Check the link. It’s in the “outraged email” she posted.
On preview…
Looking at the email again, you’re right. I doubt the message got through, but I wouldn’t expect much of anything to get through to Malkin.
This is probably because the women you knew are not hoodrats.
FWIW, Fox News has issued an apology. :
Although an apology has been issued, I’d like to add the post I was going to make before the message board went offline.
How is this not malicious? Along with the fact that the difference in connotation between “my baby’s daddy” and “Obama’s babymama” has been explained, we need to examine Fox’s use of this phrase.
At best, it’s an uninformed attempt to be hip and I would have to wonder why a putative newscaster (or producer) would choose to go for a hip idiom in describing someone who is a potential First Lady of the United States.
At it’s very worst, the person knew what they were saying and, despite everyone having facts to the contrary, meant to imply that Michelle’s children had been borne of a casual liaison that brings up every “lack of family values” “slatternly, welfare-statist” and “look at why they’re still stuck in poverty needing affirmative action” meme regarding black people there is.
It is also inflammatory, rabble-rousing and smacks of just plain smugness in knowing people are wiling to buy into any implication they can muster. The fact that they (Fox) don’t have the brain cells to think it through that deeply but nonetheless know the value of buzzwords doesn’t make it any the less deliberate and, therefore, malicious.
Well, a half-assed one, anyway. Although he acknowledges that the producer “used poor judgment,” he never really says “we’re sorry”, or “we regret the use of” or anything remotely resembling remorse or embarrassment.
I wonder if that twit Malkin will apologize for defending the use of it now, since she basically blamed the victim for having used a similar term, though with a very different meaning and connotation.
HA! What am I thinking?! :smack:
“Oh, stewardess! I speak Jive!”
It was just such an undignified thing…this is possibly the next First Lady, and they’re using slang from the 'hood to describe her? Do they somehow believe that AAVE is going to become the official language of the US government if Obama wins?
That’s my point-of-incredulity…the usage of it by Michelle Obama was a playful usage by the wife of the person in question. That does NOT translate to the use of the female version to describe the wife of a presidential nominee by what is supposed to at least pretend to be a news network.
McCain has a Baby Mama, doesn’t he?
A Hottie Mama, at least… 
There’s also the point that what people call themselves is not the same as what other people are allowed to call them.
The elided sibilant makes all the difference.
To add insult to injury, I swear they made up a word. Here’s what a senior vice president at Fox said (bolding mine):
I hadn’t seen the word “chyron” before, and dctionary.com didn’t have it, either. I looked it up in the somewhat misnamed Compact Edition Oxford English Dictionary* and it wasn’t there, either. I Googled Chyron and found a few references to a corporation by that name and one to a Wikipedia entry. The Wikipedia entry said it could mean " television graphics that occupy the lower area of the screen." Has anyone else heard this word?
*(volume 1 is 3" thick)
raises hand
When I was doing research about Jeopardy last year before my audition, there was a book written by one of the original writers of the current version of the show. He mentions, while describing how the questions (er…answers) go from the writers to the producers to the screens during the actual taping, and explains “chyron” fairly well. So I’ve known the word for over a year now.
It does seem to be one of those very “industry-insider” type pieces of knowledge, though. I wouldn’t expect anyone who hasn’t actually been trying to learn stuff about the television production industry to know it.
Chyron is the correct word, or at least the correct industry term.
As for “malicious,” 5-4-Fighting… I don’t know. I may have used the wrong word, but I can’t think of the best one offhand. Fox News basically trolls by being actually biased and then irritating people with little needling stupidities like this one. Using “baby mama” in a chyron is much more stupid than harmful, particularly compared to unending and sensationalist coverage of Rev. Wright, for example. It’s hard for me to figure out what they’re really doing because they’re so often on that line between cutesy and immaturely provocative. Are they suggesting the Obama kids are the product of a welfare mother? Are they just trying to dig in with a remidner that, as a black family, they’re, you know, different from the Fox audience? I don’t know. I do know it’s also an attempt to be cutesy as the news networks increasingly imitate the style and language of E! How the hell does “baby mama” make its way into a story about the wife of a Presidential candidate, much less a pregnant pop star?
Well, hopefully there’s little to no chance for Fox to talk about a “baby bump” in relation to the presidential race, anyway. God, I hate that term…
Here’s hoping. But if some consultant decides McCain needs to look youthful, or less likely wants to scare people about the oversexed black guy, watch out. 
No nationally known commentator will call Obama a nigger. America’s closet racists have had decades to learn how to suppress that word. Even Michelle Malkin would probably have to be drunk to say it.
Speaking of Malkin, though, I suspect she may soon attain the strange freedom that comes of never being taken seriously. She placed herself squarely in the loony bin with the Rachael Ray terrorist scarf bit. A few more moments like that and she will be able to say anything she wants without really hurting the conservative movement.
Anyway, I can’t wait to see what Fox News dishes up next!
I think we should start a Barack Obama N-Word Pool.
Ewwwww, no way!
Fe-male Ann Coulter lookin’ girl!
“Daddy, have you seen my Ebonics 101 book? Got a report on Favor Flav due tomorrow and…”
“Your what?!”
“Well, yeah, I mean, “word pup”. Mmmm, “up”. “Word up”. Ever since the Snizzle in Chief was elected, we don’t have take English no mo , mo fo. Oh, and can you sign that permission slip for my nine?..”
(Muffled explosion, brain matter and cranial bone drift down like snowflakes…)