By Jon Schwarz
How did we get here? Why is America a country where, in just
one week, two African-American senior citizens were gunned down in
Kentucky, pipe bombs arrived in the mailboxes of over a dozen prominent
liberals, and 11 members of a Pittsburgh synagogue were slaughtered at a
bris?
Our current reality only makes sense if we comprehend Fox News and
its origin story, revealed in a startling 1970 memo from the Nixon White
House.
President Donald Trump and the White House have strongly denied that
he bears any responsibility for this streak of atrocities. In a sense,
they’re right. If there’s popcorn on the stove and you turn up the heat,
there’s no way to say you made any individual kernel explode. It might
have happened without you. It’s easy to imagine the three recent
perpetrators doing exactly the same things under a President Hillary
Clinton.
On the other hand, it’s nearly impossible to conceive of all the
politicized violence happening without Fox News. In the popcorn analogy,
Fox may not have turned on the stove, but it has lovingly provided
steady supplies of gas every day since its founding in 1996. It’s tough
to miss how Cesar Sayoc’s vehicle looked like Fox News in van form.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Intercept_
No comments:
Post a Comment