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Opinion: Fox News in trouble again over Obama smear: ‘baby mama’

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Fresh from its fist bump flap, Fox News is taking new flak for a screen caption that referred to Michelle Obama as her husband’s ‘baby mama.’

Even conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who was on camera Wednesday afternoon when the line ‘OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA’S BABY MAMA’ flashed underneath her, has distanced herself from the phrase.

In a posting Wednesday night, Malkin wrote: ‘I did not write the caption, and I was not aware of it when it ran (the Baltimore studio doesn’t have a monitor). I don’t know if the caption writer was making a lame attempt to be hip, clueless about the original etymology of the phrase, or both.’

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Still, Malkin goes off on a tangent on how Michelle Obama, in the past, has referred to her mate as her ‘baby’s daddy’ (the point being, presumably, that the phrase was thus in play). You can read Malkin’s post here; it includes some of the nasty e-mails she received following her Fox appearance.

The folks at Fox are developing something of an obsession over Barack Obama’s wife. Tonight’s Bill O’Reilly show, according to network promos, will include a discussion of her by conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.

The other recent brouhaha ...

... involving the network was sparked by a segment it did on the fist bump the Obamas exchanged on stage last week as he prepared to proclaim that he had secured sufficient delegates to win the Democratic presidential race.

A few days later, Fox anchor E.D. Hill, reading words on a teleprompter that someone else had written, wondered whether the gesture might be interpreted as a ‘terrorist fist jab.’ Hill later apologized.

Perhaps Fox hired a few too many summer interns to handle some of its behind-the-scenes writing chores.

-- Don Frederick

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