Fox News does it again: Hoods in the Hizzy feat Eric Bolling, FOX's Premier Race-Baiter (556 hits)
It's not first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse. That's what Fox Business host Eric Bolling said on Friday about President Obama's meeting at the White House with the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo, while photoshopping a gold tooth onto the man's image. Then a photo of popular hip-hop artist Common, who participated in a White House poetry event last month (and was later smeared by Fox), appeared on-screen .
It's just the latest from Bolling, who last month accused President Obama of "chugging a few forties" in Ireland. Bolling's attacks are part of a long history of racially-coded language and stereotypes that Fox uses to create a negative perception of the president. Fox Business and Fox News continue to be safe havens for commentators who try to whip up race-based fears and peddle racial stereotypes as hard news.
President Ali Bongo currently holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council and was visiting the White House on official business. While Bongo has a troubling human rights record, past U.S. presidents have met with problematic figures for diplomatic reasons or to get them to change their behavior. Hip hop artist Common is a well-educated cultural and charitable ambassador and a talented musician. We doubt that Fox would ever have referred to the White House as a “hizzouse” while George W. Bush, Bill Clinton or any other president resided there.
But on Friday, Bolling seized an opportunity to race-bait. He opened the segment by asking, "So what's with all the hoods in the hizzy?" Later, when a guest challenged him, asking why Bolling was treating the meeting as a social event rather than an official meeting between two heads of state, Bolling said, "How do you know what they did? Maybe they did have s'mores and watch movies. Maybe they watched a basketball game."
Such obvious promotion of racial stereotypes is nothing new at Fox. In fact, it's what made Glenn Beck's career at Fox News before he took things too far6 — a move that eventually cost him more than 300 advertisers and his 5pm show on the network. Beck will leave this coveted time slot vacant at the end of this month, and some observers believe Bolling's over-the-top race-baiting last week was an audition for Beck's spot — his attempt to show Ailes and other executives at Fox that he's up to the challenge of stoking Fox viewers' anger at President Obama in a way fitting of Beck's legacy.
Please join us in demanding that Fox Business Chairman Roger Ailes fire Eric Bolling. Ailes might not care what we think — but he has to care about Fox's public image. If Ailes fires Bolling, it's a step towards accountability. If he refuses, it will make it abundantly clear to the public and the media that stoking racial division is part of Fox's agenda.
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@ Sister Irma, I usually don't get myself worked up with others say about the President, but this was just too, disrespectful for me to stand by and do nothing. Where does Fox News get these "fools" from anyway? I now understand why the people of Canada signed petitions to keep Fox Style News from coming their way. This is ridiculous!!
Thursday, June 16th 2011 at 12:39AM
Jen Fad
I really don't get the "balls" of some of these people you know. So apparently Boller thinks that since a Black family has moved in the WhiteHouse, there goes the neighborhood, eh? Whatever! He really should be fired.
Thursday, June 16th 2011 at 12:42AM
Jen Fad
Sister Irma,
I think I understand the jist of what you wrote, but I think that you have mistaken my open mindedness for being out of touch with issues (that affect our people) which I am not. I understand oppression and I understand racism, but I choose to live my life like a free woman (free of oppression and the ties that try to bind me). I have learned in this life that one can not please everybody and that one needs to pick and choose the battles to fight.
For me, I can't jump on the racism bandwagon everytime someone here posts what they believe in their mind seems racist or anytime someone in America cries racism; however, this Boller speaking of the meeting / conference that the President had with a member of the UN as if they are hanging out in the hood is truly too, much for me. It was distasteful and disrespectful of the office of the President.
I'll read the blog you referenced and give you my honest opinion, but just because I don't agree with you most of the time doesn't mean that I'm not a sistah in spirit and in truth. My spirit beats to a different drum and that is, "I'm free and I thank God Almighty that I'm free at last to be who I wanna be."
Thursday, June 16th 2011 at 10:44PM
Jen Fad
@Jen, you must be a mind reader, because from the moment I read teh theme of your blod to the last word in this blog, "I" was thinking , "Thank you Jen, this post is a blessing teaching moment" . (smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
@Jen, until tis moment "I" refuse to call you my sister in spirit...and for the first time I now would like to call you my sister and member of our little site community...I believe we are now ready to listen to what each o f us has to share with each others...Te arian nation came into being in prison to surviveand prison donlf have many men women of youth that can be kind ad survive...but they make groups to survive,,,arian nation, black panthaers first and hen th NOI
if in a dangarous pison will side the nation and have church, fun time but mostly for security...the do have respect for their own rules...prsion life can be bad and it can be nice and content..if they can;t do anything with you you get sent to pelican island a prison underground and star alone in your sell until coming out to baith and esercise,:LIKe any place else you will have friends and enemies. Their nation wants to become th enew hitlers modern movement and like im make a pure race in america...gues we must go live in Harry or Jammmal nation....
I have m y nation and people that are going to do it any harm is an idiot.
Jen, I know you would know when your are being opprese, I know I know I do and i know my oppresor is not a skin color or a religion they come in all flavors and for many different reasons.
I love that saying, "warch your friends because you don't allow your known enemy to get close enough to you to do you great harm...so tru, so tru...
Jen if you get to watch tose shows i menat in my blogs, I am willing to bet, expect Jen to be a different Jen after doing tis....I promise you and as well as you can relax and be joiful when you heare these names come up...just watch and wait...every thing they do from now on will back up and turn against them like no on has ever seen befor or could even come up with how this is going to end...jen this is going to end with a republican party as we have alwasy jnown it...they don't dialogue they want war and no one is out to protect their political party...
just come up with catchy saying and talk about how much money raised how bad our president is bu not on eobjective (working plan for jobs, ending the war and getting our schools open and police back on our streets,,,
this is going to be an election freefor all aas they only has one purposejust talk about what our president has done/ not done!!!!
But, please don't worry Jen they are their own worst enemy...so please enjoy their self distruct, we will (smile)
Did YOU SEE MY PLEADING POST I JUST DID , READ IT AN I HOOPE YOU JOIN IN ON GETTING BACK AT FOX, "k" (SMILE) MSNBC LOVES BEING TH EVOICE OF OUR BLACK COMMUNITY...LARRY KING AND LOU DOBBS ARE GONE THANKS TO THE YOUNGET YOUTH OF TH ENAACP THEY WORKED FO RYEARS DOCUMENTING AND WELL SINCE THEY ARE NOT HERE IT MUST HAVE WORKED, RIGHT???????? (SMILE)
