Southern Poverty Law Center makes note of Fox News' obsession with New Black Pan

[thundley4]

ck4829 (1000+ posts)             Tue Jul-20-10 06:18 AM
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Southern Poverty Law Center makes note of Fox News' obsession with New Black Panthers
   
It must be July, because Fox News is once again hyperventilating over a racially charged non-story. One year ago, it was Glenn Beck’s crusade against Van Jones, the White House environmental advisor who, the host charged, day after day and against all available evidence, was a black nationalist using green jobs as a form of “stealth reparations.”

One year later, the channel’s marquee hosts and anchors are tag-teaming a new fear-mongering race fantasy — the idea that the New Black Panther Party, with the assistance of the Obama Administration, is currently hanging its black militant fangs directly over the arteries of the republic.

On nearly 100 occasions since June 30, Fox News anchors and hosts have breathlessly discussed the marginal group and the “scandal” of the Justice Department’s dismissal of a voter intimidation case filed against two of its members who were videotaped standing outside a Philadelphia poll station on Election Day 2008.

Nobody familiar with the Fox network’s long history of crude and transparent race-baiting should be surprised by the conclusion of Abigail Thernstrom, a conservative George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. “This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers,” Thernstrom told Politico. “This has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the (Obama) administration.”

And what better way to do that than play sensationalized loops of militant-looking black men with zero political power or connections to the White House?

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/19/another-long-h...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8778699

It's a small bonfire, so I'll bring the current replies over en masse.

secondwind   (1000+ posts)             Tue Jul-20-10 06:21 AM
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1. A non-story for sure. But is it true they said they wanted to kill white babies? Or
   


that the white man was about to be ruled by the black man? Is there any evidence of that?

Whites conveniently ignore and forget all the voter intimidation that went on in the South for decades......
 
Dogtown   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 06:30 AM
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2. K&R n/t
 
pinboy3niner   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 06:34 AM
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3. SPLC directly taking on FN is a big f'n deal
   
It's great, but it's rare for a large organization to take them on directly because of their power and media clout. Apparently, SPLC must have calculated that FU News is vulnerable now. SPLC has some SERIOUS intellects working there, so I'm inclined to take not only their statement, but their implicit assessment, seriously.
 
Brewman_Jax   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 08:56 AM
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4. OMG! Scary black guys!
   
Notice that Faux News was very quiet regarding stories of voter problems in majority-black districts and other voter intimidation stories.

Good on SPLC for highlighting the usual race-baiting on Faux News.
 
malaise   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 08:58 AM
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5. There is one meme at play
   
White people be afraid.
 
UTUSN   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 10:44 AM
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6. K&R #15 n/t
   

Fox has covered other voting improprieties when there was evidence, but the DUmmies never seem to watch FNC, so  how would they know?

Here DUmmies, It's Glenn Beck covering and watching the rant of a Black Panter shouting about killing crackers and white babies.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhYL-gmPdwg[/youtube]

The SLPC has become as worthless as Jesse Jackson, his Rainbow Coalition and race-baiter Al Sharpton.

[USA4ME]

They can "make note" all they want, the videos speak for themselves.

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[NHSparky]

I'm sorry, since when did slavery become an excuse to justify violence and murder?  Last I heard, slaves were freed 150 years ago.  Show me a slaveowner still alive (or a slave for that matter), and I might give a shit.

Memo to minority community--your problems are primarily those of your own making.  Stop blaming "whitey" for your ****ups.

[Ralph Wiggum]

...the Fox network’s long history of crude and transparent race-baiting...

 

[thundley4]

I'm sorry, since when did slavery become an excuse to justify violence and murder?  Last I heard, slaves were freed 150 years ago.  Show me a slaveowner still alive (or a slave for that matter), and I might give a shit.

Memo to minority community--your problems are primarily those of your own making.  Stop blaming "whitey" for your ****ups.

I seem to remember the Chinese and Japanese immigrants facing some tough challenges in the past, but we don't hear about them blaming that for any failure. Most of them have done well for themselves and their families.

[Karin]

Oh, the Chinese and Japanese were treated like utter shit for a very long time.  The unions, in particular, were ferocious with them.  

I'm a little surprised that BreakingWind up there had not heard of the killing cracker babies stuff.  He needs to get out a little more.  Maybe read the internet a bit.  

P.S.  Nobody answered his question "is this true?"  Ignored. 

[Ballygrl]

Oh, the Chinese and Japanese were treated like utter shit for a very long time.  The unions, in particular, were ferocious with them.  

I'm a little surprised that BreakingWind up there had not heard of the killing cracker babies stuff.  He needs to get out a little more.  Maybe read the internet a bit.  

P.S.  Nobody answered his question "is this true?"  Ignored.

No 1 has answered him yet, maybe they didn't see the question, so here it is again DU:

secondwind  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Jul-20-10 06:21 AM
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1. A non-story for sure. But is it true they said they wanted to kill white babies? Or
   
that the white man was about to be ruled by the black man? Is there any evidence of that?

Whites conveniently ignore and forget all the voter intimidation that went on in the South for decades......

[Chris_]

secondwind  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Jul-20-10 06:21 AM
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Whites conveniently ignore and forget all the voter intimidation that went on in the South for decades......

And liberals conveniently ignore the party responsible for the majority of that intimidation.

[MrsSmith]

I'm sorry, since when did slavery become an excuse to justify violence and murder?  Last I heard, slaves were freed 150 years ago.  Show me a slaveowner still alive (or a slave for that matter), and I might give a shit.

Memo to minority community--your problems are primarily those of your own making.  Stop blaming "whitey" for your ****ups.

There are still slaves and slave owners...especially in Africa.  Ironic, huh?

[dandi]

pinboy3niner   (1000+ posts)           Tue Jul-20-10 06:34 AM
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3. SPLC directly taking on FN is a big f'n deal
   
It's great, but it's rare for a large organization to take them on directly because of their power and media clout. Apparently, SPLC must have calculated that FU News is vulnerable now. SPLC has some SERIOUS intellects working there, so I'm inclined to take not only their statement, but their implicit assessment, seriously.

 

[Duke Nukum]

secondwind   (1000+ posts)             Tue Jul-20-10 06:21 AM
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1. A non-story for sure. But is it true they said they wanted to kill white babies? Or
   


that the white man was about to be ruled by the black man? Is there any evidence of that?

Whites conveniently ignore and forget all the voter intimidation that went on in the South for decades......

While DUmmies conveniently forget that it was the Democrat Party that practiced voter intimidation in the South for decades.  And that the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party for decades.