Fox News Accused of Radicalizing Americans by Former Neo-Nazi Recruiter – By Jason Lemon (Newsweek) / Mar 7 2021
A former neo-Nazi recruiter took aim at Fox News, accusing the popular cable news network of radicalizing Americans through its programming.
© TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY A former neo-Nazi recruiter accused Fox News of radicalizing Americans in a Saturday interview with CNN. In this photo, a political display is posted on the outside of the Fox News headquarters on 6th Avenue in New York City on July 21, 2020
Frank Meeink, once a prominent neo-Nazi, previously went to prison for kidnapping a man and beating another man unconscious. Although Meeink used to host a talk show called The Reich, he turned against his extremist views in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995—which was carried out by domestic white nationalist terrorists. Speaking to CNN in a Saturday interview, Meeink said the stuff he now hears on Fox News sounds like the things he used to say to recruit and radicalize white Americans.
“It’s fear and narcissism. And that fake patriotism, that’s just nationalism wrapped up again with worshipping an idol,” Meeink said, commenting on what is driving the growth in domestic extremism within the U.S. “But, again, what we can do is with these people that are just continuously passing conspiracies, is we have to realize that Fox News, and I know that this is CNN, but Fox News has completely radicalized so many Americans,” he said.
