Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Your Black World: FOX News Compares Rev. Wright To David Duke

FOX News's Greta Van Susteren - the Journalism equivalent of Gov. Sarah Palin - made an insinuation a couple of nights ago that, at the very least, compares Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright to a man who has openly advocated for the lynching and castration of Black people. In an attempt to ask former president Bill Clinton a "tough question" (perhaps Fair & Balanced), the FOX News tabloid queen took time out from her Caylee Anthony marathon stalk-fest to query:
What is the difference between an association with someone like David Duke and someone like Reverend Wright?”
Bill Clinton, unable to comprehend the effrontery and packaged acidic stupidity, paused for a few seconds before attempting to answer the question. David Duke, as most are aware, is a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who made headlines last year when he arose in defense of the nooses hung on the infamous tree in Jena, La. Most human beings would find it immensely difficult to stomach such insinuation by FOX News; but coming from a network which, on Friday Sept. 18, 2008, found it refreshing to suggest that "loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster," nothing, even such as morally-repugnant as Susteren's statement, should come off as shocking. FOX News = The High Cost Of Low Standards. A leopard indeed, does not change it's spots:

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