As I got mic-ed up, the producer made small talk while he adjusted the audio.
"Say, someting in the microphone, please."
"Sure, Sean Hannity is a no good, son-of-a....."
"What?"
"Never mind..."
Then it was show time, just me, Sean, Alan Colmes and 10 million Conservatives who would soon learn hate my guts.
The show is pretty much the same every night. They do their classic good cop/bad cop routine. Alan Colmes asks you a few polite questions to butter you up and then ...BAM!!! Here comes Hannity, the Hitman.
"You, know Pauuuul, he sneered in that arrogant, northern drawl that only a bigot could love, "it's racists like you...."
The show always goes pretty much according to script. Hannity hits you with a couple of patented conservative one liners. You make a quick rebuttal, then Colmes thanks you for coming on the show. The show generated so much controversy, Colmes wrote about it in his book "Red, White and Liberal."
I wasn't on Fox News again until January of 2006. I baited them with an email about "boycotting Black History Month because it was too white."
That morning, I got calls from most of Fox's shows, all wanting me to discuss the issue. At that point, I became Fox's big black boogeyman, appearing on the network 4 times that year.
It's no secret that Fox News has an agenda. They are there to ease white guilt and make Right Wing white folks feel that their bigotry and heightened sense of ethnic paranoia is justified. So, anytime some racist, Michael Richards/Don Imus type guy says something totally ignorant, they bring on a black "militant" so they can say...
"Look, ma..There are "black" racists, too !!!!
If they are not doing that, they are busy trying to play one black "leader" against another.
I remember hearing a Fox producer quietly, sobbing in the background, when what he thought was going to be a knock down, drag out fight between an African American lady professor and myself over black history, turned out to be a respectful, enlightening conversation.
So, in 2006, any time there was an incident of white racism, anywhere on the planet. I could count on my cell phone ringing.
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