The backpeddling of Fox News

Robert Rodriguez's upcoming film, Machete, recently came out with a special Cindo de Mayo trailer. And Fox News put out an article on its website criticizing the film for being racist because of it's not-so-subtle swipe at the recent racist immigration laws in Arizona. If you go to the link of the Fox News article, you'll find out something interesting.


It's no longer there.


Fox News removed the article, which included such tidbits as this wonderful exercise in backwards logic by Tom Tancredo (you know, the guy who recently advocated for the return of literacy tests for voting).  In the article, Tancredo said, "The racists who made that trailer, they are as racist as anything I have ever seen...these guys are 'politically correct' racists, so you cannot heap indignities upon them."


The question is, what could have made Fox News perform such a quick backpeddle? Normally, they live for this crap, what with their constant promotion of racist images at Tea Party rallies or Rupert Murdoch's continued support of Glenn Beck even after the nutcase crybaby accused the President of being a racist (and has since had advertisers flocking from his show). So it's highly doubtful that Fox actually gained a conscience.


What's more likely is that a few people dropped the ball at Fox News, big time. They obviously didn't do their homework to find out that they were taking a massive dump in their own backyard. Because you see, not only is Robert Rodriguez currently working with 20th Century Fox on the upcoming Predators, but 20th Century Fox is also the domestic distributor of Machete.


Oops.


Wonder whose job was struck with a machete as a result of this?