Former neo-Nazi recruiter, Frank Meeink, boldly went on CNN to talk to Pamela Brown about one of the most important issues facing the country, the radicalization of the Right. Meeink told Brown that he blames Fox News, that Fox had “completely radicalized” many Americans. We have heard the same accusation before. But Meeink went further, he says FOX uses “the same radical stuff” he used to say.

This is pretty powerful, coming from a man who had been a “notorious leader in America’s neo-Nazi underground” as a teen, went to prison for violent crimes, and then recovered, writing a book entitled Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead. It would seem as though Meeink knows what he’s talking about. So Brown asked a logical question, how does a person become so radicalized?

Mediaite has the transcript of the answer:

“It’s fear and narcissism and that fake patriotism, that’s just nationalism wrapped up again with worshipping an idol,” Meeink replied, before turning the topic to Fox News.

“Fox News has completely radicalized so many Americans,” he said. “If you look at Fox News and then you compare that to hate radio from Rwanda, and what started that civil war, there’s comparisons there. We have to know that a lot of our fellow Americans, our fellow children of God, have been radicalized by a network of news.”

Worshipping an idol. He is right. We at this site have continually reported of late that the MAGA movement is – essentially – its own religion at this point. But comparing FOX News to Rwanda hate radio? We know what happened there. Why not here?

“As a former radical, I can tell you, from watching Fox News all day, I can show you where they’re saying radical stuff that I used to say,” he continued, saying that he used to have a neo-Nazi television show and “they use the same stuff, instead of when I would say ‘Jews,’ they say ‘Big Media.’ They just swapped out a couple of words here and there.”

Yes, exactly.

The neo-Nazi stuff that I belonged to is manifested in the QAnon, in the Proud Boys…when I see what I used to be, I see it in QAnon, I see it in the Proud Boys. Racism always just recycles itself. We can’t be the KKK anymore, so they can’t be neo-Nazi anymore. Now they are Proud Boys. It’s remarketing hate.”

Wow.

Not much more to say.

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Jason
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