To counteract all the media attention focused on the events in Ferguson, MO, Fox News is devoting itself to 24/7 ginned-up outrage about all the media coverage.
In Fox's view, the media (i.e. everyone but them) has "played the race card" and "inflamed racial tensions" by merely reporting the facts of the story, and everything would have been so much better if it was never reported at all and everybody just shut up.
Their take on the matter:
"We're tired of hearing about racism. Don't you black people know that slavery is over? We gave you your freedom. You can vote and go to school and hold a job, just like us. OK, an unarmed black teen with his hands up was shot six times by a white cop. That's not racism, that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Stop whining!"
To paraphrase Jon Stewart:
If the privileged white pundits at Roger Ailes' Fear Factory are so tired of hearing about racism, imagine how fucking exhausting it must be to live with it every day.
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