Fox News and RW attack of Ebony Mag digital editor Jamilah Lemieux

I went out to breakfast with my family this morning and there were several TVs with different news shows on. One was Fox, and they had this segment on for AGES going after Ebony Magazine's digital editor, just skewering her. It was a witch hunt looking for her to get fired.

And apparently this was day 2 of it.

https://www.clutchmagonline.com/2014/03/fox-news-rnc-attacks-ebonys-jamilah-lemieux-standwithjamilah/

(I googled to find out what the hell was going on, but I don't know this website other than it showing up on Google.)

The incident began when Lemieux tweeted about Dr. Ben Carson and Armstrong Williams’ new magazine project targeting Black Conservatives. After jokingly saying she wished she knew less about the venture than she did, her cheeky tweet prompted another user to respond, adding several others to the conversation.

Raffi Williams, Deputy Press Secretary for the RNC and son of pundit Juan Williams, tweeted Lemieux, “Wish you knew less? hoped [sic] you would encourage diversity of thought,” to which Lemieux responded, “Oh great, here comes a White dude telling me how to do this Black thing. Pass.”

Apparently, Williams was offended Lemieux called him White. While Lemieux apologized for the mixup, Conservatives flooded her Twitter mentions, calling her a racist and demanding both she and Ebony magazine, apologize to Williams.

The kerfuffle would have faded into obscurity, but both Fox News and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus jumped in to “defend” Williams and attack Lemieux.

This was her personal Twitter account, not an Ebony Magazine account.

I was pretty horrified by how viciously they were attacking her.