ABC, CBS, and NBC have set aside over 146 minutes of air time on their morning and evening newscasts to the controversy surrounding a racist tirade by L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling. However, as of Wednesday morning, the Big Three networks have yet to pick up on a Tuesday scoop from Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, who discovered “shocking racial comments” by a sitting Democratic Congressman. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson unleashed on Senator Mitch McConnell and Clarence Thomas, and Republicans in general, on a radio program of the New Nation of Islam – a sect that holds that “intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited” and that blacks should be “allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own – either on this continent or elsewhere.” Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends on Wednesday devoted a full report to Rep. Thompson’s bigoted remarks.

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