Fox News: Stooping to anti-Semitism

I guess this is a sign that the right wing is abandoning all hope of attracting the Jewish vote. Their racism has alienated the black and Hispanic vote they have claimed to be wooing. Now, by showing their willingness to exploit anti-Semitic stereotypes, Fox News shows the right wing has given up on Jewish voters.

So recently the New York Times reported that Fox News is seeing its ratings plunge. Of course this is fact based on commonly used data.

Fox News, always unwilling to accept unpleasant facts, decided to vilify the reporters who wrote the story. Cause you see, Fox News can't face the fact that their audience is shrinking fast, so they have to blame someone else. But what is really revealing is how they choose to do it. They altered photos of the journalists who reported on the Fox News ratings plunge. In particular, they altered the image of Jacques Steinberg into a grotesque caricature of Jewish stereotypes. From Media Matters:

As explained in a Daily Kos diary, this is part of a long tradition of exaggerating supposedly "Jewish" features to vilify someone. And of course, it is part of a long tradition of Fox News using hate speech, racism and intolerance to push their extremist agenda, something I have written about several times before. And this recent example of Fox News anti-Semitism is getting noticed by the National Jewish Democratic Council.

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But it's Fox

Submitted by Anonymous Hussein (not verified) on 5 July 2008 - 7:26pm.

If Fox News didn't do this sort of thing they wouldn't have anything to report on. I mean cmon, its Fox, nobody watches Fox for anything but entertainment these days.

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