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ErikJ

(6,335 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2015, 02:36 PM Jan 2015

Fox Host on Tweeting Fake Photo: ‘Mistake’ but ‘Everything I Said Was Right’

Fox Business Network host Charles Payne admitted to tweeting a fake photo — one that many said was racist in nature — to criticize this weekend’s #BlackBrunchNYC protesters. And Monday evening on his show, Making Money, he addressed the issue and confessed to his mistake, but insisted that his overall point still stands.

Here’s the tweet in question, which has since been deleted:

The photo Payne tweeted originally appeared five years ago in the Detroit News and showed a local rush to pick up federal housing assistance forms.

And the KFC logo? That was Photoshopped. Compare what Payne tweeted to the actual photo, courtesy of Detroit News:

Nevertheless, Payne initially denied that the photo was Photoshopped, and claimed the picture was “real but not from today”:

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Fox Host on Tweeting Fake Photo: ‘Mistake’ but ‘Everything I Said Was Right’ (Original Post) ErikJ Jan 2015 OP

Never trust conservatives. nt MrScorpio Jan 2015 #1

Thread winner on the first reply. Scuba Jan 2015 #6

What should we call black conservatives on Fox News forwarding racial stereotypes on behalf Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2

Bigots works just fine. Bjorn Against Jan 2015 #4

Assholes, idiots, fools, morons mythology Jan 2015 #5

Well he did get one thing right, "This is ignorance" Bjorn Against Jan 2015 #3

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)

1. Never trust conservatives. nt

Reply to ErikJ (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 02:48 PM

Jan 2015

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

6. Thread winner on the first reply.

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 04:56 PM

Jan 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

2. What should we call black conservatives on Fox News forwarding racial stereotypes on behalf

Reply to ErikJ (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 02:52 PM

Jan 2015

of their white masters, for reward and privilege?

What is forbidden and what is acceptable?

What analogy can be used without offence, outrage declared, and armed camps set up, to angirly discuss the meaning of it all?

Woe is be to those that use analogies that highlight how Republicans and Fox News (same thing) use black conservatives as cover for their own in bred racism, at least not without using the sarcasm emoticon so as to avoid instant, mistaken and then set in concrete reader outrage.