Leave it to Fox to resurrect the ugly spectre of ***ism just as it was
fading from view.
This evening, Fox ran a segment to remind its viewers why they should
hate Michelle Obama. But they apparently weren't satisfied with the
usual batch of distortions and lies, so they decided to unload a
blatantly racist and ***ist slur on the wife of the Democratic
nominee.
As Michelle Malkin and Fox anchor Megyn Kelley cordially ranted, a
graphic was displayed at the bottom of the screen referring to Senator
Obama's wife as his "Baby Mama."
"Baby Mama" is slang for the mother of a man's illegitimate child.
According to Urban Dictionary, informal definitions include:
"the mother of a man's child when the parents are not married"
"The mother of one's child. The connotation is that mother and father
do not and never did have any relation****p beyond being *** partners.
Contrast: ex-wife, ex-girlfriend."
"The mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom
you are not currently involved."
"A term used to define an unmarried young woman (but can be a woman of
any age) who has had a child. As mentioned before in another
definition, most of the time it is used for when it was simply a
***ual relation****p, compared to ex-wife or girlfriend. Usually this
has a negative connotation, a lot of baby mamas are seen as desperate,
gold digging, emotionally starved, shady women who had a baby out of
spite or to keep a man. Sometimes they may act like this because of
missed child sup****t payments, unfulfilled promises by the father, or
convenient *** by the father."
This is about one step away from calling her "a whore." It is nothing
less than ***ist slander, and the connotation, in my opinion, is
clearly racist. I would say Fox News should be ashamed, but of course,
we all know these people have no shame. Worse yet, I fear this is only
the opening salvo of yet another effort to mercilessly smear and
slander the wife of a Democratic nominee. We saw it with Theresa
Heinz, we saw it with Hillary Clinton, and we saw it with Kitty
Dukakis. Yet, year after year, our media allows it to happen.
The only question is: how low will they go this time? Well,
considering that it's Fox, there's no limit to how low they'll go.
Tells you something about the people on this NG who quote Fox.
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