On an episode that probably should have been titled “Racist ignoramuses
and the Fox News correspondents who love them,” Geraldo Rivera claimed that “the hoodie is as much responsible for
Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”
Blaming fashion
choices for ignorance and violence is all the rage with those kids in the Republican
party nowadays. If a woman gets raped, it’s because she joined the military
and/or dressed too provocatively; if she gets pregnant, it’s because she forgot
to wear her God-issued aspirin pill; and if a kid gets murdered for no reason,
it’s because he had the audacity to wear something that covered his ears in the
rain.
Rivera tweeted: “In
the avalanche of criticism how interesting that most minority moms back me
because they want their sons to live long and prosper.” Nanu, nanu.
They’re just backing you, Rivera, because they don’t want to
end up on an episode of Geraldo with a bunch of skinheads and a broken nose.
Is it really any
wonder that Fox News viewers are considerably
less informed than people who don’t watch any news at all? Or that there
seems to be a link
between lack of intelligence and prejudice/social conservatism? I could make
up news that would be more reliable than the nonsense they churn out on Fox.
At least we still
have The Simpsons…
I also doubt that with his latino ethnicity, Rivera will even be narrating that skinhead documentary...unless it makes for a farcical scene in the Simpsons!
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...and The Daily Show w JS. Bless that man.
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