Olberman Calls for a Boycott of Fox News
Tuesday June 2, 2009
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Really the most interesting bit here is Frank Shaeffer's arguments. *If* you make the connection between abortions post 1972 and the holocaust of the 1940s, then one naturally makes the connection between Bonhoffer's plot to murder Hitler. Was he just? Can a Christian be forced into a utilitarian cost/benefit analysis where one murder is just because it halts countless others? Do the means really justify the means? Can we really ask these questions or does "love your enemy" and "do not murder" really mean *do not*?
Last time, I checked this guy was making bombs in the mid-nineties. Fox News or not eventually he would have tried to kill someone. Operation Rescues irresponsible propaganda is just that, irresponsible, but not responsible.
It is amazing to me how one radical can call another person or network a radical. I think it is time for people to use the intellect that God has given us the ability to use instead of attacking and fighting one another. When we allow ideology to be the basis of our life who really wins?
It is not one network over another it should be reasonable people working together to make our world better.
I also hope that the troops are no longer being forced to watch Fox News. My understanding is that during the Bush administration it was broadcast 24/7.
It is not illegal to falsify the news. This is the reason Faux exists.
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