“If we’re not safe in our own churches, then where are we safe?” Pop quiz: Was the preceding sentence uttered by, a. One of the grieving congregants at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina? Or b. Elizabeth Hasselbeck of Fox and Friends, making the Charleston shooting into “an attack on faith” rather than a hate crime against a black church?
Congratulations! You have correctly guessed Elizabeth Hasselbeck. You are awarded nothing, and as a terrible anti-bonus, here’s her co-host Steve Doocy:
[E]xtraordinarily, they called it a hate crime, and some look at it as well, because it was a white guy, apparently, and a black church, but you made a great point just a moment ago about the hostility toward Christians — and it was a church — so maybe that’s what they’re talking about. They haven’t explained it to us.
Yes. Apparently a white guy.
Fox has grown incrementally smarter over the years about having stuff like this come out of the mouths of African Americans too, and so they also brought on Bishop E.W. Jackson, black Republican and frequent Fox guest, who observed, “There does seem to be a rising hostility against Christians in this country because of our Biblical views.”