{"id":13821,"date":"2014-10-04T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13821"},"modified":"2014-10-04T00:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T07:19:05","slug":"republicans-on-parade1042014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/republicans-on-parade1042014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–10\/4\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the sixty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is fugitive Eric Frein. He is so honored for ambushing and killing a police officer.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1004eric-frein\"<\/a>Fox News is increasingly fixating on the gruesome workplace beheading<\/a> last week in Moore, Oklahoma by a recent Muslim convert, suspect Alton Nolen. Perhaps sensing a way to once again fan<\/a> its patented<\/a> flames of Islamophobia<\/a> while simultaneously blaming President Obama for being indifferent to the threat of terrorism, Fox is treating the murder as a national story with sweeping political implications.<\/p>\n

Sounding the jihadist alarms, Fox News and the right-wing media are eager to label the ghastly crime an act of Islamic terror. Law enforcement officials, however, aren't in<\/a> the same rush, noting that the attack came immediately after Nolen was fired and stating that they've yet to find a link to terrorism. While that story continues to play out, it's worth noting that an actual act of political terror remains in the news. It's just not a priority for Fox.<\/p>\n

On the night<\/a> of September 16, 31-year-old marksman Eric Frein was allegedly laying in wait outside the Blooming Grove police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania, preparing to assassinate state troopers. Shortly before 11 p.m., Bryon Dickson was shot and killed<\/a> as he walked towards his patrol car. Moments later, as he approached the barracks to begin his overnight shift, trooper Alex Douglass was shot and seriously wounded by a bullet fired from a .308-caliber rifle.<\/p>\n

Described as a  "survivalist<\/a>," Frein disappeared into the Poconos Mountains woods where he's been hiding ever since, eluding law enforcement and its massive manhunt, which includes hundreds of law enforcement officers with assistance from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a video clip, in case you’re not familiar with the issue.<\/font><\/p>\n