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Fox News site calls Obama party a 'Hip-Hop BBQ' (Party had Hip-Hop celebrities and BBQ)
msnbc ^
| 8/5/2011
| BRIAN STELTER/ny times
Posted on 08/05/2011 9:31:21 PM PDT by tobyhill
To most news Web sites, what happened at the White House on Thursday night was a private 50th birthday party for President Obama. To an editor at Fox News, it was something a little different.
“Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs,” read the headline on an article on The Fox Nation,a conservative arm of FoxNews.com, which is owned by the News Corporation. Below the headline were photos of Mr. Obama and, separately, three black celebrities who attended the party, the basketball player Charles Barkley, the comedian Chris Rock and the rapper Jay-Z.
Not pictured were any attendees of other racial backgrounds, like the actor Tom Hanks or Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.
The article, published Friday morning, generated more than 2,000 comments and substantial objections from people who found it to be inaccurate at best and racist at worst. Media Matters for America, a progressive group that campaigns against Fox, asserted that the article was part of a pattern of “race-baiting headlines and content” on the Web site.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthday; fox; foxnews; hiphopbbq; jobs; mslsd; msnbc; murdoch; newscorp; obama; waronfox
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:31:24 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
What is really hypocritical is that MSNBC was the same network that edited out Black People to sell their debunked point that the Tea Party was suppose to be full of racist. Turn about is fair play.
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:39:18 PM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(Posting on FR since 1998 and 100% teleprompter free post as well.)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:40:15 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: GeronL
I guess to the NY Slimes and MSNBC no one is allowed to use accurate titles because some people may have some borderline inappropriate comments.
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:44:32 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
To: tobyhill
That new Tom Hanks’ Hip Hop album is outstanding.
To: tobyhill
Fox didn’t do anything but dscribe it accurately.
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:46:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: tobyhill
I have yet to hear anyone speaking about an evening of Bach, Brahms and Beethoven at the WH. Let alone Debussy or Tschaikovsky.
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:49:17 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
To: tobyhill
Hippity-hoppity, dawg!
8
posted on
08/05/2011 9:50:29 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: GeronL
A hip hop BBQ sounds like fun.
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:51:43 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
To: trumandogz
I really like that song ,”Run Forest, Run”.
10
posted on
08/05/2011 9:53:12 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
To: tobyhill
Yet the Vice president of the United States calls concerned citizens terrorists....and they yawn...
Libtards.
11
posted on
08/05/2011 9:53:29 PM PDT
by
Crim
(Palin / West '12)
To: Kirkwood
Obama’s internal polling must be bad for them to use the race card this soon.
12
posted on
08/05/2011 9:55:40 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
To: Kirkwood
No. Not hip hop, and sure as shootin’ not with Obamby.
13
posted on
08/05/2011 9:58:02 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
To: Celtic Cross
14
posted on
08/05/2011 10:02:31 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
It was very generous of McConnell and Boehner to make sure the debt-ceiling crisis didn’t interfere with the party.
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:07:11 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(May our dreams converge for a free and prosperous nation.)
To: Celtic Cross
Country, not hiphop.
Palin, not Obama.
Clear pard?
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:12:14 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:13:26 PM PDT
by
mojito
To: tobyhill
Your title of this article: "Fox News site calls Obama party a 'Hip-Hop BBQ' (Party had Hip-Hop celebrities and BBQ) " "Hip-Hop BBQ" means a "party" that "had Hip-Hop celebrities and BBQ" - really?
Get out of town! WHO KNEW?
Honestly, I would never have gotten that without your help! Thanks so much for making that title and the article so much more understandable.
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:13:30 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
To: fightinJAG
I’m glad I could clarify it for you.
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:18:58 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
To: bigbob
Man, that Tom Hanks is GOOD, he looks just like
a rabbit.
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posted on
08/05/2011 10:29:37 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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