Fox News Channel never seizes to amaze me as to how they Gin people up both coming and going. If you have a moment, please check out this One, Two, (Counter) Punch perpetrated by Bill O"Rielly and Huckabee this weekend.
I am so disgusted with what I saw on Fox News this past Saturday evening that I wanted to share it with everyone in the hopes that someone will take a look at the insidious behavior I see happening, and spread the word even further, as my platform is not as large as others.
As you may already know Bill O'Rielly has felt it necessary to share his opinions on Race Relations in America, and lecture about the so called "problems" within the African American Community as he sees it. OK...that's fine. But why can't this man ever be honest about the words that he speaks?
Why does Bill O'Rielly always seem to get half the story, ignore the other half, and then try to sell it as responsible Journalism?
Then when the same problem affects a different group of people, Fox News uses another Host to come to a diametrically opposed view on the same topic, the only difference being is that the ethnicity of the group of persons would have changed?
Saturday night (7/27/2013) Bill O'Rielly, while appearing as a guest on the Judge Jeanine show, stated that had Trayvon Martin been wearing a "suit and tie", as like what he (O'Rielly) was wearing at the moment, then Zimmerman would not have thought of Martin as being suspicious.
Is this to say that had the other 46 people that George Zimmerman called 911 about over a period of 16 months, also been wearing suits and ties, he would have never formed a Neighborhood Watch? Wow, had Trayvon Martin only known to prepare for his walk in the Rain to 7-11 by wearing his Sunday Best (outfit), maybe he would be alive today. (I don't think so Bill!).
I suppose O'Rielly's point was that since Trayvon was dressed in casual clothing (Light colored pants, a Fleece Sweatshirt, which happened to include a hood, and athletic shoes), he had somehow self-branded himself as being a criminal. (No Tatoos required anymore I guess). And that the color of Trayvon Martin's skin had nothing to do with what lead up to his death.
Now for the real hypocrisy....
Here is a photo of Bill O'Rielly (and Geraldo Rivera), sitting Courtside at a sports event, while wearing a Fleece Jacket with a Hood. It is as dark as Trayvon Martin's Hoody was and is similar. So now, according to Bill's own logic, had someone followed him home after the game that night, and shot him dead, he would have deserved it. Right?
Well, I am not surprised as this is the same guy who repeatedly recited the phrase "Tiller the Baby Killer", on his nightly broadcast so many times, that when someone finally acted on O'Rielly's malice contempt for another human being and went a shot Dr. Tiller point blank, and killed him, O'Rielly took no responsibility for inspiring an act of violence against another human being.
I guess since Bill and Geraldo are well known TV Talk show hosts, they can enjoy the privilege of being in public with "Gang Wear" while enjoying a sporting event.
However, if a Black teenager such as Trayvon is enjoying a sporting event in the comfort of his home, decides to make a snack run, he best go to his closet and put on formal wear before making his trek to the corner store. Otherwise, the kid should expect to be shot dead, and no one should be surprised about it when it happens.
In other words America....we should get used to it.
Is this $@$%#@$ man crazy.. Or what? How ignorant can one person be?
And let's throw Judge Jeanine into this discussion too, becasue she was right there with him. And although I was expecting better from her, they both went on to recite bogus statistics about what they considered to be "facts" regarding "Black on Black" crime. Then without missing a beat, the conversation somehow digressed into a discussion about Black Mothers and supposedly 75% of their babies born are out of Wedlock.
I found it interesting that these Fox News Channel Hosts, with all of the resources at their disposal, seem to be able to only come up with stats for one side of an argument whenever they want to downgrade Minorities, especially African-Americans, while making no mention of Crime or Teen Pregnancy statistics in general and how it affects all communities, and races of people across the country.
In fact MTV has made an industry out of Teen (Unwed) Mothers for the past two or three years, and every single one of the girls featured on the show are White.
The way O'Rielly tells it, you would think Black Teenagers are dropping babies like hotcakes. If this problem was exclusive to African Americans why hasn't MTV been able to find any for the past three years?
Aside from whatever statistics Bill decides to pull out of his @$$ are almost always greatly skewed and exaggerated, he never takes the time to consider both sides of an issue. Especially when it come to race. Such as... how do drugs ever get into Black Neighborhoods in the first place?
Nor does he ever consider the fact that aggressive patrolling and the random stopping of Minorities while driving as well as stop and frisk in cities in New York, might be the contributing to a higher number of arrests for non-violent / drug offenders, but it doesn't mean that African Americans are the only group of people participating in the drug trade.
The real statistics show that Blacks and White use drugs at the same rate as a percentage. However, the arrest rate is ten times higher for Blacks, than Whites, with sentences being three times longer than whites. Which in turn leads to destroying the nucleus of the African-American Family. For example a Black may get 2 -5 years in jail for Drug possession, versus 6 months plus probation and maybe even Rehab for a White person for the same offense.
Now for the real Hypocrisy.....
A couple of hours later, here comes Huckabee who sits down with an guest that immediately begins criticizing the Police in various States for the rise of "No Knock Warrants (Drug Raids) being executed within in the Suburbs of America. (In case you aren't familiar with political dog whistles "Suburbs" refer to rural areas where a higher concentration of White people live).
Huh? But how can this be?
Don't get me wrong, I do not appreciate Police Brutality of any kind, being perpetrated on any one. But everything that Huckabee talked about on his show has been going on in the Streets of South Central Los Angeles and every other major Metropolitan City for nearly 30 years.(Anyone remember L.A. Police Chief Gates, and the "Batter Ram"?)
As a result, this is why the Atats mentioned in the above have been leaning to one group of people over the other. All week O'Rielly has been convinced that only Blacks commit crimes. And if they got arrested for selling or using drugs, then they deserved it.
However, as soon as Law Enforcement begins taking it's "War on Drugs" to the source where the modern day "Walter Whites" live, suddenly Fox News creates this narrative that Law enforcement has become some Tyrannical force that needs to be over thrown. Hence the push back for Second Amendment rights. (I'll save this topic for another discussion)
Fox News Corp. is such a phoney @$$ operation. According to their idea of news, when Rodney King got beat half to death, he must did something to deserve it, otherwise the Police would never act like that. But when Law Enforcement tried to serve a Warrant for Arrest in the mountains of Ruby Ridge, and the "Suspect" tried to fight the Law and lost, suddenly the Law was considered to be Jack-booted thugs.
You see, Fox News only likes Law Enforcement when the Law is being enforced upon Black Folks, but as soon as Johnny Lawman comes looking for the real life "Heisenberg", the one pumping that garbage into the Black community, Fox News tries to change, distort, and run away from the facts.
That's not how a news organization is supposed to work, and so it is my deepest desire that someone here on the Daily KOS will be able to echo my thoughts and help me to highlight the double standards of Bigotry on one hand, while propagating privilege and elitism on the other hand, displayed by this network.
The sooner we can help country to realize that Fox News Network is full of crap before we get into the 2014 election season, the sooner we can get our Country back on track!