Leftists are up in arms over this with the cry of racism. Expect Barak to challenge the intern who writes the headline blurbs to a duel.
Posted on 06/11/2008 10:48:19 PM PDT by Impy
An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as "Obama's baby mama."
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Leftists are up in arms over this with the cry of racism. Expect Barak to challenge the intern who writes the headline blurbs to a duel.
Well, I’m sure the Libs loved the movie.
Rush is right, lefties are nothing but WHINERS!
Much nicer than the name I use to refer to the racist dingbat commie beeyatch
Yeah, they should have said it differently to avoid the racist tone.... something like this would have worked:
OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON BARRY'S BABY MAMA!
See! Now the libs have nothing to be mad about. :)
Don’t give the libs any ammunition. Barack is close to burying himself and now this stupidity from Fox. Idiots.
How can the Libs be upset when Fox seems to be quoting them?
So when will they start referring to Cindy McCain as John’s “sugar mamma”.
Please be advised that there’s a video featuring an interview with Michelle Malkin at the main Salon article link :-)
RACIST!
I am beginning to see a trend here.
The media is beginning to make this about the "attacks" against Obama and NOT about the shortcomings of Obama himself.
Good tactical move on their behalf.
This is pathetic, stupid, and entirely unprofessional.
How are they feeling about the real racism coming out the Obamas' mouths and from the "church" they worshipped at for 20 years? Any anxiety over that?
All his shortcomings will mean nothing if this continues.
This kind of stupidity really makes me angry because that man doesn't need to be president of my country if there is to be any real hope. Most other democratic nominees have been way ahead at this point but he's not.
Yet Fox News appears ready to give him the presidency. You will hear about this until Election day.
My first question concerns why FNC would even think to use such slang to describe Mrs. Obama. I thought “baby mama” was a reference to women who have children out of wedlock? Or are we using the term for all mothers now?
Oh, and yes, people will cry racism over this.
Turning Michelle into a sympathetic character isn’t going to be easy... After all, Barry joined her church and even though he resigned and denounced the racist rhetoric spewing from that pulpit, I don’t ever recall her saying anything against that racist reverend, or the church.
Maybe it was not a mistake by Fox. This takes the heat off of his real problems.
Fox News is not conservative media in the way that everything else is liberal media. It's not like they made a tactical error in their urgent push to defeat Sen. Obama. Captions attract the illiterate viewers, obviously the largest demographic of all. Some producer cobbled together a cutesy caption out of some other quotes and the hypersensitive liberal blogs are overreacting to it.
obama mama drama.
Well when she grows up she can be “Obama’s grownup Mama”.
Their "outrage" is faux as their logic is on the left.
Apparently, the term "Obama Mama" is an endearing phrase for Obama supporters.
The run for the White House has just escalated. This is precisely what McCain was trying to avoid and justifiably so. The history btw whites and blacks runs too deep in this country for Fox to pick at racial wounds like this.
Seems to me someone was just playing cutesy. Obamas Baby Mama. This seems as much an insult to liberals in general as to Michell in particular. If liberals were really saying this, verbatim, then they are just reporting. Otherwise fire whoever did it and move on. Around September, the wheels will really be coming off Obama’s Wagon. We don’t need this kind of distraction drawing sympathy for this feckless Marxist.
I saw that this afternoon - made me do a double-take.
Regardless of my (low) level of regard for Mr. and Mrs. O, I think it was inappropriate, although it was clever.
The term "Baby Mama" is in circulation because of a stupid movie in which the characters happen to be Caucasian. The term itself has origins and connotations, but I wouldn't assume the Fox News captioner has the requisite I.Q. to "pick at wounds."
If I can recall, Michelle introduced Barack as being her “Baby’s Daddy” during one of the more prominent Campaign stops I think it was for Oprah. I hate that term also, as it sounds classless and without taste.
“So when will they start/stop referring to Cindy McCain as...”
Its very big and stupid as usual with liberals/leftists they shout and whine RACISM RACISM to make sensible people SHUT THEIR MOUTH and stop any critics against them,their ideas,their candidate and their behaviour...
With the help of MSM they would like to stay beyond all critics as they are criticizing and slandering their opponents again and again...
PRICELESS and so laughable!
Showing the libs as they are is a real pleasure and should be enough for voters to make their opinion
“How are they feeling about the real racism...”
Perfectly right!
They are just trying to intimidate opponents!
Sane conservative and independant americans should let the libs rest and focus/highlight their discrepancies,fake stances and lies...
Libs can destroy themselves very well
If this is supposed to be a joke it's like, really retarded. It doesn't even make any sense.
Once language becomes public knowledge - a fad - everyone is going to mimic the latest blurb.
I think most people don’t know what it means originally. The words are what a linguistically limited hoodrat uses to introduce the girlfriend of the moment who produced a child for him and the county welfare department. As in, “she my baby momma,” meaning she’s the mother of my baby.
I think somebody at Fox picked up the term because Obama is always trying to identify with that crowd and because it rhymes with Obama. It’s NY Post style headline writing.
OK, I hate to be the one to say it, but she is his WIFE. This is just a smidge over the top, IMHO.
They said it because Michelle Obama referred to her husband at a recent public appearance as "My baby' daddy."
Michelle Obama said it first, at a public appearance. Don’t you remember hearing about her referring to her husband as “My baby’ daddy?” I do.
How can the Libs be upset when Fox seems to be quoting them?
Exactly! The little sissys at Salon deliberately distorted this. (seems like some of us here cannot read too well either). Here's what sissy Salon wrote:
Fox News calls Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"
An on-screen graphic displayed the description during a segment about attacks on the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Alex Koppelman
Jun. 12, 2008 | An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as "Obama's baby mama."
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/11/fox_obama/print.html
"OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA'S BABY MAMA!"
I wonder which 'outraged' libs they were quoting?
"My baby' daddy" = getto slang for "my baby's daddy"?
I couldn't find anything on the web with her using the phrase. But not everything makes it on to the web, at least not right away.
Here are some Yahoo search results for "My baby' daddy":
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu85Y9VBIzmsA.EVXNyoA?p=%E2%80%9CMy+baby%27+daddy%22&y=Search&fr=ytff1-&ei=UTF-8
Yeah. Maybe I live in a cave and don’t know it, but I’ve never heard the phrase “baby mama” before, so I don’t see anything particularly racist about it.
Hell, this might be fun. Make up a phrase - um, “carrot thumper,” “dial rover,” “roving catwalker” and see how long it takes Obama & Co. to cry “RACIST!” over it.
Sadly, since the left IS going to cry “RACIST!” at any and all attempts to say ANYTHING negative about President Obama (they already have him elected, as usual), what’s really distressing is that our side is going to spend every day from now until election day apologizing for simply being alive, since, after all, we’re not supporting Barack Obama, and are therefore obviously racists.
Sigh. This would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
It works. Just look at how many here are already throwing up their hands and calling it a catastrophe. It was nothing but a low level employee trying to be clever. For the life of me I cannot see how this can be taken as racist.
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Perhaps someone can explain it to me simply in words I can understand. How are the words “Osama’s baby mama” racist?
Here is one story that mentions it - from June 17, 2007.
They spell it as: “My babies Daddy”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=3287454&page=1
Whomever wrote this simply left out the proper punctuation. It should have read:
Stop picking on Obama’s baby, Mama.
“Captions attract the illiterate viewers”
That sure seems like a contradiction...
Why are Hussein supporters walking around with this term on their shirts if it is so “offensive” You sound like a black who decries the use of the term “nigger” but uses it daily in talking to or about his own race.
You can’t have it both ways. This is merely another attempt to stifle ANY criticism, real or perceived against a candidate that should never have made it past the first round of primary votes.
And when introducing her husband, Michelle Obama referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as "my babies' daddy."
Can it get any more ridiculous.
Wait, it can! From Yahoo Answers...
Q: "What is that hip hop song that goes who that is? my baby daddy?"
A: My Baby Daddy by B Rock and The Bizz
lyrics...
Who that is?
That's just my baby daddy
Who that is?
That's just my baby dad
Who that is?
That's just my baby daddy
Who that is?
That's just my baby dad
Why everytime I call it's the same thing?
You have to be on the phone with Elaine
Or either Shawna, or Dawna
(T-Bird it ain't like that, it's far off my mind)
When the phone click don't even try girl
Quit lying girl
You must think I'm stupid or either blind girl
Cuz something ain't right
And I'm fixing to go
You said y'all broke up a long time ago
And who was L.A. Sno?
(But it ain't nobody, that's just my baby daddy)
You said your baby daddy was locked up, but why?
The Bird say y'all was at the mall
(You a liar)
You a liar
OK, then what his name?
(Lavall)
Yesterday you said his name was Jay, so it ain't the same
It must be your new boyfriend
How come your bestfriend told me the dude's name was Ken?
(Whatever)
You better get it together, cuz whenever you lie?
I'm like Mary J., I'm not gon' cry
(Don't cry)
Hey, why don't you get up and get the door?
(You get the door)
Yo, who that is?
(I don't know, who is it?)
I bet that's just your baby daddy
What's up man?
You be ready to go?
(What we do now?)
You know we gotta go to the store
Now see, that's a perfect example
You know you ain't fittin' ta' go and get no pampers
Well, while ya at it, get some milk
If ya don't hurry back
I'mma been done dipped
Oh baby, you can save the drama
Cuz I'm feeling going to see my baby, momma
T-Bird, I need some money for my baby
I ain't giving you no money, that ain't my baby
(Yes T-Bird, it was)
That ain't my kid
(Yes it is your daughter)
I got one son
(You got a daughter, too)
I got a son named Chris and that's it
(T-bird, you trippin')
I ain't smell that junk you talk
(T-Bird!)
Forget that!
(But T-Bird, I love you)
I ain't wit it, I ain't wit it
My man Agee say Hell! Ain't your baby daddy
L.A. Sno! Ain't your baby daddy
My man its pressure, ain't your baby daddy
Uh J.D., he ain't yo baby daddy
That's just my baby daddy
If for some strange reason, you want to know more about this, here's where I found it:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070411173628AAOqsMo
Oh, yes you can. As long as you're a liberal.
There isn’t anything racist about it, it’s a common term among the white trash and poor black community.
What else do you call a woman who you happen to have a kid with, but no other commitment or obligation, since the welfare office takes cae of that role? ‘My baby mama’ is as good a term as any.
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