A Fox affiliate in Orlando, Florida Saturday ran a story online and on air about Neo-Nazis but titled the piece, “Civil rights group patrolling Sanford.” The story, which reporter Jennifer Bisram introduced a segment on the group by saying, “There’s another civil rights group in town,” was focused on the National Socialist Movement, a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) certified hate group. But Bisram and FOX, about 20 hours later then labeled the Neo-Nazis a “white rights group.” It took FOX only 36 hours or so to pull the entire story and post another with the title, “Neo-Nazi group patrolling Sanford.” Of course, the question is, how many people saw the first story — whichFOX and Bisram never ran a correction about — and now think the National Socialist Movement is a civil rights group?
Pam Spaulding Friday evening was one of the first to report of the Neo-Nazi’s descent into the small Florida town, where she even included the SPLC’s profile of the hate group, in her piece, “Armed Neo-Nazis descend into Sanford, FL to show ‘solidarity with the white community’ there.” An excerpt:
NSM ideology mirrors that of the original American Nazi Party. The group openly idolizes Adolf Hitler, described in NSM propaganda as, “Our Fuhrer, the beloved Holy Father of our age … a visionary in every respect.” NSM says only heterosexual “pure-blood whites” should be allowed U.S. citizenship and that all nonwhites should be deported, regardless of legal status. As Schoep put it: “The Constitution was written by white men alone. Therefore, it was intended for whites alone.”
Spaulding on Sunday afternoon then reported, “Fox News 35 Orlando calls armed neo-Nazi org in Sanford, FL a ‘civil rights group’,” and Michael Hussey at Pushing Rope ran a similar story, including the original FOX video (below).
Hussey asks, “Does anyone down there at FOX35 know how to use ‘the Google?’ The National Socialist Movement is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and adds:
There is a problem in media when the media doesn’t challenge people that call President Obama a socialist. Yet, calls neo nazis a civil rights group. It truly is sickening.
Bisram did not immediately responds to our request for comment, but we will update this story if and when she does.
Hat tip: GottaLaff
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this should surprise no one. hate will continue until we make it hard for the haters to hate. boycotts, voting, ltte, networking at parties, forming our own groups to fight their hate, etc.
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