When Does Fox News' Ugly Race Baiting Become The Story?

shameful & disgusting how this story is played. what happened to the we are all Americans
the week of 9/11/01. I knew it would not last! UBL must be laughing with glee at all of us!
hateful language is not a good thing for either side.

Great post. I think the lack of comments show that it hits too close to home for some folk. People look to the politicians as the people to hate but they typically only hate them because of something they read in the newspaper, web, or seen on TV. If major media skews a story based on ideology, the causal, not-daily-informed, viewer and/or reader will also be swayed toward the author or hosts point of view. With the right wing echo chamber having more outlets than the left, that point of view gets circulated more. When every segment of news starts with, “The DEM’s…defeat”, “Obama’s poll numbers all time low”, “Tea Party a force”, “Sarah Palin”, “GOP says bill will hurt jobs”, and on and on, these networks are trying to keep people scared and not believing that any progress has been made. They want us to think that both parties are equal in their lack of compassion for the American people.
If Republicans regain control of Congress or the Presidency, it will be the fault of CNN executives, FOX executives and the rest of the soulless suits in the media who allow the evil that men do to prevail.

It gets 'curiouser and curiouser' with the left. So reporting a story that the left is embarrassed to touch because it involves a core constituency of theirs (the Black Panthers) is in itself 'race baiting' and 'phony'. As if it didn't happen. As if the videos and audio tapes were faked! Typical.

Oh, one more question: who is this Eric Boehlert? I've never heard of him. With content like this, I understand why!

calling the Black Panther hate phony doesn't make it phony

What is phony about the cracker baby comment, the night sticks, their rhetoric, the NAACP connection , the Obama Holder incompetence here,,,

You don't even go into what the Panthers did or what FOX did

Faux News really is only half the problem - the rest of the MSM that refuses to call BS on them is the other half. If another old-guard broadcast network were to step up and systematically call them out, we might just get some respectable reporting back in this country. Right now, the networks' attempts at "balanced" reporting give equal time to blatant lies/the liars who tell them, and rational people - there are plenty of cases where the truth is an absolute, concrete thing, and this kind of journalistic relativism makes no sense!

I just flipped to FOX for some unknown reason, and I have to say they are truly frightening. The blond female of the morning 3-ring circus said the Christmas day underwear bomber was "of Somali decent" which isn't true (he is a Nigerian who grew up in Nigeria & Kenya and who went to school in Togo & Yemen, and later spent time in London & Dubai). Then another blond correspondent was railing against a daycare facility who took the kids to see an R rated movie, which she said "you have to be 18 to get into." Well that is incorrect as well, you have to be 17. This was over the course of about 15 minutes. This is such simple stuff--easy to research and get right, yet they have it so so wrong. FOX is just plain, sloppy, lazy and incompetent, and the fact that their viewers consider them an authority chills my bones. It is really SICK.

Michael Smerconish put all of this into perspective last night. Shame on Faux News!

I believe that inherently pdople know the difference between right and wrong, and helpful or harmful. Sean Hannity himself, has even said as muc, as has Glenn Beck. These men and others at Fox obviously KNOW that they are spreading lies, fear, hate and bigotry, and their motivation just as obviously is that what they are saying and doing SELLS, to an already existing audience also firmly stuck in those same characteristics!

2010 is light years away from the world the framers of the Constitution envisioned. When the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written, the authors could never have imagined the instantaeous and world wide communications systems that are now at everyone's fingertips, or that poisonous, intentionally untrue and harmful propaganda could be spread so rapidly, being used to destroy a President's Administration and bring harm to our nation... all under the protective cloak of the !rst Amendment!

FoxNews teams, Limbaugh and others KNOW that they are lying and harming our nation and its citizens by doing so, with their apparent rationalization that they need to get that Black man and his family out of THEIR White House, no matter what it takes! Their non-stop propaganda may well be protected, in terms of legal recourse, but the time is drawing near where the legal system should not be the only thing these enemies of all that is good about our nation need fear! They are unafraid of any personal consequences. They may well be wrong!

It doesn't get more ironic that the most listened-to radio talk show host in America claims that our first African-American president purposefully keeps the unemployment rate high in order to exact revenge against white America when it's much more likely that it's Republicans that are doing everything they can to make sure unemployment stays high and people are denied unemployment benefits (very stimulating to the economy) so that they can then blame the Obama administration for the bad economy. What a strategy! If any of you haven't read 1984, you really should. All this kind of wacko thinking was written about in that book. Propaganda works. That's why they keep using it. If we're not aware of what they're doing, it's likely to take any of us over, too. We must be really careful and not let that happen.

"Fair and balanced" my foot! It's a disgrace, and the whole gang of them should be ashamed of themselves and the role they're playing to bait and scare the type of audience that watches them. These tea party-type people are ignorant, afraid of the unknown and what they're not used to, and will feed on the "frenzy and mania" of faux-news and they know it. Again, fair and balanced my foot.

Fox News: Come for the racism, stay for the lies.

See? We give you both racism and lies... BALANCED!