Fox News reporter in Charlottesville glorifies Nazi murder suspect as a ‘white vigilante’
Sure, remember your great granddaddy the horse thief.
But not with pride.
With shame?
Well, no, you didn't do it.
But still.
The story.
During a report from Charlottesville, Virginia, [Fox News reporter Doug] McKelway noted that anti-Confederate activists were destroying Civil War statues in Virginia and other surrounding states after James Alex Fields, Jr. was accused of using his car to kill 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
“The crisis is going to be brewing in other cities,” McKelway said.
“Those who find the system of slavery to be so abhorrent that we should have no memories of it whatsoever to those who believe that what their great-great-great-great granddaddy did in the Civil War should be remembered and preserved.”
“And then, this ventures into the area of airbrushing of history,” the Fox News reporter continued.
“A tactic of totalitarian governments, a common practice in the former Soviet Union where people who fell into disfavor in the government were literally airbrushed out of history.”
Yup, that's one of those annoyingly figurative uses of "literally".
And those who want these monuments gone are a bunch of lefty goddam totalitarians, right?
McKelway added: “We’ve also learned when the funeral service will be held for Heather Heyer, the young woman, the 32 year old that was killed by the white vigilante who mowed down people in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday.”
A vigilante?
I suppose it's no surprise that CNN (the Communist News Network, according to the right), and MSNBC are so frankly on the side of those who want to get rid of these monuments and flags, while Fox joins Breitbart in defending them.
This is why the Republicans and the conservative movement can't get away from the charge they harbor racists and are at least soft on racism, when they aren't openly supportive of it.
They do.
And they are.
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