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Fox News Uses Racist Code Words To Attack Obama and Susan Rice
Fox News put their racist dog whistle on high today as they claimed that it would be arrogant for President Obama to nominate Susan Rice to be secretary of state.
Here is the video:
Transcript from Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: Kirsten, do you think the president is going to name her?
POWERS: I don’t know, though, I think if he does, that could be — that kind of arrogance, which is what I think it would be, could be his undoing, because if she’s put under oath and forced to go through and answer all of these questions about Benghazi, I think it is going to put the administration in a really bad position and I don’t think she was the front-runner. I don’t understand where this came out of, everything I had heard was, she was in the running, that it was really leaning more towards John Kerry and then we have this press conference with the president, just kind of, you know, went off about Susan Rice, and, it has now become almost a sense of pride. So, you know, if you want …
WALLACE: Do you think he cornered himself in that press conference?
POWERS: I do.
WALLACE: Saying what he said now, if he doesn’t name her …
POWERS: Exactly.
WALLACE: It’s going to look like he is caving.
POWERS: I feel that he did, and I don’t know that it was intentional, and I think he went a little overboard. You know, his defense of her was fine to a point and then it kind of went into an area that didn’t — wasn’t — didn’t really make sense. And, I think that, like I said, if you want to send her up on the Hill and put her under oath and have her start answering every single questions, this administration will not ask or answer over Benghazi, go for it.
Fox News is playing into one of their favorite stereotypes about our first African American president. Everything that this president has done has been viewed by Fox as either incompetent or arrogant. (The potential nomination of Rice is being played for both. In Fox Land, the arrogant Obama is nominating Rice, who will then turn around and expose his incompetence on Benghazi.)
If it is arrogant for Obama to nominate the highly qualified Susan Rice to be Secretary of State, how did Fox News personalities react when George W. Bush nominated the completely unqualified Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court?
Bill O’Reilly wrote that Miers was being demonized for being an evangelical Christian, “Mark my words, in the weeks to come you will hear all kinds anti-Christian stuff in the media when Harriet Miers is being discussed. Some of it will be subtle, but not all. This is a clip-and-save moment. The secular media knows Ms. Miers will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, but they will get their anti-Christian digs in during the process. As a Christian, I have already forgiven my misguided peers for what they will inevitably do. Also, after 12 years of Catholic school, I know a thing or two about demons. The demonization of Harriet Miers will be very instructive to watch. And she looks like such a nice woman.”
Here is what Sean Hannity said on his Fox News program when the Miers nomination was announced, “But I trust the president, if he believes he appointed an originalist like Thomas and Scalia. I believe he believes that. The only question I think a lot of conservatives are having is, why an unknown? Why not a known entity, a Luttig, a Janice Rogers Brown, a Priscilla Owens, that people could get behind and support, with a track record, a conservative track record that’s worth defending?”
(As the Miers nomination began to crash and burn, O’Reilly and Hannity changed their tune and eventually called for the nomination to be withdrawn.)
When a white Republican president nominated a political crony to the Supreme Court who was obviously unqualified, there were no cries of arrogance coming from Fox News. It is only when an African American Democratic president suggests that he may nominate a woman of color to be secretary of state that cries of arrogance bellow across the right wing media landscape.
Fox News isn’t a racist network. It is doing something even more insidious. They are intentionally manipulating racial tensions as a political strategy. In an attempt to create a scandal where none exists, Fox News is despicably fanning the flames of racism.
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Jonathan
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
I was discussing this very tactic by Fox News with a friend of mine yesterday and we agreed that the Republican party wears Fox News like a millstone around its neck. The weight of this propaganda gone wild “news” channel is almost too much for a party that desperately needs to appeal to more constituents to bear. The conflicts between the GOP, struggling to have a more moderate appeal and the lynch mob mentality of the far right circus on Fox is a daily conflict for an already fractured party. Either Fox news of the GOP has to go. Neither entity will prosper as long as the other remains powerful. The sick and sad result of a manipulated and sorely misinformed veiwership of people fearing the changes that blaze by them at the high speed of broadband internet. The longer Fox is in power the worse things will become for the hemmorhaging GOP. BTW the average viewership of Fox Newsians is over 50, and that demographic shrinks daily.
John Kelly
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
What is it with republicans and Pox Snooze? Crybaby Wallace knows better than to attack Susan Riceand President Obama right now, why aren’t republicans concerned about catching the attackers of the consulate? Are they cowards because they are attacking a woman ambassador. Their picks of C Rice and J. Bolton were horrible.republicans should be forced to explain what they offered Gadaffi before the ArabSpring, was it weapons? We’re they used at the consulate?
ITCrowd
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
Keep up the good work! I’m UK-based and this site is so helpful in explaining US politics and for providing me with info and arguments to use against the GOP idiots that I run into. Thanks!
Eykis
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
As someone 55+ I do not enjoy being placed in a category of IMBECILES who watch Faux Noise. Those people are well-over 65 and.or the DEFIANTLY IGNORANT rednecks.
Ann Starke
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Wait! Don’t paint those of us over 60 with the same brush as those nutcases over at Faux news. Remember, we were the ones who Marched on Washington and in Selma. We are died-in-the-wool progressives and hope-to-die Democrats.
True, there are a few rich, old farts who vote with their bank accounts than their brains, but some of us have bank accounts, brains, and hearts too.
Don’t forget. My 99-year old father who just died, was born a Quaker and was a Progressive till the day he died.
There are a lot of us.
boil
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
and to think rupert has the temerity to call out the ‘media’ for its divisiveness….. truly an orwellian situation from newscorpse… the sad thing is the people under indictment in britain, wont roll over on rupert or his son. betcha like a good mafia soldier, you dont rat on your ‘friends’ and you keep your mouth shut…
the surprise from the rwnj’s will be when we dont hear the ‘code words’….
next week, on klanity, will be a code word fest…
jesse salisbury
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
media is to powerful to be left in the hands of rupert murdock, who has proven time and again that he cant be trusted to tell the truth and has used it to mis-lead the people and pervert our politics.
Thinking Person
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Ah yes, there they go again. Geez, I guess the GOP still hasn’t figured out their ‘strategy’ with non-white voters (poor things lost the white vote by DOUBLE other races).
Rice is not Hiding anything about Benghazi, but the GOP Sec of State sure did – WMD. And, how long did go for, cost how many lives and how much money? Please, Recons, you have NO credibility on the issue of 1) arrogance, 2) diplomacy, 3) foreign affairs. Its like having you guys in charge of the Science Committee.
the CRAZY thing is that these guys are on a network run by a Shiek and an Australian who pull them around by the necks and get them to hate here, hate there whenever they want.
Go on doggies!
John Hall
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
We have to educate people about what Fox is really all about. Keep the information out there about their lack of integrity when they twist stories to no end and use code words to incite their base .
A Walkaway
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
I think that for Fox and the Republicans (most of them), any minority person who thinks they can hold the highest offices of the land are arrogant. They still believe in the white bread America of Beaver Cleaver (admission – never watched it and never will – just have heard about it and read a bit about it).
Reynardine
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 5:25 pm
You just know they want to say, “uppity”.
mjh
Nov. 26th, 2012 at 1:15 am
You just know they want to say, “uppity”.
There’s an additional word you just know they want to say:
“n*gg*r”.
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A Walkaway
Nov. 27th, 2012 at 10:39 am
I was in business for 15 years, of which 12 served other businesses.
In that period, I learned that most of the business owners I did work for in this state would use that word if they thought you were a “Good ole white boy” and talk about how “lazy and worthless n#####s are”. In manufacturing and machine shops, most of them – if you walk in one and look at the people working there – are all white (exception being the odd dark-skinned person pushing a broom or doing mindless grunt labor). Out of hundreds of customers, only a handful -less than 10- would hire minorities.
They also didn’t hire women, except as secretaries or office help. Women “don’t belong in a machine shop”. (In the 15 years, I only met ONE woman machinist, and she was working in the front office and bitter about it.)
They had “business seminars” which were spread by word-of-mouth, and I was really pushed to go to a couple of them. The topic in one was “How to destroy unions and keep union-friendly people out of your place of business without being sued” and the other was “How to not hire minorities and get away with it”.
The unions have copies of the book for the first seminar, and the person I talked with knew about the other.
BTW… when they learned I was an American Indian (something I guess I’m supposed to be ashamed of and which I didn’t learn until I was in my early 40s), I lost 61% of my customers in one month, with accusations of misleading them about my identity.
Yeah, they’re racist bigots all right. They just have learned to hide it.
majii
Nov. 25th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Well, when your goal is demonization of the first Black president, the Fox Newsers have no limit. The things they say about PBO, they would never say about the republicans who actually say/do racist things. They are to be respected because they are white men. Romney ran a campaign in which everything was based on lies, but when I encounter Fox viewers, they say it is PBO who is the habitual liar. In Fox News Land, the prevailing thought seems to be that since the president is black, everything he says is a lie. Fox News confirms the double standard for racism that exists in this country every day that it continues to foul our airwaves with its BS.
Anne
Nov. 26th, 2012 at 11:03 am
The so-called “commentators” of FOX NOISE are both arrogant and ignorant, and they appeal to viewers who are also both. From Day One they have had it in for this president, with their insults about inconsequential things as well as their blatant lack of patriotism when it comes to big things. They are the biggest examples of projection, particularly when it comes to the racism they accuse President Obama of having. Not only are they perveyors of hypocrisy, self-deception, and negativity, but they also encourage it in others, including Willard Romney and Paul Ryan. It was on full display when these two fools deceived themselves about the outcome of the presidential election, aided and abetted by FOX. For these reasons, no one should be surprised when they make their coded racial slurs against President Obama and Amb. Rice. They consider these two and any other black folks with the temerity to rise so high on merit “uppity.”
Jack bride
Nov. 26th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
I stop watching Fox News..
Kee
Nov. 27th, 2012 at 7:12 am
The blatant bigotry of Fox News gets its power from those who give it validity. Do please stop validating Fox. Let Fox and its paid operatives self-destruct into its own abyss. No light on Fox!
A Walkaway
Nov. 27th, 2012 at 10:39 am
Are you suggesting that we not report on their malfeasance?
Audrey Taylor
Nov. 27th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Faux noise is a self-deceiving joke!!!