Rachel On Faux's Narrative: They're Coming For You, White People. Black People Are Coming For You!

[Turborama]

Run time: 09:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qAQ3XXxKAY   Posted on YouTube: July 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: SocialistLiberal Views on YouTube: 44   Posted on DU: July 22, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1691

 
Fox News has run with a few different stories this year that they really pushed all on their own. They weren't mainstream news stories -- they weren't even news, really. They were Fox agenda items, all following a very, very similar narrative. There was the Van Jones controversy, with Fox morphing the president's renewable-energy policy expert into an ex-con who served time after the Rodney King race riots -- not true. The other great Fox News crusade of the past year was against ACORN, an almost all-minority community organizing group which Fox characterized as stealing taxpayer money and an election. More recently, Fox News has crusaded against the New Black Panther Party, after video surfaced of two wackjob blacks at a polling station during the 2008 election. The Bush Justice Department investigated and found that the wackjobs hadn't intimidated voters that day, and Fox News has continued running the same footage over and over and over again.

The message? They're coming for you, white people. They're coming for you. Black people are coming for you, to take what's yours.

This week Fox News got a new crusade, alerting the world that an "Obama administration official resigned just a short time ago after she was caught on tape appearing to tell an audience that she had used her position to racially discriminate against white farmers." Except that USDA official Shirley Sherrod had told that audience no such thing.

Do you notice anything about those four stories -- Van Jones, ACORN, the New Black Panther Party, and now Shirley Sherrod? This isn't about racism. This isn't a story about picking on black people. This is a story about political outcomes, about the tried and true political strategy not of targeting black people but of targeting white people, about making white people feel afraid of African Americans as if they are not fellow Americans but rather a threat to what white people have.

From: http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/21/4725628-scaring-white-people-for-fun-and-profit#comments

Check here for full transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32390088/

[Hissyspit]

1. Another excellent segment by her. What do the four recent right-wing "scandals" have in common?

- Van Jones
- ACORN
- New Black Panthers
- Shirley Sherrod

That's right. Arificially-fomented Fear of Black People.

[mzmolly]

5. Agree.

She did an excellent job with this segment.

[snake in the grass]

13. This is Rachel Maddow at her very best.

I watched it immediately a second time.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. That was unbeliveable. Fantastic.

The common thread of all the stories was the media manipulation by Fox - Van Jones, Acorn, Sherrod, etc.

The second common thread not mentioned by Rachel was how quickly Dems and Obama capitulated to the fake narrative. Rachel speaks the truth and takes the strong offense they didn't have the either the guts, or nerve to address.

[democracy1st]

6. Common thread for me was how the WH refused to defend the victims

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. kick and recommend!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!

[Tx4obama]

4. K&R n/t

[20score]

7. Great job. Hope people post this on FB for their teabagger friends.

[ScottLand]

8. Great job as always.

[spicegal]

9. This was another great story by RM.

She devoted much of her show to this topic. She does what the rest of the media should be doing, naming them and shaming them. Fox News, in typical fashion, ginned up this story, as they did the others mentioned by RM. And I'm sure if we went into the video archive we could find more cases of Fox playing politics in this very heinous manner.

[Overseas]

10. K&R. Great segment! //nt

[florida08]

11. you know

MSNBC could be to the left what fake news is for the right only honorable. They really have a good group starting at 4pm.
Excellent job by Rachel exposing their political agenda and framing it just right. I'm grateful for her and the others.

[izquierdista]

12. When it stops working?

What makes you think FOX would stop then, Rachel?