The popular Fox meme, that minorities play the "victim card," truly underscores their hypocrisy and double standard in that the supposedly "fair & balanced" network is constantly promoting the sense of victimhood held by the right wing Christians for whom and to whom Fox broadcasts its propaganda. The Christian right's righteous whine about how they don't get any respect from librul Hollywood has been frequently validated on Fox. And it's just not Hollywood. According to defender of the (Christian) faith, Bill O'Reilly it's the media, too. Bill's recent claim about the media (some of whom have dared to criticize "Killing Jesus") was further advanced, last Sunday, by  Episcopal Church hating Tucker Carlson whose obvious propaganda messaging on behalf of the homophobic religious right, once again, showed us why he is such a "dick." 

Tucker started off the Fox & Friends segment with the statement that hewould be looking at "how the press covers religion." He then asked the patented Fox leading question that serves to frame the propaganda message to come: "Are people of faith unfairly treated by the news media?" (Oh, yes Tucker, Jesus is weeping!) In case you didn't get the message, the chyron defined it: "Religion and the Media, Is There Bias Toward People of Faith." He played the same video, played by O'Reilly, of Luke Russert making the case for the Fox narrative.

Carlson introduced his panel, journalists and Fox contributors Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn - both of whom formerly worked for The Daily Beast.  Carlson launched into the propaganda immediately with his question of Kurtz: "If the press treated gays the way they treated evangelicals it would look a lot different than it does today." Kurtz agreed that there is some snark directed against Christians but he didn't agree that it is an intentional effort to "come after" them. As he did on The Factor, he discussed cultural differences because newsrooms are "secular."

Carlson agreed with the "secular" comment and asked Ashburn how many of colleagues attend weekly church services or oppose legal abortion which, for Fox and Tucker, must be the litmus test for Christians some of whom, including the Episcopal Church, support a woman's right to choose. The chyron further reinforced the agitprop with a Cavuto marked question: "Does Media Mistreat People of Faith." Ashburn said that religion "isn't discussed" in newsrooms and that there is "a bias against covering religion." (Huffington Post has a whole section devoted to religion but, hey, who needs facts!) She continued to push the meme that the secular press is nasty.

Carlson whined about how, as a country, we want diversity but "part of the problem" could be that "the news media look nothing like America, they're way more secular, way more upper middle class in their background, way more likely to be from the coasts then the average American."

HAHAHAHAHAHAH - Tucker Carlson must be "part of the problem." His father was a former ambassador and president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His mother is an heiress to the Swanson food fortune. Tucker was born in San Francisco and "grew up in Carlsbad, an affluent resort town north of San Diego." (near the Pacific Coast) His pre-college years were spent at the posh St. George's Academy in RI. He is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford CT. 

Kurtz pivoted to the positive coverage of the current pope and reiterated the "cultural disconnect."

So did you get the message that the evil, secular media hates poor, persecuted Christians? But thanks be to God because Fox News is providing the homophobic coverage to balance that nasty media gay agenda! Fair & balanced, ya think!