It will probably take a bit longer than that. For example, catalytic converters don’t suddenly get removed from cars.
It’s more that the owning family is incredibly wealthy, and believes in regularly presenting their viewers with right-wing views.
They actually brought in somebody who isn’t a regular columnist to make this claim; even Dowd isn’t this bonkers.
More that blacks being eaten by alligators and crocodiles is a racist trope dating back to at least the early 1800s.
Article is actually a serious look at it.