Sandy Gholston
Common
The whole Fox News-generated overblown controversy regarding the rapper and poet Common is one that I’d like to say I find interesting and surprising, BUT … I don’t.
I’d like to say say that the Fox News hysteria over Common’s performance at the White House was strictly related to the network’s misguided belief that he is some sort of a gangsta rapper … or something along those lines.
Frankly, I am not going to go into a long explanation of how ignorant this whole issue is (which is pretty much a given coming from Fox News).
But, I will offer the obvious … this clearly is racially tinged (even if somewhat coded). Once again, Fox News is taking an opportunity to try and portray President Obama as some kind of black nationalist or racist (or someone who sympathizes with black nationalism or anti-white racism). To normal people, this is utterly ludicrous, but to call most of the people at Fox News normal is to borderline defame real normal people.
This whole issue with Common is largely based on race and trying to portray President Obama as an angry black man who is “not really one of us” to the highly conservative Fox News audience. This is the strategy of people like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin. This is why they attack Common and excuse Ted Nugent.
Hannity, and this is no surprise coming from him, was comfortable with this attack on a black man (that is never a surprise from this man) and a woman running for President of the United States of America.
Nugent’s comments were OK, to Hannity, but the Fox News bigots jumped all over Common and took every shot possible at someone who has a high level of integrity and is quite the conscientious man with very positive messages.
Coming from Fox News, this is no surprise … in fact, it is ironically common.
You really have it in for Fox! Might I suggest that Fox is the ONLY network that is truly and consistently presenting a balanced news diet. There are often two sides presented whereas on CNN for example you more often see a one-sided discussion and an avoidance of issues that present the conservatives as a positive force. Where for example would you look to see a more complete view on the OWS demonstrations than FOX? You don’t hear much on MSNBC or CNN about how that OWSers are defecating on public property, commiting rape, making anti-semitic statements, destroying property and so on. That is not fiction. Perhaps if you watched FOX – I know this might seem painful to you – for about a month or so, omitting the others, you might have a change of mind and heart.
You lost me at “balanced news diet”…
I could throw your question back at you an state that “You really have it in for black people?” … but I decline to do so. I could, but I will not.