Have the right-wing media mercenaries over at Fox News lost their fucking minds?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
During a discussion Wednesday between commentators Michelle Malkin and Megyn Kelly on whether Republican attacks on Michelle Obama have been too harsh, the following banner ran across the bottom of the screen:<\/p>\n
OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA’S BABY MAMA!<\/strong><\/p>\nThis blatantly racist, unconscionable remark is an outrage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If that is indeed what happened, then it is an outrage.\u00a0 And incredibly stupid.\u00a0 Michele Obama is a prickly woman with a millenarian streak about her – and we’ve talked about this and the dangers it provides democracy in the past.<\/p>\n
But “Babymama?”<\/p>\n
Bad network.\u00a0 Bad.\u00a0 No donut.<\/p>\n
Sheesh.<\/p>\n
and is part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to incite America’s bigoted dumbasses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hm.\u00a0 Carefully orchestrated?<\/p>\n
Leaving aside the very <\/em>high likelihood that it was just some overworked, underpaid, twentysomething numbnuts working the Chyron who wrote the offending crawler (anyone who’s ever worked in a newsroom, can I get an amen?) – does anyone seriously think that any such “careful orchestration” would escape serious inquiry (meaning:\u00a0 other than Andy Ostroy or Grace Kelly)?<\/p>\nFox is nothing more than a shameless, unapologetic mouthpiece for the ruthless Republican attack-machine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He must be an “investigative journalist”, too.<\/p>\n
At any rate – there are so many things to criticize Michele Obama over.\u00a0 This is not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As P.J. O’Rourke once said, life is full of ironies, if you’re stupid. So let’s look beyond a few ironies: That someone who writes for the Huffington Post can call someone – anyone – a “political mercenary”. That someone writing on the Huffpo can yap about “orchestrated smear campaigns”. That same person can call anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}