Just what in the heck is going on at Fox News with that "terrorist fist bump" and "baby mama" crapola?
Just how racially divisive can one "news" channel be? After all, back in 2005, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman publicly stated "It's not healthy for the country for our political parties to be so racially polarized,", and went on to apologize for their past political tactic known as the "Southern Strategy".
But then again FoxNews isn't the GOP. Or are they?
There are many connections between FoxNews and the GOP of which the general population may not be aware:
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.
Described by fellow Bush aide Lee Atwater as having "two speeds--attack and destroy," Ailes once jocularly told a Time reporter (8/22/88): "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." Later, as a producer for Rush Limbaugh's short-lived TV show, he was fond of calling Bill Clinton the "hippie president" and lashing out at "liberal bigots" (Washington Times, 5/11/93). It is these two sensibilities above all--right-wing talk radio and below-the-belt political campaigning--that Ailes brought with him to Fox, and his stamp is evident in all aspects of the network's programming
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Sean (Hairhelmet) Hannity has publicly admitted that he's a McCain surrogate, and anyone who has watched his show in the last month should have pretty much figured out why he's dead-set against Obama.
Bill O'Reilley has a history of racist slurs that go way back farther than his visit to Sylvia's restaurant in New York City and his comment about going on a "lynch party" against Michelle Obama.
In a CSPAN interview on Dec. 20, 2004, Fox News chief Roger Ailes said "We like America. (The other media) don't hate it, they just are constantly telling you what's wrong. There's never a good story about America. We don't promote something that isn't true.".
Hey Roger, if you "like" America so much, then perhaps you should explain why your network staff has taken up your old-but-not-quite-forgotten racially divisive Southern Strategy!?