FOX NEWS PROMOTES ISLAMOPHOBIA, HOMOPHOBIA, AND XENOPHOBIA
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Below is just a sample of some egregious statements made by Fox News hosts, contributors, and guests over the past few years:
FOX NEWS ON MUSLIMS
“[W]hen I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
(Juan Williams, The O’Reilly Factor, 10/18/10)
“[T]here was a certain group of people that attacked us on 9-11. It wasn’t just one person. It was one religion. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”
(Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends, 10/15/10)
“[Park51] could also be the first stop for a radical jihadist who comes to America who wants to go pray.”
(Bill Hemmer, America’s Newsroom, 9/7/10)
“[Burning the Quran is] just like the Ground Zero mosque plan.”
(Glenn Beck, Blog Post, 9/6/10)
“[Park51 is] being built to commemorate a great victory over the United States on 9-11.”
(Neal Boortz, Fox & Friends, 8/31/10)
“Think of [Park51] as a law school in shari’a law where they recruit people, train them, indoctrinate
them in it.”
(Dick Morris, The O’Reilly Factor , 8/25/10)
“[Park51] may be a meeting place for some of the scariest minds — some of the biggest terrorist minds.”
(Eric Bolling, Fox & Friends, 8/19/10)
”[T]hese Sharia mosques… have become the command centers for terrorists… so [Park51] would be, too.”
(Dick Morris, The O’Reilly Factor , 8/18/10)
“[Park51]… feels like a stab in the heart to, collectively, Americans who still have that lingering pain from 9-11… this is a slap to those innocent victims who were murdered that day on 9-11.”
(Sarah Palin, On the Record, 8/16/10)
“I think the whole idea of the mosque is outrageous, and if you’re a student of history, you know that mosques are often built to trumpet their victories.”
(Jeanine Pirro, Fox & Friends, 8/16/10)
“Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington… There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.”
(Newt Gingrich, Fox & Friends, 8/16/10)
“[Muslims are] enslaved by Islam.”
(Franklin Graham, Fox & Friends, 4/22/10)
“We used to acclimate new immigrants to America to become Americans. The one part Muslims really seem to have acclimated to is the whole victim culture. And on 9-11 they became the number one victims, [with] privileges.”
(Ann Coulter, Hannity, 11/13/09)
“If all Muslims would boycott airlines, we could dispense with airport security.”
(Ann Coulter, The O’Reilly Factor, 3/25/09)
FOX NEWS ON LGBT ISSUES
On Carl Paladino’s statement that children should not be “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option”: “I think someone on this network should [be making these statements]”
(Ann Coulter, The O’Reilly Factor, 10/11/10)
“We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn’t work the same.”
(Mike Huckabee, Interview in the New Yorker, 6/21/10)
On a gay-inclusive French McDonald’s ad: “Do they have an al-Qaeda ad?”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 6/2/10)
Objection to the Boys Scouts’ anti-gay policy is “politically correct jihad.”
(Michelle Malkin, Fox & Friends, 4/15/10)
On bathroom requests for transgendered college students: “It’s bogus… it’s so stupid it’s ridiculous.”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factory, 4/13/10)
“[Allowing same-sex marriage] would be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want who use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, so we should accommodate them.”
(Mike Huckabee, Interview in The Perspective, 4/9/10)
On same-sex couples adopting children: “Children are not puppies. This is not a time to see if we can experiment and find out, how does this work?”
(Mike Huckabee, Interview in The Perspective, 4/9/10)
“I don’t want [LGBT] people intruding on a parade where little children are standing there, watching. And then they have to go, ‘Mommy, what does that mean?’ OK?”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 3/17/10)
“The New York Timesis a wholly owned subsidiary of the gay rights movement… There are stories, columns, editorials on the entertainment page, on the business page, on the front page, pushing a pro-gay rights agenda. That’s just a fact. That is an observable, provable fact.”
(Cal Thomas, Fox News Watch, 2/6/10)
On a California state bill requiring textbooks to recognize the accomplishments of historical LGBT figures: “[This bill] is a form of fascism… [i]n the sense that you have to say good things about this group.”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 5/8/06)
“[If same-sex marriage] becomes law, all other alternative marital visions will be allowed. We’ve already seen a Dutchman marry two ladies in the Netherlands. Looks like a happy guy. And now comes word that a British woman has married a dolphin in Israel.”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 1/4/06)
FOX NEWS ON IMMIGRATION
Morris referred to the 14th Amendment as the “anchor baby amendment.”
(Clayton Morris, Fox & Friends, 9/4/10)
On Mexican drug lords’ murder of police officers: “[S]ome would say that a lot of the illegals have that sense of entitlement here because they’ve been allowed to have that sense of entitlement here.”
(Gretchen Carlson, Fox & Friends, 7/8/10)
“[D]id Arizona act reasonably here under the circumstances by passing this somewhat draconian law? And I think the answer may well be yes…”
(Brian Hume, Fox News Sunday, 4/25/10)
“[The National Council of La Raza] has called for Mexico to annex southwestern states.”
(Sean Hannity, Hannity, 2/26/09)
“[The New York Timesand the far-left] want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure… and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have… So I say you’ve got to cap [immigration] with a number.”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 5/31/07)
“[Children of undocumented immigrants] dumb down the American children and overpopulate our schools.”
(Michelle Dallacroce, Your World, 5/19/06)
“[There was] a story yesterday that half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic… Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic… Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call ‘gabachos’ — white people — are having fewer. … The rest of you: Get busy. Make babies. … Procreation not recreation.”
(John Gibson, The Big Story, 5/11/06)
The immigrant rights movement has a “hidden agenda” to bring about “the browning of America.”
(Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor, 4/12/06)
“With so many illegals hitting the streets [to protest], is this the perfect time to round up these lawbreakers and ship them out?”
(David Asman, Your World, 4/10/06)
“[T]he intellectual underpinnings of reconquista are embraced by the vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians.”
(Michelle Malkin, The O’Reilly Factor, 3/30/2006)
“I am no hard-liner on immigration who wants to expel 11 million illegal immigrants, but flags are a symbol of national identity. The student brandishing the Mexican flag signals divided loyalty or perhaps loyalty to a foreign power.”
(Robert Novak, The Big Story, 3/29/06)
