Friday, February 1, 2019

JANUARY 2019 IGNOMINIOUS ABSURDITY OF THE MONTH: THE IGGY



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1. Fox News. Fox News has been a shameful apologist in its responses to the Trump Administration’s inhumane immigration policies on the Mexican border. With Americans being exposed to images of small children being stripped from their parents and held in caged-in detention centers, Fox has been steadfast in downplaying the cruelty and blaming, of course, Democrats for the inhumanity.

As we approach the new year, here’s a brief round-up of the more callous, hateful, embarrassing and downright jaw-dropping moments the entire Fox line-up has shoved to viewers throughout the year. Buckle up and ride this embarrassing wave until the end.

Fox has been consistent in contending that the children aren’t really being kept in cages. You see, they “are merely chain-link walls” to create rooms.  Small rooms, but hey! Definitely not cages! Back in June, Tucker Carlson summed it up:

"No matter what they tell you, this isn't about helping children. A lot of people yelling at you on TV don't even have kids, so don't for a second let them take moral high ground. Their goal is to change your country forever."

And with no irony detected whatsoever, Carlson’s guest, acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said the comparison to Nazis is unfair because “they are simply enforcing laws enacted by Congress.”

But, nothing, and I mean NOTHING could top The Ingraham Angle with host Laura Ingraham and special guest, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. First up, Laura Ingraham laughed off the suggestion that tearing kids, including babies, from their parents and sticking them in cages inside a former Walmart amounted to child abuse. Ingraham wanted her audience to know, these child prisons are “essentially summer camps!”

What the hell kind of summer camp does Laura Ingraham send her kids to? We have one working as a summer camp counselor right now and you know what they are doing? Zip lining, learning how to care for animals, doing craft projects, creating variety show skits and making s’mores over a campfire.

But, my God, nothing could prepare us for what came next on Ingraham’s show. Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined Ingraham to beat back the growing, legitimate comparisons between the concentration camps of Germany and these border facilities and the indefinite lock-up of migrants. Hitler whipped up nationalism using many of these same techniques, scapegoating Jewish people and immigrants. So, how did Sessions bat down these comparisons? By claiming they are nothing like the Nazis because Hitler wouldn’t let the Jews leave Germany.

In the last week of December, Fox excused ICE’s anti-immigrant actions when it featured New York’s jackass Representative Peter King saying:

“They’ve had hundreds of thousands of people that they had custody of over the years and I think these are the only two children that have died in recent memory.”

That’s right, he thinks it’s ONLY two dead kids. And, they weren’t even white kids. And besides, King points out, it “does happen in housing projects across the country” all the time. Which also sounds like dog whistle for “other kids who aren’t white, so who cares?”

What is wrong with these people? Where were they radicalized to be so cruel and inhumane? Every action they take is more deplorable than the last. It is past time for Congress to start acting as the check and balance they were intended to be. The need to find their spines. If they don’t, let’s hope American voters send them to the unemployment lines. In the meantime, pick up the phone and call your elected representatives today to demand this policy end and these children are reunited with their parents.

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