Crazy Like a Fox – Fox News Parts Ways with Good Taste
Did you see the tagline Fox News applied to Michelle Obama during a Wednesday segment?
Married to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama since October 18, 1992, Fox referred to Michelle as “Obama’s Baby Mama.”
Not quite sure what this misguided and distasteful moniker was seeking to achieve other than a significant debasement of this organization’s already questionable credibility. I guess it was just business as usual for the network that described the Obamas’ knuckle tap the night Barack won the Democratic nomination as possibly a “terrorist fist jab.”
Now the question becomes what will these faux Fox journalists come up with next?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term bandied so glibly by Fox as one “chiefly in African-American usage” that refers to, “The mother of a man’s child, who is not his wife nor (in most cases) his current or exclusive partner.” Again, Barack and Michelle have been married for 16 years.
This disturbing news comes as American journalism lost a most reasonable voice today with the untimely death of Tim Russert. In a frenetic world where the fervor of cable tv tends to replace thoughtful discourse with disdain and disgust, Russert’s presence will be sorely missed. Only 58, Russert apparently suffered a massive heart attack at his desk and never revived.
Russert had just returned from a family vacation in Italy to celebrate his son Luke’s college graduation. Having been to Rome last Christmas with my two young sons, I can only imagine the depth of his family’s loss and pain with his early departure.
I will miss his direct, no nonsense approach to either side of the aisle in “Meet the Press,” his thoughtful approach, and his utter and non-swerving humanity.
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Right on regarding Fox “News”.