Fox Host: Alleged Ft. Hood shooter’s name ‘tells us a lot’

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 -- 6:40 pm
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shepardsmith2 Fox Host: Alleged Ft. Hood shooters name tells us a lot"This is going to get very dark," reads the headline of a blog posting late Thursday by TalkingPointsMemo's Josh Marshall.

Marshall was referring to news reports stating that the alleged primary shooter killed in today's rampage at the army base in Fort Hood, Texas, has a "Muslim-sounding" name -- and what that will mean for the political debate surrounding the shooting in post-911 America.

"The fact that the primary assailant has an Arabic name and is presumably, though we don't know this yet, of Muslim extraction if not a practicing Muslim, is going to be the focus of attention," Marshall wrote.

And indeed, no sooner had Marshall made his prediction than Fox News made that prediction come true.

In an interview with US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Fox host Shepard Smith asked: "The names tells us a lot, does it not, senator?"

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"It does," Hutchison replied. "It does, Shepard."

While Smith stressed he wasn't releasing the alleged shooter's name because Fox had not been able to corroborate it, ABC News is reporting that the person identified as the main shooter in the violent incident was Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

Hasan, if that is indeed the correct name, is now the primary suspect in the rampage that took the lives of 12 people and injured 31 others in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday afternoon. MSNBC reported that Hasan was an army psychiatrist who had been promoted to the rank of major this past May.

Smith told Fox News viewers that the alleged shooter was "an officer in the US Army who was about to deploy to the war, was upset about the prospect of being deployed to war."

Smith stated: "Can we connect the dot between that and what he did today? You can, but we don't have the information to say that he was so upset that he went out and shot. When we can draw [those connections], we will."

This video is from Fox News, broadcast Nov. 5, 2009.



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  • lousgirl84
    I hate Fox News. These people are despicable So now every law abiding Muslim citizen is going to have to be worried that some crazy is going to kill them over this

    I am disappointed in Josh Marshall for even starting the whole shit.
  • motorfingaz
    Exactly!


    That station is a Pox on American intellect!
  • TaterSalad
    lousgirl84 ... you really need to get a life instead of being a liberal and expand your knowledge base, even if it is just a little.
  • lousgirl84
    I have a wonderful life as a liberal. I sleep well at night knowing I don't hate people for no reason and while this was a terrible tragedy I refuse to hold all Muslims or people with arab sounding names responsible. It is you who needs to expand your knowledge not me.

    I grew up in a conservative home and was a republican for a short while until I saw the light and realized I lived with a bunch of insensitive racists.

    Now that's what I call expanding my knowledge big time.
  • lousgirl84
    I have a wonderful life as a liberal. I sleep well at night knowing I don't hate people for no reason and while this was a terrible tragedy I refuse to hold all Muslims or people with arab sounding names responsible. It is you who needs to expand your knowledge not me.

    I grew up in a conservative home and was a republican for a short while until I saw the light and realized I lived with a bunch of insensitive racists.

    Now that's what I call expanding my knowledge big time.
  • TaterSalad
    I bet you do sleep well at night since you are a socialist at heart. Your comment that conservatives are racist is what brings you to being one yourself. This statement alone shows your complete ignorance of conservatism. Your loss to a great nation. Go live in Venezuela where socialsm is the name of the game.
  • Savantster
    .
    If being socialist (and knowing your needs will be met no matter what, because you're willing to help others and know they are willing to help you) helps you sleep at night, doesn't that imply there's something RIGHT about it?

    And I don't think you know what Socialism is, to be honest. It goes part and parcel with the broken thinking that makes up the Conservative mind. The denial of reality one must possess in order to hold beliefs that are destructive and abusive.

    No one asked to be born, and we all have a right to be here. You and yours squatting on resources, then demanding other living beings be your slave if they want to live is barbaric, un-American, vile, abusive, and the root cause of all our problems on this planet. .. whereas "socialism" means everyone benefits from society, not just the vile and cruel degenerates. Why do you hate human beings so much?

    Try to become enlightened, try to get out of the trap of wanting more stuff that you don't need and doesn't actually help you live your life, nor does it make you a better person.
  • TaterSalad
    To be honest with you, I am not rich nor am I poor. I worked all my life for a living with my hands and my back. I do not want entitlements from the government. Receiving money from the government requires a pay back in the form of votes, idealog of the same and being submissive to that government. The problem with socialism is that you usually run out of other peoples money to spend on yourself.
  • yvonneo
    You're saying that criticizing, disagreeing or disliking CONservatives or republicans is racist? LOL!! That not being a part of a particular political party is racist? BWAHAHAHAHA!! Your comment is nonsensical and shows your complete.ignorance of the English language. I think you're the one that needs to go somewhere and on your way there, you might think about picking up a dictionary.

    What an idiot. LOL!
  • TaterSalad
    S.O.R.
  • laydownthelaw
    you need to expand your brain capacity, even if it is just a little so that you would know that stereotyping is not ok. For anyone. EVER!
  • motorfingaz
    You are a dumb bitch.
  • allenallen
    lousgiril84: So do you watch any Fox channel? Any income to Murdock helps produce this crap... even "The Simpsons." It's all Murdock.
  • lousgirl84
    No I refuse to watch that channel. I even programmed it out so I don't have to land on it accidentally that's how much I despise the hate mongering of Fox.

    Having said that, I do have Direct TV but I had it before that scum bag took it over. However, our cable provider is no better.
  • allenallen
    One benefit to DISH is that there are several educational and socially conscious (and unconscious) channels. You can see science and medical lectures and such, or watch FSTV, or the NASA channel.

    Sure, there are propaganda channels with a slanted views (such as the China News channel or when I check an Al Jezera news web page) but what FOX does is clearly despicable in it's loud and irresponsible and dishonest rabble rousing. They are just evil and seem to have the intent of purposely attempting to divide and destroy the U.S.
  • lousgirl84
    I will look into DISH more. I was a bit turned off by them eartlier this year because they were calling me no less than three times a day leaving messages on my phone trying to seduce me into changing and it got on my nerves.

    Thanks for the info
  • allenallen
    First words out of my mouth on such calls, "Please take me off your phone list."

    They do stuff I know they can't make money on, such as UC Davis stuff or farming stuff. Behind the scenes, they could be scoundrels for all I know. ;-)
  • lousgirl84
    And believe it or not, I am one of those people who have never watched The Simpsons. I watch very little "network TV". I watch Rachel and Keith and Bill Moyers and when they aren't available, I piut HGTV on for the noise factor.
  • rat618
    KBH, what about the name Timothy McVeigh? Does that tell you a lot too?
  • shablon
    The guy probably had enough of it all. According to the latest he was a psychiatrist, can you imagine what he had to deal with, including rapists, professional murderers, PTSD, prison mistreatment. No wonder he lost his senses. Add to that probaly 2 or three deployments, and facing all those assassins of Blackwater and other professional killers, that they let loose in the war zone, and rapes, wanton destruction. No wonder he went nuts. Bring the troops home they do not belong there.
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