and it is ominous.

CAMEROTA: This actually has happened for many years in the past as well. An FBI sent out to local law-enforcement said that an al Qaeda detainee had given them some information that the next wave of terrorism could be in the form of setting wild fires. Adam Housley said lots of people on his block were asking him about it. Obviously this is something the FBI has looked into. They will continue to investigate it.


Wow, this is a bit funnier than the folks blaming the wildfires on global warming!

Now, it would be one thing if Fox cited real evidence, but as with most of the media, they're just parroting what the USG is telling us rather than doing, you know, their jobs and researching to find out if there actually IS evidence of AQ playing with matches.

Likewise, blaming the fires on global warming is equally absurd. Perhaps the SoCal climate is unusually dry because of GW, but a dry climate alone doesn't cause fires. And, NEWSFLASH, it's already pretty dry out here in California--in fact, we're known for being, uh, what are those things called again? Oh yeah--a desert!

So, if we could get both extremes to just SHUT THE HELL UP and look at REALITY, perhaps we can actually take care of these damn fires.

Special thanks to TheJen for TheLink to this story. ^_^

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