Matt Gunterman April 25th, 2007

Media Matters highlights this outlandish bit of on-air racism from Fox News Radio’s John Gibson. Sadly, Senator Mitch McConnell has been using a similarly racist line of argument about Iraqis for months now. McConnell has to fire up his base, and that base is made up of every sort of racist and bigot this nation has to offer; it eats this stuff up.

Fox’s Gibson: U.S. invasion “unmasked” Iraqis as “knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century”

On the April 23 broadcast of his Fox News Radio show, John Gibson argued that the Iraqi people — whom he described as “knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century” — are at “fault” for the situation in Iraq.

While discussing Iraq, Gibson said: “The one thing that drives me up the wall is [people] saying, ‘Look at all the deaths you Americans have caused in Iraq.’ No! ‘Scuse me? We invaded the place, we knocked over Saddam, and then Iraqis began killing each other.”

Later in the show, Gibson agreed with a caller that the Coalition Provisional Authority’s 2003 decision to purge the civil service of all former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and disband the Iraqi army “was a mistake.”

Gibson then stated: “[B]ut who is doing this killing? Give me a break. These are Iraqis killing each other. So what did we do? If you’re saying it’s our fault that we unmasked them as knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century — fine! I’ll take credit.”

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• Iraq War , Minimum Wage , Racism
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