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Thursday, May 19, 2011

How Fox News Uses 'Big, Scary Hip-Hop' to Race-Bait its Viewers | | AlterNet

How Fox News Uses 'Big, Scary Hip-Hop' to Race-Bait its Viewers | | AlterNet

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Last week, Fox News’ Sean Hannity tried to create a controversy over the rapper Common’s invitation to a White House poetry event. Citing a lyric in which Common criticized President Bush for lying to the American people and leading the nation into an unjust war, Hannity tried to paint the rapper as dangerous and "controversial,” the kind of person the Secret Service needed to vet. The lyric in question: "Burn a Bush ‘cause for peace he no push no button/ Killing over oil and grease/no weapons of destruction."

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