Fox news host: Obama is "Race-Baiter in Chief"

Radio host Todd Starnes called the president's remarks on Trayvon Martin's shooting "beyond reprehensible"

Published July 19, 2013 6:30PM (EDT)

Fox News contributor and radio host Todd Starnes     (Facebook/ToddStarnesFNC)
Fox News contributor and radio host Todd Starnes (Facebook/ToddStarnesFNC)

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes decried President Obama's speech on race and the Trayvon Martin shootings, saying that the president is officially "Race-Baiter in Chief."

"President Obama is now our Race-Baiter in Chief. His remarks today on the Trayvon Martin tragedy are beyond reprehensible," Starnes wrote in a Facebook post. "'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,' he said. He actually said the outcome might have been different if Trayvon had been white."

"Folks -- we have reached a very dangerous point in this nation when the president of the united states begins to question the judicial system," Starnes added.

Obama had said “that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, then from top to bottom the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.”


By Jillian Rayfield

Jillian Rayfield is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on politics. Follow her on Twitter at @jillrayfield or email her at jrayfield@salon.com.

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