dartmouth05 ([info]dartmouth05) wrote,
@ 2008-06-12 10:10:00
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Current mood: infuriated

Faux News is Outrageously Unfair and Unbalanced!!!
Faux News had an amazingly outrageous chyron during a segment with anchor Megyn Kelly and Michelle Malkin. They were talking about the conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, Barrack's wife, with the ticker reading: "OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA'S BABY MAMA."

Michelle is his WIFE-not someone he hooked up with after they both got blotto in Vegas. Faux News is either trying to subtly misrepresent Obama as having an illegitimate relationship, or, is merely misogynistic.


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[info]annodomini
2008-06-12 02:33 pm UTC (link)
I think they're just looking for any excuse they can to rhyme Obama and mama. Think about the glee they would have if he visited a llama farm!

Yeah, that's a pretty ridiculous ticker; also, there's the fact that they're trying to make it sound like it's just "outraged liberals" who are upset about the attacks against Michelle Obama, when I believe I remember people mentioning Cindy McCain and Laura Bush speaking in Michelle's defense.

But really, is this so surprising from a network that asks if Obama's celebratory hand bump is a "terrorist fist jab" or compares Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden while joking about assassinating both of the? I mean, I can't believe that people actually put up with all this shit, but they've been doing it for years, so people eating one more spoonful of shit has become much less surprising to me.

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[info]dartmouth05
2008-06-12 02:46 pm UTC (link)
You know, I think I have to say that this IS still surprising..... Not that Faux News was so biased/racist/misogynistic, but that they did it in a visual form that is so easily described in a newspaper column and is screenshotable.

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[info]heldc
2008-06-12 11:07 pm UTC (link)
Even if she WERE just some woman he hooked up with in vegas and had a kid with, it's a disrespectful form of address. It defines a woman by her reproductive capabilities, and by her relationship to a male, as it's 'so&so's baby mama'. So, she is nothing but a vessel for reproduction, and she's the object for a man.
Plus, it's disrespectful of motherhood in general!

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