Fox News Jokes About Killing Obama???
What Was Fox News Thinking? – by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at The Care2 Election Blog)
While discussing how horrible Hillary Clinton was for mentioning the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 primary season… A Fox analyst thought it appropriate to joke about killing Barack Obama.
From AlterNet…
While commenting on Hillary’s RFK gaffe, pundit Liz Trotta on Fox News Channel first referred to Barack Obama as “Osama” and then laughed that they should both be killed.This content is deplorable, and speaks for itself. No journalist or tabloid writer should ever wish for the death of any American, much less a great social servant like Obama, and get away with it.
Jeffrey Feldman has more at HuffPo.
From Jack and Jill Politics…
You can bet that if this same joke were made about Bush, conservative bloggers would be screaming high treason and demanding that the offending individual be publicly executed.
From MyDD…
I wonder who she meant by “we”. I’m pretty sure the majority of America doesn’t wish death upon any of our presidential candidates, regardless of their political affiliations.
Personally, I never expect to get fair and balanced news from Fox, but this is beyond shocking. What did you think?
Comments
Comment from Robert Kirkland
Time: July 21, 2008, 9:02 am
I think that some one will try to assassination Mr. Obama with in the furture,
i dont think fox analyst lose her job over this.may b it a wake up call for Mr. OBAMA
to watch the thing he says and do.
I last few year few good people have ben let go over some words the have said, because of few groups of people did like word the said,
Comment from sue garris
Time: October 14, 2008, 8:21 pm
what women would vote for someone who don”t have a america name. I could understand men, but not a women
Comment from cooper
Time: May 27, 2008, 11:47 pm
I was surprised there was so much hoopla about Hilary saying what she did and very little on this. That FOX is not news is not the surprise, but that this women did not lose her job immediately, or the sponsors have not left in droves is pretty amazing. A credentialed yet overtly bigoted and conservative former journalist now pundit, laughs at the thought of an assassination suggesting which slipped out…oh right …inadvertently.
We have sunk so low that this kind of thing is acceptable.