The Fox News network continues to cater to open racism, this time with a segment from a Bill O'Reilly "correspondent" in which he went to New York's Chinatown for a "report" that featured every anti-Asian American stereotype you could think of.
Watters asked a number of people what they thought about Trump and Clinton, in a jaunty number set to—you're never going to guess—"Kung Fu Fighting." An older woman's inability to understand his question was played for a big laugh, as was silence from another when he asked if this is the year of the Dragon. Watters asked another merchant if he has an herb for performance, another if he knows karate, he sparred with a taekwondo (Korean) instructor, cut from two women laughing to a clip of Japanese schoolgirls, and finished up with a clip from Chinatown.
That doesn't do it justice. The full clip (below) is much worse. It's so "worse,” in fact, that the Asian American Journalists Association's president, Paul Cheung, already condemned the segment, which “was rife with racist stereotypes, drew on thoughtless tropes and openly ridiculed Asian Americans."
However did Donald Trump happen? Why oh why did the Republican base flock towards the most open racist in the field? It remains, according to all the conservative pundits, a mystery.