Southern Poverty Law Center makes note of Fox News' obsession with New Black Panthers

[ck4829]

It must be July, because Fox News is once again hyperventilating over a racially charged non-story. One year ago, it was Glenn Beck’s crusade against Van Jones, the White House environmental advisor who, the host charged, day after day and against all available evidence, was a black nationalist using green jobs as a form of “stealth reparations.”

One year later, the channel’s marquee hosts and anchors are tag-teaming a new fear-mongering race fantasy — the idea that the New Black Panther Party, with the assistance of the Obama Administration, is currently hanging its black militant fangs directly over the arteries of the republic.

On nearly 100 occasions since June 30, Fox News anchors and hosts have breathlessly discussed the marginal group and the “scandal” of the Justice Department’s dismissal of a voter intimidation case filed against two of its members who were videotaped standing outside a Philadelphia poll station on Election Day 2008.

Nobody familiar with the Fox network’s long history of crude and transparent race-baiting should be surprised by the conclusion of Abigail Thernstrom, a conservative George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. “This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers,” Thernstrom told Politico. “This has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the (Obama) administration.”

And what better way to do that than play sensationalized loops of militant-looking black men with zero political power or connections to the White House?

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/19/another-long-hot-black-nationalist-summer-at-fox-news/

[secondwind]

1. A non-story for sure. But is it true they said they wanted to kill white babies? Or

that the white man was about to be ruled by the black man? Is there any evidence of that?

Whites conveniently ignore and forget all the voter intimidation that went on in the South for decades......

[Dogtown]

2. K&R n/t

[pinboy3niner]

3. SPLC directly taking on FN is a big f'n deal

It's great, but it's rare for a large organization to take them on directly because of their power and media clout. Apparently, SPLC must have calculated that FU News is vulnerable now. SPLC has some SERIOUS intellects working there, so I'm inclined to take not only their statement, but their implicit assessment, seriously.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. OMG! Scary black guys!

Notice that Faux News was very quiet regarding stories of voter problems in majority-black districts and other voter intimidation stories.

Good on SPLC for highlighting the usual race-baiting on Faux News.

[malaise]

5. There is one meme at play

White people be afraid.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #15 n/t

[Winterblues]

7. Well they also ran with Tea Baggers carrying guns and looking quite threatening.

I haven't quite heard the same uproar about them though. In fact they seemed to be praised for their second amendment "rights".

[frylock]

8. be sure to friend or like SPLC if you're on teh facebooks..

they post updates all the time.

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. K&R..(nt)