Fox News' Family Values Guest Compared Dr. Tiller to Mafia Hit Man

by Alex DiBranco · 2010-09-03 14:34:00 UTC
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Just because Fox News regularly scrapes the bottom of the barrel in providing offense and biased content, doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable for a single thing they do. There is such a thing as "crossing a line," even for them. That's why Change.org Gay Rights Editor Michael A. Jones wants Fox & Friends to stop bringing extremists on their show as guests.

While there have been many undesirable guests on Fox & Friends, a Fox News morning show, the straw that broke the camel's back was Bob Enyart's visit as a family values expert. Oh, family values.

Enyart's family values include asserting that doctors who provide abortions, a perfectly legal procedure, should expect the possibility of being killed just like a criminal assassin would. "If a Mafia hit man gets killed, people recognize it's an occupational hazard," Enyart commented following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, who was gunned down in his church by a Christian extremist that objected to his reproductive health practice.

Then there's Enyart's classy habit of gleefully reading the obituaries of LGBTQ persons who have died of AIDS while "Another One Bites the Dust" plays behind his voice. Nothing like a little 80s music to lighten the mood when you're looking to celebrate the prolonged and painful death of human beings who all have family and friends that mourn them. And, to round out his "family values," Jones points out that Enyart spent two months in jail for beating his seven-year-old stepson with a belt. Oh yes, wise Mr. Enyart, do lecture to us about proper family values.

Fox has also welcomed guests like Bradlee "I think we should kill gays and lesbians" Dean to make use of their wavelengths to spread their message to the world. It's time for this to stop. Please sign the petition asking that, even if Fox News can't do fair and balanced, Fox and Friends at least stop bringing extremists on the show and dubbing them experts. I know both words start with an "ex," but that doesn't make them interchangeable.

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Alex DiBranco is a Change.org Editor who has worked for the Nation, Political Research Associates, and the Center for American Progress. She is now based in New York City.
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