Fox News host tied to white supremacist group, anti-King site

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Fox News host tied to white supremacist group, anti-King site

RAW STORY

As yesterday's revelation that a Fox network telvision affiliate
promoted a white supremacist organization leads to greater scrutiny of
the group, it has emerged that a Fox News host is also tied to the same
organization. While perusing another site hosted by Stormfront.org,
blogger IntoxiNation discovered material written by Fox News radio and
television host Tony Snow.

Snow, then a columnist for Detroit News, wrote a piece slamming Kwanzaa,
which is currently hosted by a website dedicated to discrediting Martin
Luther King, Jr.

The site, MartinLutherKing.org, at times attempts to mimic one devoted
to promoting King's work. However, when one clicks on the link titled,
"Death of the Dream: The day King was shot" they will come across this:

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. (book reviews)
Jon Meacham 01/19/98 Newsweek, Page 62 January 6, 1964, was a long day
for Martin Luther King Jr. He spent the morning seated in the reserved
section of the Supreme Court, listening as lawyers argued New York Times
Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark case rising out of King's crusade against
segregation in Alabama. The minister was something of an honored guest:
Justice Arthur Goldberg quietly sent down a copy of Kings account of the
Montgomery bus boycott, "Stride Toward Freedom," asking for an
autograph. That night King retired to his room at the Willard Hotel.
There FBI bugs reportedly picked up 14 hours of party chatter, the
clinking of glasses and the sounds of illicit sex--including King's
cries of "I'm f--ing for God" and "I'm not a Negro tonight!" Note: What
is not mentioned in this article is that Martin Luther King was having
sex with three White women, one of whom he brutally beat while screaming
the above mentioned quotes. Much of the public information on King's use
of church money to hire prostitutes and his beating them came from
King's close personal friend, Rev. Ralph Abernathy (pictured above), in
his 1989 book, "And the walls came tumbling down."

Other portions of the site tie King's efforts to communism, and equate
the civil rights movement as a whole with support for Israel, presented
in an arguably anti-semitic context by author and famed Klansman David Duke.

Snow's dissection of Kwanzaa takes a strange turn, focusing eventually
on war crimes in an attempt to argue that African-Americans should not
celebrate their cultural heritage:

Go to Kenya, where I taught briefly as a young man, and you'll see
endless hostility between Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya and Masai. Even South
African politics these days have more to do with tribal animosities than
ideological differences. Moreover, chaos too often prevails over order.
Warlords hold sway in Somalia, Eritrea, Liberia and Zaire. Genocidal
maniacs have wiped out millions in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia. The
once-shining hopes for Kenya have vanished. Detroit native Keith
Richburg writes in his extraordinary book, "Out of America: A Black Man
Confronts Africa," that "this strange place defies even the staunchest
of optimists; it drains you of hope ..." Richburg, who served for three
years as the African bureau chief for The Washington Post, offers a
challenge for the likes of Karenga: "Talk to me about Africa and my
black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I'll throw it
back in your face, and then I'll rub your nose in the images of rotting
flesh."

Tony Snow currently hosts The Tony Snow Show on FOX News Radio and
Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the Fox News Channel.