Unreal: Fox News claims President Obama invoked racial segregation with his car analogy

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from Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/research/201010270029


After President Obama made the analogy that Republican politicians should have to ride "in the back seat" after driving "this car," the United States, "into the ditch," Fox News figures have tried to claim that Obama made an "offensive" and "appalling" reference to racial segregation and "the back of the bus." They have yet to explain why Obama would want to compare himself to segregationists and his political opponents to civil rights hero Rosa Parks.


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[HipChick]

1. They are reachin

[joeybee12]

2. Scary thing is, the teabaggin idiots watching Faux are nodded their very empty

heads at their analogy.

[wryter2000]

13. Yup

You could probably hear the sound of their tiny, atrophied and hardened brains rolling around in there.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

29. They were in full force on Maddow last night

"HOLDER DIDN'T PROSECUTE THE BLACK PANTHERS!!!"

[Bitwit1234]

3. SOOO Obama should have said OK republicans take

control of the car. Since you did such a bang up job under Bush "we the majority should get in the back of the car" ........ No he should have just said "leave the driving to us, and by us I mean the Democrats"..use of a slogan

[JuniperLea]

4. They have so very little, they have to make shit up...

What a stretch... idiots are sinking fast! I think this is actually very good news... they see their own demise:)

[jobycom]

5. FOX news is an infomercial. Their claims are no more based in reality than the Sham Wow guy's.

[Chulanowa]

11. I trust ShamWow guy more

[jobycom]

17. Yeah, true dat! lol nt

[Barack_America]

6. More like Fox deliberately trying to stir up "white fright" ahead of the election.

[DCKit]

7. Perversion. In so many ways. n/t

[gateley]

8. That is laugh-out-loud ludicrous! nt

[no_hypocrisy]

9. You could turn that around with the metaphor of the Republicans being chauffeured

by the Obama Administration.

[rfranklin]

26. Driving Miss Crazy...

I think there was a movie about that.

[Life Long Dem]

10. No matter how much they slap at this analogy

They can't have the keys back so they can drive the car back into the ditch.

[HopeHoops]

12. Yeah, the great "white rich Republican channel" calling a black person a racist.

Yeah, now that makes sense. I can see it now - damned if I don't feel like making some tea and having some Kool-Aid with it.

[county worker]

14. Who is it that gets paid to make this shit up and how much do they get paid?

We can make up the same shit, it isn't hard.

[emulatorloo]

19. Article indicates Glenn Beck came up with this gem. Figures, don't it. n/t

[rocktivity]

15. In other words, their problem is that Obama compared the status of the GOP

to those of...black Americans?...Aye carumba...

:crazy:
rocktivity

[emulatorloo]

16. Hard for me to imagine that even their viewers would buy this. LOL n/t

[emulatorloo]

18. HA HA - Monica Crowley is calling for Obama to be IMPEACHED over this

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley said Obama's analogy was "appalling" and that if it had been a Republican president, "there might even be a movement to impeach at this point, but this man gets away with it." Crowley added:

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[lpbk2713]

20. Al Franken's version is much better.

Fauxbots are humor impaired, what do they know?

[BootinUp]

21. While quite a ridiculous stretch, it does fit their teabagger strategy quite well

The whole teabagger "movement" is based on: the government is not them, you can't trust it, and Obama is likely a racist against white race.

I would hope that other MSM (CBS, NBC, ABC, Major Newspapers) will call them out on this and ridicule it, but I am not going to hold my breath.

[gratuitous]

22. Call me Nostradamus

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9392612&mesg_id=9392639

[ProfessionalLeftist]

23. Somebody just spouted off that BS to me this morning....

...now I know where they got it. F*cked "News"

[sakabatou]

24. They're always clutching at straws

[BlueIdaho]

25. Fox News is a wholy owned subsidiary of the republican tea party.

Don't expect too much from them.

[rfranklin]

27. Actually it was about putting the children (or the childish adults) in back...

where they couldn't reach the controls.

[CJCRANE]

28. How old are the people at Fox News?

This is really juvenile.

[political_Dem]

30. It's sad that some people actually believe that BS.

People who think in such a manner use it to put the blinders on when true acts of racism happen. This is why bills like Arizona's SB 1070 pass and become law.

[Historic NY]

31. I'd tie the asshats to the roof rack..

[Glimmer of Hope]

32. I guess this would make sense to their target audience.

[fascisthunter]

33. I think FOX News needs to be shut down for Inciting Violence

against Americans. For helping a wealthy fascist class to take over our government and to destroy our democracy.

[malaise]

34. That means the ad is effective

Fuck all the Fox ReTHUGS

[Diclotican]

35. bigtree

bigtree

I think the Car Analogy was great, as it told SOME of the history well.. i know a few, who are furrious about it, and would rather do whatever they can, to fight it... But I like it, as it was really where the fact are...

But I doubt that mr Obama was refereing to racial segreating as in the "good old days"... When blacks allways know their right places.. In the back on the bus...

But of course, the right,right have allways twisted the facts, and is trying their best to tvist it the way they want it to be, even if the facts, and the life and facts is everything else..

I for one can not belive where all of the extreme right are coming from.. from I discovered this side, to this day i have seen more lunatics, more extremeist, and more wierd americans than I ever belived to exist... Where all this lunatic are coming from??. Is it so many lunatics in US?.... I have allways have that blue ayed belife that US was at least ruled by sane peoples.. But have to admit, that they might not been the fact anymore?

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