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Hate is a Growth Industry: The Right-wing Media React to Haiti

Read this piece "The right-wing media react to Haiti" from MediaMatters for America to gain an insight how the likes of Fox News [news?] and the conservative right wing of politics have reacted to the crisis in Haiti. It is hard to believe that - yes, anyoneanyone! - could give these sort of people any time. They live in a parallel universe, of sorts!

For example:

"Fox News Channel's highest-rated shows, for example, all but ignored the disaster, according to a new Media Matters study:

On January 13, Fox News' three top-rated programs for 2009 -- The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, and Glenn Beck -- devoted a combined total of less than 7 minutes of coverage to the earthquake in Haiti, instead choosing to air such things as Beck's hour-long interview with Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly's discussion of Comedy Central host Jon Stewart, and Sean Hannity's advocacy for Massachusetts candidate Scott Brown's Senate campaign."

And:

"Limbaugh said President Obama would use the Haitian tragedy to enhance his standing with the "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country." Then he seemed to dissuade people from contributing to relief efforts, complaining: "[W]e've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax."

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