While Fox’s Brit Hume’s first thoughts following the London bombings were of money be be made in the market, Media Matters reports that other Fox anchors celebrated the “advantage” the bombings give to the “Western world” and opined that a “golden opportunity was missed” to “blow up Paris, and who cares?”
London Bombings “Advantage” for the West
“…one of the [Fox News] network’s anchors, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks worked to the Western world’s advantage and he blasted the international gathering at the G8 for focusing on global warming and African aid instead of terrorism. Here is some of what he said right after Tony Blair spoke yesterday. This is FOX anchor Brian Kilmeade talking to another FOX’s Paul Varney:
KILMEADE: And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it’s important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.”
VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again.
KILMEADE: Yeah.”
Here’s the clip from Media Matters.
“Golden opportunity” missed to “blow up Paris”
The day before the July 7 terrorist attacks on London buses and subways, Fox News host John Gibson stated that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) “missed a golden opportunity” because, if France had been selected to host the 2012 Olympics, terrorists would “blow up Paris, and who cares?” Following the London attacks, Gibson reiterated that the IOC ought to have selected Paris instead of London, because the British should “let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.”
From the July 6 broadcast of Westwood One’s The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly, guest-hosted by Gibson:
GIBSON: By the way, just wanted to tell you people, we missed — the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity today. If they had picked France, if they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?
From the “My Word” segment of the July 7 edition of Fox News’ The Big Story with John Gibson:
GIBSON: The bombings in London: This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics — let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.
Here’s the clip.
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