Friday Fox Follies - Baltimore Begats Bigots

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It brings tears to this reporter’s eyes to be writing about another insurrection in these so-called United States. I can sympathize with innocent business folk caught up in the maelstrom of unfocused rage because my father was once one of them. Pops lost everything except his store in The Detroit Riots, which I’ve written about extensively.

A picture of the writer’s father’s store on THE “Black Day In July” autographed by Gordon Lightfoot.

Regardless, of my family’s personal loss, I have far more sympathy for the oppressed. A conflagration cannot erupt in a vacuum. One cannot separate cause from effect.

Unless you’re the Fox “News” Channel, of course:

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Fox Dismisses Role Of Police Brutality In Sparking Unrest In Baltimore because Fox Personalities Blame Obama For Baltimore Violence. Yep, Fox Blamed Obama (And His Blackness) For Baltimore Violence, but — for “News” — there’s enough blame to go around:

Fox News Figures Blame Baltimore’s
“Awful,” “Worst Schools On Earth” For Riots

Fox’s Ablow Blames “Self-Hatred,” “Single-Parent
Families,” And “Entitlements” For Baltimore Unrest

Fox Contributor Baselessly Speculates
Freddie Gray Was On Drugs When Arrested

Fox’s Bo Dietl: Maybe Freddie Gray ‘Slipped
and Fell’ While Being Chased by Cops

The Worst Moment of Fox’s Baltimore Riot Coverage was not how Fox Faves Exploit Baltimore Violence To Attack African American Mayor or even Fox’s Resident Black-Attacking Sheriff Accuses Obama Of ‘Enjoying’ Baltimore Violence. No, it was Geraldo Rivera, whose Zen-like mantra is BE THE STORY, as opposed to “cover the story.”

Watch A Baltimore Resident Confront Geraldo
Rivera Over Fox News’ Irresponsible Coverage

Before It Got Tense, This Baltimore Protester Tried
Talking To Geraldo Rivera About Fox’s Insensitivity

Geraldo Doesn’t Take Kindly to Being Called a
Baltimore ‘Agitator’: ‘Do You Want Me to Stay Home?!’

Geraldo Confronts Baltimore Protester:
‘You Anarchist! You Ain’t Nothing!’

Geraldo Rivera’s Tense Confrontation With
Baltimore Protester Defused By State Senator

Geraldo even had cameo appearances is these stories:

Elijah Cummings Yells at Fox Reporter
on Bullhorn: ‘People Are Going Home!’

Elijah Cummings uses bullhorn to
scold Fox News team for preventing
Baltimore protesters from making curfew

And, this is just damned funny: Geraldo, CNN Both Mistake Baltimore Marcher for Russell Simmons: ‘You Look Just Like Him’.

The usual Fox “News” race-baiters didn’t leave the field all to Geraldo. We were Whitesplained by The Falafel King:

O’Reilly: Baltimore Rioters Can’t Get Jobs “Because They
Have A Sense Of Entitlement That Says They’re Victims”

Bill O’Reilly: “Racial Persecution Really Isn’t The
Problem In Baltimore,” It’s “Personal Behavior”

O’Reilly Blasts ‘Hateful Morons’
Trying to ‘Justify Rioting’ in Baltimore

Sometimes Loofah Lad actually says the right thing for all the wrong reasons:

O’Reilly: It’s “Long Past Time For African-American
Communities Across America To Begin To Police Themselves.“

When police are considered an occupying force, trouble erupts. That truism is lost as Megyn Kelly And Mark Fuhrman Use Baltimore Riots To Smear African American Community As A Whole. This so-called Straight News Anchor demonstrates her White World of Privilege when Megyn Kelly Attacks Gray Family Attorney For Not Accepting – In Advance – Baltimore Cops’ Exoneration and declares Obama Is Racist?!’: Megyn Kelly Clashes with Baltimore Rev. on ‘Thugs’, by purposely missing the point.

No one on Fox “News” can race bait quite like Bundy-Supporting Hannity [who] Chastises Baltimore Protester because Sean Hannity Really, Really Wants You To Think Of Freddie Gray As A Criminal. Yet, he didn’t forget his nightly target as Hannity Pounces on WaPo Report to Slam Obama for Rushing to Judgment in Baltimore.

As impossible as this seems, he’s often far more offensive on his Fox radio show. F’rinstance: Sean Hannity: Lesson Of Freddie Gray’s Death Is “Don’t Run At 8:30 In The Morning When You See A Cop”, which needs to be heard to be believed.

Larry Wilmore, who hosts the the 2nd half hour of Comedy Central’s News Hour, made the most sense of what has transpired:

The Nightly Show Calls Out Fox News For Covering
Baltimore Protests With Racial Stereotypes. Watch:

Larry Wilmore Calls Out Cable News
for Turning ‘Thug’ into New N-Word

Wilmore Lashes Fox and CNN for Baltimore
Coverage: ‘F*ck You, Motherf*ckers!’

The Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times” comes to mind. Through sheer coincidence Comedy Central will have 2 people of colour hosting shows after Jon Stewart retires. Interesting times, indeed.

BECKEL’S BACK? NOT YET HE AIN’T: It was just last week this reporter wrote, “FFF isn’t buying the back surgery cover-up. Beckel’s disappearing act was like he entered the witness protection program, or a detox center. Otherwise, he’d not be incommunicado.”

Therefore, it was no surprise to me when it was reported that Fox’s Bob Beckel Undergoes Addiction Rehab.

“Bob Beckel has entered a rehab facility for treatment of an addiction to prescription pain medication,” reads the network’s statement on Thursday afternoon. “His relapse developed over the last several months as he tried to cope with extensive back pain before and after he underwent major back surgery. We hope our viewers and the public will respect Bob’s privacy during this difficult time.”

While I certainly understand the desire for privacy, chalk this up as just another Fox “News” lie.

MORE FOX GOSSIP: I call her The Tarantula, but maybe she’s a Black Widow:

Fox’s Andrea Tantaros Reportedly Dating
Jane’s Addiction Guitarist Dave Navarro

Good luck with that. I share a birthday with Navarro. Nuff said.

FFF has previously reported that mendacity on Fox “News” is top-down. All you need to know about Fox “News” reporting was accidentally revealed by one of its local affiliates. In Fox News Station Posts Fake Baltimore Riot Photo From Venezuela (IMAGES), provided a screen cap of the precious correction: