REPORT: Fox News has hyped phony New Black Panthers scandal at least 95 times

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http://mediamatters.org/research/201007160038

REPORT: Fox News has hyped phony New Black Panthers scandal at least 95 times

Fox devoted more than 8 hours of airtime to discussion of New Black Panthers

July 16, 2010 5:26 pm ET

Six Fox News shows have discussed the phony New Black Panthers scandal during a total of 95 segments since Megyn Kelly's June 30 interview hyping the unsubstantiated allegations of right-wing activist J. Christian Adams. In all, these Fox shows have devoted more than eight hours of airtime to discussing the New Black Panthers.

Adams' accusations don't stand up to the facts

•Adams is a longtime right-wing activist who is known for filing an ethics complaint against Hugh Rodham that was subsequently dismissed. Adams served as a poll watcher for George W. Bush in Florida in 2004, and he reportedly volunteered for a Republican group that trains lawyers to fight "racially tinged battles over voting rights."

•Adams was hired at the Justice Department in 2005 by Bradley Schlozman, who was found by the Justice Department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility to have improperly considered political affiliation when hiring career attorneys -- the former head of the DOJ voting rights section reportedly said that Adams was "exhibit A of the type of people hired by Schlozman."

•Adams has admitted that he does not have firsthand knowledge of the events, conversations, and decisions that he is citing to advance his accusations.

•The Bush administration's Justice Department -- not the Obama administration -- made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008.

[Turbineguy]

1. Well yes, but

it is their mandate to misinform.

[madrchsod]

2. these guys are wimps compared to the real panthers

to bad the panthers are to old to kick their asses.

[tularetom]

3. You mean Fox or the new black panthers?

[Rex]

4. He looks long in the wiskers.

[tularetom]

6. Yup, and somebody's been chewin on his ears

and he may not have all his teeth either.

But I don't think Focksnooze would mess with him.

[Mopar151]

5. If there were really New Black Panthers

They'd have scared some teabaggers out of their support hose!