As an argument in a court of law goes, it’s a doozy:
Fox News told a federal judge Wednesday that prime-time darling Tucker Carlson does not look to facts for his show.
Nor do his viewers expect them from him.
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Tucker Carlson says black people are coming for you.
The heir to the Swanson frozen dinner fortune dropped that warning in his Fox News show last night.
“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will,” he told his viewers.
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“The Flash” has fired Hartley Sawyer, the actor who played Ralph Dibny, also known as the Elongated Man, after a horrid collection of racist, sexist and violent tweets were uncovered, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The first question: Why did it take so long? Why was he hired in the first place? Why didn’t anyone in HR just do a cursory check of his Twitter feed when the network was considering him for the role? How could this really be such a surprise?
Sawyer wasn’t hiding the nonsense.
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Given the turmoil roiling the nation, you had to expect John Oliver to have some choice words, sprinkled with f-bombs, of course.
The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” did not disappoint, calling for radical changes in our police system to protect African-Americans.
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Nationwide protests continue across the country as outraged and heartbroken Americans react to the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
Fox News offered as part of its coverage an image to prove things aren’t so bad.
During “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Friday, the cable network presented an infographic to its viewers that argued that the stock market does nothing but improve after the death of prominent African-American men.
For example:
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the stock market rose 2.9 percent.
After Floyd’s murder, the stock market rose 3.4 percent.
The only conclusion from this dubious chart is that killing African-American men is good for the economy.
On Saturday, after being hit with criticism from anyone with an IQ above room temperature, the network dropped a half-assed apology.
“The infographic used on Fox News Channel’s ‘Special Report’ to illustrate market reactions to historic periods of civil unrest should have never aired on television without full context. We apologize for the insensitivity of the image and take this issue seriously,” the statement read.
In what context can this ever not be racist?
Some producer in some meeting actually had to think this up and assign it to a researcher to investigate and then a graphic designer to illustrate.
The fact that nobody at the network had the good sense to object and halt this from ever airing tells you everything you need to know about the integrity of Fox News.
Mark Perigard 