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RARE ENLIGHTENMENT ON FOX

With the Senate GOP trying desperately to kill the Zadroga Bill and thus becoming the focus of the Daily Show, FoxNews anchors actually took issue with the Republican leadership and their attempt to minimize the patriotic efforts of the "First Responders".

Since this airing, the tune in Washington has changed and it looks like a few Republicans may actually step up and reach the votes for cloture. Once it gets to the Senate floor for a final vote, we may see even more join the patriots who sponsored the bill.

Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin

I sometimes suspect that people forget that our nation has freedom of religion, or of no religion, as one of its core principles. As I watch the confrontational picketing of the Park Place Islamic Community Centre on the news channels, the feeling of disappointment in my fellow Americans deepens.

At a quick glance online, you can find historic accounts of the Great Mosque at Cordoba. Cordoba is what the developers intend to call the centre. The original Spanish structure, dating back to the 600s, had been the site of a Visigoth church.

The Great Mosque was built on that site over the course of two centuries which centered what became the most cultural city in the world, including the world's largest library. After the expulsion of Jews and Moors from Spain in the 16th century, Queen Isabella renamed the structure the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin. Thus provides my shocking title.

But forgive me for I digress.

I began by expressing sadness by the rhetoric coming from those who would deny a religious group from opening a community centre where it is legally protected. Considering the few blocks from the Ground Zero site, I would think more patriots would be jumping at the chance to show the world that we are truly a diverse and tolerant nation. Coming from me, you'd have to believe I support that which is found not only in our Constitution, but in the Bill Of Rights as well.

Park Place is as close to Ground Zero as Kingston's Central Post Offrice is to our Broadway. I'd say they are worlds apart and given the size of the buildings between them, they'd have nothing to do with each other. Ask anyone in midtown.

This is more of a contrived issue for the coming election. Conservative pundit Laura Ingram herself supported the construction of this community centre and thought the better of it only six months ago. Plenty has changed as we head into the midterms. We get the same old "Don't look at issues. Don't look at ideas...look over there!" method of campaigning by the GOP.

Lets just say, if a group wanted to destroy America, they would do it by getting us to turn on each other. Create divisiveness, mob thinking and foster hatred. Are we to allow this to continue?

Case in point: The largest shareholder of FOX News is an Australian. The second largest shareholder is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, through his Kingdom Holding Company. You've seen this here and at other sources before. Does this not concern you? Should it?

Prince Alwaleed is a Muslim. Does it matter? He is from Saudi Arabia. 19 of the 21 hijackers of 9/11 were Saudis. Even those who I know pine for the good old Bush years, express confusion when reminded of this and the close ties the Bush family had with the Bin Ladins. Then they ask why did we go to war with...they stop the question and quickly get back on script.

Alwaleed and the Saudis made their fortunes in oil. They have a vested interest in keeping us dependent on that oil. Those invested in the oil industry here in America, have the ability to ignore the glaring duplicity in whats considered terrorist supporters and good business partners.

Maybe they have a vested interest also in tearing us apart from the inside out.

It seems to be working.

SAUDI PRINCE OWNS 8% OF FOX

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns almost 10% of News Corp! That's the leading sentence in a news article that reveals the distinct displeasure of Joseph Farah, owner/publisher of the far right WORLDNETDAILY. News Corp, as you know is the parent company of Fox News.

CEO Rupert Murdoch is the only shareholder with more control. What's funny is that this news, which isn't really new, has Mr Farah in a real tither because he is only now finding out just how close the Prince and Mr Murdoch have become.

You see, Prince Alwaleed owns the Saudi equivalent to Fox News in his country: Rotana Media. There have been recent reports that expose the number of times the Prince influenced the reporting of international uprisings that he felt placed a negative light on Taliban rebels in Europe. I know what you're thinking.

Joseph Farah noted the incident where Alwaleed had boasted in the past about forcing Fox News to change it's content relating to its coverage of riots in Paris. Poor Joseph. You see, this brings a whole new level of suspicion on the validity of Fox News.

While speaking at the Constitutional Coalition Conference a few days ago, Farah noted correctly that such foreign ownership of American media is “really dangerous.”

I looked up this Farah character and the conference and found this quote from the man:

There’s a flaw, a real compromise in Fox that you need to understand. And if you care about national security, you especially need to be attentive to it. And that is that Fox News parent company is News Corp has a significant ownership by a Saudi prince that many of you will be familiar with because right after 9/11 this prince very famously offered Rudolph Giuliani a big multi-million dollar check to rebuild and Giuliani told him to stick the check where the sun don’t shine because this guy was basically blaming America for what happened on 9/11.

So then I looked up Alwaleed and found he had just been interviewed by Neil Cavuto as he reaffirmed why he has a personal stake in influencing American politics. Nice.

The Saudis need America to continue it's addiction to foreign oil. The Prince intends to keep Saudi Oil the number one source. What the connection with Fox News is, I don't know. Commentators on that channel continually confuse terrorists with the average Muslim on a daily basis, which is no different than the Amnesty/Open borders advocates when they confuse Immigration with Illegal Immigration. So I would have thought they would be less friendly toward each other.

It would be prudent to also expose that Alwaleed owns almost $5 billion dollars worth of Citigroup so he intends to help defeat any additional taxing of the major lending institutions proposed by the Obama administration. Remember the new rules of campaign finance that the Supreme Court just gave us? Get ready people! What's more...If you think that 15% limit on credit card rates has a chance, think again.

McCAIN AND DADT REVERSAL

Fox News Military Analyst Endorses DADT Repeal, Criticizes McCain For Flip-Flopping

This morning, Fox & Friends Weekend hosted Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, to discuss whether to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

According to his bio on the Fox News website, Hunt is a retired colonel with “over 29 years of military experience including extensive operational experience in special operations, counter terrorism and intelligence operations.” Hunt generally adheres to the conservative line on national security matters. For instance, he was an advocate for attacking Iraq. And instead of encouraging dialogue with Iran and Syria, Hunt said in 2006, “I think we can talk to them when we line them up and kill them.”

This morning, however, Hunt sided with progressives who are advocating repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Hunt called the discriminatory law “an abject failure” because “we’ve lost somewhere between 11 and 14,000 soldiers.”

MISINFORMER OF THE YEAR