We don’t yet know what happened yesterday at Ft. Hood. We don’t know why a psychiatrist started shooting people. We aren’t even sure that he was the only gunman involved. We don’t know what, if any, warning signs there might have been.

Oh, there is certainly speculation. There are reports that the psychiatrist shouted “God is Great” in Arabic before opening fire–but those are unconfirmed reports and should be taken with a large grain of salt. We know that the FBI awhile back was investigating a man who had the same name as the psychiatrist who posted some remarks that were favorable to Palestinian terrorists, but they were never able to demonstrate that the postings came from the psychiatrist and we certainly have no further evidence of a connection right now. There are reports that the psychiatrist was troubled by all the things he heard from returning Iraq veterans; but that only makes him human. We heard that he was trying to avoid being shipped out to Afghanistan… but it’s a long way from “doesn’t want to go to a war zone” to “shooting everyone around you”.

There are a lot of suspicions flying around, but we really just don’t know a lot right now, as any and every responsible media outlet will tell you.

And then there is Fox News.

Fox & Friends this morning was quick to place the blame for the tragedy on liberal political correctness. According to Fox & Friends, every one of those suspicions and allegations I referenced above is absolutely true. And moreover, they paint a picture of a Muslim terrorist in the making who was clearly unstable and clearly a danger to everyone around him–but who the Army obviously couldn’t remove from duty or penalize in any way because of the fact that he was a Muslim. See, if he’d been a white man, there would be no such political correctness and the army would have acted and the tragedy would have been averted!

That’s gone so far beyond “bias” and “poor journalism”. Fox has officially gotten into the business of crafting conspiracy theories.

It’s pathetic. If there are any real reporters left who still work for that organization, it’s time to stand up for yourself and refuse to go along with this drivel–or just hand in your media credentials right now. This isn’t news. It’s fiction.

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