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22 comments:
oh sweet jesus
haha fox is hilarious
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/fox-anchor-calls-obama-fi_n_106027.html
this one's pretty lulz too
Really Fox? Eventually I think even conservative America is going to realize that the people who agree to allow things this ridiculously racist to be put on television are straight up fucking evil.
testing email stuffz
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DAMMIT WHY WON'T YOU WORK
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So wait - she can call him her "Baby Daddy" to cheers the night he gets the delegate count, but Fox calls her Baby Mama and it's an outrage? Sorry - way to PC for me. Once they apply the appellation to themselves in a very public forum, it's out there for free use.
Or can only white people call me "Cracka"?
oops xue. I deleted your "DAMMIT WHY WON'T YOU WORK" comment from the inbox.
11:01 - The difference is context. A wife can refer to her husband by a name, and it is endearing. If she refered to him as "dear", would Fox be able to use a similar title? I would think not. That this phrase has racist connotations (which I actually wasn't even aware of before) only magnifies things. To me, the point is that a formal news network using a slang term with negative connotations when there is a more acceptable, formal alternative is never appropriate.
Your "context" = a double standard, 3:59. In a political campaign anything said in public gatherings by the candidates or their surrogates (and make no mistake, Michelle is one of these - which is why they've done all they can to shut her up in the last 5 weeks, because every time she opens her mouth she gives the right more fodder for swiftboating Obama's candidacy) because, as they say in politics and journalism, "fair game."
"fair game" and "in good taste" are not the same thing
@mad:
it's ok, i was just messing with my inbox filters, not in the shared folder
someone seriously needs to fucking kill michelle malkin
wesleying posters... this is hilarious:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/mccain-admits-he-doesnt-k_n_106478.html
11:00: Heh, yeah. I was looking around Huffinton Post after I posted this and realized I could have filled up a full page of Wesleying without trying by just posting the interesting questions :P.
michelle never said "baby daddy," she said "my baby's daddy." There's a big, albiet hard to hear, difference.
and what pray tell is the large difference
my baby's daddy is a common, gramatically correct way of identifying her husband as a father, the father of her children, rather than just her romantic partner. it puts him in the context of the man also raising her kids. Saying "my baby daddy" is slang which, whether said by michelle or fox (and it seems it was only used by fox), is painting them as uneducated blacks, or at the very least clearly evoking a stereotype of their race
"baby mama" is a derrogatory term used to describe the mother of a child born out of wedlock.
"my baby's daddy" is the father of a baby.
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