Fox News Uses March On Washington 50th Anniversary Coverage To Bash Jay-Z, Rap Music [VIDEO]

It's fitting that the collection of crochety, old white people that is Fox News used a discussion about music to show just how tone-deaf they are. During their coverage of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington (an event that spawned Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech), Fox decided to focus in on "degrading rap music" and Jay-Z in a piece called "50 Years After March On Washington Some See Rap Music As A Problem." God, that title is so Fox, it hurts. Bringing a major event down to a discussion of your own narrow agenda? Check. Vague-y vagueness? Check. "Some People" used as a way to cover up their own bias? Check check check.

The Shannon Bream-helmed segment played a clip of Bob Dylan's 1963 track "Blowin' In The Wind" before launching into a citation-less attack on rap music (and particularly the music of Jay-Z) as crass, "despicable" and "filled with misogyny." (They based the discussion around this article by Juan Williams, itself a ridiculous op-ed comparing the most influential of a generation with the top 40 hits of the last several months.)

Check out the video below via TPM:

Here's the thing. The Fox News folks wouldn't have had to stretch that far to find positivity in rap music. Hell, they're covering the March On Washington. Why not cite a song that made it onto the charts using a sample of MLK's famous speech in 2007?

Oh, that's right. Because Common is a cop-killing thug.