As you probably read, after losing his show on CNN+ and then his show on CNN, Brian Stelter was picked up by Harvard University. That left an awfully big hole for someone who counted on him to know what was on Fox News every hour. Even though Fox News absolutely dominates the ratings, we kind of gave up on it the same time a lot of others did: when they called Arizona for Joe Biden about five minutes into the vote tally. Like a lot of America, though, we still love “The Five” and “Gutfeld.” Tucker Carlson also knows exactly what buttons to push.
It looks as though MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is the new Stelter, seeing as he watches Fox News enough to know that black people committing violent crimes has become “the quasi-permanent wallpaper on Fox these days.”
Cannot overstate the degree to which gruesome surveillance footage of black people committing violent crimes has become the quasi-permanent wallpaper on Fox these days. Just over and over and over…
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 3, 2022
Your average viewer thinks 1,000 unarmed black men are killed by police every year because of your coverage of viral police shootings. The actual number is around 25. So save us the moralizing, Chris. https://t.co/CuMYT478Ze
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) October 3, 2022
I have an idea.
Don't commit violent crimes.
There.
I don't care if you think it's racist.
Your lies and distractions mean nothing to me.
I want criminals in jail.
All of them.
And I want the violence stopped.
Seethe more. https://t.co/GR574lEOjU— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 3, 2022
probably how it feels working at a CVS in SF
— Nij Kasimov (@NijKasimov) October 3, 2022
Has anyone ever told you you have a racial hang-up?
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 3, 2022
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Coming from the people who praise the summer riots of 2020 as some sort of uprising of the good.
— rt; (@thereald0rt) October 3, 2022
the keyword is "crimes".
— Sur Oeste Pte NY (@aappny) October 3, 2022
“Exactly like Nazi Germany,” tweets Shuan Rose.
Wow, that's horrible – how dare they fake so much surveillance footage and hire actors to fabricate crimes that never happened. What a terrible thing, to deliberately misrepresent and falsify reality 😡 https://t.co/cdUYOWeets
— ib (@lndian_Bronson) October 3, 2022
Maybe someone should do something about the violent crime then? https://t.co/ZmjQsGUY68
— Eighth Century Woodchipper 🌳🪓 (@BonifaceOption) October 3, 2022
Damned racist surveillance cams! https://t.co/Htvbg9RWpI
— Melankomas.edu; M.D. (doctor of medicine) (@Melankomas) October 3, 2022
Noticing is the real problem of course https://t.co/USrRB1zR8k
— J. Burden (@_jburden) October 3, 2022
Soy-filled bugman doesn’t want you to believe your lying eyes. https://t.co/MWsil2wvsa
— Tim Berr (@Greenyellow2_) October 3, 2022
Coming from 24/7 Trump network is hilarious https://t.co/5xMc8EPMwM
— ElliotBoston (@elliot_boston) October 3, 2022
And that’s even if you accept Hayes’ premise in the first place, that surveillance footage has become “quasi-permanent wallpaper” on Fox News. Why doesn’t Hayes ask his MSNBC colleague Joy Reid about racism being her quasi-permanent wallpaper? She wants his viewers to believe white supremacists are hiding under their beds at night.
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes wants to know if they’re going to pull this ‘disgusting stunt’ with Cuban asylum seekers https://t.co/LWjzVXjfg8
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 15, 2022
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