Fox News Apologizes to Michelle Obama

by: One Citizen

Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 17:14:12 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US cable network Fox News found itself in hot water this week after referring to Barack Obama's wife as "Obama's Baby Mama" and asking if a gesture the Obamas exchanged was a "terrorist fist jab."

A graphic with the words "Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking on Obama's Baby Mama!" displayed Wednesday during a Fox interview about whether Michelle Obama has been unfairly targeted by critics sparked outrage from political commentators and set the blogosphere humming.

"Where do you even start when criticizing Fox's slur? Do you try to explain that 'baby mama' is slang for the unmarried mother of a man's child, and not his wife, or even a girlfriend?" Joan Walsh wrote on Salon.com, which spotted the graphic.

A top Fox official said use of the graphic showed poor judgment.

..."Poor judgment"?!? After Hannity and O'Reilley ran those Rev. Wright sound bites 24/7 fro the last month, I'd say that's an understatement.
My original graphic below the fold puts it a bit more in perspective...

Ailes is legendary for running that newsroom with an iron fist.

Fox's founder and president, Roger Ailes, was for decades one of the savviest and most pugnacious Republican political operatives in Washington, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan campaigns. Ailes is most famous for his role in crafting the elder Bush's media strategy in the bruising 1988 presidential race.

It's become obvious that he part of the GOP's "new IMPROVED" Southern Strategy.

The GOP has publicly apologized for their years of divisive race politics, so now it's up to Ailes to pinch-hit for them.
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