# Fox News collaborates with Al Qaeda in targeting Navy Seal. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554 "2012-08-25T00:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/41 "2012-08-26T01:32:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It’s a SCOOP, duh. So was reporting the death of astronaut Neil Young. Sometimes in their haste to have a scoop, networks make mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/42 "2012-08-26T01:37:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I agree. I don’t think you’re one of the posters who just follows whatever is the conservative line. If he weren’t a yellow-dog conservative, he’d take me up on my offer. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/43 "2012-08-26T03:11:43Z")
> [@](#): > > A jihadist forum, al-Fidaa, located in Malaysia, posted the death calls and provided the author’s name and photograph under a headline titled “First Image of One of the Dogs who killed Bin Laden.” Dogs are considered unclean in Islam. Oh, the sting. Now if they’d said “one of the _jihadists_ who killed Bin Laden” - now them’s fightin’ words. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/44 "2012-08-26T05:15:34Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > If he weren’t a yellow-dog conservative, he’d take me up on my offer. Maybe. Or perhaps he has no interest in arguing with you. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/45 "2012-08-26T15:00:48Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > [QUOTE=runner pat] > > All of them noting that Fox News had already revealed his name. So what? [/QUOTE] 😕 😕 Say what? See Woosh? ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/46 "2012-08-26T17:41:04Z")
nm. ---
**Author:** ![glilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@glilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glilly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/47 "2012-08-26T19:38:02Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I don’t think that the Navy Seal should have written a tell-all in the first place. Nor do I think FoxNews should have reported his real name. > > However, the Navy Seal was really stupid if he thought that his name wouldn’t eventually be uncovered. I assume he’s made the necessary precautions. I also wouldn’t be all that surprised if he wanted his name leaked, and the pseudonym and reveal was a marketing ploy to gin up publicity. Mission accomplished! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/48 "2012-08-26T19:53:16Z")
Well, as noted, there are checks to be cashed in all of this. So, that has to be considered. Unless all proceeds are dedicated to veteran’s rehab, or some such. Still can’t find anything to confirm/refute a connection between this book and the “Obama is a total wussy” meme going around. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/49 "2012-08-27T01:40:29Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Cite? > > Actually, this might be a fun game. \*\*John \*\*names one post of his bashing a conservative position, and I come up with two posts of his bashing liberal positions. First person who comes up short in a two-day period agrees to quit posting for a year. Deal? > [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > If he weren’t a yellow-dog conservative, he’d take me up on my offer. I kinda like John Mace being around. He reminds me that you don’t HAVE to be batshit crazy to be conservative, its just very common. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/50 "2012-08-27T02:01:19Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > If he weren’t a yellow-dog conservative, he’d take me up on my offer. Your offer was stupid. It assumes that there are equal numbers of conservatives and liberal posting stupid stuff on this MB. And it also assumes that I need to bother about one vs the other. If a conservative posts something stupid here, he’ll be piled on by a dozen liberals in a few minutes pointing out the stupidity. But liberals can post stupid shit here and the other liberals will lap it up without checking. Happens quite a bit. Not all the time, because there are thoughtful liberals, but still quite a bit. So, no, I don’t expend as much effort rooting out what I consider to be conservative idiocy on this MB as I do with what I consider liberal idiocy. It’s not necessary. And just to be clear, I don’t consider this particular issue to be “idiocy”. I think it’s something people with different points of views might disagree on. Me, I think it was inevitable that this guy would be outed. It was naive beyond imagination if he thought otherwise. Fox took him up on the challenge. Had they not done it, someone else would have. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/51 "2012-08-27T02:03:44Z")
> [@GreasyJack](#): > > I’m glad CBS cleared up that “dog” wasn’t a term of endearment. Maybe the article was written by Randy Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/52 "2012-08-27T02:08:35Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Not far behind is [The New York Times.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/business/media/bin-laden-raids-firsthand-chronicler-is-unmasked.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1345867703-898OEYLxRBkAQMqwgxw1SQ) They were behind the Defense Department, at least. Once the DoD confirmed it, there wasn’t much point in secrecy. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554/53 "2012-08-27T13:30:54Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > They were behind the Defense Department, at least. Once the DoD confirmed it, there wasn’t much point in secrecy. I’m still trying to understand this subplot. Do we need to provide a cite that secrets are no longer secrets when they’re not secret anymore? :smack: John, can you provide a little hint to go with the Socratic wisdom of your “So what?” Or is the argument that FoxNews was doing a public service? Since the baby killers running the liberal media would never hesitate to undermine the U.S., FoxNews had to act fast to ensure profits from the news scoop would go into the coffers of pro-American shareholders? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-collaborates-with-al-qaeda-in-targeting-navy-seal/632554.md?page=2)