Fox "News" recently had to apologize for their idiotic support of the the idea that "Muslim No-Go zones" were flourishing: places where white people couldn't enter because they'd be killed by the scary Allah-worshippers.
In a reasonable world, when you're shown to be totally wrong on a subject, you shouldn't be called an expert. (And when the Prime Minister of England calls you an idiot, your career should be over.) But Fox "News" would not exist in a reasonable world.
It wasn't just that isolated incident, either. The concept was repeated multiple times, with one guest even expanding on the idea, to say that we should put razor wire around these mythical "no-go zones" and turn off the water, to drive them out and register them.
In Paris, at least one popular TV show (and much of social media) roundly mocked Fox "News."
The mayor of Paris didn't take it in such good humor: she considered suing them.
The myth of "no-go zones" is nothing new. They started cropping up after the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001; you can even find maps of supposed "no-go" zones in America. These tend to be less common, though - it's too easy debunk. A simple road trip will show you the truth, so American racists prefer to place their scary "no-go zones" in far away places where their ignorant audience will never visit, like England or France.
It's just when they accidentally get quoted on the international stage, and those pesky Limeys and Frenchies point out that you're an idiot, that this strategy backfires on them.
So then, career racists like Mark Steyn desperately try to justify their lies, despite the fact that these are all questions that were settled years ago.
All of which leads to Bobby Jindal, apparently aware that his election requires him to mobilize the brain-dead racist wing of the party, doubling down on the racist myth, even though he can't substantiate it when confronted with facts.
Of course, will the bigots and low-information voters be willing to vote for a dark-skinned son of Punjab like Bobby Jindal? That's a tricky question, and one that Jindal might want to consider before he goes too far into the weeds on this.
Thinking of human detritus like Allen West, the deranged and dishonest man who was almost my Representative, it seems that people who are uncomfortable with minorities sometimes pick "sanitary" examples from those groups to support so as to illustrate their open-mindedness. Jindal might be one of these as he's willing to prostitute himself to establish his bona fides as a right wing pinhead: a mascot of sorts. I wonder if they let him join the country club.
ReplyDeleteThere are probably many neighborhoods in many cities I'd rather not walk through, but they tend not to be Muslim. In fact there are some Muslim neighborhoods I have enjoyed in the New York area for the food. Never had a trace of a problem. Where else can you get a Halal Pizza?
When my wife and I travel through the rural South, we have been made to feel somewhat uncomfortable when stopping to eat, although never anything serious. That's as close to being a no-go zone as I've experienced since the mid-60's anyway, when certain neighborhoods and many organizations were closed to non-Christian, non-Anglo-Saxon elements.
But fear mongering is what passes for news in America and CNN is as good at it as Fox is. My policy is to just say no to it. There are better sources of news. F the Fox.
I watch Fox News for comic relief these days. They run a fine line of laughable programming. Up their with CNN and MSNBC. For real news going elsewhere is the best bet. Either local news, Reuters, etc.
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