On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist.
Hasselbeck first said, “It’s disappointing and it’s irresponsible to call racism when it’s not racism because it basically underscores the hate when it actually does happen–”
“It blunts it,” Kilmeade corrected.
“If we were a racist nation, Barack Obama would not have been elected president of the United States twice. It’s a math thing,” Doocy chimed in.
The three then spend upwards of three minutes defending their prior analysis that the Charleston shooting was potentially a religion-based hate crime instead of a race-based hate crime because, “it happened at a church!”
“We were never told the nature of the bias,” Doocy insisted.
Watch the clip below, courtesy of Media Matters:
