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FOX Race Wars: Brian Kilmeade Fights Infection

2008-07-24T10:04:24Z

Last Friday sure was a tough one for the unflappably sunny, democrat-bashing folks at FOX & Friends. In my previous post, I talked about Chris Wallace’s unexpected critique of his F&F comrades, taking them to task for their unfair, dishonest attempt to create more racial division and animosity following Barack Obama’s courageous speech that attempted to explain then bridge America’s sad history of prejudice. But before Wallace’s appearance, things got so heated between the F&F co-hosts that Brian Kilmeade (the dark-haired one) got so pissed off with fellow hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson that he couldn’t even look at them. Kilmeade said:

You know for a fact that he doesn’t want to diminish white people, and if you don’t believe him, he’s half white! And he’s trying to say my [Obama’s] grandma grew up probably maybe in the 30s and there was a different view of whites, and this reverened [Wright] was growing up during the 60s where there was white-only bathrooms and water fountains…and that’s what he was trying to say in the speech!

Kilmeade was referring to the topic that apparently was the only thing FOX thought was worth talking about that morning: Obama saying in an interview that his grandmother was a “typical white person” in regards to her ingrained prejudices against black people. Even Kilmeade knew that Obama wasn’t attacking all white people (especially since Obama is half white), and Obama’s campaign clarified that Obama was talking about generational differences, which everyone agrees exists. But Kilmeade's co-hosts kept hammering away at it until Kilmeade couldn’t take it anymore — though it might have been Doocy’s dig about sports guys (Kilmeade has covered a lot of sports) that put him over the edge.

So what the hell is going on at FOX? In my opinion, I think there’s some soul searching going on amongst some at FOX about their relentlessly racist, divisive, and dishonest strategy to take down Obama by playing to their audience’s ugliest prejudices. This country is way overdue for racial unity, and Obama’s speech is the most gutsy attempt I’ve ever seen by any politician to speak frankly about the resentment and bitterness felt by both the black and white sides of the racial divide. So what would you do if you saw Obama’s speech repeatedly, cynically and dishonestly used to exacerbate racism? Hopefully you’d do what Brian Kilmeade did — walk away and refuse to be a part of it. Hopefully more at FOX, as well as other networks, will do the same.

Kudos to you, Kilmeade.

h/t Crooks & Liars

PS FOX ATTACKS! Obama 2 has passed 520,000 views. Let’s hope truth is contagious…

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FOX ATTACKS! Obama 2 Passes 400,000 Views — FOX’s Chris Wallace Inoculated

2008-07-23T05:04:04Z

FOX ATTACKS! Obama part 2: Spreading the Virus has zoomed past 400,000 views and 25,000 petition signatures in less than a week! (I realize that the counter is only at 399,155 as I write this, but with YouTube's slower updating, I'm willing to call it). Thanks so much to all of you who watched the video and helped distribute the FOX anti-virus far and wide. We’ve seen what happens when FOX’s sickness is allowed to spread unchecked — the 2000 election, the Iraq war, the 2004 election, a near war with Iran, etc. — so it is vitally important that you and your loved ones be vaccinated as soon as possible. The FOX virus is especially active during election years and has been known to cause faulty judgment, hallucinations, and severe ass-backwardism.

And in an amazing and unprecedented turn, it seems that even FOX’s Chris Wallace has been inoculated.

Chris Wallace, host of FOX News Sunday, was a guest on FOX & Friends this morning. But instead of previewing his Sunday show, Wallace shocked hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson by laying into them over their ridiculous coverage of a statement Barack Obama recently made during an interview where he referred to his grandmother as “a typical white woman” in regards to some of her ingrained racial prejudices.

Hey listen, I love you guys but I want to take you to task if I may, respectfully, for a moment. I have been watching the show since 6:00 this morning when I got up, and it seems to me that two hours of Obama bashing on this typical white person remark is somewhat excessive and frankly I think you’re somewhat distorting what Obama had to say.

Barack Obama On Fox This Morning

2008-07-09T13:11:46Z

Sorry Billo you lose again. This morning Senator Obama rejected your violent advances and opted for the Ken and Barbie of pop morning shows Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade of FOX and Fiends for a down home chit-chat about New Hampshire, foreign policy, and more.

After falling all over themselves trying to appear impartial by lobbing juvenile softballs at Obama, Kilmeade finally succumbed to his breeding and went for the kill asking Obama,

Will you be the first Democrat to say that the surge is working?

Barack, unperturbed replied how the surge should be measured by the success of political reconciliation and that a downturn in violence due to overwhelming force was not indicative of this. Get it Brian?

Then Kilmeade after another couple of testicular shocks from his strap-on Ailes buzzer pushed on about getting Al Qaeda in Iraq to which Barack replied,

Al Qaeda, Bin Laden and their troops are in Afghanistan and along the Pakistan border and we have taken our eyes off of them.

Ouch! Logic. The smarmy couple unable to rattle Obama finished up with a positively Cronkite-like query, wondering if Barack was on Red Bull. Good job guys.

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FOX’s Kilmeade Calls for More Car Bombs — Y’Know, the Good Kind

2008-07-09T15:53:39Z

Back in August, FOX & Friends Brian Kilmeade said that we should arm groups willing to conduct terrorist attacks in Iran. Because it’s not that all terrorism is bad and morally reprehensible. It’s only bad when it’s the wrong kind of terrorism. I’m sure nothing bad could happen if we arm good terrorists.

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Fox & Friends First: A Free RNC Ad

2008-07-09T19:31:58Z

Fox & Friends First adlib an RNC commercial. I know you're shocked.

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