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Fox News: Racist to the Core

The news network plays the racial card and attacks Michelle Obama.
June 12, 2008  |  
 
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We are deep into the I'm not sh*tting you territory with this one. Last week, E.D. Hill bleated about the Obama's fist bump/dap as a secret communication between terrorists. Now we have the network serving this up, during a segment with anchor Megyn Kelly and right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin who is, naturally, a FNC contributor.

Baby Mama? If Fox is going to try to float that they are just being "down with the Negroes" in this landmark campaign, the bigoted network should at least get its sh*t right. Oliver Willis:

So here's the thing (because during this campaign I'm apparently learning that we black people have our own secret code and hand signals so this stuff has to be explained like you are speaking to a child at times), using the phrase "baby mama" to describe this woman implies that like too many people in the black community, she is a mother on her own with no man around doing his job.

Except, Barack and Michelle Obama are the exact opposite of this, and that is one of the reason America - especially black America - are so proud of them.

Let's go to the Urban Dictionary. Does this describe Mrs. Obama to you?
baby mama. A term used to define an unmarried young woman (but can be a woman of any age) who has had a child. As mentioned before in another definition, most of the time it is used for when it was simply a sexual relationship, compared to ex-wife or girlfriend. Usually this has a negative connotation, a lot of baby mamas are seen as desperate, gold digging, emotionally starved, shady women who had a baby out of spite or to keep a man. Sometimes they may act like this because of missed child support payments, unfulfilled promises by the father, or convenient sex by the father. Either or both may exist in any situation.
It's high time that Fox News just stop with the pussyfooting around with these  games and run the more direct "nigger" on any Chyron running over video of the Obamas. Being a generous person, I'll help Fox out - a few more direct descriptions for them to use are below the fold.

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