Lake Park man allegedly obsessed with Fox News, GOP is in jail after threats made to girlfriend

[demmiblue]

Source: The Palm Beach Post

A Lake Park man “obsessed with Fox News and the Republican party” is in jail today after he allegedly said that he felt he was going to have to kill his girlfriend because she was a “liberal.”

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On Saturday, Kappheim showed up at her friend’s house uninvited and “stark naked,” she said, according to the arrest report.

She said he tried strangling her the next day.

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While inside of the woman’s apartment, the deputy said he found documents that made him believe Kappheim is obsessed with Fox News and the Republican Party, and that he may be a danger to others.

Read more: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/lake-park-man-obsessed-with-fox-news-and-the-repub/nRPgF/

[Horse with no Name]

1. There are thousands of Fox viewers who have been brainwashed to hate

Some of them were mentally unstable to start with...and those are the ones who they are subtly reaching out to and encouraging them to do others harm because others believe differently.

[fascisthunter]

2. mental illness+fox news propaganda=stochastic terrorism

[Comrade_McKenzie]

3. Precisely why there should be regulation on what's allowed to be labeled news. nt

[Archae]

4. Who's going to "regulate" it? And how?

[Comrade_McKenzie]

6. Personally, I'd like to publicly fund the news and make it free of advertising.

That would help a lot.

Those not receiving public funds would not be allowed to call themselves a news channel.

And to receive public funds, you'd have to abide by an updated version of the Fairness Doctrine.

[Archae]

7. No.

Too much opportunity for "official" government news, straight out of "1984" or "Pravda."

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. We will let them be private

if they lose money that is ok... but we do need the fairness doctrine back and badly.

We already have Pravda, except that it is not government run, but party run. The RNC uses FOX as it's propaganda "news" channel... and CNN is not that far from following them

Tell me, in your current model, how much honest coverage do you see of oh I don't know LABOR issues?

[Archae]

9. I know we don't.

But that's why we have media watchdog groups.
ACTUAL media watchdogs like "Media Matters," not far-right "liberal media bias" liars like Brent Bozell's "Media Research Center."

Faux "news" has peaked. And is in decline.
They ended up canning the ass of one of their biggest names, Glenn Beck.
They are exposed over and over flat-out lying.

Their parent company is still in hot water up to it's ass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Look, I get to see the sausage made

and this is the model media uses these days... some worst than others.

If I cover Labor, I got to have a story that balances from the Business POV... but if we have a business POV, there is no labor story to balance this.

We need the Fairness Doctrine and all watchdogs are not enough. We need to stop some of this shit and how media is produced.

CITIZENS need to demand a whole review of how this is produced. And that starts from the top.

I used labor as an example, education is another good example. We really have a "penchant" for "balance" that has hurt news in ways that news truly needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up.

As to the watchdog groups, this is how bad this is... Bozell is accurate... if your bias is good enough, while Media matters is biased if your bias leans that way.

[demmiblue]

5. Kicking for exposure.