Fox News is on a roll--and it's not the kind they'd want, to be sure. They seem to be working as hard as they can to see how many feet they can fit in their collective mouth.
A couple of weeks ago, Fox contributor Liz Trotta apologized for her mirthful reference to how unfortunate it was that Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama couldn’t both be assassinated.
Now Fox broadcaster E.D. Hill has apologized for her bizarre–and over-the-top offensive–suggestion that the “fist bump” Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle did recently could be a “terrorist fist jab.”
The irony is that Ms. Trotta's gasp-inducing gaffe came in the middle of a long-winded monologue about the fact that Hillary Clinton is not as smart as the media have made her out to be, as proven by her more recent verbal slip ups.
It's no surprise that media outlets everywhere are wondering aloud whether Fox has anything left in the way of credibility. But these comments are merely the more glaring ones. During the three-minute clip on YouTube alone, Ms. Trotta seems to be seething with... dislike... for Senator Clinton and makes all kinds of disparaging remarks. The bit about Obama that actually triggered the alarms was an aside she half mumbled after 'accidentally' referring to Barack Obama as 'Osama.' (Aren't the right-wing pundits tired of that one, yet?)
Links:
Assassination Humor? Fox Crosses a Line | New York Times
Fox News Regrets . . . Again | New York Times
Fox News presenter taken off air after Barack Obama 'terrorist fist jab' remark | Telegraph
Question for Fox News: Do you think any of these people might be terrorists? | Media Matters
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