FOX News' Neil Cavuto blames "minorities" for economic disaster

Neil Cavuto of Fox News suggested in a recent interview with a Democratic congressman that the current economic disaster was caused by banks lending money to "minorities and other risky folks".

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks breaks it down here:



Mr. Cavuto should be immediately fired for saying such a thing on national television. A blatantly racist remark by the host of a program on a major national news network cannot be overlooked. He should be relegated to the sad pack of other bigots and racists (Bill Bennett, Trent Lott, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, et al) who, accidentally or otherwise, professed their true beliefs to the world on a grand stage.

It was just nine years ago when Washington D.C. ombudsman David Howard was fired for using the word "niggardly" (miserly) in context solely because it ~sounded~ like a racial slur. Granted, that went too far, but has the mainstreaming of extremist right-wing media (Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox News) really allowed us to regress so far in less than a decade as to accept the use of blatant racial bigotry without question or recourse?

Archie Bunker would be proud.