Fox News is tearing us apart: Race baiting and divisiveness hits disgusting new low
Night after night, Fox News doubles down on hate. Whether George Zimmerman, Bundy or Ferguson, it just gets worsePAUL ROSENBERG
The continuing right-wing effort to make a hero out of Michael Brown’s killer, Darren Wilson, may not turn out so well, if the past is any guide. Remember Cliven Bundy? Donald Sterling? George Zimmerman?
Just because liberals don’t like someone doesn’t mean he should automatically be a hero to conservatives. There was a point when even the National Review seemed to recognize this — editor Rich Lowry once wrote a column titled “Al Sharpton Is Right,” about the need for charges to be filed against George Zimmerman, when Florida officials were dragging their heels.
But that time is long gone, apparently. And as a result, the right seems well on its way to aligning with the reemergence of a 21st century form of lynching, even while furiously insisting that they are totally post-racial. Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling — the more readily and thoroughly renounced — didn’t kill anyone, of course. But Zimmerman and Wilson both did, and both, to varying degrees, acted under color of law, which is precisely how plain old-fashioned lynching used to work, in a shadow realm that would not have allowed the killing of whites (except, of course, for “race traitors” who allied with blacks).
It didn’t take long for people to start rallying to Darren Wilson’s defense. In less than a week, several hundred thousand dollars had been raised on his behalf — with a healthy smattering of hateful racist messages in support, such as “I would have donated double this amount, but you missed his accomplice” — and Fox News had run a flood of false, unsourced stories, claiming that Wilson’s eye socket had been broken, implicitly “proving” that he had been in a heroic struggle for his life.
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It's like when computers first took off. There was an assumption that it was a Yuppie thing so the advertisers were all geared toward young professionals with lots of disposable income. Turns out the vast majority of computer users were lower income types looking at hard core prawn.
The assumption with Limbaugh was that his audience was a bunch of yuppies climbing the corporate ladder. Turns out the vast majority of Dittoheads were either rednecks in trucker's caps who don't own a truck but live in trailer parks or guys stuck in a combine going back and forth for hours on end in an endless field of wheat while the wife was watching Oprah.
All through a vast majority of this nation in the late 90s the choice was in the farm belt was Limbaugh, Classical Music, Country and Western or a fire and brimstone preacher.
And Limbaugh USED to try to be funny.
...worked so well to derail Reconstruction after the Civil War. Works equally well to squelch any movement toward fixing our awful income maldistribution problem. I actually heard someone say that the financial crisis was caused by the government buying lavish homes for people in New Orleans after Katrina.
Every single media outlet called Florida for Gore. One didn't. Can you guess which one? 
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