Ep. 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News
Added 2019-09-11 14:46:02 +0000 UTCAnti-poor shaming at Fox News is nothing new. But in recent years, with the rise of Trump and his more explicit brand of white nationalism, their tone on homelessness has grown more aggressive, exterminationist, and urgent. Tales of feces and liberal decay––peppered with immigrants, LGBTQ, and racist subtext––have contributed to a larger US media war on the houseless.
In Part II of our two part episode on media incitement against the homeless, we discuss the ramped up panic at Fox News surrounding the indigent and its parallels with nazi rhetoric.
We are joined by Madeline Peltz, researcher and writer at Media Matters.
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Guest
Madeline Peltz is a researcher at Media Matters, where she has worked since January 2017. She has a bachelor’s degree in politics from Oberlin College. She was previously an intern at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and in the office of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). You can follow her @peltzmadeline.
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Show Notes
Fox News' “trust fund baby” prime-time host is on a mission to demonize the homeless
Madeline Peltz and John Kerr | May 20, 2019 | Media Matters For America
Fox News zeroes in on a new target: the homeless
Courtney Hagle and Miles Le | June 4, 2019 | Media Matters For America
Staff | June 3, 2019 | Media Matters For America
Tucker Carlson's descent into white supremacy: A timeline
Madeline Peltz | October 28, 2018 | Media Matters For America
Pulling Back The Curtain On Boston's ‘Operation Clean Sweep’
Jonathan Ben-Menachem | August 15, 2019 | The Appeal
We Can't Arrest Our Way Out Of The Opioid Crisis, And It's Cruel To Try
Miles Howard | August 9, 2019 | WBUR
Bussed out: How America moves its homeless
Outside in America | December 20, 2017 | The Guardian
Revealed: homeless people given one-way tickets to other areas
Patrick Greenfield and Sarah Marsh | December 28, 2017 | The Guardian
Vagrants and Beggars in Hitler's Reich [PDF]
Wolfgang Ayass | July 1988 | The German Underworld. Deviants and Outcasts in German History (ed. Richard J. Evans)
Adam Serwer | October 3, 2018 | The Atlantic
Watch O'Reilly's Shameful, Dehumanizing Segment On New York City's Homeless Population
Staff | June 29, 2015 | Media Matters For America
The Year In Right-Wing Media Poor-Shaming
Craig Harrington | December 21, 2015 | Media Matters For America
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Transcript
For a full transcript of this episode, go here.
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Comments
i can't thank you enough for these two episodes. i was homeless for quite a while, and yeah i don't even know what to say but that it's a huge issue that the right is absolutely violent towards and the liberals are too often either ignoring (at best) thanks again
Emma & Brian
2019-09-24 09:24:50 +0000 UTCAt the end... "I am Nima Shirazi..." " " "Citations Needed is produced..." lmao did Adam forget his cue, or was there something important on Twitter?
Tom Kelly
2019-09-12 08:19:19 +0000 UTC
