The ability of Fox News to consistently limbo ever lower beneath the line of decency continues to amaze me.

WTF Indeed: It's like these people wake up in the morning and think, "What completely ignorant thing can I say on TV today?".

It's Geraldo, I don't think there is much thinking going on in that head.

Oh FFS.

/the wrong person got capped

I wonder if his twitter account was hax0red.

Nah, this is something he'd say.

dj_bigbird: I wonder if his twitter account was hax0red.

Nah, this is something he'd say.

He really said it. Here's the video:

Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie To Blame For Trayvon Martin's Death

The mustache hairs finally reached his brain and are choking it.

WTF Indeed: It's like these people wake up in the morning and think, "What completely ignorant thing can I say on TV today?".

He is just making sure that people don't think he is an elite.

Geraldo Rivera's mustache is just as responsible for his bad journalism as his dishonesty & inability to think critically.

Fox News was better off ignoring the story.

/hot

Hoodie responsible for murder.

Justice was fleeced.

Considering the popularity of hoodies, it's amazing we have any children left at all.

When you wear a hoodie, you're supporting genocide.

True. I mean, hoodies alone are responsible for firing hundreds upon thousands of rounds downrange every year, while guns in the hands of anxious idiots with chips on their shoulders looking to prove something simply are just innocent bystanders...

Seriously, kids. This is defending an issue simply to be on the "other" side, as opposed to actually defending someone deserves it. It's sort of akin to the folks who leaped to the side of the cat who happened to be a Christian, while raising a child army and leading rape gangs.

Sometimes, the "other side" isn't an ideological divide, but a real line of lunacy and wrong. Not understanding that, sort of taints any position that you then take, because why you do something is as important to what you actually do. You save a girl from drowning because you want to squeeze her boobs while everyone watches, you're not a hero. People need to remember that...

One black blogger says the point more eloquently :

This is the very reason why I tell my son not to wear hoodies and such "indicators" because when you are dead, it's too late. My message to him has been that this is the society you live in and you have to be realistic. My own parents were as frank to me, when I was a boy; over and over, they said all the talk about equality is just talk, you have to protect your life, and to do so you have to do things white kids don't have to do.

Crucify the murderer in the court of law... then take away your kid's hoodies.

hubiestubert: This is defending an issue simply to be on the "other" side, as opposed to actually defending someone deserves it.

That's Fox News' corporate motto, right there. It's only fair and balanced if someone can take an opposing side. Water is wet you say? Partisan hackery! Water can be dry. After all, we have dry ice don't we?

Fox News - equal time for idiocy

Lumpmoose: One black blogger says the point more eloquently :

This is the very reason why I tell my son not to wear hoodies and such "indicators" because when you are dead, it's too late. My message to him has been that this is the society you live in and you have to be realistic. My own parents were as frank to me, when I was a boy; over and over, they said all the talk about equality is just talk, you have to protect your life, and to do so you have to do things white kids don't have to do.

Crucify the murderer in the court of law... then take away your kid's hoodies.

I was listening to an NPR segment the other day about this, and a black caller said pretty much the same thing, he said they were all (him, his family, every black person he knows) taught at a young age how to act. Don't run with anything in your hands, don't wear certain types of clothing, don't make any sudden moves.

It's quite sad that minorities have to go through that, but I guess like it or not it IS the reality, I guess if I were black, I'd tell my kids the same.

Ok... white people get to shoot black people displaying threatening clothes like hoodies and black people get to shoot white people displaying threatening signs like the confederate flag. No questions asked.

(I know hoodies and confederate flags are not in the same symbolism league... but this being America, we still have to set this things in whitey's favor).

1, 2, 3... GO!

WTF Indeed: If they were it would like the Free Republic had a public access show.

I want this project greenlit immediately.

Stay classy my friend.

swaniefrmreddeer: [newsone.com image 521x264]

Stay classy my friend.

Perhaps we should ALL drill into kids' heads: don't farking shoot people.

Digby, insightful as always.

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We talk about racism all the time, but I think we tend to focus on the wrong thing. This fear of young black men among a certain sub-group of the population runs deep and it's exploited and manipulated by politicians and groups like the NRA who feed into the stereotypes. These people do not think of themselves as racists --- they think being a racist means that you consciously believe racial minorities are inferior. But it isn't just that, although that's often a part of it. It's also this irrational fear of "the other" which some people just can't or won't let go of when it comes to African Americans.

But it's not just racism, although it certainly seems to be a factor in Trayvon Martin's death and many death across the country. It's also this insane gun culture, which is killing people every day for no good reason. The NRA has been holding this country hostage for decades now, insisting that the more people carry guns the safer we are. Unfortunately, the people who tend to buy that swill are would-be cops and vigilantes like George Zimmerman. Link (new window)

Since when is a hoodie gangsta-wear? I mean, I wear a hoodie every day. And I'm as white as hell.

Down here its black jeans with boxers exposed, and a white t-shirt. If a black kid is wearing that, I'm not going to friggin' shoot him. And maybe in our racist society, he is making himself a target.

But just on balance... a hoodie?

GAT_00: You have to wonder how much Fox would be howling if the kid had a gun and had turned it on this asshole.

That's a huge problem with the law. Criminals are using it as a legal defense. Sometimes the criminal isn't always the aggressor, per se. Go looking for a target, target doesn't take kindly to that idea, crook shoots target in "self-defense." And it has worked in a few cases.

Beaver1224: swaniefrmreddeer: [newsone.com image 521x264]

Stay classy my friend.

Perhaps we should ALL drill into kids' heads: don't farking shoot people.

Nah. Racism is easier.

CarnySaur: There are times when you should be afraid of kids wearing hoodies:

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That was a freaky movie.