Ep. 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News (Patreon)

Anti-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

Fox’s Jesse Watters' solution for homelessness: “Bulldoze the 50-block radius, and you institutionalize everybody”

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)

The Cruelty Is the Point

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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