Fox News Programming Like ISIS Recruiting Films: Joy Reid

The legacy media spent the weekend continually conflating criticism of the Biden administration with terrorist propaganda. In three days of nearly identically worded attacks, CNN and MSNBC likened FNC programming to ISIS recruiting films, accused 90-year-old Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch of being a “threat to democracy,” and mused about revoking the Australian native’s U.S. citizenship.

The personal assaults on the Murdoch family emanated from MSNBC’s Joy Reid, as well as CNN’s Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter.

Reid began the media pressure campaign by first targeting FNC, comparing Tucker Carlson’s Fox Nation programming to ISIS propaganda videos. “I used to watch, for my job, those ISIS little mini-films they would make to try to recruit young [involuntarily celibate males] to join ISIS. They would have the same sort of live action, try to incite, try to excite, like, young men kind of vibe that Tucker is creating in his trailer,” she said on Friday’s episode of “The ReidOut.”

“Arguably the greatest threat to our democracy continues in its quest to rot this country out from the outside,” she said. “No, no, not the Republican Party this time. I’m talking about Fox News.”

She then targeted the network’s owners, Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan. “The Murdochs are undermining democracy here and around the world,” said Reid. “The Murdoch empire is just injecting anti-democratic propaganda straight into the veins of millions [of] people, night after night.”

“This is worse than Al-Jazeera after 9/11, what FOX News is,” agreed her guest, Dean Obeidallah. Al-Jazeera regularly aired videos produced by al-Qaeda, including messages produced by the terrorist group’s founder, Osama bin Laden.

Reid then classified the 90-year-old Australian Rupert Murdoch as an incipient terrorist threat, approvingly reading a tweet from an advisor to the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project: “If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship. He’s a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is.”

If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship. He’s a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is. https://t.co/o7Lx529X7u

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 28, 2021

“We can’t take his citizenship away,” Obeidallah said mournfully. “I almost wish there was a way, but you can’t do it. I think you can only counter” his influence.

Reid and Obeidallah