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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 763226" data-attributes="member: 9859">wkmac.. I feel the need to &quot;pile on&quot;... thx for the find&nbsp;&quot;Jon Stewart <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/jon-stewart-mosque_n_688546.html" target="_blank">continued</a> his coverage of the &#039;Ground Zero Mosque&#039; debate last night, focusing on Fox News&#039; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/stewart-rips-fox-news-for_1_n_684467.html" target="_blank">incongruities</a> harder than he ever has. In a segment called &quot;The Parent Company Trap,&quot; Stewart shared with his viewers how Fox News&#039; plan to &quot;follow the money&quot; from mosque builder Imam Rauf to terrorists will be a tricky one because it leads right back to Fox News.Stewart showed clips from his show last week, in which he mocked Fox News for playing a dangerous game of association based on speculation, and wherein Fox continued to mention a nameless man with ties to Imam Rauf through the &quot;Kingdom Foundation.&quot; It turns out the man they are referring to but never name is Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the biggest <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008200055" target="_blank">shareholders</a> of Rupert Murdoch&#039;s News Corp.Showing a photo of the prince shaking hands with Rupet Murdoch, Stewart exclaimed, &quot;That&#039;s right, the guy they&#039;re painting as a sinister money force OWNS Fox News.&quot; Stewart then used Fox&#039;s own logic to explain how the &quot;terror mosque&quot; is funded by Prince Alwaleed, despite being a co-owner of Fox News, and therefore funding terrorism. So, using their logic, Stewart said, &quot;If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.&quot;But with this new information, one thing is now uncertain. Did Fox actually not know the name of the Kingdom Foundation leader or that he is a News Corp investor? Or did they, as Stewart said, &quot;purposefully cover it up because it didn&#039;t help their fear-driven narrative?&quot;Stewart turned to John Oliver and Wyatt Cynac to figure out whether Fox is, in fact, evil or stupid?&quot;&nbsp;Source.... <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/stewart-fox-prince-alwaleed_n_692234.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/stewart-fox-prince-alwaleed_n_692234.html</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 763226, member: 9859"] wkmac.. I feel the need to "pile on"... thx for the find "Jon Stewart [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/jon-stewart-mosque_n_688546.html"][COLOR=#bf1900]continued[/COLOR][/URL] his coverage of the 'Ground Zero Mosque' debate last night, focusing on Fox News' [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/stewart-rips-fox-news-for_1_n_684467.html"][COLOR=#bf1900]incongruities[/COLOR][/URL] harder than he ever has. In a segment called "The Parent Company Trap," Stewart shared with his viewers how Fox News' plan to "follow the money" from mosque builder Imam Rauf to terrorists will be a tricky one because it leads right back to Fox News. Stewart showed clips from his show last week, in which he mocked Fox News for playing a dangerous game of association based on speculation, and wherein Fox continued to mention a nameless man with ties to Imam Rauf through the "Kingdom Foundation." It turns out the man they are referring to but never name is Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the biggest [URL="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008200055"][COLOR=#bf1900]shareholders[/COLOR][/URL] of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Showing a photo of the prince shaking hands with Rupet Murdoch, Stewart exclaimed, "That's right, the guy they're painting as a sinister money force OWNS Fox News." Stewart then used Fox's own logic to explain how the "terror mosque" is funded by Prince Alwaleed, despite being a co-owner of Fox News, and therefore funding terrorism. So, using their logic, Stewart said, "If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox." But with this new information, one thing is now uncertain. Did Fox actually not know the name of the Kingdom Foundation leader or that he is a News Corp investor? Or did they, as Stewart said, "purposefully cover it up because it didn't help their fear-driven narrative?" Stewart turned to John Oliver and Wyatt Cynac to figure out whether Fox is, in fact, evil or stupid?" Source.... [URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/stewart-fox-prince-alwaleed_n_692234.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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