Fox News Can't Get It Right

Terrorist fist jabs and now Obama Baby Mama?

Fox News Channel's "Fair and Balanced" moniker has always been open to interpretation. It's widely recognized that they have a decidedly right tilt since it's inception - a antidote to the left-wing media. And they have a huge audience...

Fox's coverage of the Democratic primary campaign was a study in funny. Hillary Clinton, the most hated female in Democratic politics since Eleanor Roosevelt, became a conservative darling while Barack Obama was consistently portrayed in the worst light possible. Every scurrilous rumor and chain email was duly reported 24/7. Hillary supporters flocked to Fox in droves. Sean Hannity inadvertently became the Clinton campaign's best friend.

Just this past week or so, we could see that the general election coverage will be going in roughly the same direction. Fox's E.D. Hill, in reaction to the fist bump that Barack and Michelle Obama shared before his victory speech last Tuesday, came out with this teaser, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says."

Liberal media watchdog group, Media Matters, issued a "Call to Action" to write, call and sign a petition. Hill later apologized. Interestingly enough, this came on the heels of E.D.'s show being canceled. She'll continue with Fox "in a capacity to be determined".

After the jump, Fox News tries to talk "street" and get it all wrong..

Check out the chyron at the beginning of the clip below. "Outraged Liberals: Stop picking on Obama's Baby Mama!" The good folks at Donklephant ran to Urban Dictionary and found the definition of Baby Mama: "the mother of your child(ren), whom you did not marry and with whom you are not currently involved." Sounds JUST like the Obamas, doesn't it?

So they're just wrong or attempting to be cool or trying to convince their audience that that's the way the Obamas and liberal speak. But it's mostly just dumb. I'm so looking forward to their coverage of the rest of campaign...