This Is How Fox News Uses Graphics To Convey Their Racist Message

Following a week of tragic shootings in Washington state and California Fox News set their editorial priorities to locating a angle with which they could light a fire under their dimwitted audience. Fortunately for Fox, the rancid bigotry that is a standard feature of their news reporting neatly satisfied that requirement.

On their community website and Fib Factory Fox Nation, They posted a headline article that they pulled from the ultra-rightist fringe site Daily Caller (which not coincidentally is run by Fox News host Tucker Carlson). The article declared that the “Man Accused Of Killing Two CA Deputies Was In Country Illegally, Deported Twice.”

Fox Nation Racist Image

The obvious problem with the posting by the Fox Nationalists is the content of the photo that they chose to accompany the article. The picture was taken at a rally to support undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children and know only this country as their home. They are referred to as “Dreamers” for their desire to become citizens of the country they love.

So what do these hopeful wannabe-citizens have to do with a murderous cop killer? Nothing beyond the color of their skin and their national heritage. Fox could have chosen to post a picture of the suspect, or a picture of the victims, or a picture from the crime scene. But instead they decided that a picture of a peaceful rally attended by law-abiding marchers was somehow an appropriate graphic accompaniment to a murder story that had nothing to do with the rally.

Clearly Fox is trying to connect the cop killer to every other Latino in America. The starkly incongruous juxtaposition of the rally photo to the murder story can be illustrated by imagining how Fox might have reported a couple of other recent stories that involved cop killers who were born and raised right here in the U.S. of A.

Fox Nation Cop Killers

Of course Fox never bothered to identify the white, right-wing, radicals who were previously reported to have murdered police officers as being from the U.S. Apparently nationality is only a material issue in the Fox newsroom if the suspects are foreigners. This is the means by which Fox promotes their racist agenda and leads their ignorant audience to believe that only dark-skinned aliens engage in such horrendous activities.

Still, the worst part of this visual communication is its attempt to associate peaceful, law-abiding people with savagery and lawlessness. It is unprofessional, unethical, unmistakably racist, and unsurprisingly business as usual at Fox News.

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Rachel Maddow Deliciously Unravels The Fox News “Voter Fraud Frankenstein” Fallacy

Last Tuesday Megyn Kelly of Fox News hosted a segment on what she characterized as a frightening assault on democracy in Colorado as Democrats plotted to surreptitiously turn the “red meat state” blue. Setting aside the fact that Colorado has been a solid purple state for years, Kelly’s alarm was grossly misplaced and indicative of her extreme right-wing bias. She led off with a dire message for her easily spooked audience.

“Breaking tonight. With two weeks to the midterms we are getting warnings that a new law has opened the door to possible voter fraud in a critical senate race that could decide the balance of power in Congress.”

Fox News Voter Fraud

Saints preserve us. What malevolent disaster is looming over us now? Kelly “reported” that Colorado’s Democratic governor and legislature passed a new “first of its kind” law that “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers.” And with a chastening glare she facetiously asks “What could go wrong?”

What indeed? Well, the first thing that could go wrong is that Kelly’s reporting is entirely false. When local reporters with KUSA TV contacted Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State he told them that there was no truth to the story. Rachel Maddow covered the misleading reporting by Kelly in a brilliant segment that broke down the shameless dishonesty that is the hallmark of Fox News:

Kelly has still failed to acknowledge or correct her false reporting, proving that the only fraud here is that committed by Fox News on their pathetically gullible viewers. But the story doesn’t end there.

Following Kelly’s thoroughly fictional “breaking” news opening, she introduced her guests Michelle Malkin and David Bossie who were there to promote their new crocumentary “Rocky Mountain Heist,” about alleged voter fraud in Colorado. But before the interview began, Kelly played the entire two minute trailer for the film uninterrupted, giving the deceitful project free advertising worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Malkin said the film unveils a “voter fraud Frankenstein,” but like every other right-wing allegation of voter fraud, she never provides any evidence. And in this case she doesn’t even offer an example of any the fraudulent activity she alleges.

Most appalling is Malkin’s apoplectic complaint that “hundreds of thousands of dollars from unknown donors were poured into these races to target them and turn the legislature blue.” And she has the gall to whine about this supposed assault on democracy while sharing the interview with the man that made unscrupulous political donations possible on an unprecedented scale. David Bossie is the President and Chairman of Citizens United, the organization whose Supreme Court ruling permitted donations from corporations and individuals in unlimited amounts that can be kept hidden from the public.

Bossie also told Kelly that he has no problem with the spending on the part of the Democrats, but complained of a lack of transparency. Talk about hypocrisy. It was his lawsuit that made it all possible and he argued in favor of it when it was to his benefit.

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So in this one segment of Kelly’s program she proliferated lies about the Colorado elections procedures, contributed valuable airtime to advertise a brazenly partisan documentary, and gave a platform to hypocritical right-wing propagandists to smear their Democratic foes just days before a consequential election. She provided no opportunity for the maligned Democrats to respond or for a representative of the other side to rebut the scurrilous charges. But that is typical of the absurdly tagged “fair and balanced” network that is neither. And it is the reason that Kelly is no better than Sean Hannity, or Glenn Beck, or any of the other ideologically prejudiced Fox mouthpieces past and present.