Fox Smears Michelle Obama with Sexist/Racist Remark Again

[OregonBlue]

Salon.com:An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as "Obama's baby mama."

According to Urban Dictionary, informal definitions include:

"The mother of a man's child when the parents are not married"
"The mother of one's child. The connotation is that mother and father do not and never did have any relationship beyond being sex partners.
Contrast: ex-wife, ex-girlfriend."
"The mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved."
"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."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/11/fox_obama/index.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/21256/4677/594/534342

[davidinalameda]

1. baby mama?

how hip

:sarcasm:

[madeline_con]

2. Let the emails begin! K&R

:kick:

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[w8liftinglady]

22. done...mine

Dear Fox News:
I recently saw a news segment on your network while I was getting my oil changed.In it,you referred to Michelle Obama as Barack's "Baby Momma".Your racist tone in that remark was HIGHLY offense.Barack and Michelle have been happily married for years and have two beautiful children that were conceived in wedlock.How offensive.Are you going to refer to Cindy McCain as the whore who dated John while he was still married to his first wife(who was crippled by a car accident while he was a POW)?I didn't think so.I will be writing your sponsors next.How Un-American...you rival Joseph Goebbels when it comes to hate speech and propaganda.

[Captain Hilts]

3. That stinks. nt

[my2sense]

4. K & R

[Cleita]

5. I think Michelle needs to take a page from Jackie Kennedy's First Lady

book. Jackie held her head above all the criticism by not acknowledging it. She just came out in public and elegantly when she felt the time was right. She didn't do it on their terms but hers, but she still did her duty as First Lady.

[FrenchieCat]

7. I agree......

there will be more Battles to fight that will be more severe on the race issue.......this is not one of them.

One of the things that I realized is that if folks do these little inuendos and the Obama campaign starts to document each and everyone in a memo, it may be the Obama camp accused of playing the "race card".

This one is not worth election capital.

[jberryhill]

6. It's stuff like this that

...almost makes me believe that the flames of hell grow warmer in anticipation of receiving the likes of Fox News staff.

[RB TexLa]

8. That is how people on Fox speak?

[madeline_con]

9. Yes, when they're smearing someone under the guise of

looking hip. :puke:

[RB TexLa]

10. I'd just assume the same thing about a fox employee that uses slang as I do anyone else

that they could be on drugs and would kill me in a second if they thought I have $20 on me.

[madeline_con]

11. People who use slang will kill for $20? n/t

[RB TexLa]

12. I said that they could be, some of them are, and some of them will kill in a second.

[sandnsea]

13. What??

You need to go volunteer in a drug treatment center. You've got some seriously screwed up ideas.

[RB TexLa]

14. You do not think there are people who will kill to get money for their addiction?

[madeline_con]

15. Addiction has nothing to do with using slang.

You're presuming. Little old ladies hopped up on dilaudid for sciatica and driving around the Walmart parking lot are addicts, too.

[RB TexLa]

16. I'm aware of that. I'm worried about the combination of someone addicted without means to obtain

their drugs. There have been a few instances of people in that situation robbing people. There have even been some times that they have kill the person they were robbing.

[ginnyinWI]

17. maybe they're trying to get Obama riled up.

Remember when a little while ago he said, "lay off my wife". If so, it's lame and cowardly to try it as a stunt. Probably it's little more than trying to attract some attention and ratings, which are probably going down the tubes.

[loyalsister]

18. I think they are trying to get them both riled up

Funny thing is, they will probably get class and composure rather than the anger they're hoping for.

[FatDave]

19. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

This is just an instance of somebody on Fox trying to seem hip and getting it completely fucking wrong.

[Bucky]

20. That comment was a jab; a terrorist jab

I'm wanting to make a fist myself right now.

[Bluebear]

21. Cindy McCain: John's SUGAR MAMA. nt

[BlooInBloo]

23. Just wait until the fuckers call her "Strawberry".