Teabags, Racism & Fox News
By Wink
Well, Teabag Day has come and gone.
Do you feel different now? Do you feel the swell of excitement?
No? That is because THERE IS NO GROUNDSWELL for the teabag issue. Fox News, which still bothers to use the phrase “Fair and Balanced,” drummed up this phony event in yet another cheap attempt to denigrate President Obama.
This ‘network’ was all pro-America when the president was named Bush. Anybody questioning our government was automatically unpatriotic and, worse, maybe a terrorist.
Now that America is led by a Democrat, Fox seems okay with anti-government, anarchy, overthrow-this-administration sentiment. Not just okay with it, they are fostering it.
For weeks they constantly beat the drum with this tea party metaphor to get people out on tax day (April 15) to protest all-things ‘Obama.”
Where did all that “Fair and Balance” go? Where did ‘pro-America’ go? Isn’t Obama America’s president?
Are you beginning to notice an undertone of racism in all they do? I am. Fox can be beautifully subtle about it. They don’t say ‘black.’ They wouldn’t DARE say ‘black.’ They say class-warfare, Marxism, fascist and communist. They dance-dance-dance all the way around the whole ‘black’ thing.
But when Fox brings out their true fans, as they did for Teabag Day, you get posters that include the words ‘homey,’ ‘dis,’ ‘dat,’ ‘Africa,’ and of course, ‘Hussein.’ One child was carrying a sign that said “Obamanomics: Monkey See, Monkey Spend ” A child.
And nobody at the rallies discourages the posters. Nobody.
Perhaps the racism is not as subtle as Fox would hope for.
Or is this exactly what they were aiming for?
PS: For the most part, any double-entendres about teabags in this article have been unintentional. We will allow you to make up your own jokes, but we are guessing Fox will use a different metaphor when they orchestrate (as opposed to ‘reporting’) next years “We Hate Obama” rally.
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1Ibk g
wrote on 20 April 2009 at 18:13
For me, the issue here is not that Fox News orchestrated this event (which by the very fact of being organized by a ‘News’ channel, was not a grass-roots movement), but that NONE of the other News outlets (from CNN to local news to national news) reported on that fact. All the news shows reported only that there was a grass-root movement against taxes. THIS IS NOT NEWS. THIS IS STILL RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA, and REPEATING MINDLESSLY WHAT THE OTHER GUY SAYS.
News, people, news is reporting on FACTS, unbiased of politics, political correctness, what people want to hear or Nielsen ratings.
If the US actually had NEWS channels, they would have reported that Fox News, a right-wing propaganda channel had for weeks worked on organizing tea parties, and that despite their huge efforts, a relatively small amount of people showed up at these events. THAT would have been news. (BTW, the only one that reported on it this was Jon Stewart, a fact not missed by the sarcasm brigade…..)
For that last 8 years (including up to and now), there has been a glaring void of actual news in this country. The mainstream media (from TV to print news) has been so afraid of being called ‘unpatriotic’ during the Bush years, that they just regurgitated what that Administration told them. And now, they are so afraid of being seen as ‘liberal’ that they will go out of their way to still not report news but repeat what the right wing wants them so say.
Let me give you a good, and very crass example of what I mean: because of the Pope’s recent action of reinstating as Bishop a known Holocaust denier, there are some right-wing publications that now have a debate about the Holocaust where they give ‘both sides’ equal time to make their case. This is not fair and ubiased news. Giving people that state that the Holocaust happened and people that deny the Holocaust ever happened equal time to ‘make their case’ is not news reporting, it is evil propaganda of the most heinous kind. News, in this instance is to report that there are hate-groups that deny that the most evil crime in human history has ever happened, despite the most overwhelming evidence, most of it from the perpetrators of that crime (as in – the Germans and Austrians were very proficient in documenting all their evil).
American reporter and news outlets need to learn that being ‘objective’ in news reporting does not mean giving crazies equal time, but means hunting for objective facts (in the above case that a ‘grass-roots’ movement was not that but was organized by a right-wing organization and then reporting on it!
Until then, how can we ever hope for a better educated voting public?????
2tom the wizard of
wrote on 31 October 2010 at 13:42
i can only guess that George Soros is you daddy