Fox Business: Obama guests are "hoods in the hizzy"

[ProfessionalLeftist]

"It's not first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse."

That's what Fox Business host Eric Bolling said recently about President Obama's meeting at the White House with the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo, while photoshopping a gold tooth into the frame. Then an image of popular hip-hop artist Common, who participated in a White House poetry event last month, appeared on-screen.<1>

It's just the latest from Eric Bolling, who last month attacked President Obama for "chugging a few forties" in Ireland (after Obama drank a pint of beer in an Irish pub).<2> Bolling's attacks are part of a long history of racially-coded language that Fox uses to remind its viewers that the president is Black.

Please join me and my friends at ColorOfChange.org in demanding that Roger Alies (who runs both Fox Business and Fox News Channel) fire Eric Bolling. If enough of us speak out, it will ensure that Fox's leaders face some public accountability for its consistent race-baiting. It only takes a moment:

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/bolling/?referring_akid=&source=copy_thanks_email&referring_akid=2017.1114949.jOswaZ&source=taf

Fox Business and Fox News continue to be safe havens for commentators who try to whip up race-based fears and peddle racial stereotypes as hard news.

President Ali Bongo currently holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council and was visiting the White House on official business. While Bongo has a troubling human rights record, past presidents have met with problematic figures for diplomacy reasons or get them to change their behavior. Hip hop artist Common is a well-educated cultural and charitable ambassador and a talented musician. We doubt that FOX ever referred to the White House as a “hizzouse” while George W. Bush, Bill Clinton or any other president resided there.

But seizing an opportunity to stoke his viewers' race-based fears, Bolling wouldn't let up. He opened the segment by asking, "So what's with all the hoods in the hizzy?" Later, when a guest challenged him, asking why Bolling was treating the meeting as a social event rather than an official meeting between two heads of state, Bolling said, "How do you know what they did? Maybe they did have s'mores and watch movies. Maybe they watched a basketball game."<3>

Such obvious promotion of racial stereotypes is nothing new at Fox.<4>,<5> In fact, it's what made Glenn Beck's career at Fox News before he took things too far<6> -- a move that eventually cost him more than 300 advertisers and his 5pm show on the network. Beck will leave this coveted time slot vacant at the end of this month, and some observers believe Bolling's over-the-top race-baiting last week was an audition for Beck's spot -- his attempt to show Ailes and other executives at Fox that he's up to the challenge of stoking Fox viewers' anger at President Obama in a way fitting of Beck's legacy.<7>

This type of racial stereotyping has gone on at Fox for too long. It is unacceptable, outdated and we can't let it go unchallenged.

Please join join me and my friends at ColorOfChange.org in demanding that Fox Business Chairman Roger Ailes fire Eric Bolling. Roger Ailes may not care what we think -- but he has to care about Fox's public image. If Ailes fires Bolling, it's step towards accountability. If he refuses, it will make it abundantly clear to the public and the media that that stoking racial division is part of Fox's agenda.

Please join us by clicking the link below. It just takes a moment:

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/bolling/?referring_akid=&source=copy_thanks_email&referring_akid=2017.1114949.jOswaZ&source=taf

Thanks.

Additional resources:

1. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106110002

2. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201105240034

3. See reference 1

4. http://orig.colorofchange.org/cnnfox/message.html?referring_akid=2017.1114949.jOswaZ&source=taf

5. http://orig.colorofchange.org/fox/summary.html?referring_akid=2017.1114949.jOswaZ&source=taf

6. http://orig.colorofchange.org/beck/message.html?referring_akid=2017.1114949.jOswaZ&source=taf

7. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201106130006

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Done. n /t

[razorman]

2. Does anyone still use, "izzle" anymore, or any variation thereof?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

3. Thanks. ColorOfChange got that idiot Psychology Today blogger fired...

...I'm hoping they can have the same impact with this guy.

[KamaAina]

4. They need to update their technology

they're still broadcasting in black and white. :eyes:

[HopeHoops]

5. What the fuck is a "hizzy"?