It was not “allegedly” 7 years ago but certainly uttered by Michelle in 2004.

Geez, people, at least argue back with facts.

If that bill passed, I may watch TV again.

FOX News only listens to their advertisers: that’s the soft spot for all media companies.

Fox News Finally Goes, “You Guys – We Just Don’t Give A F*ck”

By Alex Blagg

Congratulations to Fox News Channel’s graphics department for somehow managing to outdo your already sterling reputation for classy truth-telling by choosing to refer to Michelle Obama, the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate and an accomplished individual in her own right, as “Obama’s Baby Mama”. The hollow, dead eyes and deluded evil rantings of your talking head vampires clearly weren’t enough to sufficiently convey their hateful and bigoted message, so it’s awesome that you guys were right there to back them up with some casual racism and misogyny there at the bottom of the screen. Your utter lack of concern for your own respectability is inspiring. High five, guys.

It is frustrating, isn’t it? Of course Fox is wrong, but I didn’t expect much from them anyway.

I expect better from my own. We are hungry and impatient for love, and that impatience makes us say and do crazy things. We are blinded, and fail to anoint the firstborn.

1. Fox News fucked up.

2. Michelle made a dumb statement-again.

I’m not apologizing/defending either. In their own respective ways, they’re both wrong.

Honestly, dnA. There’s so much real shit to be outraged about, there’s no need to make stuff up just so you can keep the hate going and the comments coming against Clinton’s white female supporters. Find a new dead horse to beat.

I couldn’t have said it better myself!

I am surprised that Michelled referred to her husband that way.

:-)

well then, I guess I’m just going to have to re-think my position. ;-)

“Baby’s Mama” another on of those delightfull colloquialisms we’ve gifted to the world…along with “Ho” and “Hoochie”.

Then there is Toni, in all her literary might, who got over-heated and anointed the cellulitic, sexual predator, Bill Clinton as “First Black President”.

I would like to thank my fellow black people for making my life as a black woman, a bundle of joy.

I can’t tell you how fun it is for me when whites take the verbal knife we’ve placed in their hands, turn around and place it firmly my heart. Shoot, the best thing is when I walk down the street after dark, and men of all ethnicities, and ages try to solicit my company, visions of BET dancing in their heads.

I am perplexed, what is it about me that makes me look like a “ho”. Surely, it’s not the prim pencil skirt, which falls firmly at my knees. It’s not my unremarkable hair, nor is it my locked-down bosom.

Whatever.

I muse idly about it, lamenting the loss of my anonymity. I don’t fear muggers here, in Toronto. It is BET that terrorizes me.

It’s not cute! Baby Mama isn’t cute.

Ho isn’t cute.

Honey isn’t cute.

Nigga isn’t cute.

Crotch shots of bikini clad, black women in rap videos are not cute!

Michelle Obama, I’m here on the sidelines cheering you on – wanting you to win; but, it is not cute to refer to your husband as your Baby’s daddy.

I can’t find safety, even in the darkness.

That doesn’t, IMO, give a news channel license to do the same thing.

As other posters have stated, if it’s ok to call Michelle Obama a “baby mama” in the chyron because she called Barack her baby’s daddy, then it would also be ok put “C*unt” or “Trollop” in the chyron under Cindy McCain, b/c that’s what McCain called his wife in public.

Come on, if they were discussing Carol McCain and Cindy McCain, they would not put “Trollop?” in the chyron under Cindy’s picture and if they did, there would be severe consequences and repercussions.

The excuse that “Well Michelle Obama said it first” just doesn’t fly with me because I don’t think any of the news organizations would have gone there PLUS they were not talking about Michelle and Barack and the girls or the Obama family in general or how Michelle manages motherhood with the rigors of the campaign, they were talking about GOP attacks on Michelle Obama which has nothing to do with Michelle being a mom or being the mother of Barack’s children.

“My baby’s daddy” is NOT the same as saying “my baby-daddy.”

So this whole argument of “she said it first” is not only trying to compare an affectionate epithet or descriptor given by a spouse with a (heavily racialized) headline on a major 24-hour cable news station – the people who use that argument are depending on her having used a slang term which she never actually used.

Where the GOP attacks, then to call them on it is fair. This isn’t one of those times.

Given that Barack and John McCain Differ on so much, no its not productive. But, if the GOP wants to make it an issue (and this story lead on all 3 cable networks) then the real problem lies with them.

The DNC hasnt touched Cindy the way the GOP has touched Michelle. Lets be honest, the only scrutiny she faced was releasing her taxes. (of which she did on a Friday facing a 3 day weekend)

The GOP has made it there attempt every 4 yrs to target the spouse of a Dem. and run with it. Its past pathetic. If the DNC went the low road one time, (ie the C word) youd have Hannity, Limbaugh, the ENTIRE OF FOX and God knows who else calling for reprimands.

Yet they can openly search for a Video that doesnt exist, Take Michelle’s comments completly out of context about how she feels about this country, and specifically in Tenn. appeal to there lowest common demonimators by running ads opposite of her appearence…

Clean that GOP filth and maybe a dialogue about issues can actually take place….

I guess my question then becomes, is this really productive?

And yes; the things spouses do-even if they’re years in the past, apparently-are fair game. Thing is, though, Cindy didn’t do this one…..

The defense that Malkin and Anon 11:11 use is “well shes called Barack her Baby Daddy before, so thats ok.”

My logic is,if thats the case, John McCain called his current wife C-*t so that clearly must make it ok.

I get your arguement about Why blame Cindy for the errors of Fox, but as I recall, when John McCain caught fire from the media about Hagee, he made it a POINT to say, I was not a member of his church for 20 yrs nor was he my spiritual advisor, Why was that even relevant to John Mc.? Why didnt he focus his attacks on the media?