Just when you think that Steve Doocy or Eric Bolling might be the dullest tool in the Fox shed, along comes somebody else who takes the word stupid to a whole new level. Lately, that honorific could be bestowed on Andrea Tantaros who seems to think that Islamic history all started with the Barbary pirates and that it's really atheists who are violating the 1st Amendment in trying to impose their atheist religion on America's Christians. And along with making inane comments, Tantaros also specializes in base bigotry most of which is directed at Islam which she says is - ready for it - intolerant! But earlier this week, she might have surpassed her usual level of idiocy and verbal slime in her vile comment directed towards Eric Holder who is a major bête noire (pun intended) for Fox News. In what could only be described as rich irony, Tantaros accused Holder of race baiting. Pot, meet kettle?
During yesterday's "The Five," Eric Bolling whined about how the librul media is "buying into" the "BS" that something bad happened to an unarmed young black man who was killed by a white police officer. Wall of genius Bolling made the case for civil unrest when he said that "mind you, we haven't heard a world about the hands up claims made by Al, Jesse, and the New Black Panthers. (Right, Eric, the local and county incident reports, which were not released immediately, are still very sketchy) Bolling whined about how Time, Bloomberg, and the New York Magazine have images of people with their hands up - which is the description given, by witnesses, of what Michael Brown was doing before he was shot and his body left for four hours in the street. Bolling: "Are they trying this case before anyone's even sworn in yet?"
After Greg Gutfeld babbled incoherently about how dramatic magazine covers win Pulitzers, Bolling provided more genius commentary: "Okay, you win Pulitzers, you sell magazines with pictures like that. Is it dangerous to be putting those on the covers?" (WTF?) And that's when Tantaros graced us with more of her trademark profundity:
"Yeah, because you sell magazines with racial divides, right? You sell magazines by blowing up what in their minds is a white-on-black incident. Where you really could do good journalism is going to the streets of Chicago and following the black-on-black crime. I mean... and if I were African American I would be outraged that more journalists aren't covering what's happening in Chicago and more outraged with people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't head to those areas. But, look, the DOJ is pushing this entire thing. Eric Holder is one of the biggest race baiters in this entire country."
Undeterred by Bob Beckel's muttering she continued her racist rant: "Bob, he runs that DOJ like the Black Panthers. Allowing them to be outside of that polling place was absolutely abominable."
After Bolling said that he wouldn't go as far as she did in calling him a race baiter, but rather, considered him a "race activist," Tantaros provided us with her usual batshit crazy historical analysis: "He said a nation of cowards. The 350,000 Americans that died in the Civil War, I think that they're probably not cowards in my opinion."
Such an abundance of riches. In referencing Chicago, Tantaros kept with the right wing narrative that white police officers shooting unarmed black men is no big deal because blacks are killing blacks in Chicago. Meanwhile, that has nothing to do with Michael Brown's shooting. But the comment about how Eric Holder "allowed" the New Black Panthers to be outside of a polling place was sheer lunacy because Holder didn't "allow" it. It was during the Bush administration when white, Republican poll watchers filed a complaint against two Black Panthers who were standing outside a polling place in a black district which seemed to have no problem with the men being there. A Republican appointed member of the Civil Rights Commision said it was much ado about nothing - but not for Fox News which made it a cause celebre and a weapon against Holder.
She referenced Eric Holder's speech in which he said that when it comes to race issues, we are still a nation of cowards" - an assertion underscored by Fox News' unwillingness and inability to confront the issues of race in a "fair & balanced" way. And then came the real crazy talk about how those who died in the Civil War prove that Americans aren't cowards when it comes to race. That was over a hundred years ago and, as Holder said, Americans, like those on Fox, still aren't confronting the real issues of race and racism in America.
The race baiting Andrea Tantaros thinks that Eric Holder is a race baiter? If she thinks that she is a paragon of enlightened tolerance, she can keep on pretending.