"Terrorist activity" was uncovered in a smallish town northeast of San Diego when a a young man showed up at a local ER with a few of his fingers missing; apparently caused by an explosion. This first report on Cluster Fox was all about a possible link with Najibulah Zazi simply because the cops found the same explosive at this guy's house as they found at Zazi's place. They had absolutely no information that the two incidents were related in any way, but there's Trace Gallagher breathlessly speculating.
The first report is an obvious attempt to link this new development with the Zazi case, trying to amp up the fear of dark-skinned bad guys. But in the followup, when the emphasis has to shift away from Zazi, they pivot deftly to the standard paranoia - 'your children are in danger; your neighbors can't be trusted; a grisly death for you and your loved ones lurks around every corner.'
And here's the kicker: They intercut video of a cop carrying an AERIAL BOMB with shots of kids' toys in somebody's yard somewhere, while the Lady News Model and The Hero Cop read their Scary Story Script in voiceover mode. None of the video is identified - either as File Footage or whatever. So the viewer is left to draw the inference that "this must be something big".
These people have no soul. Whatever Fox News is in fact, it's not very often a news organization. Reality itself is biased against these dimwits.
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