Larry Wilmore blasts right-wing response to Charleston: "Fox News just makes my f*cking head explode”

Wilmore is stunned that "Fox & Friends" denies that the Charleston massacre was racially-motivated

Published June 19, 2015 1:42PM (EDT)

 Larry Wilmore 
  (Comedy Central)
Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central)

Larry Wilmore was horrified by conservative reactions to the killing of nine people in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday.  And while the "Nightly Show" host said that he was initially reluctant to address the massacre on his comedy program because it didn't seem like the proper forum for a tragedy of this volume, Wilmore couldn't sit idly by.

“I know we talk about race a lot on this show, but I think we can all agree this time that this is a racially motivated attack,” Wilmore said. “It couldn’t be clearer when it comes out of the killer’s mouth. But even with all of that evidence, on a day like today, Fox News just makes my f*cking head explode.”

Wilmore proceeded to roll video clips from Thursday's "Fox & Friends" in which co-hosts declared the massacre a "horrific attack on faith."

“I know you guys don’t want to admit that racial stuff isn’t going on, but how can there be any doubt when it came out of the gunman’s mouth?” He told his victims, ‘I want to shoot black people.’ I think when he says black people, he means black people – and not Christians.”

Watch the clip courtesy of Comedy Central below:


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