Arsonist Points the Finger at FoxNews

[jackstar7]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/...ls-court-i-only-know-what-i-hear-on-fox-news/

An Indiana man convicted of setting fire to a mosque in Ohio told a judge on Wednesday that he committed the crimes because Fox News and conservative talk radio had convinced him that “most Muslims are terrorists.”

Randolph Linn, 52, accepted a plea deal in which he pled guilty to all charges in connection to setting a fire in the prayer room at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo on Sept. 30. Under the deal, Linn is expected to serve 20 years in prison instead of 40.

Linn explained to the court that he had gotten “riled up” after watching Fox News.





“And I was more sad when Judge [Jack] Zouhary asked him that, ‘Do you know any Muslims or do you know what Islam is?’” one mosque member who attended the hearing recalled to WNWO. “And he said, ‘No, I only know what I hear on Fox News and what I hear on radio.’”

“Muslims are killing Americans and trying to blow stuff up,” Linn also reportedly told the judge. “Most Muslims are terrorists and don’t believe in Jesus Christ.”

Linn claimed that he had consumed 45 beers in the 6 hours before leaving his Indiana home to set fire to the mosque, which he had discovered while working as a truck driver.

After his arrest on Oct. 2, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ava Dusten said that Linn had told officers, “Fuck those Muslims… They would kill us if they got the chance.”

Linn is due back in court on April 16, 2013 for a formal sentencing.

A survey released by Fairleigh Dickinson University earlier this year determined that Fox News viewers were actually less informed that Americans who watched no news at all. In fact, at least seven studies in recent years have confirmed that Fox News viewers are more likely to be misinformed than other Americans.

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[DominionSeraph]

Fox News is just repeating history.

"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood."

"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side. (...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula."

- Mein Kampf

 

[Phokus]

Not surprised, Fox News and other rightwing media are feeding into the violent paranoid delusions of their rightwing viewers. See the rightwing nutball who shot up a Unitarian Church, murdering several members because they were 'liberal'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting

During the interview Adkisson stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he had held these beliefs for about the last ten years.

Turns out, he was a big o'reilly/hannity/savage fan.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shooting-police-find-manifesto-suspects-car/

If conservatives were born in the middle east, they'd be 'muslim extremists'.

edit: also, "600 bucks to curb stomp a liberal? SO worth it. - Spidey07"

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

45 beers in 6 hours...I'm impressed!

 

[sigurros81]

FOX News wins at trolling. Nothing like getting your idiotic viewers to do your bidding.

 

[SheHateMe]

Wait....All Muslims AREN'T Terrorists?

I've been lied to!

 

[Matt1970]

Not surprised, Fox News and other rightwing media are feeding into the violent paranoid delusions of their rightwing viewers. See the rightwing nutball who shot up a Unitarian Church, murdering several members because they were 'liberal'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting



Turns out, he was a big o'reilly/hannity/savage fan.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shooting-police-find-manifesto-suspects-car/

If conservatives were born in the middle east, they'd be 'muslim extremists'.

edit: also, "600 bucks to curb stomp a liberal? SO worth it. - Spidey07"

It figures this thread would bring out the colossal idiots. Not only did you grab your pud and start wanking at this story you one upped them bringing up a shooting incident.

As soon as anyone actually acts out against others in the name of politics it should be condemned by all and not used as ammunition in a political war. There have been extremists on both sides that have taken politics way too far. Keeping score in the name of politics is pathetic.

And I know, I got suckered by a fake story. That was one incident but you continue to show your utter stupidity on a daily basis.

 

[Nemesis 1]

FOX News wins at trolling. Nothing like getting your idiotic viewers to do your bidding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYLCx83TMg

Ya I know what you mean . Some are so clueless

 

[hal2kilo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYLCx83TMg

Ya I know what you mean . Some are so clueless

So you hunkering down for tomorrow?

 

[Phokus]

It figures this thread would bring out the colossal idiots. Not only did you grab your pud and start wanking at this story you one upped them bringing up a shooting incident.

As soon as anyone actually acts out against others in the name of politics it should be condemned by all and not used as ammunition in a political war. There have been extremists on both sides that have taken politics way too far. Keeping score in the name of politics is pathetic.

And I know, I got suckered by a fake story. That was one incident but you continue to show your utter stupidity on a daily basis.

Hahaha, the only stupid one is you. "Extremist on both sides" is basically you trying to equate the both sides equally when that is far from the truth. From a legislative perspective, you god damned morons are so far off the deep end, you'll do shit like filabustering your OWN BILLS and voting against your own ideas just because a democrat advocated it.

As for actual violence, do i even need to explain to you that there's an imbalance and you guys are FAR more violent.

To quote spidey:

600 bucks to curb stomp a liberal? SO worth it. - Spidey07

 

[Nemesis 1]

So you hunkering down for tomorrow?

Troll troll your boat up the stream



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xA1U0BLdf4

 

[lotus503]

45 beers in 6 hours...I'm impressed!

I was thinking the same thing, 46 bears in 6 hours and im in a coma

 

[dank69]

The guy probably can't count to potato, let alone 45.

 

[Incorruptible]

45 beers in 6 hours...I'm impressed!

That is very impressive

 

[hal2kilo]

I was thinking the same thing, 46 bears in 6 hours and im in a coma

I'm think'n maybe it's time to switch to hard liquor.