Just days after being forced to demote Ms. E. D. Hill, a veteran Fox network anchor for describing an Obama hand gesture (affectionate bumped fists) with his wife as a “terrorist fist jab”, Fox News has jumped right back into the fray, this time drawing outrage with a racist reference to the Democratic nominee’s wife.
During an interview with conservative commentator Michelle Malkin on a Republican video attacking Michelle Obama, the network repeatedly flashed up a graphic describing the prospective first lady as “Obama’s baby mama”.
Politico cites a Fox staffer as saying that others internally were bothered by the use of the offensive epithet – derogatory hip-hop slang for “the mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved”, according to the Urban Dictionary.
Malkin, a paid Fox News contributor, defends the use of the term by noting that Michelle once referred to Obama as her “baby’s daddy.”
In May, Fox contributor Liz Trotta, after apparently confusing Obama with Osama bin Laden the political analyst said she hoped both men would be ‘knocked off’.
It is strange and hypercritical how mute Fox is when others express themselves in similar manner. Case in point, on May 28th Bush chest bumped a cadet at the Air Forces graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As far as I am concern, this is a normal act and will not classify it as a “terrorist chest jab.”
Fox, with its apparent culture of racism defends it staffs by dampen the uproar with their favorite phrase “poor judgment”.
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