The flood gates have opened. Senator Obama talked about racisim in this country, and I remember reading about how some Americans were offended, believing as they did that racism was behind us and that our fellow African-American citizens have attained much. It's true some progress has surely been made, but we are still a sickeningly racist country. And I'm not sure we'll ever change:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/06/congressional-black-caucus-foundation-receives-racist-obama-t-shirt-in-the-mail/
I am so discouraged.
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Not only are the people who work there morons, but apparently this thing called Hill is a racist anus opening.
"Fox News' E.D. Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"
Teasing a segment on the "gesture everyone seems to interpret differently," Fox News' E.D. Hill said: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? ... We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says." In the ensuing discussion with a "body language expert," Hill referred to the "Michelle and Barack Obama fist bump or fist pound," but at no point did she explain her earlier reference to "a terrorist fist jab."
"During the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased an upcoming discussion by saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently." In the ensuing discussion with Janine Driver -- whom Hill introduced as "a body language expert" -- Hill referred to the "Michelle and Barack Obama fist bump or fist pound," adding that "people call it all sorts of things." Hill went on to ask Driver: "Let's start with the Barack and Michelle Obama, because that's what most people are writing about -- the fist thump. Is that sort of a signal that young people get?" At no point during the discussion did Hill explain her earlier reference to "a terrorist fist jab."
Can it possibly get any stupider or cryptically racist than that?
Yes. It. Can. The jerks who work there will find more ways to work in more of the same during the next 5 months of campaigning.
I'll document it here as I get the alerts from Media Matters.
18 comments:
I instinctively distrust anything that comes from (liberal)Media Matters. Having said that, though, the person who wrote that teaser should be hit in the head, because that was a little to the extreme.
Patrick,
Your instincts are on the whole good. But in this case, you don't know Media Matters.
They simply take what is said by the Republican Noise Machine--with FAUX being its chief outlet, research the facts and present their case.
I've done follow-up to their claims and found that they do not lie.
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
It is so disheartening to see this sort of Communist sort of smearing in America. They commies were so good at it, and so is FOX.
The will continue to associate any Obama witht he word "terror."
They can throw the kitchen sink at him over his policy issues and say why they think those positions are wrong--that is fair game.
But this sort of subliminal smearing turns my stomach.
If I see the Democrats do it, I will complain LOUDLY and with avengence.
Apparently my finger won't type the word "they" today.
And the "you" in "you can have your own opinion..." doesn't mean you specifically, but the encompassing you as in everyman/woman.
It's too damn hot today. And that makes me cranky.
And this just in: FOX doesn't know real news from fake news and gets hauled into court for their stupidity:
In a June 4 article headlined "Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News," the Associated Press reported on the dismissal of a school superintendent's lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for repeating as fact an online parody news report of a school prank that included fabricated quotes attributed to the superintendent. The judge called Doocy and Kilmeade "gullible," as the AP noted, and while he dismissed the lawsuit, the Fox & Friends segment in question marked at least the third time since 2004 that Fox News has issued a retraction and apology for airing a fake news report that repeated false information. In fact, the segment aired after Fox News' Vice President for News John Moody reportedly warned staff in January 2007 that "seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC." In dismissing the suit, U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby wrote:
The facts in this case -- a morning cable news show derisively reporting events and statements obtained unwittingly from an online parody -- should provide grist for journalism classes teaching research and professionalism standards in the Internet age. But First Amendment principles developed long before the Internet still provide protection to the gullible news program hosts against this public official's claims for defamation and false light invasion of privacy. Poetic justice would subject the defendants to the same ridicule that they accorded the plaintiff. But in real life, the aggrieved school superintendent must be satisfied with their later retraction and a professional reputation sullied less than theirs.
The lawsuit was filed by Leon Levesque, a school superintendent in Lewiston, Maine. According to the AP, "[t]he case was an outgrowth of an April 2007 prank in which a middle school student tossed a slab of leftover Easter ham onto a table surrounded by Somali Muslim youngsters, knowing the Muslims would be offended." Freelance writer Nicholas Plagman later published a fabricated news report about the incident at Associated Content in which he attributed numerous made-up quotes to Levesque, including one in which Levesque was alleged to have said: "These children have got to learn that ham is not a toy." On the April 24, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy and Kilmeade reported on Plagman's story as though it were fact and repeated several of the made-up quotes attributed to Levesque. In discussing the parody report, Doocy repeatedly asserted: "We are not making this up." Indeed, when Kilmeade asserted: "You know, I hope we're not being duped," Doocy replied, "We're not being duped. I've looked it up on a couple of different websites up there." Doocy issued an on-air retraction and apology during the May 16, 2007, edition of Fox & Friends First.
Doocy repeated the fake quotes attributed to Levesque from the online article despite the fact that, according to the washingtonpost.com blog The Sleuth, Moody "issued this missive to staff in his daily editorial note on Jan. 23 [2007]: 'For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC.' " Moody wrote the note after Doocy retracted his false assertion on the January 19, 2007, Fox & Friends, that Sen. Barack Obama "spent the first decade of his life, raised by his Muslim father -- as a Muslim and was educated in a madrassa." Moody criticized the hosts of Fox & Friends in a January 29, 2007, New York Times article, saying, "The hosts violated one of our general rules, which is know what you are talking about. ... They reported information from a publication whose accuracy we didn't know."
Similarly, on October 1, 2004, Fox News issued a retraction and an apology for a fake news story written by chief political correspondent Carl Cameron that falsely attributed quotes to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in an attempt to ridicule him over a purported manicure.
In his opinion in the Levesque lawsuit, Hornby wrote that Fox News' "failure to confirm the accuracy of the quotations demonstrates 'an extreme departure from professional standards' ":
The defendants were certainly gullible. Even if they believed the segments of Plagman that they repeated on the air, at least two portions of the Plagman piece were so absurd that they should have raised the defendants' truth-seeking antennae and caused them to question the accuracy of the article as a whole. First, Plagman "quotes" Levesque as saying "All our students should feel welcome in our schools, knowing that they are safe from attacks with ham, bacon, porkchops, or any other delicious meat that comes from pigs." (emphasis added).64 Later, he "quotes" a student as saying "I'm just glad that kid I beat up yesterday was white; I wouldn't want to be in that mess."65 If negligence as to the reliability of a source were the standard, this should be enough. One would hope that when a publisher is poised to report outrageous quotations from such a source, for a story that is not even breaking news, the publisher's failure to confirm the accuracy of the quotations demonstrates "an extreme departure from professional standards." Connaughton, 491 U.S. at 665.66 But unprofessional conduct does not amount to reckless disregard of the truth, and "failure to investigate before publishing, even when a reasonably prudent person would have done so, is not sufficient to establish reckless disregard." Id. at 688.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200806060010
You know my eyes cross somewhere in the middle there, don't you? It's called TMI. I'd go on about MSNBC or that fake letter CBS pawned off, but that's a nitpicking contest I'm not interested in. So let's go to the update.
As for that asinine shirt, That you allow one idiot to discourage you on racial progress in this country is sad. I see only progress in race relations. Sure, there's always going to be people that hate for some damned reason, and race is as bad a reason as any. But consider that there was a chance for a woman to be elected President this year, and the odds on us electing a black man just went up this week. And it's not because he's black (although that brings up some commentary on the black community). It's because people believe in what he's saying and that they believe he would be the best choice for president.
I'd say more there, but then that gets into the debate over Obama's views, and I'm sure I'll have an assload of things to say about him.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
I'm afraid of enough already:
Plastic microwave containers, spinach, cell phones, newspaper editors, people who call me "filthy infidel," small insects with large stingers, large dogs with small teeth, and, horror of horrors, Joe Lieberman.
I was hoping I wouldn't have to fear you, too.
You're afraid of all that?!?!?!
Well then maybe you shouldn't fear me. In fact, I'll try to be extra nice.
Doesn't mean Obama's getting a pass, though.
(By the way, who called you a filthy infidel? I'll kick their ass.)
"Terrorist fist jab"
ROTFLMAO
I didn't' know what dap was before this, but I'm not dumb enough to associate it with "terrorism."
I thought it was an adorable expression of affection between two people who love each other.
I'm out of town and posting from a friend's computer that won't, for some reason unknown to me, allow me to access blogger to put up a new post.
And the new post I wanted to put up is about FAUX NOISE. Again.
Some racist s**thead referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's Baby Mamma."
For those who don't know, a "baby mamma" is a woman who has children by her boyfriend(s) without benefit of marriage.
In other words, FAUX NEWS compares Michelle Obama as an out-of-wedlock mother.
un. 12, 2008 | 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."
I checked, and sure enough, as you can see below, our e-mailer was right. In fact, that description was displayed on screen several times during the segment, which featured anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, an FNC contributor.
Sons of bitches. Could this be any more blatantly bigoted and racist? A "Baby Mama" is someone who has a child outside of marriage.
How long have the Obamas been MARRIED?
And for anyone who wants to dismiss this, do you really think they'd ever call Cindy "McCain's Baby Mama"?
When I get access to my computer, I will post more on this racist crap.
Here's the Urban Dictionary's definition of "baby mamma:"
Another definition from Urban Dictionary:
Trm 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.
Joe didn't have any relationship with that chick, she was the "other woman" who ended up being his baby mama.
First of all, from a tech point of view, try clearing cookies and temp files if you're using Idiot Explorer. If that doesn't work, make your friend download Firefox. And if that doesn't work, I'm stumped.
As for the scumbag in the control room, his ass should be tossed. I'm getting tired of not being able to defend Fox News when they pull shit so obvious. I'm sure the pinhead though he was being cute, but there's no excuse. In defense of Michelle Malkin and the delicious Megyn Kelly, they were having a serious and cogent discussion and probably weren't aware of this garbage.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be back at my pc today and hope to post something new.
I see that some FOX vp said that label for Michelle Obama was inappropriate and apologized.
I wonder when I'll read the next insult to the Obamas
Thanks for the tip. I'll be back at my pc today and hope to post something new.
I see that some FOX vp said that label for Michelle Obama was inappropriate and apologized.
I wonder when I'll read the next insult to the Obamas
Have you heard about the new Obama campaign launched site, "Fight the Smears?"
It was launched to fight all the scurrilous rumors/lies on the web about Barack. We need to mention this website as much as possible to fight the crap out there.
We won't let Obama be swift boated!!!
patrick m: I have to laugh when you say "make your friend download Firefox." That would be rude.
libhom: I liken it to taking away the keys of someone to drunk on Idiot Exploder to surf the Internet. They may be pissed, but one day they will thank you.
Speaking of Firefox, Download Day for Firefox 3 is Tuesday, June 17. It's a day to make their servers crash.
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