FoxNews.com: How Stereotypical?

Do these FoxNews.com stories and images offer a racist stereotypical theme to its readers? I have come across overt racist neo-nazi sites before completely by accident. While looking up information on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 signed by George W. Bush, I clicked on a link to David Duke’s message board. One member asked isn’t this a bad bill that will hurt average Americans to which another responded so long as it hurts blacks he’s all for it. The site like many others I’ve made wrong turns into had a common theme. In addition to the obvious portrayal of minorities in a very negative light, the sites were plastered with links, articles and banners for “beautiful whites only” dating services. The pictures were very often of blond men and women, and almost always with stark blue eyes.

Anybody who pays partial attention to the news or politics knows that Fox News is a bastion for right wing extremism. A few moments is all it takes for you to be either seduced by the conspiracy theories of Glenn Beck or most likely moved to nausea by the fear and subtle racism perpetrated by the network as a whole to play on the insecurities of an ignorant audience, all in the name of high ratings.

Look I am not the ultra-sensitive type who looks on every racial comment or imagery with a raised eyebrow of suspicion. Policing subliminal messages is a very tedious and full time job, made complex by its ambiguity. But when racial overtone is a reoccurring theme as is the case with Fox News, it makes you think no wonder all of its contributors think the US government should open up the flood gates of racial profiling to ward off the brown skinned “terrorist” who would do us harm.

A recent independent Daily Kos poll found that a significant number of Republicans think that President Obama is an impeachable racist, terrorist loving, socialist foreigner who never would have been elected had it not been for the voting fraud of ACORN. This does NOT, I repeat, does not imply that Republicans are all racists. It does however indicate that the party has been taken over by its extreme elements (i.e. the Tea Party movement), and that is what is being catered to. Given the fact that this group is a key demographic of the Fox News audience you can easily draw the conclusion that the face of its web site FoxNews.com is not coincidental but instead is a pattern of race baiting and fear mongering. Or am I just reading too much into this.
Anyway…I’m just saying.