{"id":6192,"date":"2021-09-26T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2021-09-26T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:51:27","slug":"fox-news-ignores-a-dc-bomb-threat-inspired-by-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6192","title":{"rendered":"Fox News ignores a DC bomb threat inspired by right-wing conspiracy theory culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A Thursday night news brief on Fox News contained a remarkable claim \u2014 that the network doesn\u2019t have enough information to determine what motivated a man spouting right-wing conspiracy theories to shut down a significant portion of Washington, DC, around the Library of Congress by claiming to have a bomb<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo far, no word on a possible motive,\u201d said anchor Jackie Ibanez at the conclusion of a 15-second brief that amounted to the entirety<\/a> of Fox News\u2019s Thursday night coverage of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brevity could conceivably be excused: No one was injured, and US Capitol Police announced<\/a> Thursday evening they had cleared the suspect\u2019s black pickup truck. And Fox News covered the incident as it was ongoing earlier in the day. But Ibanez\u2019s claim about motive bears more scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s true that after the bomb threat suspect \u2014 later identified as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina \u2014 surrendered to law enforcement, police said<\/a> \u201cwe don\u2019t know what his motives are at this time.\u201d (Fox News didn\u2019t immediately respond to an inquiry from Vox asking the network to explain Ibanez\u2019s \u201cno word on a possible motive\u201d report.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Ibanez\u2019s comment may have been intended to obscure an uncomfortable truth for America\u2019s most-watched cable news network. In videos<\/a> streamed to Facebook before and during the bomb threat while he sat in a truck,Roseberry made clear he\u2019s immersed in right-wing conspiracy theories and grievances that receive heavy play on Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce this dickhead Biden\u2019s out of office and the Democrats sitting down there in the f**kin\u2019 jailhouse, our president\u2019s gonna be Donald Trump, and this is no limit on his pardons,\u201d claimed Roseberry in a video posted early Tuesday morning, alluding to a lie propagated by former President Donald Trump on Fox News as recently as Wednesday about the 2020 election being stolen from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just got chose for the job. Unlike you,\u201d Roseberry added. \u201cThis ain\u2019t about politics. I don\u2019t care if Donald Trump ever becomes president again. I think y\u2019all Democrats need to step down. Y\u2019all need to understand people don\u2019t want you there.\u201d”  
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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Facebook eventually removed Roseberry\u2019s profile, but not before his videos were widely watched and summarized in media reports. Yet if you\u2019d watched Fox News Thursday night, you\u2019d have no idea those videos existed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This isn\u2019t the first time in recent years a violent right-wing extremist has been motivated by the same sort of incendiary rhetoric that the network traffics in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In October 2018, social media posts from the lone suspect in a shooting that killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh indicated he was motivated by conspiracy theories about migrant caravans to the southern border representing an \u201cinvasion\u201d of the country, conspiracy theories that continued to receive play on the network even in the days immediately following the shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same month, Fox News strained to avoid acknowledging<\/a> the right-wing fanaticism that inspired a man to send explosive devices to CNN and other perceived enemies of then-President Trump<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammering people with lies about Democrats stealing elections and overseeing an immigrant invasion of the country can have deadly consequences. It\u2019s notable but not surprising that Fox News is unwilling to reckon with those consequences \u2014 especially in comparison to the wall-to-wall coverage that would likely ensue if an adherent of antifa or Black Lives Matter shut down the Capitol area with a bomb threat.”   
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https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/8\/20\/22634061\/fox-news-roy-roseberry-bomb-threat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A Thursday night news brief on Fox News contained a remarkable claim \u2014 that the network doesn\u2019t have enough information to determine what motivated a man spouting right-wing conspiracy theories to shut down a significant portion of Washington, DC, around the Library of Congress by claiming to have a bomb earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, no word on a possible motive,\u201d said anchor Jackie Ibanez at the conclusion of a 15-second brief that amounted to the entirety of Fox News\u2019s Thursday night coverage of the incident.<\/p>\n

The brevity could conceivably be excused: No one was injured, and US Capitol Police announced Thursday evening they had cleared the suspect\u2019s black pickup truck. And Fox News covered the incident as it was ongoing earlier in the day. But Ibanez\u2019s claim about motive bears more scrutiny.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that after the bomb threat suspect \u2014 later identified as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina \u2014 surrendered to law enforcement, police said \u201cwe don\u2019t know what his motives are at this time.\u201d (Fox News didn\u2019t immediately respond to an inquiry from Vox asking the network to explain Ibanez\u2019s \u201cno word on a possible motive\u201d report.)<\/p>\n

But Ibanez\u2019s comment may have been intended to obscure an uncomfortable truth for America\u2019s most-watched cable news network. In videos streamed to Facebook before and during the bomb threat while he sat in a truck, Roseberry made clear he\u2019s immersed in right-wing conspiracy theories and grievances that receive heavy play on Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce this dickhead Biden\u2019s out of office and the Democrats sitting down there in the f**kin\u2019 jailhouse, our president\u2019s gonna be Donald Trump, and this is no limit on his pardons,\u201d claimed Roseberry in a video posted early Tuesday morning, alluding to a lie propagated by former President Donald Trump on Fox News as recently as Wednesday about the 2020 election being stolen from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just got chose for the job. Unlike you,\u201d Roseberry added. \u201cThis ain\u2019t about politics. I don\u2019t care if Donald Trump ever becomes president again. I think y\u2019all Democrats need to step down. Y\u2019all need to understand people don\u2019t want you there.\u201d” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Facebook eventually removed Roseberry\u2019s profile, but not before his videos were widely watched and summarized in media reports. Yet if you\u2019d watched Fox News Thursday night, you\u2019d have no idea those videos existed.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“This isn\u2019t the first time in recent years a violent right-wing extremist has been motivated by the same sort of incendiary rhetoric that the network traffics in.<\/p>\n

In October 2018, social media posts from the lone suspect in a shooting that killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh indicated he was motivated by conspiracy theories about migrant caravans to the southern border representing an \u201cinvasion\u201d of the country, conspiracy theories that continued to receive play on the network even in the days immediately following the shooting.<\/p>\n

That same month, Fox News strained to avoid acknowledging the right-wing fanaticism that inspired a man to send explosive devices to CNN and other perceived enemies of then-President Trump<\/p>\n

Hammering people with lies about Democrats stealing elections and overseeing an immigrant invasion of the country can have deadly consequences. It\u2019s notable but not surprising that Fox News is unwilling to reckon with those consequences \u2014 especially in comparison to the wall-to-wall coverage that would likely ensue if an adherent of antifa or Black Lives Matter shut down the Capitol area with a bomb threat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[436,322,108],"class_list":["post-6192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bombs","tag-fox-news","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}