Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

[Ian David]

I don’t even know what to say about this any more. There’s a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston’s death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism: Singer Whitney Houston Dies at 48 | Fox News.

There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread — these are from the first few pages. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so they aren’t caught by word filters. And many of the worst comments have numerous “likes” from other commenters.

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39912_Fox_News_Commenters_Respond_to_Whitney_Houstons_Death_With_Deluge_of_Hatred_and_Racism

[jorno67]

1. FOX NEWS - A Place for Hate!

[madrchsod]

2. most news organizations or other forums moderate their forums

it seems fox has no moderates. of course we should expect this from fox news and their worshipers.

funny...not long ago lgf and pajama media were right wing.

[Ian David]

4. The LGF dude saw the light. But I think Pajama Media is still far-right. n/t

[Scootaloo]

3. I'm surprised to see the rhetoric criticized from LGF

I'm seeing a lot of odd little things over there... it used to be a right-wing vomitarium; did the ownership change or something?

[Old and In the Way]

9. Charles Johnson, the blog owner, had a major revelation a number of years ago.

Like a lot of recovering wingers (John Cole @ Balloon Juice), they've become pretty decent advocates for progressive politics. You'd think you were reading DU on a lot of the threads there today...there are some libertarians there, but they spend almost as much time exposing and ridiculing the Right as we do.

[Scootaloo]

10. Yeah, it's been a LOOOOONG time since I looked

Neat

[Old and In the Way]

12. That blog, in particular.

At one time, I think LGF was the worst of the worst of the RW sites on the net. I remember clicking LGF links and being totally disgusted. But it is a completely different site. I really can't think of any examples of a formally rabid liberal blog turning into a RW hive...it only seems to go in one direction.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell ..... so they aren’t caught by word filters

Notice that a thread with 5000 racist comments on it can survive without being deleted by FOX website monitors.

[NoGOPZone]

6. Don't say anything. Simply bookmark the thread for the

next time someone tries to claim we live in a post racial society.

[da_decider]

7. Fox News is a pile of stinking crap...

...and it only attracts the nastiest flies and cockroaches that feed on filth. Fox Nation is even worse.

[mrsadm]

8. comments deleted I think

Seems to me the comments have all been deleted...

[virgogal]

11. I couldn't get the actual Fox comments site,only LGF.How

do I do that?

I'm dumb as a rock when it comes to technology but I'd love to see the original comments.

Thanks.