Faux "News" was trying every way it could to try to claim the church killings as attacks on religion rather than racially motivated.
Host Steve Doocy suggested on "Fox & Friends" that religion was the likely motivation for the terrorist attack.
"Extraordinarily, they called it a hate crime," Doocy said in an interview with a pastor Thursday morning. "And some look at it as, well, it's because it was a white guy, apparently, and a black church. But you made a great point just a moment ago about the hostility toward Christians, and it was in a church, so maybe that's what it was about." Please, let it be about religion and not a white right wing wacko killing more black people just because!!!!!!!!!!
Doocy's co-host, Brian Kilmeade, also tried to cast doubt on the idea that the gunman, whom authorities believe to be 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, was motivated by race, asking a guest, "Is it a church that has white congregants as well as black?"
Early Thursday morning, Fox News host Heather Childers acknowledged that officials are treating the shooting as a hate crime, but wondered, "Could the shooter have been motivated by pure hatred for religion?"
Roof, the alleged killer, is known to have sported the flags of the white supremacist Rhodesian and apartheid-era South African governments. He also reportedly said during the attack that he was there "to shoot black people."
"You rape our women and are taking over our country and you have to go," Roof told his victims, according to a witness.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the shooting took place, is a historic black church, founded in the early 1800s.
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum offered his own thoughts on New York's AM 970. "It’s obviously a crime of hate. Again, we don’t know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be?" Santorum said. "You talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation."
They want it to be about religion so badly and what a great thing to use to fire up the base who they've been telling that religion is under attack than a church shooting? Sadly the proof is already out there that the guy was a racist and said he was there to kill black folks.
Host Steve Doocy suggested on "Fox & Friends" that religion was the likely motivation for the terrorist attack.
"Extraordinarily, they called it a hate crime," Doocy said in an interview with a pastor Thursday morning. "And some look at it as, well, it's because it was a white guy, apparently, and a black church. But you made a great point just a moment ago about the hostility toward Christians, and it was in a church, so maybe that's what it was about." Please, let it be about religion and not a white right wing wacko killing more black people just because!!!!!!!!!!
Doocy's co-host, Brian Kilmeade, also tried to cast doubt on the idea that the gunman, whom authorities believe to be 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, was motivated by race, asking a guest, "Is it a church that has white congregants as well as black?"
Early Thursday morning, Fox News host Heather Childers acknowledged that officials are treating the shooting as a hate crime, but wondered, "Could the shooter have been motivated by pure hatred for religion?"
Roof, the alleged killer, is known to have sported the flags of the white supremacist Rhodesian and apartheid-era South African governments. He also reportedly said during the attack that he was there "to shoot black people."
"You rape our women and are taking over our country and you have to go," Roof told his victims, according to a witness.
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where the shooting took place, is a historic black church, founded in the early 1800s.
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum offered his own thoughts on New York's AM 970. "It’s obviously a crime of hate. Again, we don’t know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be?" Santorum said. "You talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we’re now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we’ve never seen before. It’s a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation."
They want it to be about religion so badly and what a great thing to use to fire up the base who they've been telling that religion is under attack than a church shooting? Sadly the proof is already out there that the guy was a racist and said he was there to kill black folks.
