After every mass murder, misguided politicians, and journalists begin the blame game. Here a South Carolina state Rep. blames Fox News. Others blame guns. Still others blame mental illness. Few blame psychiatric drugs which has a causal connection to violence. Fewer still blame evil. Flip Wilson used to defend his character Geraldine after she bought an outrageous dress saying, "The devil made me do it." Then there was the Twinkie defense.
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On his Thursday “The O’Reilly Factor” program, host Bill O’Reilly took on South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford (D-Columbia), who also serves as his House’s minority leader, for his comments earlier in the day broadcasted on CNN blaming the Fox News Channel for Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.
“You said this Roof kid watches Fox News,” O’Reilly said. “Do you know that he watches Fox News?”
Rutherford downplayed the accusation and said that he said he watches things “like” Fox News.
“You said this Roof kid watches Fox News,” O’Reilly said. “Do you know that he watches Fox News?”
Rutherford downplayed the accusation and said that he said he watches things “like” Fox News.
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O’REILLY HITS BACK AT SC DEM REP BLAMING FOX NEWS FOR SC SHOOTING
by JEFF POOR
Published on Jun 18, 2015
Bill O'Reilly To Todd Rutherford Fox News Justifies Brutal Crimes Against Black Americans? todd Rutherford appeared on Fox News tonight, and Bill O’Reilly confronted him about those “disturbing” remarks. Rutherford stood by them and said there are a lot of black people disturbed by a lot of what Fox coers. O’Reilly really challenged Rutherford on what he’s talking about, who on Fox says what he thinks they say, and whether he’s honestly “equating what Dylann Roof did in that church to our commentary.”
Rutherford said that Fox is in the business of demonizing President Obama, playing up race issues in a negative way, and raising the birther issue. O’Reilly scolded Rutherford and said his friend the late reverend would not have “embraced that kind of rhetoric today.”
Watch the video below, via Fox News:Todd Rutherford, a South Carolina state legislator and a friend of one of the victims, spoke out on bill o'reilly on fox news about how “the rhetoric in South Carolina, the rhetoric nationwide, has led people to believe… that it’s okay to walk into a church and take nine lives.”
Rutherford spoke to bill o'reilly about the Charleston church shooting and the death of his friend Reverend Clementa Pinckney.
He said that South Carolina is part of the problem because there’s no hate crimes law and the Confederate flag flies at the capitol. Rutherford referred to networks using “coded language” before calling out one network in particular: “[The gunman] hears that because he watches the news and he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they’re really not. They use that coded language, they use hate speech, they talk about the president as if he’s not the president, they talk about churchgoers that they’re not really churchgoers. And that’s what this young man acted on. That’s why you can walk into a church and treat people like animals when they’re really human beings.”
O’REILLY HITS BACK AT SC DEM REP BLAMING FOX NEWS FOR SC SHOOTING
by JEFF POOR
18 Jun 2015
Published on Jun 18, 2015
Bill O'Reilly To Todd Rutherford Fox News Justifies Brutal Crimes Against Black Americans? todd Rutherford appeared on Fox News tonight, and Bill O’Reilly confronted him about those “disturbing” remarks. Rutherford stood by them and said there are a lot of black people disturbed by a lot of what Fox coers. O’Reilly really challenged Rutherford on what he’s talking about, who on Fox says what he thinks they say, and whether he’s honestly “equating what Dylann Roof did in that church to our commentary.”
Rutherford said that Fox is in the business of demonizing President Obama, playing up race issues in a negative way, and raising the birther issue. O’Reilly scolded Rutherford and said his friend the late reverend would not have “embraced that kind of rhetoric today.”
Watch the video below, via Fox News:Todd Rutherford, a South Carolina state legislator and a friend of one of the victims, spoke out on bill o'reilly on fox news about how “the rhetoric in South Carolina, the rhetoric nationwide, has led people to believe… that it’s okay to walk into a church and take nine lives.”
Rutherford spoke to bill o'reilly about the Charleston church shooting and the death of his friend Reverend Clementa Pinckney.
He said that South Carolina is part of the problem because there’s no hate crimes law and the Confederate flag flies at the capitol. Rutherford referred to networks using “coded language” before calling out one network in particular: “[The gunman] hears that because he watches the news and he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they’re really not. They use that coded language, they use hate speech, they talk about the president as if he’s not the president, they talk about churchgoers that they’re not really churchgoers. And that’s what this young man acted on. That’s why you can walk into a church and treat people like animals when they’re really human beings.”
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