More racist dog whistles and completely inaccurate Fox News bashing

[Ralph Wiggum]

So...Fox News has a guest on to discuss the Travon Martin/George Zimmerman case.  A former New York police detective.  And because it was said on Fox News, it apparently is the view of the company and everyone who works there. 

Read on:

pokerfan (25,587 posts)

Fox News: Trayvon Would Be Alive If He Didn’t Have Street Attitude
 
More dog whistles from Fox...

On Tuesday afternoon, former New York City police detective Harry Houck told FoxNews.com that Trayvon Martin would still be alive today if he didn’t have “street attitude.”

Houck was part of a FoxNews.com live panel discussion about George Zimmerman’s ongoing trial for the alleged second-degree murder of Martin. After co-panelist Tamara Holder (a criminal defense attorney) pointed out that the state’s prosecution will likely point out how Martin was only carrying a bag of candy and a can of iced tea at the time of his death, Houck responded that regardless of whether the selected jury is “impartial,” the seed will already have been planted that Martin was an innocent, unarmed teenager:

“She was talking about the Skittles that he had, and the Coca-Cola that Trayvon Martin had. That doesn’t look good for the defense because he’s injecting something into their minds, like, this is a little kid with candy walking around the street. Listen, Trayvon Martin would be alive today if he didn’t have a street attitude. That’s the bottom line.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-online-guest-trayvon-martin-would-be-alive-today-if-he-didnt-have-street-attitude/

He was an innocent, unarmed teenager! Apparently 'street attitude' AKA 'walking around while black' carries the death penalty.

A sample response from the Graham Cracker DUmmy:

graham4anything (9,890 posts)
5. fox playing to their audience. Shameful. A$$hole racist NRA & fox and repub./libertarian soundbytes.

and Fox is looking to start a race war if there is a split jury or bad verdict.

Plays right into the NRA soundbytes

[USA4ME]

So saying 'street attitude' is racist now?  Yeah, whatever.  We all know what kind of attitude to which the officer was referring, and it has nothing to do with the race of the person.

But when playing the race card is all you got, then you keep laying it down again and again.  Doesn't matter that more often than not it's a losing hand, it's the perception that anyone who pays no attention to the race card is somehow racist, rather than just recognizing that it's being played out of desperation.

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[obumazombie]

The race card race hustler race baiting speech extortion. Fat Al Sharpton and Jesse "High" Jackson have indoctrinated them well.

[Freeper]

Trayvon was black so, therefore anything said about him that the DUmmies don't like is automatically racism.

 

[miskie]

Trayvon was black so, therefore anything said about him that the DUmmies don't like is automatically racism.

 

Its also why the primitives suddenly remembered that Hispanic isn't a race. Bashing the WHITE guy isn't racist.

[GOBUCKS]

Hispanics are the new Jews in the world of 0bamaites.

[obumazombie]

Hispanics are the new Jews in the world of 0bamaites.

But still a reliable voting block for libs/dems/socialists.

[DLR Pyro]

Trayvon was black so, therefore anything said about him that the DUmmies don't like is automatically racism.

I'm curious what the racially sensitive DUnmies think about the "no limit Nigga" name that Saint trayvon used to refer to himself as on the interwebz

[Vagabond]

Trayvon wasn't anything more than a street thug.  He should have ben locked up for rogue and vagabond had Miami police done their job.

[Ptarmigan]

But still a reliable voting block for libs/dems/socialists.

They are pawns.

[jukin]

Ace thinks that chris matthews is trying to get the word "government" to be the new ******. When the many guy in prime time starts to push this meme it will have legs....at least 100,000 people will know about it.

[obumazombie]

When Bush was President no one blamed government.