Henry Graber over at Slate wrote a piece today that shows how The Daily Caller and Fox Nation have dealt with the concept of protestors and cars. In the wake of the murder of Heather Heyer by white supremacist loser James Fields, it might be interesting to see where he got such a big idea—considering how tiny his mind seems to be.
But as I wrote Monday, the idea of using a vehicle to speed through a crowd of protesters has been a right-wing fantasy since the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement. “Run them over” is a rote, right-wing response to street protests from Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock, and the sentiment has been publicly expressed by, among others, USA Today columnist and law professor Glenn Reynolds and a handful of police officers, including the head of the Santa Fe police union.
What follows is one of the more disgusting and prominent examples of the trend: a 90-second video published by the Daily Caller, the conservative site founded by Tucker Carlson. The video, which the Daily Caller’s Mike Raust published on Jan. 28—the day that Donald Trump’s travel ban brought thousands of demonstrators to international airports—is set to a folksy cover of the 2001 Ludacris hit “Move Bitch."
Shortly after Graber’s story took off on the internets, Fox Nation seems to have begun to have issues with that webpage. Luckily, it was saved over on the webarchive. And here it will stay to remind everyone everywhere where terrible hate-filled ideas live in our media landscape.
Not unlike their white supremacist fanbase, conservative media outlets are about as brave as a tiny dog standing behind a chainlink fence.