Saturday, April 26, 2014

Strike Two: Right-Wing Media's Newest "Land Grab" Freakout Still Not On The Side Of The Law


http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/25/strike-two-right-wing-medias-newest-land-grab-f/199033

Steve Doocy
Right-wing media has shifted its focus from Cliven Bundy to hyping false reports of a government "land grab"

in Texas -- again finding itself denying court-established property rights.

On April 21, Breitbart Texas claimed that Bureau of Land management (BLM) is "reviewing the possible federal takeover and ownership of privately-held lands which have been deeded property for generations of Texas landowners." Breitbart argued that the BLM had attempted to "seize" property from Texan Tom Henderson in 1986, and baselessly speculated that because the BLM is "in the process of developing a Resource Management Plan," the office may be planning on "simply confiscating the land." Breitbart described the old case by claiming "Henderson sued the BLM and lost 140 acres that had been in his family for generations. Now the BLM is looking at using the prior case as a precedent to claim an additional 90,000 acres.
Other right-wing outlets picked up Breitbart's frame. The Daily Caller trumpeted the BLM's "intent to claim 90,000 acres along the Red River" in Texas, The Blaze hyped "new concerns that [the BLM] may be looking to claim thousands of acres of land in the northern part of the state," and Fox News host Steve Doocy claimed that the government "is reportedly trying to claim 90,000 acres along the Red River, the line that separates the states of Texas and Oklahoma," from local ranchers. Doocy highlighted the 1986 case and noted that "many fear the Bureau of Land Management may use that case as a precedent to do it again." Meanwhile, an on-air graphic stoked fears of a "government land grab":
wow for something that doesn't exist it sure is busy they are not realizing if they take down the gov't in the eyes of their constituents then there would be nothing for them to rant about no Pres., no food stamps, no anything that their base survives on Koch's would be co-dictators republicans the enforcers but how long would it last that idea kills off all the subjects eventually who would the lord over than would they import more peons to subjugate?

well Breitbart as to their credibility  pick a story click link