St. Petersburg Times' Deggans: "The scary person of color" is "at the heart of a lot" of Fox News stories
July 22, 2010 5:07 pm ET
From the July 22 edition of CNN's Rick's List:
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It's also at the heart of at least a couple of Clint Eastwood movies.
I made that comment from the title to the item alone, w/o watching the video, as what I thought was maybe a wry but true observation about movies and television in general, and how they not only stereotype all groups, gays Asians teens the elderly Hispanics women, you name them and television stereotypes them, but African-Americans in particular and mostly in a terribly negative way, like for example in Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" and in other movies of his.
But I just now watched the video and I don't get it... what was Sanchez getting at by referring to "Fox's target audience", was he or was he not referring to or admitting that Fox television news has been obsessed of late with video clips that show African-Americans in a very negative way?
He himself listed several examples, and then strangely asks what do they all have in common... and the question was so foolish for it's obvious answer that Deggans laughed at it, but Sanchez then said no no I'm serious.
What was that supposed to mean, does Sanchez think that Fox television news is obsessed with showing video of blacks in a negative light or not?
And if so (and how can he not think it so if he himself listed all the evidential examples of these videos), if so then what was the strange question about "Fox's target audience" supposed to imply?
Here's what I mean, if because Fox's audience is mostly white, does that mean it's OK to obsess over blacks in a negative way, and keeping repeatedly running video of people saying or doing strange and even wrong things, and those people are always for some reason black, and in the most recent example the video in truth contained nothing strange or wrong, but so what they edited it to appear bad anyway... this is all OK, because Fox's audience is white, is that what Sanchez was saying?
I don't get it and I can't be sure, it seems strange, it's seems almost like he's saying it's OK what the Ku Klux Klan does because their target audience is also white (I know that's an example excessive in degree, but still the same in kind), it's OK to bash someone or stereotype them, as long as that's what your audience does, if your audience hates or fears or suspects minorities, then that's your target, you program to your target audience... was that Sanchez's point?
I don't know, I guess I should never have even listened to the video clip (all of what Deggan said made perfect sense, it was the gesturing face-making over-emphasized voice of Sanchez that confused me).
I already know what television does when it stereotypes minorities and everyone else, and I know what Fox television news is doing of late, but Sanchez, does he know?
Or is he simply corrupted by the industry he works in and is fabulously well paid by I'm sure.
I think that CNN's (fake) mandate of (fake) fairness is what leads to this. It is enhanced in someone like Sanchez, who is, shall we say, not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
As you imply, he's probably insulated by money and celebrity. His bosses say: "tell both sides!" And he thinks he is doing his job - and the country a service - by playing this strained equanimity schtick that makes CNN so bland, and so misinforming.
GOD, you people are pu$$es.
Are you also aware that the one holding the stick was not a supporter of Obama, in fact, he had made the statement that he didn't want Obama to win and that he hated the "white" part of Obama just as much as he hated every other white person. See, you're making the assumption that he was a supporter of Obama based solely on the color of his skin. Pretty stereotypical and racist, don't you think?
There were only 13 votes cast in that district for anyone else besides Obama, so it appears that no one was kept from voting for the scary black man's apparent candidate of choice, John McCain.
Lord, inform yourself.
Doesn't matter to IDontMeanAnything, b; the NBP man is black, Obama is black, and that's all he(?) needs to know...
This is a community of independent thinkers.
You pick.
Just because you find it necessary to roll with alternative identities, don't fault other for sticking with the things that work.
I've heard worse and I've heard more overt comments than that one. It's not a pickup line I'd ever use.
I don't see any strawmen. Sanchez makes a false equivalence, but if you can be specific and point out the strawman you're talking about, I'm interested in where you see that fallacy.
I assume you're talking about Sanchez. When commenting on a clip of two men talking, starting out with a pronoun isn't the clearest way to get your point across, especially when you leave the rest of your comment this fuzzy.
You may be confused about the meaning of the term "strawman". Same with "joke".
It doesn't appear relevant to CNN that sometimes, one side is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
If McCain had won the election, waging this campaign would have never entered Ailes' mind.