Fox News sinks to a new low

[MarchHare]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200807020002

The New York Times recently ran a story critical of Fox News. Fox, in retaliation, labelled the journalist and his editor "Attack Dogs", and rather than showing actual photos of the two men, they instead displayed Photoshopped portraits, exaggerating their facial features and yellowing their teeth to make them look like stereotypical Jewish caricatures.

What will Fox do next, call the paper the "Jew York Times"?

[Jables16]

Unreal. The thread title is completely appropriate.

[Azure]

Again?

....I mean the new low. Didn't we have a 'new low' thread a while ago?

This must be the 'newest' low.

Oh yeah, I don't, and never will watch Fox News. Even outside of stuff like this, if it is indeed true, I don't like their style.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Wow. Just--wow. As if they weren't bad enough before.

I'm actually stunned by this. That is unbelievable. These guys aren't the mouthpiece of the GOP. They're the mouthpiece of hatred and intolerance. Unreal.

[MelBridgeman]

politics is the new religion
Just to keep the hate going around.

[FanIn80]

It still baffles me that they are even allowed a media license.

[Burninator]

The first one doesn't even look like a person.

[henriksedin33]

what a joke

[Displaced Flames fan]

Stereotypical Jewish caricatures?

I guess I missed out on the stereotype.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

It's lame enough...but where did the jewish angle come in?

I don't see it visually, it's not in the comments, and not in the article. Or did i miss it.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Stereotypical Jewish caricatures?

I guess I missed out on the stereotype.

baggy, beaty eyes. Large nose. Long face.

[killer_carlson]

I think you might be reading a bit too much into it if you think that it is anti-sematic.

Poor taste, yes, but anti-sematic?

[McMack]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

baggy, beaty eyes. Large nose. Long face.

Yellow teeth?!

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois

It's lame enough...but where did the jewish angle come in?

I don't see it visually, it's not in the comments, and not in the article. Or did i miss it.

The link is pretty clear to me--and FWIW I remember seeing it in one or two of the comments. Both images look strikingly similar to the cartoon caricatures of Jews featured in Nazi propaganda literature--and the enlarged nose and ears, the yellow teeth, the dark circles under the eyes in the second picture, the sloping brow in the first--these are all features of anti-semitic characterization of Jews since, well, pretty much since there was such a thing as anti-semitism.

And if not to make them look like a Jewish stereotype, then why exaggerate those particular features? There isn't really another explanation for this--it's completely shocking--and completely anti-semitic.

[killer_carlson]

are big ears a jewish trait?

sorry guys, this isn't anti semitism.

[mykalberta]

The least they could have done was a descent photoshop job.

Count me on the yellow teeth and big ears as news to me about being a Jewish trait.

There are alot of "traits" I can think of and those 2 arent even in the top 20.

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

I think you might be reading a bit too much into it if you think that it is anti-sematic. Poor taste, yes, but anti-sematic?

Sematic means "serving as a warning" such as brightly coloured poisonous animals. So I agree they are not anti-sematic.

Think big huge lips and bulging eyes to black people. Cartoons over-emphasizing these characteristics are considered racist as they depict blacks as abnormal monsters.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

are big ears a jewish trait?

sorry guys, this isn't anti semitism.

Well do enlighten me: if it's not anti-semitism, then what is it, exactly? If they weren't trying to make two Jewish journalists look like the stereotypical Jew (who in Nazi propaganda did have big ears, FYI) then what on earth were they doing? You yourself said it was "poor taste." But if it's not anti-semitic, then what category of "poor taste" are we talking about? There's really no other explanation for the specific changes they made to the faces. It's not as though they randomly smudged their features around. They made the noses larger. They made the ears larger and pointier. They made the eyes beadier. They added bags under the eyes. They made the teeth yellow. In one picture they compressed the mouth into a leer. In the other they gave the man a sloping forehead.

So.... in your view--why did they do those things? Why those specific changes, and not, say--giving one of them dog ears, or photoshopping a spiky dog collar in there. Or just making the face look really fat.

It seems to me that there are two choices. Either this is blatant anti-semitism, or it's not in poor taste at all--it's just a joke. Maybe not a funny one, but a joke none the less. If the latter is true, then we should probably not be talking about it at all--after all, photoshopping pictures of your political enemies is a time-honoured tradition on these internets. But it's always done with a specific purpose--and these changes are no accident. To conclude that this isn't anti-semitism, I have to hear another explanation.

So go ahead--I'm all ears, if you'll forgive the expression.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

The link is pretty clear to me--and FWIW I remember seeing it in one or two of the comments. Both images look strikingly similar to the cartoon caricatures of Jews featured in Nazi propaganda literature--and the enlarged nose and ears, the yellow teeth, the dark circles under the eyes in the second picture, the sloping brow in the first--these are all features of anti-semitic characterization of Jews since, well, pretty much since there was such a thing as anti-semitism.

And if not to make them look like a Jewish stereotype, then why exaggerate those particular features? There isn't really another explanation for this--it's completely shocking--and completely anti-semitic.

I only read the article that was posted...so maybe there was more comments.

Nothing about those made me think 'jewish' - though thinking back to pics of Nazi stuff I guess maybe. The circles under the eyes are tough to explain away...

[Slava]

I didn't recognize the stereotypes (at least not all of them!). But suffice it to say the photo-shopped photos make these two look horrible. Nice "journalism" by Fox.