Comments on: Blogosphere Reacts to Fox News Calling Michelle Obama a “Baby Mama”

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Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » This week in shit-slinging politics. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:17:39 +0000

[...] Exhibit #1: Michelle is “Obama’s Baby Mama!”, according to Faux Newz. (Via.) [...]

By: CHRISTINE ANDERSON

CHRISTINE ANDERSON — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:41:41 +0000

I’ve often wondered if there are any cauasians who have ever thought about what their foreparents did to non-white people centuries & centuries ago. Every since Christopher Columbus “discovered” a land that had already been here and occupied, that particular thought should have ran across a Caucasians’’s mind at some point. If not, it is pitiful and pathetic. After doing all that wrong, they have the nerve to act superior to everyone non-white person. What happened to the Native Americans who were living here first, and was tricked by the Caucasians by their thievery? How many white people lives next door to a Native American? How does a Caucasian feel knowing that his or her foreparents forced my distant blood relatives from their native land and forced to cone to a land stolen from the Native Americans, and to become its slave and work without compensation? How do you feel? Is is pride or embarrassment? The first thing “Caucasians” should do is to say, “I’m sorry.” Fox (Noise) is getting worst and worst! Now, just why would the hand jesture that the Obama’s did become an automatic “terriost” jesture? Fox “feeds” this mess & these lies to viewers with little or no intelligence, just to keep a lie going, Knowing abosutely nothing about middle east people or customs, Fox jhad to make things up to keep an audience (a teaser). “Fixed” News’ commentators continually show their ignorance so much that I have to click to another channel it gets so sickening!. How stupid can one Station be? Medgyn, It you know so much, you should have known what the hand jesture meant ! You just don’t get it! Just like the way you dance or try to keep a beat — you just don’t get it! Well,
I’ll keep praying for all of God’s children, even the racist ones! May we all Bless God ! ~Christine -Superior Twnsp., MI

By: BridghidG

BridghidG — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:49:46 +0000

I’ve been seeing a lot of people claim that Michelle referred to Barack as her “baby daddy” while introducing him at the 2004 Convention.

And it wasn’t at the 2004 Convention, it was in November after he’d won his race for the Senate seat.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:48:56 +0000

“I’ve been seeing a lot of people claim that Michelle referred to Barack as her “baby daddy” while introducing him at the 2004 Convention. She didn’t, though – she referred to him, among other things, as her “babies’ daddy.”

-Totally- different animal.”

Kes, I get that. Trust me when I say, I’m definitely on the same page as everybody else. But — again — expecting the loons over at Fox Noise to get that is a stretch. Michelle could’ve accomplished the same thing by saying “the father of my children”, without giving those clowns a leg to stand on.

I hate to admit it: but when you’re black, the bar is raised, the expectations are higher, and the spotlight is much brighter. It’s up to us to be cognizant of that reality. Is it fair? Of course not. But that’s just how it is.

By: Kes

Kes — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:23:29 +0000

I’ve been seeing a lot of people claim that Michelle referred to Barack as her “baby daddy” while introducing him at the 2004 Convention. She didn’t, though – she referred to him, among other things, as her “babies’ daddy.”

-Totally- different animal.

Then again, the idea of any sane person trying to defend Fox’s disgusting coverage on any ground really blows my mind.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:22:25 +0000

Perhaps I’m the minority in this one, but my advice to Michelle is simply put: if you don’t wanna take the shots, don’t provide the ammunition. Does anybody here REALLY think that the GOP would have the sensitivity to avoid making comments like this if we (or, in this case, Michelle) didn’t do it first? Though the history is completely dissimilar, I liken this to us somehow giving each other a pass for the n-word while getting incensed when white folks say it. Though referencing these two terms is like comparing apples to lima beans, the underlying point remains: if we don’t publicize and embrace certain things ourselves, morons over at Fox News (or their mindless followers) won’t have the justification to either.

I’m just sayin…

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:19:40 +0000

So since McCain “lovingly” called his wife a cun$ infront of reporters, can we all refer to her as such? I would never do it and I would have hoped Fox would not have stooped so low as to refer to Michelle as a “Baby Mama.”

By: Sorry, no outrage here

Sorry, no outrage here — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:59:30 +0000

This would be outrage worthy had she not used the term to refer to him in one of his early introductions. Sometimes we bring these things on ourselves. (BTW, I LOVE Michelle Obama and will be voting for her husband)

By: Verite

Verite — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:43 +0000

I’ll be blogging this site’s existence today. I heard about the baby mama insults at HuffPo and Salon and thought somebody needs to do a site just to defend Michelle. Today I heard about this site. Thank you.

By: Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:22 +0000

Perhaps this will be Megyn’s terrorist fist jab moment.

The notion that Fox presents news is hard to support objectively – which may be why they are so insistent that “News” is included at every opportunity. They are an entertainment network, seeking ratings.