I should never be surprised at how Fox News continously get away with their racist practices in covering Barack Obama. Somebody should have caught this before it aired and deleted it asap. F*ck all the racists at Fox News and this mighty giant will fall one day. Shouts to Think Progress for catching this and [...]
Pay attention to the bottom of the screenPosted in Author Yilian, Politics Tagged: FOX news, magic negro, media, Obama, Politics, video, wordpress-political-blogs
Throughout last night’s New Year’s eve broadcast, Fox News Channel allowed viewers to send in New Year’s greetings and wishes via text message. The messages were then scrolled across the bottom of the screen, replacing Fox’s normal crawling news headlines. While most messages were cordial, Fox allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to be broadcast. The message referenced Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic Negro” song: HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.Watch it (watch text at bottom):(HT: Qazster)
From Think Progress:
Throughout last night’s New Year’s eve broadcast, Fox News Channel allowed viewers to send in New Year’s greetings and wishes via text message. The messages were then scrolled across the bottom of the screen, replacing Fox’s normal crawling news headlines. While most messages were cordial, Fox allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to be broadcast. The message referenced Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic Negro” song.
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
So true to form Fox has managed to stay classy even on New Years Eve. Bravo Fox News.