Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

[pokerfan]

I saw the same garbage over in freeper land...

I don’t even know what to say about this any more. There’s a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston’s death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism: Singer Whitney Houston Dies at 48 | Fox News.

There are almost 5000 comments posted in the thread — these are from the first few pages. Notice that the racist bastards deliberately misspell their slurs or insert random spaces, so they aren’t caught by word filters. And many of the worst comments have numerous “likes” from other commenters.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39912_Fox_News_Commenters_Respond_to_Whitney_Houstons_Death_With_Deluge_of_Hatred_and_Racism

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I imagine Yahoo isn't much better.

Their message boards seem to trend that way as well.

It's a very sad comment on our society that racism is still so prevalent.

[randr]

2. Birds of a feather

Flaux together

[Nye Bevan]

3. Fortunately, these people are very much a minority. If not, we would not have a black President (nt)

[aaaaaa5a]

4. Remember, that FOX has a Republican audience. NT

[soc7]

9. Oh really?

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Not all Republicans are racists, but all racists vote Republican

[spanone]

22. an ignorant republican audience.

[HangOnKids]

24. So Sock7 do you think the statement is untrue?

Do you think Democrats watch Faux Noise? Really?

[soc7]

25. It was a response to a "no shit" statement....

n/t

[MarkCharles]

5. I don't go to the pig pen to wrestle in the mud with the

pigs.

I just stay away from junk like that to stay sane.

"Nice" of the racists to come out before Halloween like this, so many months before the election.


Hopefully, the decent people of America will show up on election day in force, and make these racist slime Fox News viewers realize what a small minority they actually are.

[schmice]

6. I read some of those comments.

I was stunned by the level of rampant cruelty and racism. I would hope that they are not indicative of the general feeling of FOX viewers and bloggers, but the fact that these comments made it through and were not reported and deleted for being abusive makes me uneasy. Of course, none of those people making those comments will sign their real names to them. What kind of role models must they be to their children?

[Kablooie]

23. This kind of role model.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Don't read that shit! It is bad for the blood pressure!

I don't read comment sections on Yahoo! or YouTube (usually), because the comments are usually horrid.

[NAO]

8. That's shocking even to me

the degree of hatred, the undisguised racism, I just can't believe it.

I thought today's racists communicated using "code words" like "states rights" or "food stamp", etc, but these comments don't disguise anything.

[leftyohiolib]

13. people are very comfortable in letting their racism fly while wearing a cloak of anonymity

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Fox attracts that kind of crowd

They appeal to bigots. As far as they're concerned, they've done their job.

[Behind the Aegis]

18. So true....

[Cali_Democrat]

26. LOL. Great picture.

[Initech]

20. I've come to define Fox News as "a glorious lack of sophistication."

[pnwest]

11. omg. i thought i couldnt be shocked anymore...but DAMN!

I couldn't believe my eyes.

[nanabugg]

12. They never stop to think that their hero, Rush Limbaugh, could have been a headline like this. nt.

[AtomicKitten]

14. &*^% the haters.

She was beautiful and talented and died much too soon.

[Douglas Carpenter]

16. WOW just WOW

I was expecting racist insinuations and crass stereotypes - This is way beyond that. Even David Duke is not as unabashed as that.



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[KamaAina]

17. Someone's *username* has one of those misspelled slurs.

You'd think they could set the filters to catch that double 'q', which never appears in our country's offical language.

[Pilotguy]

19. Let me guess...

They call themselves Christians.

[malaise]

21. Do they know that she was fond of George Bush the elder? n/t

[ZombieHorde]

27. How ignorant.

Sickening.