{"id":41330,"date":"2019-04-26T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41330"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:13:38","slug":"fox-news-emails-sound-like-white-supremacist-chat-room-have-they-ever-watched-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41330","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Emails Sound Like ‘White Supremacist Chat Room’ – Have They Ever Watched Fox News?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump spoke at the annual convention for the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday. Despite the organization’s unrepentant support for terrorists and felons and spousal abusers having unfettered access to guns, Trump felt it was necessary to help prop up their sagging approval ratings<\/a><\/strong> (and his own) with hias Deplorable base.<\/p>\n

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These are the same sort of cretins who attended the white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, VA, that Trump also defended as “very fine people.”<\/em> In the aftermath of those repugnant remarks, Fox News struggled mightily to protect Trump from the fallout for having praised neo-Nazis. And apparently, they are still doing it. Trump is also still defending those remarks with new distortions of reality<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Friday morning it was revealed that an internal email exchange<\/a><\/strong> between some Fox News reporters devolved into a flagrantly pro-Trump brainstorming session. They were discussing how to respond to charges made by Joe Biden in his campaign announcement<\/a><\/strong> wherein he reminded people of Trump’s affection for torch-carrying racists.<\/p>\n

The fact that they were brainstorming Trump defenses is bad enough. That isn’t the job of legitimate reporters. But their rationalization of such hatred makes matters worse. So much so that even one of the reporters in the email chain got fed up with what he was reading. After Fox’s Doug McKelway implied that Biden was lying, he drew this response from Fox News Radio’s Jon Decker:<\/p>\n

“I really don\u2019t understand the point you are making. Jarrod Kuhn was one of those individuals in Charlottesville holding a tiki torch while the mob chanted “Jews will not replace us. […] Your posts read like something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While it’s admirable that Decker had the courage to forthrightly renounce McKelway and his other colleagues, there is a bigger problem that is left unchanged. It isn’t just that email thread that sounds like a “White Supremacist chat room.”<\/em> It’s much of the programming on the air at Fox News. Tucker Carlson has become the voice of America’s white nationalists<\/a><\/strong> with nearly every show advancing their rhetoric and agenda. Laura Ingraham frequently launches brazenly racist diatribes<\/a><\/strong>, particularly against minority celebrities and sports figures. And the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends take every opportunity to smear politicians of color<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So if an email exchange sounds like a “White Supremacist chat room,”<\/em> the Fox News Channel sounds like the Aryan Broadcasting Network. More of Fox’s reporters need to take a lesson from Decker and call out their racist confederates. The network is already suffering an exodus of advertisers<\/a><\/strong> who don’t want to be associated with such hate speech. Now the anchors and guests need to step up and denounce the racist culture that permeates Fox News. Will they have the courage to do publicly what Decker did in an email that he thought was private?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump spoke at the annual convention for the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday. Despite the organization’s unrepentant support for terrorists and felons and spousal abusers having unfettered access to guns, Trump felt it was necessary to help prop up their sagging approval ratings (and his own) with hias Deplorable base. These are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[554,846,879,33,377,43,1143,25],"class_list":["post-41330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-mckelway","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-racism","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-kkk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aKC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45842,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45842","url_meta":{"origin":41330,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Apologizes for ‘Mistakenly’ Cropping Trump Out of Epstein Photo","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/6\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The mission of Fox News from its inception has been to unreservedly promote right-wing propaganda and the agenda of the arch-conservative Republican Party. 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