Fox News Readers Set New High Water Mark For Racism

[RockaFowler]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/20/trayvon-martin-a-little-thug-ghetto-monkey-fox-news-readers-set-new-high-water-mark-for-racism/

This is beyond disgusting. It almost makes me want to cry. What has happened to this country?? This started with that horrible woman Sarah Palin and her hate speech during the 2008 election. It continued during the Health Care debates. To the "You Lie" crap at the State of the Union. I'm just so sad. I can hardly speak.

[MrScorpio]

1. How hard is it to be a decent human being?

Those comments make me wonder.

[sofa king]

12. I wonder about that.

I have this idea that some people can't really imagine Internet comments as originating from actual people, except their own, like it's some sort of solipsistic dream. I know I often say things in comments that I would never dare to utter in person to the public figures I'm excoriating.

But if the same is true for those people... yikes. I'd wager they have a considerable head start on me in the real-life asshole department, too.

[MarianJack]

2. The sad thing is...

...that the racists have taken the election and swearing in of an African American President as license to come crawling out from under their rocks again.

PEACE!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. I remember that speech, and the slurs shouted out

and her smiling at the hate...... sickening is way too weak a word to describe how that made me feel.

I have to run rightnow for work...will check the link later.

Try to remember one positive thing: We're seeing what was festering under cover....it's disgusting, but the only way to challenge it is when we know about it. Like finally turning on a light and seeing allllllllll the cockroaches.

[RockaFowler]

4. Hugs back at you Blanche

I just fear for this country so much. We keep fighting these old fights. We can't even move forward because we have people who want to stay in the past.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. and to you again, RockaFowler

hahahah, love your screen name! I keep meaning to make a list of my favorite DU names and bring it to the Lounge.....


Anyway, I try to plant a little seed of awareness when I can....hard, realllly hard because it also means I have to moderate myself--- Can't dump the whole seven-course meal on them at once, have to not get overwrought (that's really tough), have to give them a chance to talk and get it out---mostly it's about fear and misunderstanding....and resentment: "I had it hard, and didn't have any help, so no one should 'have it easy' " i.e. receive help

But, what I really wanted to say is, even though it's horrible to see the putrid hate, it's better that the light is starting to shine on them so we all know about it. Thank TheForce for the intertubes!!

[spanone]

5. these comments are from mental and moral midgets...fuck the ignorant

[RiffRandell]

6. Those comments made me feel like vomiting.

Disgusting.

[CanonRay]

7. Those are some sick people

Sick in the head, sick in the heart. I bet every one of them thinks he/she is a "Christian".

[Ganja Ninja]

8. It's worse than Freerepublic.

FOX News message boards are on par with hate sights like stormfront. One can only assume they reflect the views of Rupert Murdock otherwise they would put a stop to it.

[RockaFowler]

9. That's a good point

Do the moderators even moderate the site??

[Blue_Tires]

10. LGF posted that list?

I remember when LGF had similar comments and worse on their own homepage (from their own writers)...I guess eventually everything changes...

[RockaFowler]

11. I heard he had an epiphany

[hifiguy]

14. Apparently this is totally true

From Wikipedia: On November 30, 2009, Johnson blogged that he was disassociating himself with "the right", claiming that "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." He has been heavily critical of conservatives and libertarians since then.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. Wow! Amazing and encouraging....

I found out about LGF about 10 or something years ago. A woman I know...thought she was smart but when I found out she luurrrved shrub and Fux, got glitters in her eyes at the thought of killing Arabs, I was aghast. She said LGF was great, so of course I had to see what kind of train wreck it was.

Well, I was disgusted. So full of hate, I wanted to jump in a vat of Lysol.

Well, I just had to go have a look at it now......This change-around is amazing!!!! In a really good way!

Wonder what happened to all the old LGFers? Wonder what happened to that woman I knew? I made it clear I wanted nothing to do with her once she showed me her true colors.

[RZM]

19. Charles Johnson seems a bit like the Mitt Romney of bloggers

He's flip-flopped all over the place, which does make me wonder what he really believes. My opinion is that he ungracefully went through a pretty common post 9/11 ideological trajectory.

He was probably genuinely spooked by the attacks and rushed headlong into the waiting arms of the right, who were perceived as being tougher on terror. 8 years later, he looked around said 'I don't want to be here anymore.' It's probably not a coincidence that terror polled much lower as a major issue in 2009 than it did in 2002. Towards the end you could see him changing in slow motion too.

What's ungraceful about it is that he then immediately rushed headlong into the waiting arms of the left. Most people who 'leave the right (or left)' still retain a lot of their old views. He seems to have jettisoned them almost entirely.

His story reminds me a bit of David Brock. Brock was previously an attack-dog for the right (he wrote 'The Real Anita Hill') and now he essentially does the same thing for the left. I think some for some people the important thing isn't the ideology itself but how it can be used to achieve fame, money, influence, and success. Keith Olbermann used to say that if Rupert Murdoch thought he could make more money with a left-wing news network, he would restructure Fox immediately

[Jester Messiah]

13. ...and these "people" vote. [nt]

[hifiguy]

15. That is the reichwing neo-Fascist base

in all its "glory." It has always been there, it was just emboldened by Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods and the election of a black man as POTUS.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. As someone mentioned up thread....

Even Free Republic is better moderated than the Fox News comments.

Unreal.

[Bladian]

18. This could have had a tragic outcome. His gun could have jammed. Whew!

Holy crap. My jaw dropped at that comment. They were all bad, but that seemed like the most outright hostile one there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Sadly those comments are standard fare

Those of us who wade into the waters of oh Free Republic, or our spelunking friends, are all but surprised.

It's been uggly, but now it is acceptable.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

21. "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants"

"Brandeis made his famous statement that "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants" in a 1913 Harper's Weekly article, entitled "What Publicity Can Do." But it was an image that had been in his mind for decades. Twenty years earlier, in a letter to his fiance, Brandeis had expressed an interest in writing a "a sort of companion piece" to his influential article on "The Right to Privacy," but this time he would focus on "The Duty of Publicity." He had been thinking, he wrote, "about the wickedness of people shielding wrongdoers & passing them off (or at least allowing them to pass themselves off) as honest men." He then proposed a remedy:

If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects."



I remember my Grandmother quoting Brandeis and it has always stayed with me. I read these vile posts
and feel there has been a tipping point within the last few years bringing the racists out for all to see.
They are so full of hate and resentment and they have always been there. What a retched life to live with
that much hate toward your fellow Americans.

[stranger81]

22. And in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning. [n/t]

[KamaAina]

23. Tiger Woods is Hawaiian?

Who knew??

[JoePhilly]

24. I think this explains it ....

Over the last 30 years, overt racism has been forced underground.

The racists can't yell N****R anymore.

And that makes them ANGRY. But they try to not surface their racism. But they do maintain it, within their narrow circles.

Obama becoming President has caused them to boil over. They can no longer hold back.

They are PISSED that they've had to suppress their racism. They want to be FREE to voice it.

And so, as the GOP implodes, the racist right wing base is starting to break through the wall.

Their racism had not gone away, they had just stopped expressing it publicly ... but now, they feel they MUST express it, to save (white) America.

I'm a white guy in my 40s, and I can see it. I know the code language, although they've jumped past that and started to use the bullhorn recently.

They are sick people.

[DippyDem]

25. Wow! That was so disgusting to the core.

I just hope that we will soon coalesce together and hit on Faux news like we are doing with pigboy.