WHEN WILL FOX DROP THE OTHER SHOE ON ISRAEL?

That is, assuming they haven't already. In the 5 years since Saudi prince al Walid bin Talal bought a stake in NewsCorp, it's slowly been getting worse. I'd missed this very disgraceful news last week, but as The American Thinker (via News Real Blog) tells, Shepard Smith, to name but one, has been getting more increasingly anti-Israel in his reports:

Did anyone notice Shepard Smith’s passionate rant against Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs a few days ago? I always thought Smith was just a smarmy, jock-type teeny-bopper. But he obviously knows which side his bread is buttered on, and he is fully capable of getting all lathered up over something about which he is absolutely ignorant.

Today on Fox News, Amy Kellogg did another hit piece on Israel, using a cute little heart-strings-tugger about the peaceful Syrian civilians who picnic on the Golan Heights in nostalgic longing for the times when it belonged to Syria. Of course, there was no mention of the carnage and slaughter inflicted on peaceful Israeli citizens when the Syrians were in charge of the Golan. Apparently, there’s no nostalgia in that.

And that's not the only grave mistake they've made lately: Glenn Beck, usually until now one of the better news hosts, turned against the very man he'd once hosted on his show when he called Geert Wilders a fascist, with A.B Stoddard, Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer turning against him as well. In fact, here's a video clip now:

As Paul Mirengoff says:

Beck hosted Wilders on his show a year or two ago. If Beck can host Wilders, I don't know why he's concerned that England did.

Maybe now we do: if bin Talal's considerable stake in NewsCorp, which also owns the Weekly Standard, if I'm not mistaken, means anything. More from Atlas Shrugs.

Diana West did the right thing to bring up the issue of bin Talal's stake in Murdoch's enterprise. It's a shame that quite a few other conservatives are not, all likely because they don't want to jeopardize their chances to be guests of the week on FOX's talk shows.

The conservative movement is going to have to now start thinking about whether they're doing the right thing to defend FOX at all costs, or ignore bin Talal's treacherous encroachment altogether. If they could turn against Israel today, they could turn against the conservative movement tomorrow. Otherwise, they might one day discover that they defended FOX much to their regret.

The best way to sum this up is: don't let bin Talal have the last laugh.