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Fox News Employee Chastises Colleagues For “White Supremacist Chat Room” Email
We already know what type time Fox News is on, so it comes as no surprise that a great many of their employees are in line with the type of white power mentality that people like Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs subscribe to.
Today comes further evidence of this fact.
According to DailyBeast, internal Fox News emails have been leaked to the public where one of the news corps decent employees chided and rebuked his Mein Kampf-y colleagues for sounding like a “white supremacist chat room” on a particularly obsequious email thread in defense of the Fuhrer-In-Chief Donald Trump.
As Joe Biden entered the presidential race this week, he did so in direct opposition to Trump. His announcement had a clip of Trump infamous “very fine people on both sides” quote following the race riot in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. The Fox News douchebags, reporter Doug McKelway and digital senior editor Cody Derespina, tried to argue that Trump never really said those words.
McKelway began his email with a Winston Churchill quote: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” He then proceeded to echo the pro-Trump claim that the president never said what he said about the neo-Nazis who marched at the deadly event.
McKelway contrasted portions of Biden’s script against the same quotes that pro-Trump outlets have used to claim the president never defended white nationalists. And then the reporter highlighted a quote from his own interview with Brian Lambert, an armed Unite the Right attendee, who portrayed the neo-Nazi rallygoers as victims: “They’re denying people their right to assemble. They’re denying their right to speak freely, however hateful their views may be,” he bemoaned.
Cody replied all agreeing with McKelway and providing a link to his interview with marcher Jarrod Kuhn claiming he wasn’t a violent racist, just didn’t want to see the Robert E. Lee statue removed.
White House correspondent Jon Decker finally had enough and politely ethered both men on another reply-all email containing dozens of addressees.
“I really don’t understand the point you are making,” he wrote. “Jarrod Kuhn was one of those individuals in Charlottesville holding a tiki torch while the mob chanted ‘Jews will not replace us.’”
And then:
“So much for your Winston Churchill quote,” Decker shot back hours later for all to see.
He scolded McKelway for “invoking Churchill to what happened in Charlottesville,” calling it “rather offensive.”
In fact, Decker continued, “Based upon the slew of emails that I’ve received today, both of you should send an apology to your Fox News colleagues—many of whom are hurt and infuriated by your respective posts. Your posts read like something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”
Sounds like Fox News office politics is just as nasty as their on-air politics. Some real Game of Thrones s#!t. SMH.