Monica Crowley epitomizes Fox's intentional cluelessness about racial issues
Monica Crowley, filling in for Bill O'Reilly last night, wanted to know why Cynthia Tucker -- who over the weekend called out the racial "elephant in the room" in this year's elections, i.e., white conservatives' fear of being overwhelmed demographically -- was "playing the race card":
Crowley: This is completely outrageous. Americans voted in a black man as president with 53 percent of the vote. And now, all of a sudden we're hearing from the far left that now we're a nation of bigots and racists? What's really going on here?
Don't you just love how people who did not vote for Barack Obama (and never would) now proclaim his victory as proof that America is now no longer racist?
Fortunately, Mark Sawyer -- who called out Fox News and Republicans on this very point not so long ago -- was there to knock down Crowley's self-serving nonsense:
Crowley: So are we somehow to believe that between 60 and 70 percent of the American people are racist?
Sawyer: No. No one would ever suggest that.
Crowley: Cynthia Tucker seemed to.
Sawyer: No she wasn't. What she was saying was that we've had exactly what we did have. We had a summer where the Republicans, and to a certain degree you guys at Fox News, realize that racial resentment works in bad economic times. And if you play the racial resentment card, where whites are feeling uncomfortable --
Crowley: Hey Mark, it wasn't us playing the race card. It was the far left playing the race card against the Tea Party, and against Republicans in a grossly unfair way and with no evidence whatsoever.
Sawyer: You guys had the New Black Panther Party, you guys had the New Black Panther Party --
Crowley: Which was a legitimate story that the Holder Justice Department threw out.
Sawyer -- You tried to run with the Shirley Sherrod story. You tried to run with the Shirley Sherrod story. That one blew up in your face.
Crowley: This was not us, Mark. Nice try, but this was all the far left fanning the flames of these stories, trying to accuse racism where it didn't exist.
Sawyer: The far left looks at the same polls that Republicans do -- that whenever the president's talking about race, it fans the flames of white racial resentment and his numbers go down. You learned that last summer when you saw him step out about the Henry Louis Gates issue. And that's how they learned how to play the racial resentment card. And that's what's been going on. That's why the numbers of people who think the president is a Muslim have been going up.
So it's simplistic to say that white people are turning against him because of race -- but a substantial part are, and data shows that.
You've gotta love those rare moments when truth is permitted to be spoken on Fox News. Especially about Fox itself.
[Note: Here's Media Matters' timeline of the Shirley Sherrod matter. You'll see that Fox -- including The O'Reilly Factor -- played a critical role in disseminating Breitbart's hoax.]
Took her to task?
Monica gets pounded on harder than that on a Thursday nite.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I can't figure out why these guys don't prepare before they appear. I mean, all they need is a couple of talking points to shut people like Crowley down. For example:
"Monica, you keep talking about the race card. Let me give you an example: Rush Limbaugh played the song "Barack the Magic Negro" on his show. Have you demanded that Rush's show be cancelled because he's plainly race-baiting, or is it true that you personally believe it's appropriate to refer to African-Americans as negroes?"
"Monica, Fox has for weeks been inciting discord among its viewers against the building of the Islamic Cultural Center around the corner from Ground Zero. But the single biggest financial contributor to the Cultural Center is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and he also happens to be the second biggest shareholder at Fox after Rupert Murdoch, your boss. Have you and the rest of Fox on-air personalities quit your jobs in protest, given that a muslim owns a great deal of fox stock and is funding the cultural center? Or is it ok with you that muslims funding the cultural center are also funding Fox?"
Fox's ENTIRE production is built on lies. But this isn't radio, and they can't shut you down, and all you have to do is make the point on the air and watch them flounder.
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20%-30% of Murkins = racists = teabaggers = Fox viewers
which part of that is so difficult to understand?
The unfortunate part is most of the 20%-30% vote. When only 60% of eligible voters bother to vote it is considered a fantastic turnout. That gives the 20%-30% a huge amount of power where they really SHOULD just be so marginalized to be a sad joke.
talk less and suckle more. Let's get the boots, the hair, the makeup, the pig that you are baby. BE THE PIG THAT YOU ARE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww
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Look at all the attacks on Mosques and their playgrounds.
Did they have the studio air conditioning set on high? I' sure that'll help with the projections.
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a role to get the most salacious lies out there for her audience....The 'duh factor' is what she is playing! Duh ---tell me more--make it dirty--make it up!
O'Donnells face when Cynthia Tucker said "racism." They both looked like they just stepped in some dogshi* And then you get clueless Monica repeating over and over 60-70% of americans disapprove of Obama's policies. God, she is so clueless, dumb, stump stupid - the perfect fit for fox viewers.
And what's up with that Chris Metzler guy anyway? Shameless.
The Headline? They ain't clueless. Shameless would be a better choice.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Criminal stooges always pretend to be dumb and ignorant of their actions. It's how they get by.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think Shemp was most likely the criminal Stooge.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Too many people play dumb when it comes to terrorism, election fraud, anthrax, corporate influence, etc. It's time to grow up and play like an adult with the issues facing us. like the loss of the bill of rights and introduction of torture and tasers to our police state tactics.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
who put the criminal stooge in the big house before they made it in Show Bidness.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
are pretty blonde white women says that FOX TV is sexist and racist.
I'm Clark Gable.
most of them are not just pretty blonde, they are very blonde. Do dark root grow better in air?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
He was fugly...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hmm, maybe I should have said Redford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MwW5mDQwQ
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
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The race card is so 20th Century.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
those women are an example of how inner beauty shines through....on them, it doesn't. because there isn't any.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
anything more disgusting or repellent.
Bug-Off insect repellant used for a douche?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Before:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y-EEZmF3GhQ/SbQNGz_...
After:
http://adamthinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009...
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
...the Murdoch Bunch!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
at Faux Noise...I'd make a fortune!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Clones? That's a bit unnerving.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTNkL3q12Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wEiJQ-2v9E&fe...
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The only card fox plays more the the race card is the victim card. The evil "left" always has the upper hand on poor Fox News. It must be that 24 hr left wing staion (the one that shows Lockup Raw half the time) and all of those left wing talk radio shows we are forced to listen to. Just another lie in a 24/7 series of lies.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
"Crowley: Hey Mark, it wasn't us playing the race card. It was the far left playing the race card against the Tea Party, and against Republicans in a grossly unfair way and with no evidence whatsoever."
Any question in which group Crowley self-identifies?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I didn't like her for playing "daddy's girl" on McLaughlin and Cronies.
But I only just learned today that she made her claim to fame by becoming Nixon's assistant AFTER he was disgraced, and wrote a book about him after he died. What a gal!
At that time...she was an up and comer.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
where you try to imagine any actual news organization saying anything remotely like that, and you realize how muich completely bullshit behavoir even we let Fox get away with.
They're not a news organization; they're a 24/7 political campaign, without a candidate who either wins and has to govern or loses and has to shut up.
Will the Koran burning be live?
And will the Reverend and his minions wear their sheets?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
that Germany kicked the Reverend, who used to be a hotel manager, out of the country for flim-flamming his flock (of between 800 and 1,000, I believe) a la Jim Jones...he was making them work for the church for free to support him and his wife.. The German government has accused him of "spiritual abuse"--he exhorted his flock to beat their children with a rod and also taught "a distinctive demonology" and conducted brainwashing.
Andrew Schäfer, a Protestant Church official responsible for monitoring sects in the region said, "Terry Jones appears to have a delusional personality." Schäfer, for his part, sees Jones as a fanatic who is courting global media attention because he couldn't cope with the "immense loss of power and significance."
So, America is where the wackos come to roost, apparently.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
a personality test before letting themselves call their gatherings a church?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
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Anybody up for a good ole Bible burning? I'll bring the hot dogs.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
But can she spell epitomizes?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Really?? How many.......well I can't say it or I'll get TOSed but I think you can figure it out.
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Q U E S T I O N:
Why didn't Monica Crowley show the video clip of Glenn Beck calling the President a Racist that doesn't understand "WHITE CULTURE" when discussing how the Liberal Media spreads wild race card stories?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Monica Crowley epitomizes cluelessness. She is snotty and condescending; I switch channels fast as lightening when she is on. Also Ron Christie and David Rivkin. I can't get to the remote fast enough.
What could she say that is of any interest to me?
I think "Conniving" would be a better descriptor than clueless when it comes to Crowley.....and most of the other cretins on Faux.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
I was using the words in the title of the story and you are correct-- "conniving" is a better term for what she does. I think a lot of her looking down her nose comes with the territory where in her mind she knows better and listeners that disagree are stupid and less than. I think it was Fold (David? WSJ columnist) on Bill Maher who was so condescending that Salman Rushdie called him out by saying his attitude was not helping him make his point.
Crowley was Dick Nixon's personal assistant when he went in to exile beyond the Orange Curtain in Southern California. Could one expect anything else from her? When you know your position is tenuous at best acting this way is a defensive posture.
makes her a perfect stand-in for bill-o
faux news, afterall, has to live up to its low standards, and be loyal to their slobbering viewers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFnJmz5pWc4&NR=1
Human: You have been playing the race card in your media because you know it riles people up.
Fox: You mean to say that even though there's a black president you still think the whole country is racist?
Human: That's not what I said.
Fox: Yes, it is. You just said it. All white people are racist. Anyone can roll back the tape and will hear you say it. Facts are facts.
Human: And if you do roll the tape back, and listen to the facts, you'll hear me saying that you in the media have been playing the race card because you know it riles people up.
Fox: Nu-uh. Wrong. Sorry. Wrong.
Human: There are many examples of your race baiting, also on tape for everyone to peruse.
Fox: Name one.
Human: The way you incautiously portrayed Shirley Sherrod even though you knew the tape was edited to make her look bad.
Fox: Nope. Doesn't count. Anything else?
Human: Your story on the New Black Panther Party.
Fox: Nope, not us. Wasn't us. That was someone else. And besides that story was buried by that black attorney general.
Human: See, you're race baiting right now.
Fox: No, I'm not.
Human: You mentioned the attorney general's race. Why?
Fox: I'm not mentioning it, but clearly it's important to you, since you're asking me about it.
Human: You know, it's impossible to talk to you.
Fox: Sure, human! Run away when challenged! Clearly, I, the fox, have outwitted him. Those humans are so scared of real debate. This is just what they do. They accuse us of racism. Especially the black ones. So unfair to victimize foxes like that. And there you have it. I report, you decide. And you know I'm right.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
:)
A round of applause for that one.
love the spyhopping pic
I do appreciate the compliment, Mr. Neiwert. Thanks so much.
And thanks to everyone else too.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
that was great
do it more!
You really think she's "Human?" I just assumed "she" was magic mannequin or a blonde bimbo robot. (No offense to blonde bimbo robots).
~albabe (The Writer/Artist Formally Known As Al Gordon)
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No, no, the human is the one confronting the fox. That would not be the anchor/host. She'd be the fox.
;)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Notice how Crowley sicked designated house Negro Metzler on "bad Negro" Sawyer.
of a master named Metzler, anyway? I thought it was a stretch to have a filthy Irishman own Tara.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I still say she's a legacy PhD
Family wealth
And spreading her legs...
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Just registered in order to make my first and last comment on this site. I seriously doubt if you will post it...and I really do not care. After reading your lame criticisms of Ms. Crowley, I feel you are so misguided and confused you would not notice or appreciate truth if it stripped naked in front of you. You need to get a real job...like being an apprentice under a real journalist such as Ms. Crowley. You should just get your head out where you can see clearly and then learn something. I will pray for you:) Paul Junior
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