Comedian Silverman Calls Fox News “Racism Engine”
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2010/06/03 21:00:00
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You have to expect that anyone who calls their book “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee” is not going to tread lightly on any subject. But when the topic is Fox News, comedian/author Sarah Silverman has come out swinging, lambasting the Rupert Murdoch news channel for trafficking in what she labeled round-the-clock intolerance.
"The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it's all coded, all implied," she wrote in the book, adding, “Lou Dobbs used to scream on CNN about 'immigration,' not 'filthy Mexicans.'" The salty quotes from the joke slinger – who uses plenty of racially-charged language in her standup in service of irony – come a short time after her Comedy Central sitcom was canceled, which paved the way for Fox News to strike back … hard.
“Sarah's anger is understandable having recently lost her television show,” a Fox News spokesperson slapped back in response to the claims in Silverman’s book. "We sympathize with her need for attention considering her book is languishing near 300 on Amazon.com.”
If it makes the Fox folks feel any better, Silverman didn’t just paint them with a racist brush, she also lashed out at right-wingers in general in the satirical book.
"Right-wing Americans who appear in mainstream media are not out there calling black people 'n---ers,' or saying, 'The Klan has good ideas,'" she wrote in the book. "Instead, they're questioning the legitimacy of Obama's presidency by accusing him of being born in Africa or of being a Muslim. Or they're having tea parties and calling Obama a 'communist' and a 'Nazi.'"
Do you think Silverman’s comments were out of line?
"The entire Fox News Channel is a 24-hour-a-day racism engine, but it's all coded, all implied," she wrote in the book, adding, “Lou Dobbs used to scream on CNN about 'immigration,' not 'filthy Mexicans.'" The salty quotes from the joke slinger – who uses plenty of racially-charged language in her standup in service of irony – come a short time after her Comedy Central sitcom was canceled, which paved the way for Fox News to strike back … hard.
“Sarah's anger is understandable having recently lost her television show,” a Fox News spokesperson slapped back in response to the claims in Silverman’s book. "We sympathize with her need for attention considering her book is languishing near 300 on Amazon.com.”
If it makes the Fox folks feel any better, Silverman didn’t just paint them with a racist brush, she also lashed out at right-wingers in general in the satirical book.
"Right-wing Americans who appear in mainstream media are not out there calling black people 'n---ers,' or saying, 'The Klan has good ideas,'" she wrote in the book. "Instead, they're questioning the legitimacy of Obama's presidency by accusing him of being born in Africa or of being a Muslim. Or they're having tea parties and calling Obama a 'communist' and a 'Nazi.'"
Do you think Silverman’s comments were out of line?
Top Opinion
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y so serious 2010/06/03 23:18:53Yes, she’s making broad generalizations that she can’t back up.
+40Oh, the woman who called asians CHINKS is the authority on political correctness...
I guess the LPNJs have been perfecting stupidity in both sexes.
Good old Soda - way to be biased as usual.
Silverman's comments are just one of the liberal default statements.
" I have my mind made UP! Do NOT confuse me with the FACTS!"
SamFox
SS is to have said " “Lou Dobbs used to scream on CNN about 'immigration,' not 'filthy Mexicans.' ". This is another example of lib prog spin. Lou did talk about ILLEGAL immigration, not simply 'immigration'. That one is very common in Circle: Circus Of UN-Awareness, AKA ; the prog lib sideshow. I never heard Lou disparage any race.
SamFox