Obama “mama”?
Jossip takes aim at FNC’s Megyn Kelly the FNC graphics department over a segment on Michelle Obama…
…Megyn Kelly tried to drum up some controversy about Obama’s statements about feeling proud of her country and, while Kelly insisted she didn’t “want to get into it because it’s rumor and it’s not proven, but there have been rumors on the Internet about her, totally unsubstantiated,” she absolutely does get into it. But maybe that’s not the most ridiculous part of this segment. Maybe that honor goes to the lower-third, which referred to Barack’s wife as “Obama’s baby mama.” It has the eery, unsettling hint of bigotry – would they use that line for John McCain’s wife Cindy? – and it’s likely there’s more to come.
Update: The Politico’s Michael Calderone has FNC’s Bill Shine addressing the matter… (via OCN)
“A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,” Fox’s Senior Vice President of Programming Bill Shine said in a statement to Politico.
June 12, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I SAW THAT! Is it too much to ask that ‘responsible’ adults grow the hell up? That if you work for a national news service you should refrain from street slang? Is it too much? I swear sometimes Fox puts the biggest dipsh@ts on chyron duty, just judging from the spelling, but this should be totally unacceptable. No pimps, no hos, no crackers or rednecks, and, perhaps, just a little less ‘sparkling personality’ that so often leads foot to mouth.
June 12, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I kinda agree with laural on this one… that’s a really dumb thing to put up there.
June 17, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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