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  • 2022-05-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Karine Jean-Pierre Say Fox News Is 'Racist'? (en)
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  • It's true that, on March 14, 2020, future White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, multiple times, that Fox News is racist. She made the remarks on a Saturday morning episode of Joy Reid's former MSNBC TV show, AM Joy. Many readers will likely remember that week as the moment when the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic really began to set in, accompanied by toilet paper shortages and a lot of uncertainty. Her remarks about Fox News in 2020 came to the fore again in May 2022, after it was announced that Jean-Pierre had been selected to replace outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Jean-Pierre, who was serving as the principal deputy press secretary for the White House at the time of the announcement, is the first Black and openly gay person to be named to the top position. On the same day as the March 2020 broadcast on MSNBC, Jean-Pierre tweeted a partial video clip of the moment when she called Fox News racist. During the segment, she said, Fox News was racist before coronavirus. They are racist during the coronavirus. Fox News will be racist after the coronavirus. (A longer version of the video is available on the TV News Archive on Archive.org.) In the complete question-and-answer session, which we transcribed for our readers below, Reid mentioned that the virus was being referred to by some as the Chinese coronavirus, which she perceived as a racial remark. Jean-Pierre then responded, That's what Tucker Carlson said, right? It's true that Carlson used that phrase many times in February and March of 2020, according to video clips archived by the TV News Archive. Most mainstream news organizations had stopped referring to the virus as Chinese after the World Health Organization announced on Feb. 11 that the disease was officially named COVID-19, in part because of guidelines stipulating that the name should not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people. The virus is thought to have originated in the city of Wuhan in China, reported Forbes at the time, which led to it being frequently named the 'Wuhan coronavirus,' or 'Chinese coronavirus,' but neither of these were official names and some believe they may have contributed to discrimination against Chinese people. The moment when Jean-Pierre referred to Fox News as racist is bolded below: In sum, yes, Jean-Pierre once called Fox News racist multiple times during a segment on an MSNBC TV show. She also posted a video of the moment to her Twitter account, a tweet that remains available to this day. (en)
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