Fox News hack Andrea Tantaros said,
“You know what baffles the mind? This isn’t a Republican flag.
Historically this was the flag of southern Democrats, remember that,
fact? I find this flag offensive. This flag represents the fight in
slavery, and it was a flag that the southern Democrats — Democrats —
used to fly against Northern Republicans so I’m not sure why Republicans
are getting peppered over this.”
Tantaros brought up an old time favorite misleading
statement by the right. Southerners did support the Democratic Party,
but what Fox News likes to leave out is that racist ideological strain
left the Democratic Party and moved over to the Republicans during the
Civil Rights movement.
It is ridiculous for anyone to claim that the
Confederate flag is the flag of the party that is led by the nation’s
first African-American president. It is even more absurd for Fox News to
ignore the fact that it was Republicans who supported flying the
Confederate flag over the state capitol.
Republicans are getting hammered for this because
they are the party that pushed for the Confederate flag as a symbol of
“Southern heritage.” The Confederate flag is not a Republican flag or a
Democratic flag. It is a Naval Jack that bigoted morons perverted into a symbol of slavery, racism and hate.
There is only one political party in the United
States that has been using racism to scare and divide the country, and
that is the Republican Party.
Fox News is getting desperate and pulling out all of
the stops to spin away the right’s trafficking in racial politics. Fox
is even out of step with Republicans like South Carolina Gov. Nikki
Haley, who is set to call for the flag to be taken down.
The
years of Fox News supported racial hate are coming back to bite
Republicans and their cable news network. Fox News embraced the racial
dog whistles, so now they own the ugly symbolism of the Confederate
flag.
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