Fox News claims ‘magic negro’ text was "inadvertently cleared for air"

By GottaLaff

Just like some of the so-called "polite" trolls, Fox News [sic] is defending itself against the "magic negro" crawl message it displayed on New Years Eve. From my Troll post:

Disruptive people, who keep themselves just at the edge of acceptable behavior. [...]

These are the posters all too often cry innocence and hide behind the very worthy excuse of open discussion, but are frequently just trying to stir up trouble.

Those are usually the ones accusing trusted and long time users of promoting censorship and trollish behavior.

Sound familiar? It should:

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.”

Amazing, isn't it, how Faux News and trolls offer identical "innocent" excuses while pointing the finger at anyone but themselves. It won't wash on the Tee Vee Machine, and it doesn't wash here in the Blogosphere.