Or maybe I should just call him a racist.
Last week, the local talk-radio host and ADN columnist revealed his true colors (and utter ignorance) with the following comments:
Fagan: You don’t know who Louis Farrakhan is?
Girl on show: No I don’t…
Fagan: He’s the head of the Nation of Islam of the United States, he’s a big, uh…y’know – hates Jews. But all Muslims are supposed to hate Jews. To be a good Muslim.
Girl on show: See, I’m not a Jew, so I didn’t know that.
Fagan: You don’t have to be Muslim to know that Muslims are supposed to hate Jews.
For someone to make such a broad, sweeping generalization of any group of people is inexcusable. I thought the year was 2008; this feels more like the 1950’s. This just shows Dan Fagan’s low level of intelligence and complete ignorance. For someone who purports to be a man of faith, Fagan sure doesn’t practice the love and acceptance that most religions teach.
It’s ridiculous to me what passes for “legitimate” journalism these days. People like Dan Fagan, who are not interesting enough on their own, must resort to this type of “shock journalism”, making outrageous claims, to get attention. The sad part is that it works: just look at how popular Ann Coulter’s books are. If nothing else, people love to hate her. And for some people, any attention is good attention. It looks like Dan Fagan is shooting for the same thing.
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Paul Barsom // August 29, 2008 at 8:51 am |
It seems pretty obvious who his role model is. Why do all of these bigoted, fearful, hate spewing neo-cons all seem to look the same (Limbaugh, Rove, Cheney, etc.)? Is the Pilsbury factory taking orders for cookie cutter dough-men from the American Enterprise Institute or something? The faith thing, by the way is the most transparent disguise they all wear. They hate everyone who might take away their money or enjoy something that makes them feel “icky”. Screw ‘em all.