Here's a comprehensive montage of the anti-Sherrod outrage on the Fox News White Channel.
What's most infuriating about this footage is the obscenely twisted and unspoken subtext: alleged black oppression of white people. The anchors and ex-porn stars on Fox News are talking as though there's an epidemic in which an African American majority is holding back a white minority.
They latched onto an isolated (or at least a very rare) incident -- and it wasn't even a real incident -- and suddenly they leaned on the panic button and projected a theme throughout the day suggesting that anti-white "racism" is rampant in America.
Here's an example of how ridiculous this is. Rewind 140 years when it was accepted policy to commit genocide against native Americans. The government and the U.S. military were wiping the indigenous tribes of North America off the face of the Earth. However, some tribes retaliated and killed white settlers. If this were happening now, Fox News Channel (not to mention other cable news outlets, by the way) would tell its audience that genocide was happening on both sides -- that the injuns were committing genocide against whites, too, so, you know... something something.
I'm pretty sure I know what the unspoken "something something" is. Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly and the various Fox & Friends cardboard standees have drawn a deliberately unmentioned conclusion -- a very obvious set of ellipses -- from their "blacks are being racist against whites" meme. The conclusion is that if it happens on both sides, then everyone is guilty.
If everyone is guilty, then no one is guilty. Despite the very mathematical fact that blacks couldn't possibly be discriminating against whites at anywhere near the level of anti-black discrimination by whites. Again, African Americans are 12.4 percent of the population. Whites are 75 percent. All things are not equal and both sides can't possibly be equally guilty. Sorry, Fox News.
And, as if that wasn't heinous enough, their other point is, naturally, to validate, enable and feed the racial bigotry inherent among parts of FNC's predominantly white audience. Southern Strategy politics for ratings and profit.
Yep. The highest rated cable news channel in the nation. The sheer volume of poison this allows them to inject into the national bloodstream is almost too staggering to comprehend.