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[bryant]

The cynical may enjoy being proven right by thirty-odd Fox News memos. It is blatantly clear that Fox News thinks of itself as the conservative defender of truth against the marauding liberal news media.

We have good perp walk video of Eric Rudolph which we should use. We should NOT assume that anyone who supported or helped Eric Rudolph is a racist. No one's in favor of murder or bombing of public places. But feelings in North Carolina may just be more complicated than the NY Times can conceive.

There's a not really that subtle difference between saying that Rudolph's supporters had complex motivations and saying that they made a mistake. One excuses supporting a terrorist, and one does not. Consider this statement: "No one's in favor of murder or bombing of public places. But feelings in Palestine may just be more complicated than Fox News can conceive." Somehow I can't imagine Fox News taking that tack.

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[gentlyepigrams]

As written, the Fox news stance doesn't make sense and is prima facie untrue. While feelings in North Carolina probably are complicated (without reference to other media) and people who are not racist may have helped Rudolph, saying that nobody favors murder or bombs is flat-out wrong. Particularly the "nobody favors murder" bit, which as a fan of reproductive rights, who views the Rudolph case through that lens, is ridiculous.

[bryant]

Ha! Yes indeed.

And the "but" is very telling.

[kodi]

If you want to give it a really cynical/tinfoil hat/partisan reading:
[None of Eric Rudolph's supporters are] in favor of murder [but the people Eric Rudolph bombed were.]

Not that I think it's reasonable to read that much into it; it just struck me as odd to say "no one's in favor of murder" when dealing with this subject.