At this point, it surprises no one that Fox News continues to hire a veritable all-star team of racists. Recent additions include Laura Ingraham, a woman who thinks undocumented immigrants who want to re-enter the country should be shot, and Tomi Lahren, whoโs likened Black Lives Matter to the new Ku Klux Klan.
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Well, take that racist casserole and add a side of NaziโSebastian Gorka, Donald Trumpโs former deputy assistant and a man who, coincidentally, has ties to a Nazi-allied group.
As Forward discovered earlier this year, Vitรฉzi Rend, a far-right Hungarian group with strong Nazi ties, claimed that Gorka was a โsworn member.โ Gorka also wore the groupโs medal when he attended Trumpโs inaugural ball in January. (Gorka denies having ever taken an oath of loyalty to the group.)
Gorka will join Fox as a โnational security strategist,โ according to ThinkProgress, despite the fact that, without his controversial Fox News appearances, counterterrorism and national security experts told Politico that they wouldnโt know who the hell he was:
โWhen I first encountered his name during the transition, I did a triple-take. Iโve been in counterterrorism since 1998, and I thought I knew everyone. But Iโd never heard his name and couldnโt recall anything heโd written or said,โ said Daniel Benjamin, who served as counterterrorism coordinator under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Really, Daniel? You couldnโt even compliment Gorkaโs beautiful gowns?
It isnโt Gorkaโs โexpertiseโ that Fox News seeks as much as his reliable, you-can-set-a-Third Reich-clock-to-it Islamophobic and xenophobic views.
Peep the rรฉsumรฉ, courtesy of ThinkProgress:
White people and white supremacists are โnot the problemโ when it comes to terrorism.
The presidentโs silence about a mosque bombing was because the attack could have been faked by liberals.
The White House doesnโt attack Islam and Muslims enough.
Sounds about white, which means itโs a perfect fit for Fox.
Read more at ThinkProgress.
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