Riling them up
Fox News needles a former CIA contractor to talk on the air about killing Obama.
Kris Paronto, who worked for the intelligence agency during the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens dead, was speaking to host Pete Hegseth about recent remarks by Obama suggesting that the Republican investigation into the incident was politically motivated.
“It’s disgusting. It just raises the bile inside of me. I had a hard time just watching the speeches,” Paronto told Hegseth, Raw Story reported. “I just wanted to see what he had to say. And when that came across, I just wanted to reach through the screen and just grab him — grab him and choke him.”
“Honestly, the man is a disgrace, just a complete disgrace,” he said of the former president. “It’s completely offensive and I wish I had that man sitting in front of me right now without his Secret Service,” the former CIA contractor added, smacking his hands together in a threatening gesture.
Hegseth then cautioned Paronto against threatening a previous head of state. But the former contractor pushed back, saying: “It doesn’t get yourself away from saying comments when my friends died in front of me.”
Donald Trump has frequently referred to the Benghazi attacks as a cover up by the Obama administration, especially during his presidential campaign. He used this as a line of attack against his political opponent Hillary Clinton, who served as Secretary of State when the incident occured. However, ten investigations, six of which were led by Republican-controlled House committees, failed to find any wrongdoing by Clinton or other senior Obama officials.
Fine. Let’s talk about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion then.
Does anyone think Fox and the rest of Murdoch’s empire is going to tone down after Rupert dies?
Are James and Lachlan just as rabid conservatives?
It’s a frightening insight into the US Republican mindset.
I don’t think even Rupert Murdoch is a rabid conservative. I think he leans more than not towards right-wing parties, but more pertinent is that he discovered long ago that taking a right wing populist/conservative stance is a very successful business model for his outlets. So no, I wouldn’t expect that model to change much after he dies.