Does FOX News Foster Hate and Incite Violence? ;)

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[font size="3"]Fox News Pretends They Never Cultivate Fear And Hate[/font]

6/20/15
by LeftOfCenter

Following the tragic shootings that occurred at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night, a Democratic lawmaker from the South Carolina House pointed fingers at the hateful rhetoric of Fox News. Filling in for Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum attempted to repudiate this claim of fear-mongering and hate-mongering along with Howie Kurtz of Media Buzz. They were stunned, stunned I tell you, that ANYONE could ever accuse Fox News of what Todd Rutherford, House Minority Leader in South Carolina said.

RUTHERFORD: &quot regarding the shooter)...he did so based on some ill-gotten, wrong belief, that it's okay to do that. He hears that because he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they're really not. They use coded language, they use hate speech, They talk about the president as if he's not the president, they talk about church-goers like they're not really church-goers...He didn't just generate this out of the sky."

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The reality is that Fox 'News' has been 'thrashing hysteria' for almost two decades and have poisoned the minds of a significant segment of the population. The network is banned in Canada for being irresponsible and misleading (by the CRTC: Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission, like our FCC) as they have a law that prohibits lying in the news, or “prohibited programming content” that includes “broadcasting false or misleading news.”

read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate

[SamKnause]

1. Yes.

[shenmue]

2. Does rain come out of clouds?

[underpants]

8. Well you know, some people aren't really sure

-Elizabeth Hasselbeck

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39. Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "If we're not safe in our own churches, then where are we safe?"

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18. I'm not a scientist; I can't say :)

[Rex]

50. BAHAHAHAHHA!!!

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83. I'm also not a mathematician ...

[SwankyXomb]

3. Is the sky blue?

Is water wet?
Are Confederate flag apologists racists?

[underpants]

10. Now look! You listen to me!

Tide goes in, tide goes out... no one knows

- Bill O'Reilly

[hifiguy]

21. Magnets, too.

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14. if you read the article, FOX News is SHOCKED they are being accused of cultivating hate and

STUNNED that anyone would suggest that Dylann Roof might have been inspired by their propaganda

[Takket]

4. does a bear shit in the woods?

[underpants]

9. But but that's not what we are talking about here

Now ANSWER THE QUESTION!!!

- Sean Hannity

[napkinz]

13. hmmmm ... Fox News In Shock For Causing Hate And Division

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017273442 posted by Grassy Knoll

[world wide wally]

33. If you're going to push a philosophy and say it.....

FUCKING OWN IT!

[napkinz]

58. "It's unbelievable. I don't know where this man is coming from."

That statement is what is truly unbelievable! To paraphrase, she's saying, Spewing hate, inciting violence? What? Who us?

And she wonders if those accusing FOX of promoting hate ever watch FOX News. Watch it? They not only watch it, they document it! She should read http://www.mediamatters.org/ for heaven's sake; she would find plenty of articles and videos. Here's just a sample:

Experts: Fox News' Coverage Contributes To Violence, Discrimination Against Transgender Community
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/06/18/experts-fox-news-coverage-contributes-to-violen/194500

Fox & Friends Exploits South Carolina Church Shooting To Call For More Guns
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/18/fox-amp-friends-exploits-south-carolina-church/204046

Fox Champions Bundy Supporters Who Threatened Violence Against Federal Agents
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/04/18/fox-champions-bundy-supporters-who-threatened-v/198947


FOX News is playing Steve Urkel!

[A HERETIC I AM]

62. Does a one legged duck swim in a circle?

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65. all this talk of popes, ducks, and bears ... oh my!

we're off to see The Grand Wizard, The Wonderful Grand Wizard Of FOX!

[TexasProgresive]

5. Is the post title a rhetorical question?

YES! YYYYEEEESSSS! O GOD YEEEESSSS!

[napkinz]

11. :)

[Gothmog]

6. Fox News plays to the idiots who watch this show and does incite violence at times

Fox News wants it viewers to be mad and angry because that makes these viewers more loyal to Fox. If violence is a byproduct of these efforts, Fox News deems that to be acceptable

[napkinz]

23. Does any other news channel EVER incite violence?

MSNBC doesn't. CNN doesn't. (They just get sh*t wrong at times ... for example, reporting that the Supreme Court killed the individual mandate.)

"at times" ... even if it was just once, that's one time too many

[notadmblnd]

7. short answer, yes.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Fox News Fosters Hate and Incites Violence, removing one word and one punctuation mark corrects the title.

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16. I added a wink should anyone be confused

[jwirr]

15. Yes.

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32. FOX replies: Yes???? I don't know where you're coming from! --->

[jwirr]

35. The question was: Does Fox News foster hate....My answer is yes.

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36. I know the answer is yes ...

It's just amazing to watch FOX reporters literally shocked by claims their organization fosters hate, and so dismayed when confronted with proof.

They really believe their hands are clean.

[jwirr]

43. Sorry I misunderstood you post. Since I use a lot of sarcasm in my posts you would think I would

recognize it in other posts.

[napkinz]

44. no problem

[Mike Nelson]

17. Well...

If you're wacky and adore Bill O'Reilly and he says, "Tiller the baby killer..." Well, you know what to do...

[napkinz]

38. has anyone ever asked him, "Hey, Bill, who has blood on his hands?"

[Mike Nelson]

68. I read somewhere - can't recall where - that he takes no responsibility for...

...Dr. Tiller's killing.

[malaise]

19. Does the sun rise in the

East?

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22. again, I'm not a scientist ... I can't say

[malaise]

47. ROFL

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48. :)

[hifiguy]

20. As sure as eggs is eggs

and ursines defecate in the forested areas.

[99th_Monkey]

24. Does a bear poop in the woods?

[napkinz]

27. does Bret Baier?

[99th_Monkey]

28. lol nt

[Enthusiast]

25. Lying Fox "News".

Their sole reason for being is to misinform the viewer. And to generate anger toward religious and racial minorities and liberals.

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42. "Fox should be indicted in the court of public opinion for its role in this and other racist acts"

Fox News must be stopped: Why its Charleston coverage has finally gone too far

Ridicule isn't enough. We need to call out the lies and rebut them accurately & loudly. This is more than a "story"

David Palumbo-Liu
June 23, 2015

There has been some speculation as to whether Dylann Roof is insane, or was so at the time of the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Certainly the amount of premeditation that went into the mass murder he planned and perpetrated should make us wary about accepting too readily the assertion that he was crazy. But while we might wonder about Roof, there is no doubt at all that for its commentary on this horrific, hate-filled crime Fox News should be indicted in the court of public opinion for its role in this and other racist acts. The network surely was conscious of what it was doing in aiding and abetting; it surely planned to furnish Roof with an alibi regarding the exact nature of his heinous crime.

Indeed, if Roof is convicted I suggest we regard Fox as an accessory after the fact: someone who assists another 1) who has committed a felony, 2) after the person has committed the felony, 3) with knowledge that the person committed the felony, and 4) with the intent to help the person avoid arrest or punishment. An accessory after the fact may be held liable for, inter alia, obstruction of justice.

I don’t care to debate whether the Fox commentators are sincere when they voice their corrosive ideas, or if it is simply a matter of a herd mentality that kicks in when more than one of them is in a room and the klieg lights are on, but there is no denying that they and Fox make money off this. This is a classic example of sensationalistic yellow journalism. And it’s worse, because it is also ideologically driven and it perpetuates a racist ideology.

How else could Steve Doocy opine on Fox News that it was “extraordinary” that the Charleston church shooting was called a hate crime? How else can Fox wonder if it had a racial element to it when Roof is on record as saying during the shooting that he wanted to kill black people because they are “taking over”?

read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/06/23/fox_news_has_been_spewing_its_garbage_and_hatred_about_the_charleston_massacre_and_we_need_to_do_something_about_it/

[Enthusiast]

60. There was quite enough racially based hatred in the USA

before we got a network dedicated to making it worse.

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79. "making it worse" ... well, are you ready for this?

Fox guest blames massacre on Affirmative Action: ‘Liberals created this kid that shot up this church’

June 24, 2015
David Edwards

Conservative radio host Kevin Jackson told Fox News on Wednesday that liberals had “created” the white supremacist murderer who confessed to massacring nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C.

During a discussion about how Southern states were dealing with Confederate symbols following the South Carolina tragedy, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked the author of Race-Pimping for his thoughts on the effort.

“Well, let’s hope that it eradicates racism, Martha, I mean that’s essentially what the left is after,” Jackson said sarcastically. “You know, they never give up anything. This is such a red herring that takes away from the real issue that liberals created this kid that shot up this church.”

read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/fox-guest-blames-massacre-on-affirmative-action-liberals-created-this-kid-that-shot-up-this-church/

[Enthusiast]

89. That is beyond the pale.

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90. I love the way FOX twists and turns ...

At first, they report the massacre as an attack on Christians, with Elisabeth Hasselbeck asking if churches throughout the nation should be on alert for more terror attacks and if pastors should start arming themselves.

But now Republicans have come around to accepting this was a racially-motivated hate crime.

But who is to blame? What is the source of this hate?

Does FOX bother to look in the mirror?

No. Why should they. The answer is obvious.

LIBERALS!

[randys1]

26. Did Roger Ailes work for Nixon as a hatchet man, yes

[hifiguy]

41. Eeyup. Media director for the Trickster's 1968 campaign.

Also worked for Ronnie Raygun, Bush the First, and on Ghouliani's first mayoral campaign.

What an assemblage of shitheels.

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49. ...

[lpbk2713]

29. Hate is their raison d'être.

They would wither up and blow away if they couldn't hate.

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57. as it is the raison d'être of the party for which it serves as a propaganda network

[alp227]

30. Fox News actually is not banned in Canada

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/foxcanada.asp

[samsingh]

31. i believe so

[Initech]

34. Fox News is the Insane Clown Posse of news networks.

Nobody takes it seriously except for their own small, loyal, and incredibly obnoxious fan base. Just like ICP, Fox News fans can be seen in public using their own coded language and products that are catered specifically for them. Also just like ICP, Fox fans spout some incredibly stupid and misleading bullshit, and have an enormous sense of pride among themselves. They're really both pretty similar when you think about it.

[lovemydog]

59. And just like ICP, their content sucks.

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71. ...

[Initech]

72. I like this one:

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73. :)

[eridani]

37. Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods? n/t

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51. does the Pope believe in climate change?

[eridani]

53. Absolutely! I'm a bit addicted to spoonerisms. n/t

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54. I fike lorks myself

[eridani]

55. Ok--you win the subthread n/t

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56. as Dave used to say, "This is not a competition. Please, no wagering."

we're just havin' fun

[Boomerproud]

40. Yes.

They prove it every day.

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52. seems unanimous

but the night is young ... who knows who will show up to defend FOX ... and how long they'll stay

[Lizzie Poppet]

45. Is a pig's ass pork?

[A HERETIC I AM]

63. Technically, "Offal" n/t

[Jefferson23]

46. Long history: The Most Biased Name in News

Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
By Seth Ackerman 2001

Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives’ frequent denunciations of “liberal bias” in the media were part of “a strategy” (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: “If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.”
Rupert Murdoch at Davos (photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum)

Rupert Murdoch (photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum)

But when Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch’s 24-hour cable network, debuted in 1996, a curious thing happened: Instead of denouncing it, conservative politicians and activists lavished praise on the network. “If it hadn’t been for Fox, I don’t know what I’d have done for the news,” Trent Lott gushed after the Florida election recount (Washington Post, 2/5/01). George W. Bush extolled Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snow–a former speechwriter for Bush’s father–and his “impressive transition to journalism” in a specially taped April 2001 tribute to Snow’s Sunday-morning show on its five-year anniversary (Washington Post, 5/7/01). The right-wing Heritage Foundation had to warn its staffers not to watch so much Fox News on their computers, because it was causing the think tank’s system to crash.

When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives don’t feel the need to “work the ref.” The ref is already on their side. Since its 1996 launch, Fox has become a central hub of the conservative movement’s well-oiled media machine. Together with the GOP organization and its satellite think tanks and advocacy groups, this network of fiercely partisan outlets–such as the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaugh’s–forms a highly effective right-wing echo chamber where GOP-friendly news stories can be promoted, repeated and amplified. Fox knows how to play this game better than anyone.

Yet, at the same time, the network bristles at the slightest suggestion of a conservative tilt. In fact, wrapping itself in slogans like “Fair and balanced” and “We report, you decide,” Fox argues precisely the opposite: Far from being a biased network, Fox argues, it is the only unbiased network. So far, Fox‘s strategy of aggressive denial has worked surprisingly well; faced with its unblinking refusal to admit any conservative tilt at all, some commentators have simply acquiesced to the network’s own self-assessment. FAIR has decided to take a closer look.

“Coming next, drug addicted pregnant women no longer have anything to fear from the authorities thanks to the Supreme Court. Both sides on this in a moment.”–Bill O’Reilly (O’Reilly Factor, 3/23/01)


Fox‘s founder and president, Roger Ailes, was for decades one of the savviest and most pugnacious Republican political operatives in Washington, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan campaigns. Ailes is most famous for his role in crafting the elder Bush’s media strategy in the bruising 1988 presidential race. With Ailes’ help, Bush turned a double-digit deficit in the polls into a resounding win by targeting the GOP’s base of white male voters in the South and West, using red-meat themes like Michael Dukakis’ “card-carrying” membership in the ACLU, his laissez-faire attitude toward flag-burning, his alleged indifference to the pledge of allegiance–and, of course, paroled felon Willie Horton.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-most-biased-name-in-news/

[napkinz]

74. great article! ... thanks for sharing

I had read a similar article though not as extensive as the one you posted ...

The Sordid History Of News Corp.'s Roger Ailes

July 22, 2011

Ailes' Troubling Record On Race

Ailes Reportedly Looked For A "Wallaceite Cab-Driver" To Bring Up Race At Town Hall. Fox News' frequent racially charged attempts to foment opposition to President Obama echo Ailes' decades-long record of stoking racial fears and biases while serving as a media consultant for Republican political campaigns. While working for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, Ailes reportedly suggested Nixon participate in a televised town hall and take a question from a "good, mean, Wallaceite cab-driver ... Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?" The strategy, according to Nixonland author Rick Pearlstein, was to have Nixon "abhor the uncivility of the words, while endorsing a 'moderate' version of the opinion." (Nixonland, p. 331)

Ailes Helped Craft Strategy Of Linking Dukakis To Horton. Ailes also worked on George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign and helped craft the "soft on crime" strategy of linking Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis to convicted felon Willie Horton. The chief architect of that strategy, Lee Atwater, later apologized to Dukakis for saying he would "make Willie Horton his running mate," explaining that the comment "makes me sound racist, which I am not." As the campaign drew to a close, the New York Times quoted Ailes saying of the strategy: "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." (New York Times, 10/3/88)

read more: http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/22/the-sordid-history-of-news-corps-roger-ailes/157744

[calimary]

61. As we used to say in college - does the Pope shit in the woods with Catholic bears?

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69. well, it was really a rhetorical question ... the point is that FOX is in total denial

They can't fathom why they are being accused of promoting hate.

They are shocked that anyone would make a connection between the massacre in Charleston -- and other racially-motivated hate crimes by right-wingers -- and the "news" they "report."

edit: as they article says, "They were stunned, stunned ..."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate

[Vinca]

64. The entire right wing industry of hate is to blame.

Faux is probably the least dangerous of the bunch, but they definitely contribute to it.

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75. "entire right wing industry of hate"

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84. ...

[Vinca]

95. That's perfect.

[SoCalDem]

66. It's their raison d'etre

raison d'être
noun rai·son d'être \ˌrā-ˌzōⁿ-ˈdetrə\

: the thing that is most important to someone or something : the reason for which a person or organization exists

plural rai·sons d'être also rai·sons d'etre
\-ˌzōⁿz-\
Full Definition of RAISON D'ÊTRE
: reason or justification for existence

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77. they're not the Blues Brothers, but they're on a mission ...

[Bigmack]

67. They know all the code words...

Fox doesn't directly advocate violence, but they know how to skate around that incitement.

The impressionable hear them loud and clear.

[napkinz]

80. remember how Hannity embraced Bundy and his militia ...

[onenote]

70. I hate it when writers undermine their own credibility

Is the reporting on Fox News (and the opinions voiced thereon) distorted and slanted? Yes.
Could you pay me to watch Fox News? No.

But if you're going to write a piece criticizing Fox for distorted and slanted reporting, you have an obligation to research everything you write. It would have taken this writer 30 seconds to learn that the oft-repeated claim that Fox News is "banned" in Canada is completely false. Indeed, Fox News is available in Canada over satellite and cable. And while its true that Canadian communications regulations prohibits broadcasting false or misleading news, that provision only applies to Canadian broadcast stations, not to a non-Canadian, non-broadcast service such as Fox News.

Fox sucks. You don't have to make up shit to prove it.

[randys1]

76. Isnt it ture that if Fox were a Canadian broadcast they would be banned? That the only way

you can get it is via satellite?

[onenote]

92. Impossible to say

If they were Canadian. And were seeking a broadcast license, they'd probably get one. At that point, however, they'd be subject to various rules aimed at false news reporting. But to the best of my knowledge, the CRTC has never actually found any broadcaster to have violated those rules, so I don't know that it would be correct to say that Fox News would be "banned" since there isn't much precedent to inform an assessment of how the CRTC would view Fox News.

[Egnever]

93. That was the first thing that struck me

Besides the obvious.

I had no idea fox was banned in Canada.

Good to hear they are sort of...

[onenote]

94. no they're not. Not even "sort of.

Fox News has been expressly authorized for distribution in Canada by the CRTC with, as far as I can determine, no conditions. Contrast that with Al Jazeera (the Arabic version, not the English language version), which the CRTC also has authorized for distribution in Canada, but initially was subject to conditions because of complaints that Al Jazeera sometimes had, in the past, disseminated content deemed abusive to certain groups (e.g., anti-Semitic content).

[napkinz]

96. let them watch FOX ...

just so long as they still have single-payer health care

[pansypoo53219]

78. fear & ignorance, which leads to violence.

[napkinz]

82. they are so self-unaware ...

[Gloria]

81. Yes...as well as destroying any development of critical thinking skills

which leads to denying a person's own self interest to be even on the radar.

FOX manipulates the brain...

[napkinz]

85. regarding FOX viewers ...

[restorefreedom]

86. um, yes

although shep smith seems to be unbiased compared to the others. i don't know why he stays there.

[Jamastiene]

87. Anyone has to actually ask?

I thought that was common knowledge.

[napkinz]

88. that's why I placed a wink at the end of the subject line ...

the real subject of this thread, as I wrote in another reply, is FOX News playing "Steve Urkel" when it comes to promoting hate. ("Who, me? Did I do that?&quot As I wrote:

They (FOX News hosts) are shocked that anyone would make a connection between the massacre in Charleston -- and other racially-motivated hate crimes by right-wingers -- and the "news" they "report."

edit: as they article says, "They were stunned, stunned ..."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/fox-news-pretends-they-never-cultivate

[napkinz]

91. "fair and balanced"

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97. Fox & Friends’ stunning hypocrisy: “We were never told the nature of (Dylann Roof's) bias”

The gang also argued that racism isn't a real problem in the U.S.

June 25, 2015
JOANNA ROTHKOPF

On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist.

Hasselbeck first said, “It’s disappointing and it’s irresponsible to call racism when it’s not racism because it basically underscores the hate when it actually does happen–”

“It blunts it,” Kilmeade corrected.

“If we were a racist nation, Barack Obama would not have been elected president of the United States twice. It’s a math thing,” Doocy chimed in. The three then spend upwards of three minutes defending their prior analysis that the Charleston shooting was potentially a religion-based hate crime instead of a race-based hate crime because, “it happened at a church!”

“We were never told the nature of the bias,” Doocy insisted.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/25/fox_friends_hypocritical_reversal_we_were_never_told_the_nature_of_dylann_roofs_bias/