Fox News speaks out on "baby mama" label
Fox's Senior Vice President of Programming Bill Shine told the Politico that the producer responsible for labeling Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama" in a segment "exercised poor judgment." Uh, yeah, I'd say so. (So much for a heartfelt apology.)
Via the newly-launched Michelle Obama Watch, created by What About Our Daughters. (Add it to your blogrolls, and get involved in keeping tabs on the media!)
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I would have thought that the "baby mama" thing was an Onion segment, had it not been on Fox News.
We call it "Faux News" at our house, and at my parents' house, it is watched constantly. I really, really really hope all this comes to bite Fox News in the ass. They have been intentionally juxtaposing Obama and Clinton with racist, sexist, and Islamophobic imagery and sound bytes/commentary for quite a long time now and they need to be called out.
Their apologies are similar to what you'd see in a TV courtroom where one lawyer knows what s/he says isn't allowed, says it anyway, then it's "stricken from the record", yet still in everyone's mind.
Fox News, you are a shame and embarrassment to journalism, reporting, good sense, and basic human decency.
The Republican Party admittedly used the racist Southern Strategy for decades for political benefit.
The best a rank and file Republican can say, is that s/he wasn't aware of that strategy; the next best (but still awful) is that the domestic and foreign policy merits of the party outweighed kicking blacks when they were down; the absolute worst, and the position of many Republicans, is that they consider blacks inferior human beings.
Like my mom used to say, you'll be judged by the company you keep.
I could be wrong on this, but I seem to remember Michelle Obama introducing Barak Obama to a group of people a number of months ago as her "baby daddy".
I consider it an unprofessional phrase to use for any place of journalism. But, the groundwork may have been laid for future conversations to contain that phrase.
Fox "exercised poor judgment"? That's an understatement!
Dave: As for Michelle Obama referring to her husband as baby daddy, well, let's just say that it's one thing when she does it (she's doubtlessly joking) and another when Fox Noise--which has a vendetta against anyone who identifies as being to the left of Attila the Hun--does it. It is the same way blacks may use a certain epithet on each other with impunity, but whites may not, save for Quentin Tarnatino in "Pulp Fiction."