So I guess the Republicans have forgotten their own history. One of Ronald Reagan's biggest accomplishments was the nuclear arms reduction treaties he signed with Secretary General, Mikhail Gorbachev. Serious arms reduction began under the title Salt 1 in 1968. Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972. So in the current round of nuclear arms reduction with the former super power, Fox News blatantly distorts the treaty and their coverage is full of inaccuracies. The treaty in question has many stipulations, notably that it does not eliminate all nuclear weapons, just reduces by a third, and does not render us defenseless. There are stipulations if we are attacked by biological weapons or if we are attached by a country who is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Sadly, pointing out the maniacal distortions in Fox coverage fell to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. While the other network are reporting on a non-story on Sarah Palin's critique of Obama's treaty, Fox New reported "a willful misunderstanding of the policy," as they blathered on and on about how Obama was leaving us defenseless. Stewart he even compared the "purposeful idiocy" of Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity to "Beavis and Butthead."
Once again our news system has show itself to be a super market tabloid and a comedy show has shown the idiocy of it all.
On top of that, Stewart did the unthinkable: shattered the infallible image of Ronald Reagan, a fan favorite among the Fox News crowd. Well played, Jon. Well played.
Here is the clip.
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