The network that slobbers over Donald Trump’s “straight talk” attacking Muslims and Hispanics and oh yeah, mounting an utterly baseless campaign questioning President Obama’s citizenship - is now clutching its pearls over President Obama's acknowledgment that some attacks on him have been race-based.
In case you missed it, President Obama discussed the “certain circumstances around being the first African-American president that might not have confronted a previous president” and the attacks by “specific strains in the Republican Party” during an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep. In that interview, Obama made it clear that while the character of some of the attacks are “actively promoted” and “may gain traction” because of his “unique demographic,” vilification of a president is nothing new: “(G)oodness, if you look at what they said about Jefferson or Lincoln or FDR — finding reasons not to like a president, that’s, you know, a well-traveled path here in this country.”
Nevertheless, Obama's comments apparently struck a nerve in the Fox News group think that emanates from the Racist-In-Chief, Roger Ailes. So out popped Ailes' personal consigliere and likely stand in, Peter Johnson, Jr. to mount new racial attacks on Obama. Apparently Ailes, I mean Johnson, identified merely as a “Fox News legal analyst,” thought that attacking Obama for saying such a thing “proved” that the folks lapping up Donald Trump’s rhetoric can’t be racists and, therefore, Obama must be the real racist.
After attacking Obama’s NPR remarks about combatting ISIS, Johnson began the race baiting. First, he described Obama as the “blame everyone else other than me” president – as Johnson went on to blame Obama for the kinds of racist attacks Fox has spent years making against him, egged on by host Steve Doocy:
DOOCY: So, is he saying that people who don’t like him don’t like him because he’s—they’re racist?
JOHNSON: Well, that appears what he’s saying. And we understand that racism is a strain in American politics and, unfortunately, has been a long time. I saw it with David Dinkins, as the first African-American mayor here in New York City. But it’s not an explanation. It’s not an excuse. He shouldn’t resort to that. It divides America. On top of that I believe he’s totally, totally wrong. He needs to understand what Americans are thinking and that’s the wrong way to do it.
In the first place, I didn't see anywhere that Obama used race as an excuse for anything. More importantly, it’s sickeningly self-serving. Racial dog whistles and outright racial accusations are the hallmark of Fox News’ coverage of Obama:
There was the “terrorist fist jab” remark during the 2008 campaign, the phony-baloney birtherism (that Fox has yet to admit was utter bunk), the phony-baloney suggestions that Obama palled around with a terrorist, the dog whistle suggestions that he prefers Muslims over America and that he has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Fox News has spent the last seven years mounting a series of grotesque and dishonest racial attacks on President Obama. And now that Obama has spoken candidly about the racial component in the attacks against him, Fox is using that as an excuse to mount yet another dishonest racial attack.
Watch this shameful dishonesty that actually proves Obama’s point, below, from the December 21 Fox & Friends, via Media Matters.
Why would anyone think fucx would say anything positive or acknowledge the country doing better than before he came to office?
A channel that declared itself as entertainment so that they could tell lies, place News in its name to fool people that it’s a news organization and told the world that they’re white nationalist has been critical from the start and calls the POTUS racist every chance they get, acts as if what they say is credible.
THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD.
From the Faux perspective Obama must be a disaster because any other notion will unravel their universe. That a black man can competently run the White House. Especially when compared to the tenant from 2000 to 2008.
When old Rupert croaks his last, “Blimey! Throw another shrimp on the barby!”, Aisles will be out on his ass on the sidewalk in a New York minute.