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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere's Fox News When White Right-Wing Extremists Commit Acts of Terror?
http://www.alternet.org/wheres-fox-news-when-white-right-wing-extremists-commit-acts-terrorOn August 5, 2012, just before 10:30 in the morning, Wade Michael Page pulled up outside the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., took out his semi-automatic handgun and started killing worshipers. An Army veteran and an avid bass player in a neo-Nazi rock band, Page killed two Sikhs outside the house of worship and then made his way inside. There, he reloaded and killed four more, including the president of the temple who was shot while trying to tackle Page. Three more were critically wounded in the massacre.
When local police descended, Page opened fire and shot one officer nearly ten times. When the authorities returned fire and shot Page in the stomach, he took his 9mm pistol, pointed it at his own head, and pulled the trigger.
According to acquaintances, the 40-year-old killer hated blacks, Indians, Native Americans and Hispanics (he called non-whites "dirt people" , and was interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan. Immersed in the world of white power music, Page's band rehearsed in front of a Nazi flag.
Note that back in August 2012, Fox News didn't care very much about Wade Page and the wild gun shootout he unleashed in an act of domestic terror in the Milwaukee suburb, nor did Fox suggest the event was connected to a larger, more sinister terror trend. In fact, in the days that followed the gun massacre, there were just two passing references to Page during Fox's primetime, one from Bill O'Reilly and one from Greta Van Susteren. No guests were asked to discuss the temple shooting, and after one day the story was completely forgotten.
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Where's Fox News When White Right-Wing Extremists Commit Acts of Terror? (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2013
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SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)1. giving each other high-fives?
or poring over wikipedia to try & find a link to Obama?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)2. The answer is this...
They are right wing extremist with racist views so they aren't going to comment against their own thinking
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)3. You can't be in two places at once.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)4. America's first official terrorist group were Christian, they terrorized more Americans for longer
...time than any other religious group could think of.
They called themselves the Klu Klux Klan
LeftInTX
(25,098 posts)5. Where was the entire MSM???
The Sikh temple shooting was merely "news", whereas, the marathon bombing is bringing out the neocons in droves. The marathon bombing has fueled all of the Sunday talk shows, congress is calling for an investigation etc. etc?
Where was Lindsey, McCain, Peter King et al after the Sikh temple shooting?
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)6. doing feature stories on
psychic cats.
Initech
(100,029 posts)7. American logic: bombs, airliners = terrorism. AK-47s = protected under second amendment.