It really doesn’t take much to set off the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends when a Republican candidate is trouble. That’s the current state of the gubernatorial election in Georgia where Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams is in a dead heat with her GOP opponent Brian Kemp. This is a deep red state where Democrats aren’t supposed to win, so Fox News has bolted onto the scene to muck it up.
On Sunday morning’s episode of Fox and Friends (video below), the three co-hosts set out to malign Abrams, who would be the first African-American women governor in the U.S. But they had to manufacture a controversy by taking her comments out of context so they could align her with criminal gangs. Co-host Ed Henry began by saying:
“As if on cue, Stacey Abrams, who is the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia […] sounds like, she thinks at least, that that the Blue Wave is gonna include illegal immigrants voting.”
Then they run a video clip of Abrams saying:
“The thing is that the Blue Wave is African-Americans. It’s white, it’s Latino, it’s Asian-Pacific Islanders. It is made up of those who were told that they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and undocumented.”
Coming out of the video, Henry says that “If you’re undocumented you’re not supposed to be able to vote.” Whereupon his co-host Pete Hegseth asks:
“What should we label it? Is it an illegal Blue Wave? An alien Blue Wave? If you’ve got criminal gangs coming across, is it an MS-13 Blue Wave?”
Really? First of all, it needs to noted that Abrams was not talking about voters. And nowhere in the clip that Fox played did she say that. She was talking about all of the people who can contribute to an awakening of progressive change in the country. That includes many people who don’t vote but care about the direction this nation takes. It includes students who are not yet eighteen, like the survivors of the Parkland massacre. It includes Dreamers who fulfill every criteria of citizenship except for the technicality that they are undocumented. And it includes the tens of thousands of citizens in Georgia that are being unlawfully removed from the voter rolls by a corrupt Republican secretary of state who happens to be Brian Kemp, Abrams’ opponent.
However, for Fox News to go so low as to associate Abrams with the MS-13 gang is way beyond the pale. As an aside, the MS-13 gang did not come across the border. It’s a home grown gang from southern California. Nevertheless, this proves that Fox News has a complete lack of integrity, honesty, and ethics. And it proves their intention to advance a racist theme that African-American candidates must be connected to criminal elements simply because of the color of their skin. It’s a theme that Fox’s audience will readily accept due to the priming they’ve had from years of watching Fox.
There is going to be a Blue Wave in November, and Fox News is going to have to live with it. Of course, they will lie their butts off and spread bigoted propaganda like they did here, but they can’t prevent the coming progressive tsunami by exposing how hateful and prejudiced they are. They are just going to make matters worse for themselves and the Republican Party they are shilling for as America becomes more diverse. And maybe Democrats and progressives should welcome any actions they take to destroy their own Deplorable right-wing.
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Fox & Friends willfully taking @staceyabrams out of context and running with the line that she's calling for an "illegal blue wave, an alien blue wave…a MS-13 blue wave"
I wonder why they're attacking someone who could be the first ever Black woman governor in the US. pic.twitter.com/WXsywYWZbK
— Gabby Miller (@__gabbymiller) October 14, 2018
Remember that this bunch of trained anti-American Fakes are doing their best to serve Vladimir Putin’s interests. They were hired by a Saudi and an Australian that owned the ‘station’ as an extension of outside control of our Nation. The only purpose of FOX is to destroy our United States, to weaken our Nation with incessant propaganda attempting to divide all of us, and it’s working in a few tiny minds. Vote for America, and against being puppets for the Russian Dictator and his pro-Russian boy in our White House. Why is Trump afraid of Vladimir Putin? Why do the “Family Values Republicans” hate Black people? They claim they do not, yet everything they do proves otherwise and America knows that. That is the main topic of the above FOX news broadcast, it’s purpose was to denounce people of color with Russian propaganda, again. Vote, while we’re still allowed to.
Fox faux news is made up of disreputable, disgusting ,lying people who whose antics bring shame upon the media. They seem to prostitute themselves , trying to out do each other by making the most outrageous statements knowing full well that most of them are not true.
They do speak to the base of those Americans who have the very same negative characteristics that Fox Faux news commentators personifies and of course the trump administration.
If the media , the honest media would not give them continuous and world-wide coverage perhaps their highly biased rhetoric would be seen for what it is. Mindless crap!!!