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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:29 PM
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Fox News S. Carolina affiliate PLUGGING white supremacist website
Fox News South Carolina affiliate quietly promotes white supremacist website; Site says Fox is a member
John Byrne


A South Carolina Fox News affiliate ran a story appearing to cheer a white supremacist website -- and the leader of the group says that Fox News staff are members of his white supremacy forum, RAW STORY can reveal.

The story was picked up by Jesus' General Dec. 18.

The story, which profiled white supremacist website Stormfront.org, ran on Fox Carolina's WHNS website in late November. It is still available in Google's cache.

"It's a web site with everything from dating advice and homemaking threads, to discussion boards that focus on news that white activists want to know," the unattributed Fox News author wrote. "Stormfront.org is a web site founded on the belief that the white race is a dying race."

Wrote Fox Carolina, "one member says, 'we really are just white folks that deeply care about preserving a future for our progeny.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Fox_News_South_Carolina_affiliate_quietly_1222.html
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:31 PM
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1. Hilarious.
Nice to know that they are showing their true colors. Bravo, WHNS. Bravo.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:33 PM
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2. I had this already to post here but my computer crashed on about 5 min
Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 12:34 PM by stop the bleeding
ago.

:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

Needless to I am fucking pissed right now at my computer, because I love wasting my time:sarcasm:
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roseBudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:39 PM
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3. I sent a shame on you to every contact on that site, I also sent a notice
to the furniture store whose ad appears on that page. I strongly urge other DUers to do the same. The meterorologist wrote me back saying it wasn't her fault. I replied that when we are silent we are complicit.

Here is the full text of the story:

It's a web site with everything from dating advice and homemaking threads, to discussion boards that focus on news that white activists want to know. Stormfront.org is a web site founded on the belief that the white race is a dying race.
One member says, "we really are just white folks that deeply care about preserving a future for our progeny."
There are more than 65,000 members, and since Stormfront started in 1995 there have been more than 2,000,000 posts. Members live in all parts of the world, with close to 3,000 in and around South Carolina.
Bob Whitaker is a former Reagan administration cabinet member and an active member of Stormfront. He believes diversity and equal rights are at the center of a conspiracy against the white race. Whitaker says, "I'm worried about the disappearance of the white race." Whitaker says too much is being done to diversify America and not enough is being done to protect people like him. "I'm worried about 2 things. I'm worried about the disappearance of the white race and I'm worried about the fact that no one is allowed to talk about the disappearance of the white race, which is even worse."
But all Americans are provided equal protection under the law, which means equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
Jamie Kelso is one of Stormfront's senior moderators. He uses the screen name Charles A. Lindbergh, a well-known aviator who believed in the preservation of the white race. Kelso says, "I admire Charles Lindbergh as someone who throughout his life took pride in the white race and was very concerned about preserving it."
Even though Stormfront was created by former Ku Klux Klansman Don Black, Kelso says their message isn't one of hate. "We're called anti-Semitic, we're called neo-Nazi, we're called racist we're none of that." Instead, Stormfront members say their message is much more simple. "We don't hate anybody. The only thing we're concerned with is that 100 years from now, 500 years from now that there will actually be the kind of white neighborhoods and white nations that our parents and ancestors gave to us."
Kelso says Stormfront simply provides a safe forum for people to use without fear of retaliation. "Really the political correctness today, you could even call it vicious. On the Internet you can anonymously talk to other people and open up and say what you want to say. This has really opened up a new chance for people to have free speech."
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 12:53 PM
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4. All who are surprised, please raise your hands
Anyone?


I'm still not seeing any hands.



(Taps microphone) Is this thing on? Hello?
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bammertheblue Donating Member (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 02:18 PM
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5. I'm not suprised
that they would plug it, just that they did (if that makes any sense). I mean that Fox News has pretty consistenly shown itself to be racist, sexist, bla bla bla...but plugging a white supremacy web site is pretty taboo, not to mention repugnant. I'm suprised that they did it in that sense.
That's some ugly, ugly shit right there. Hopefully this will make people think, but I'm not that optimistic.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 02:23 PM
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6. You SC folks need to organize a boycott
of any local businesses who advertise on that FOX station. See if you can put them out of business!
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 06:53 PM
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7. Cut Fox a break, they are just acknowledging their base.
/sarcasm
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