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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:30 AM Jun 2015

Fox News: SC church-shooting wasn't a racial hate-crime but an attack on Christianity

http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/06/18/foxs-steve-doocy-its-extraordinary-that-charles/204043

They know it.

Fox News knows that this story will definitely fall apart.

But for the time being they can give their audience exactly what they want: The feeling that they are special and besieged.


EDIT:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026856796
"You rape our women, you’re taking over our country. You have to go."
Yep, sounds like he has a beef with Christians raping women and trying to take over this non-Christian country.
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marym625

(17,997 posts)
1. As much as I want to
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:34 AM
Jun 2015

I can't rec this. They should be arrested for what is tantamount to excusing this terrorist.

I don't really believe that they should be arrested. But they shouldn't be allowed to call themselves a news agency

riversedge

(70,250 posts)
5. Steve Doocy gets rich from spouting hate and nonsence which
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:39 AM
Jun 2015

so much of the masses believes. damn!


Fox's Steve Doocy: It's Extraordinary That Charleston Church Shooting Is Being Called A Hate Crime http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/06/18/foxs-steve-doocy-its-extraordinary-that-charles/204043
Video ››› 58 minutes ago ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

riversedge

(70,250 posts)
2. Fox is playing with people's lives. They should be stopped but
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:35 AM
Jun 2015

I know they will continue. They are taking this horrible hate crime and using it to gin up the nation again. Hate radio, hate fox news, hate web sites with pastors proclaiming hate. Damn. What has the US become!!

Botany

(70,524 posts)
3. Fox Blond, "this attack on a historic church"
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:37 AM
Jun 2015

way to skip this was an attack on a historic AFRICAN AMERICAN church

I couldn't watch more the 30 seconds.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
9. and notice the glaring missing information
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:51 AM
Jun 2015

About what the racist, murdering thug said and the fact that the pastor was also a State Representative

Botany

(70,524 posts)
14. Yes, they seemed to skip those facts but in the end Fox News is not about the news ....
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:16 AM
Jun 2015

.... but about propaganda and keeping people angry at liberals, gays, teachers, environmentalists,
the poor, unions, and foreigners.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. In one sense, you're very right
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:12 AM
Jun 2015

But when you hear some of the nonsense that is sure to ensue from this crime, it's natural to think, "Where in the world would you get that demented idea?" Ground zero for the hysteria is nearly always the vector of Fox News.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
6. Charleston SC's 'WAR ON CHRISTIANITY' will be O'Reilly's next talking point, won't it, WON'T IT?
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:40 AM
Jun 2015

See the rest from my post earlier this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026855921

 

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
10. They immediately set the tone for their viewers, which spreads like a hideous virus and before you
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:59 AM
Jun 2015

know it, there are two opposing factions and two opposing narratives to this story.

This is what they specialize in, creating chaos.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
13. I wonder what the chance is that the shooter wasn't Christian himself
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:15 AM
Jun 2015

A lot of racism has been done in the name of Christianity, and also, like this one, supposedly to protect white women.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
15. Utter BS, but at least it would make the "taking over the country" thing more comprehensible
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:27 AM
Jun 2015

Since Christianity is doing a far better job of taking over the government than AAs are. Really not sure where that comes from even for the Stormfront loons. Sure a biracial president is a bitter pill for them, but I'm pretty sure it's tough even for inveterate propagandists to show the mass political, financial or normative power over whites somehow wielded by black Americans.

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