The lady, Liz Trotta, makes a joke here, saying "Osama...errr....Obama...well, if only we could get both." The Fox host just chuckles briefly and says something like "tell us what you really think":
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(For the lazier folks, the relevant part starts around 1:25)
A LOT of problems with this one:
1. I highly doubt her Osama/Obama thing was truly an accident, a genuine slip of the tongue. The far-right fringe has been going bonkers after his name, Barack Hussein Obama, from the get-go. For some, it's a strategy to smear him in the minds of America's most deeply ignorant simpletons, by noting his middle name and making the one-letter change to his last name, and then hoping people will associate him with a Middle East dictator and a Muslim terrorist leader.
2. She is all but equating Obama with Osama in her "joke" as though they're both (equally?) worthy of outright elimination. This follows the common line about how anyone left of Dick Cheney is an America-hater who helps the "terrists".
3. The host doesn't even really call her on this joke, he just laughs it off. No interrupting her to clarify or get her to withdraw this "joke".
4. Yet ANOTHER example of how incredibly lame FoxNews (aka Faux News, Fox Noise, etc.) really is.
What does everyone else think?
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(For the lazier folks, the relevant part starts around 1:25)
A LOT of problems with this one:
1. I highly doubt her Osama/Obama thing was truly an accident, a genuine slip of the tongue. The far-right fringe has been going bonkers after his name, Barack Hussein Obama, from the get-go. For some, it's a strategy to smear him in the minds of America's most deeply ignorant simpletons, by noting his middle name and making the one-letter change to his last name, and then hoping people will associate him with a Middle East dictator and a Muslim terrorist leader.
2. She is all but equating Obama with Osama in her "joke" as though they're both (equally?) worthy of outright elimination. This follows the common line about how anyone left of Dick Cheney is an America-hater who helps the "terrists".
3. The host doesn't even really call her on this joke, he just laughs it off. No interrupting her to clarify or get her to withdraw this "joke".
4. Yet ANOTHER example of how incredibly lame FoxNews (aka Faux News, Fox Noise, etc.) really is.
What does everyone else think?
