Fox News 35 Orlando calls neo-nazi group in Sanford, FL a 'civil rights' group

[knowledgeispwr]

Last edited Sun Apr 8, 2012, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)

Via Pam's House Blend where Pam includes a screencap.

The headline is: "Civil rights group patrolling Sanford"

Florida members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement tells FOX35 they are patrolling the streets of Sanford.

The white rights organization says several Sanford citizens have called on them fearing their safety.

The group's commander talked with FOX35 Saturday about their presence in the now racially divided Florida town where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.

Here is a link to the original blurb while it's still up: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-Civil-rights-group-patrolling-Sanford

Pam notes that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the group as a hate group.
As Pam says, perhaps that news team should do a bit of research before writing articles for their site.

Update: Headline has been changed to "White rights group patrolling Sanford" Thanks meeksgeek for the new link. : http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-White-rights-group-patrolling-Sanford

[Justice wanted]

1. THEY are a Civil Rights Group? maybe the Southern Poverty Law Center should call Fox "News"

a Hate Group. Never have I seen a "News" Organization create so much hate for individuals and groups.

[Turbineguy]

2. It's Fox

Bigotry is their idea of civil rights. What we call "civil rights", they call "uppity blacks"

[Jamaal510]

30. Better yet,

what we call "civil rights", FOX calls "reverse discrimination".

[Turbineguy]

34. Indeed.

[Bennyboy]

3. On the page:

Florida members of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement tells FOX35 they are patrolling the streets of Sanford.
The white rights organization says several Sanford citizens have called on them fearing their safety.
The group's commander talked with FOX35 Saturday about their presence in the now racially divided Florida town where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.



Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-Civil-rights-group-patrolling-Sanford#ixzz1rUQgprFi

[anti-alec]

4. SPLC needs to mark Fox News as a hate group

for associating themselves with Neo Nazis and the far right.

[abelenkpe]

12. +1000 nt

[freshwest]

36. Also. Or they aren't serious enough! They couldn't have missed O'Reilly, etc.

[Ian David]

35. That would only be the most awesome thing EVER. n/t

[pokerfan]

5. Shocking

(Not really.)

In this video of their broadcast, you can see this isn’t just a fluke headline — the anchor refers to the Nazis as a “civil rights group” by name. And you can also see that they went to the Nazis’ website, and looked right at the swastika logo. In the whole clip, there isn’t even a hint of the group’s true nature.

Again: what the hell is happening at this news channel, that they can’t distinguish between a “civil rights group” and an armed gang of white supremacists and neo-Nazis? Un-freaking-believable.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40185_Jaw-Dropper-_Fox_Affiliate_in_Orlando_Calls_Neo-Nazis_a_Civil_Rights_Group

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Two points

1.- we have had one person insisting this is not going on, even though he is on the other side of the country. In fact my neighbor to be exact." This is confirmation number three that indeed it is going on.

2- civil rights and neo nazi do not go together.

Of note, believe it or not, not all local fox stations are this clueless. Our local fox affiliate is like the best when it comes to Occuoy, so I'd look into ownership issues for the affiliate.

[TheKentuckian]

40. Agreed, my local Fox presented some effort at credibility long after

the other affiliates and devolved into a weather radar contest with some scores and filler.

Of course they are all long gone now but even still the Fox affiliate is still probably the only attempt at news and is no less devoid of content or more conservative in bent than any of the others.

My thought has often been that Fox News rides the credibility of their locals to some degree or another. Especially, in the beginning to lock down the following. Might have been a big boon as the little dishes took off about the same time to have those locals build brand recognition and some credibility.

[lonestarnot]

7. probably skipped over the word suppression because he couldn't pronounce it.

[Iliyah]

8. Besides the minorities in Sanford

I'm pretty sure the Jewish community is quite upset about this as well.

We already know how racist Fake news is although I know they will tout about their minority news persons such as G. Rivera and Juan Williams and of course Herman Cain, which are jokes.

[Cleita]

9. Really? I guess them claiming to being a church doesn't fly anymore.n/t

[southernyankeebelle]

10. So they are a civil rights group huh? I guess so is the Black Panthers.

[meeksgeek]

11. Now they're calling the NAZI's a

"White Rights" group. The original page now gives a "page not found" error. There was no retraction or correction published, as far as I can see. Here's the new link:

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-White-rights-group-patrolling-Sanford

[Typical NYC Lib]

13. This would be funny if FAUX wasn't taken seriously by 45% of the country

The network, I mean. Nazis are never funny, except in The Producers.

[guitar man]

14. Outrageous

They need to be called out and excoriated in every forum possible!

[allan01]

15. re;Fox News 35 Orlando calls neo-nazi group in Sanford, FL a 'civil rights' group

they are a civil rights group? wtf ? and where are the cops in all this . Why do they need a neo nazi ( comon folks lets just drop the word neo,which means new , old,new nazis , makes no difference to me! if it walks like a duck , its a duck ).because some "whites feel threatend ? hem.

[mfcorey1]

16. Not surprised!

[secondvariety]

17. Pitiful.

Even for Fox.

[ZombieHorde]

18. Now the new article, with "white rights," is also scrubbed.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-White-rights-group-patrolling-Sanford

They can't seem to figure it out. So funny.

[Hissyspit]

22. Front page says "Neo-Nazi" now.

[ZombieHorde]

24. Like the saying goes, third time is a charm.

Shouldn't take three tries to figure out Nazis aren't a civil rights group though.

[Hissyspit]

31. To paraphrase poster above...

This would be funny, if it wasn't so despicable.

[independentpiney]

19. All the links are going to an error page now

I guess they realised they went too far with this one.

[sakabatou]

21. I hope someone got a screen shot

[Incitatus]

32. It's upthread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002534230#post5

[Hissyspit]

26. Front page takes me here now:

OP original link goes to this error page:

[NCcoast]

20. Shoot yourself in the foot, reload, repeat.

"White rights group' seriously? Where to begin? I'm a white guy, should I have the right to kill minorities without provocation because they 'look suspicious'? Is that what these idiots are there to defend?

[rustydog]

23. Completely understandable, Fox calls itself a "news" organization.

[ZombieHorde]

25. Ha! Good one. nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

28. Sort of like calling the Hells Angels

security guards at Altamont.

[eShirl]

33. +1

[The Wizard]

29. Never use the words Fox News

or Rupert Murdoch without a connection to terrorism and propaganda. They are al Qeada's best friend.

[Hissyspit]

37. kick nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

38. Fox makes no bones about it that it loves Nazi groups. nt

[secondvariety]

39. They have a little Editor's note now;

they say they "intended to refer to them as a self-proclaimed civil rights group". Ok then.


http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/trayvon_martin/040712-Neo-Nazi-group-patrolling-Sanford