Fox Host: How Do We Spot ‘Bad Guys’ If We Don’t Know ‘Tone Of Their Skin’?

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream
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Fox News anchor Shannon Bream on Wednesday pondered how observers would’ve known that the gunmen who perpetuated the terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo were bad guys if they didn’t know what their skin color was.

Bream’s comments were made during an in-depth conversation on the Fox show “Outnumbered” about why the terrorist attacks in France provided support for the militarization of police in the United States.

Co-host Eric Bolling said militarized police would dissuade “bad” guys from doing the “bad thing” they were thinking about doing.

Co-host Kennedy Montgomery, who goes by just the name “Kennedy,” noted that “sometimes bad guys don’t look like bad guys.”

That’s when Bream joined in.

“That’s my question about these guys because if we know they were speaking unaccented French and they had, you know, ski masks on, do we even know what color they were,” Bream said. “What the tone of their skin was. I mean what if they didn’t look like typical bad guys?’

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  1. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Easy to spot the bad guys on Fox News. That would be all of them.

  2. ISIS is sending TErrorisTS to France to LEARN unaccented FRENCH!1!1one!1!!! What HAPPENS wheN the FINALLY OVER frOM MExico AND speaK unACCenting MExicaN? HOw WILL we NO if theY are GOOD or baD if we DOn’t KNOW their TONE>???

  3. What the fuck do “typical” bad guys look like? I assume, for the people on FOX, it means something other than white.

  4. Good Lord. People actually watch this channel. And believe it, and agree with it.

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