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Fox News Claims 'Magic Negro' Text Was 'Inadvertently Cleared for Air'
As ThinkProgress recently noted, Fox News allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to make it on the air during its New Years broadcast. In a statement to TVNewser yesterday, Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott defended the incident, claiming that the text message referring to Rush Limbaugh's "Barack the Magic Negro" song was "inadvertently cleared for air." Instead of offering an apology, Scott took the opportunity to attack Fox's rivals:
Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott explains, "We received tens of thousands of text message submissions during our New Years Eve special, and this particular viewer submission was inadvertently cleared for air. At FOX we recognize our error as opposed to networks who allow their hosts to utter crude vulgarities to the public."
Fox New has a history of allowing racially-charged language aimed at Obama and his family to make it on air and then claiming it was simply a mistake. In June, after a Fox chyron referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mama," Fox's Senior Vice President of Programming Bill Shine explained it by saying that "A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment."
Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
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