Fox Goes Silent On Bundy After Racist Tirade

[ErikJ]

Fox News' incessant promotion of Cliven Bundy abruptly ended after the Nevada rancher's racist rant was published in The New York Times.

Bundy's public feud with the Bureau of Land Management over his refusal to pay grazing fees received extensive support from Fox News, which devoted nearly five hours of primetime coverage to the story, including numerous interviews with Bundy and his family. Sean Hannity provided him so much positive coverage, Bundy praised the Fox News host as a "hero."

That praise fell silent after Bundy used one of his daily press conferences to engage in an overtly racist tirade, claiming black people "abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton" and suggesting that they were better off under slavery. The day after Bundy's rant was published in The New York Times, Fox News' coverage of Bundy ended rapidly.

By noon on April 24, Fox had mentioned the rancher only twice, and never covered his racist comments. On Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy drew a parallel between Bundy's standoff and the situation of two Texas landowners, and Fox's Andrew Napolitano told viewers to "forget the battle in Nevada" to focus on events in Texas instead.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/24/fox-goes-silent-on-bundy-after-racist-tirade/199007

[Yavin4]

1. Benghazi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

back to the tried and true classics.

[JoePhilly]

5. Bundghazi!!!!

[MohRokTah]

2. They'll double down.

Just wait, they will double down. They cannot admit being wrong about anything, ever.

[liberal N proud]

3. Hannity has not aired yet

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Faux sux

[Marr]

6. They endorse it by not addressing it.

Isn't this *exactly* the angle they always use to attack Muslims? That they aren't "condemning" certain behaviors in their own community loudly enough?

[Mike Daniels]

7. They're trying to find a way to spin it despite Bundy's comments being on video

The tell will be Megyn (Santa Claus is White Damnit) Kelly's show which leads into Hannity's.

If Megyn tries defending Bundy by claiming this is all misdirection by the "left" then you know that Hannity is likely is be full-on supportive of Bundy.

[Blue Idaho]

8. The "Double Down" will be a call for...

the return of slavery to 'Merika.

Just you wait... Its time for them to finally say out loud what they have been thinking for about 150 years.