Fox's Hume On Possible Holder Contempt Charge: "Everybody Will Be Saying They Wouldn't Do This To Him If He Were White"
June 11, 2012 10:38 pm ET
From the June 11 edition of Fox's The O'Reilly Factor:
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More like a stacked deck.
Brit Hume & Billo the Clown?
When i was a child we got excited when the circus was in town.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
My dad used to say,"He talks like he's got marbles in his mouth."
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His "Automatic Man" has an "atomic heart" and "cries electric tears." I suppose that could apply to Hume -- except I've never seen him cry tears {he came close on Election Night 2008} . . .
My guess is he has something else in his mouth -- and it's a considerably looser substance than marbles . . .
A conversation, involving the powers of Congress and Contempt (not the legal charge, but the whining foot-stamping kind), complete with historical perspective concerning former AG Reno, and the conclusion seemed to be that it's nothing, whether just the Judiciary Committee or the whole House, they have no real power or authority over the Attorney General short of Impeachment, and so we learn a little more about the Congress and the AG, and it was almost interesting and almost enlightening, and right about the time I thought we were talking about the Attorney General of the United States, and then BANG!
The absolutely unnecessary invoking of race!
I would wonder why that was done, why out of the blue this Fox hack had to bring that up, completely unprompted and off-topic and irrelevant, but I don't wonder, because I know exactly why he did that.
C'mon, Brit- couldn't you wait to say this until somebody actually said such a thing, instead of just assuming they will? I won't say "everybody" or "always", but...it does seem like the people who most often say "everybody will say" are the people who need that as a pre-emptive defense against what some folks might say. IOW- the first ones playing the race card are often the ones who need a defense for racism.
Never
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All
Everyone
Nobody
Oh wait...
Hume's statememt is just a Fox variation of the old "blacks have gotten too many privileges" mantra, one which in the 1980s created "Reagan Democrats" among blue collar (work shirt) white males in the Industrial North.
But there ain't no more big Industrial North. So who is Fox trying to rile up? It can't be the Teabaggers. Fox already has them in its oily pocket. Could it be what's left of those who call themselves Republicans? At this stage they'd vote for Romney even if he ate live baby chicks for breakfast and hocked on the grave of Howard Dirksen.
No, it's an appeal to latent racism. (Face it; we all have it. But our better angels are usually able to whisper in our ear, "Dude. That's being small and so extremely crazy.") Specifically, the latent racism of white male independents is the target. Crazy-making (aka schizophrenigenia) often trumps (pun intended) rationality.
But I doubt that this appeal make up the mind of independents. It's the economy, Bret.
Or how it's painted.
Yes, "they'd" say that, Britton.
And, you know what? "They'd" be right.
How this became a news station is beyond me. How people tune in and think " I feel I am better informed than I was 10 minute ago" is incomprehensible.
No wonder we have so many sheople in America.
I think, for a lot of the foxbots, having "their fears and prejudices affirmed" is the same thing as entertainment. It certainly, for them, doesn't require any higher a level of thought.
What I actually would say is that "They wouldn't be doing this to Holder if they weren't rabid partisans out to score points in any way they can as often as they can, the facts be damned and truth be ignored. And they wouldn't be doing this if they hadn't put a literally felonious clown like Darryl Issa in charge of their only legislative agenda, which is endless, baseless, entirely political, supposed 'investigations'".
That's what I would say.
Or a Democrat.
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I think he has been itching to charge any administration official for anything he possibly could.
That is a damn good point. It's all a part of their "othering" mechanism, to assume that all folks of a given group think only in terms of what concerns that group- they wouldn't know empathy, or impartiality, if either one bit them on the butt, so, of course, they can't recognize it, or give credit for it, in anyone else.