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| Bill O'Reilly |
The conservative media has invented a new terror in their imagined race war: hordes of black people coming after innocent white folks.
A
while back Bill O’Reilly, the most watched TV personality on Fox News,
ran a series of stories on what he suggests is a “racially motivated”
attack on two white journalists in Norfolk, Virginia that he claimed was
covered up by the local press. As Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins details, the
facts reveal a different reality: a rock was thrown at a car, the
occupants had an argument with a group of men and a fight ensued. The
reporters were not severely injured. Although an unfortunate incident in
a city that is struggling with violent crime, it was neither
particularly noteworthy or an anomaly. In fact, the newspaper for which
the journalists worked thought the event was a non-story. This did not
deter Bill O’Reilly. He could frame the story as part of a national race
war by introducing one fact--the victims of the assault were white and
the perpetrators were black.
The National Review’s Thomas Sowell legitimated
this narrative of a race war against whites in a column which
circulated widely throughout the Right-wing media and blogosphere. There
he listed a series of such assaults in major cities such
as Chicago, New York, Cleveland, and Los Angeles, which involved groups
of young black people committing random assaults on pedestrians, robbing
people of their cell phones and Ipods, and fighting on beaches and in
malls. READ MORE
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