On New York City Fox station WNYW, Good Day New York celebrated May Day by attempting to link the Occupy Wall Street movement to the mailing of letters containing white powder and the greeting “Happy May Day.”
On a segment where Good Day hosts Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto were joined by NYPD commission Ray Kelly–Greg Kelly’s father, and a frequent guest on his son’s show–the younger Kelly all but concluded that Occupy was behind the frightening mailing that saw seven letters delivered to six banks and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Greg Kelly noted that the powder had been identified as harmless, then announced what would have been a bombshell if he had had any evidence. The letters, said the host, “are being linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The contents of the letter seriously suggest that Occupy Wall Street had something to do with these letters with the powder inside.” Kelly then asked the commissioner:
What about the link to Occupy Wall Street movement? The content of the letter, according to the Times, has a reference to “Happy May Day.” May 1. Occupy Wall Street is planning some pretty big disruptions throughout the city today. This letter is linked to Occupy Wall Street, or not?
New York City’s top police official then answered the imprudent question imprudently: “I think it’s reasonable to assume. Yes.”
The commissioner had nothing further to add in the way of evidence linking Occupy to the mailings–besides enumerating several protest marches planned for May Day, including ones that had explicit permission from the police to proceed.
There were no probing questions, no discussion of who stood to gain from tying the mailings to Occupy, virtually nothing in the way of actual journalism.
Introducing the piece, Good Day‘s Kelly had mentioned that the story was “reminiscent of the anthrax attacks” of 2001–when journalists and politicians received doses of actual anthrax in the mail, accompanied by messages proclaiming “DEATH TO AMERICA,” “ALLAH IS GREAT” and the like.
Kelly didn’t mention that media outlets embarrassed themselves on that story, fingering Al-Qaeda (Wall Street Journal, 10/15/01) and Iraq (ABC World News Tonight, 10/28/01) for the anthrax–which the FBI ended up tracing back to U.S. Army biological weapons labs.
A movement seeking to grow its numbers by persuading the public of its self-interest in supporting it pulls a stunt like this.
As the pointy-eared fellow said …
“Highly illogical, Captain.”
But logic is an alien life form on Planet MSM, isn’t it?
Lord knows what will be made of the entrapment operation in Cleveland.
But you can bet your foreclosed home objectivity won’t be pulling overtime on the production line.
Yes but everything lately SMELLS of Agent Provocateurs and Entrapment. It reminds me of COINTELPRO.
First it is ridiculed, then it is VIOLENTLY OPPOSED, until it is finally accepted as truth
I suspect that employees of Fox News mailed these letters. Why? Simply because they have more to gain than anyone else by doing this and because they have been caught doing similarly illegal and unethical things in the UK.
May Day…well silly Fox and police, May Day is also a way to say, “HELP, HELP!
Did you think of that? In fact, I bet a bunch of really angry women sent those letters, because that holding the asprin between their knees didn’t help at all!
So—you see, Fox and the police, the news that I MAKE UP is more fun than yours!.
Maybe I am untrusting about everything that has gone down since the stolen election in 2000, the ignored warnings about 2001, the wars of choice, Mission Accomplished, Homeland Security, the disappearance of civil liberties, the government’s right to kill Americans, the right to torture, the right to indefinite detention, the end of habeus corpus, etc, but how do I know that this is even real? How do we know it is is not the act of agent provocateurs?
Well they have to blame someone so of course it is the ones they find most dangerous to the status quo. Just like the self named “Anarchists” that do things that help only the status quo and the police, not any of Occupy. But such things also brings out free lancers who just like to stir things up with mayhem.
The sad thing is, for the Fox Zombies, this is all the “evidence” they need.
Speaking of fraud, Tishado, have you noticed the “plot” (concocted by the US and Saudi Arabia) to nab an underwear bomber, who, it turns out, was our guy after all? The MSM practically shit themselves with excitement and self-righteous fury until, well, aw, never-mind. Another scam to scare us into thinking our government knows what it’s doing.