{"id":4119,"date":"2015-06-23T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2016-03-02T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:19:13","slug":"the-fox-news-blinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"The Fox News Blinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this past week has been the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina. The killer, <a title=\"Dylann Roof's Racist Manifesto Is Chilling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/20\/dylann-roof-s-racist-manifesto-is-ignorant-and-chilling.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dylann Roof&#8217;s racist manifesto has disturbed the nation<\/a> and has brought many issues to the forefront. One <a title=\"Charleston: Governor, senators join in saying Confederate flag should go\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/22\/us\/charleston-church-shooting-main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">is the removal of the confederate flag from the South Carolina state capital building in Charleston<\/a> and <a title=\"Walmart, Amazon, Sears, eBay to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/22\/politics\/confederate-flag-walmart-south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\">the removal of any confederate flag items from store stocks<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t sitting too well with some southerners. But then again, those confederate flag lovers been sore for the past 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, many dialogues have started about the prevalence of racism in America. But you won&#8217;t hear any such discussion from that bastion of conservatism, Fox News, a.k.a. The Republican Propaganda Network. <a title=\"Fox's Steve Doocy: It's Extraordinary That Charleston Church Shooting Is Being Called A Hate Crime \" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2015\/06\/18\/foxs-steve-doocy-its-extraordinary-that-charles\/204043\" target=\"_blank\">Nope, the &#8216;journalists&#8217; at Fox are way too busy spinning the Charleston shootings as an attack on christianity<\/a>. They know their audience all too well; old, scared, white, racist christians. Of course, in order to keep their audience happy they have to pander to them and enable them, denying any inconvenient fact like the killer saying he was racist and he was killing the people because of the color of their skin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4122\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=4122\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4122\" title=\"foxracistenablers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxracistenablers.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News' Steve Doocy spins the racist desires of a white supremacist into a war against white christians.\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxracistenablers.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxracistenablers-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox &#8216;journalist&#8217; Steve Doocy (pronounced douchey), who is a graduate of the Bozo Clown College, demonstrates his impressive journalism skills for his pliant audience of old, scared, racist, white christians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this past week has been the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina. The killer, Dylann Roof&#8217;s racist manifesto has disturbed the nation and has brought many issues to the forefront. One is the removal of the confederate flag from the South Carolina state capital building in Charleston and the removal of any confederate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4119\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fox News Blinders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,68,3],"tags":[1133,252,69,1136,1138,4,9,1129,1282,1135,21,98,596,1131,426,19,1132,1137,1130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}