Daily Show: Mosque scare-mongering in action at Fox News- via Gothamist


2010_08_dsmurdo.jpg Yes, it’s time for items related to the proposed mosque and community center two blocks from the World Trade Center and the rhetoric about why the Park 51 project should or shouldn’t go forward. Last week, the Daily Show pointed out that speculating about Fox News’ speculation about possible terrorist funding for the mosque was akin to speculating about terrorist funding for Fox News parent company News Corp., since News Corp.’s second biggest investor is Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Then yesterday, Fox News’ Dan Senor basically said that Al-Waleed funds Park 51’s Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf and radical madrassas….but neglected to mention Al-Waleed by name or his News Corp. connection. Which gave Jon Stewart a lot of fodder:

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Yes, it’s time for items related to the proposed mosque and community center two blocks from the World Trade Center and the rhetoric about why the Park 51 project should or shouldn’t go forward. Last week, the Daily Show pointed out that speculating about Fox News’ speculation about possible terrori …