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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News wants "restraint" after Charleston shooting. Jon Stewart is having none of it.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Monday called out Fox News on its hypocritical response to the mass shooting of a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The news network criticized President Barack Obama and others for "taking advantage" of the tragic shooting to advance a narrative regarding gun violence and gun control in the US. "It's almost like a sickness like, 'Oh, tragedy happens. Let's see how we can advance this narrative,'" Fox News anchor Sean Hannity said.
But Stewart pointed out that Fox News has done the exact same thing when it can take advantage of a tragedy to advance its own political purposes.
"Remind me this past December when two New York City cops were tragically killed during a time when people were protesting police shootings of unarmed black men. Talk to me about the restraint Fox used in not advancing the narrative."
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831197/daily-show-confederate-flag
randys1
(16,286 posts)malaise
(269,187 posts)Fugg 'em!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)is fox a Muslim news organization??
applegrove
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a white person to explain their position on the Confederate flag, and other topics, otherwise they go unheard by other white people. So true. All these arguments that politicians have been using against the flag this week are very, very old.