Question for Fox News: Do you think any of these people might be terrorists?
June 10, 2008 10:55 am ET
Commenting on Barack and Michelle Obama's on-stage "fist bump" before the start of a June 3 speech by Barack Obama, host E.D. Hill previewed a segment on the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse by saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."
An Internet search for terms "fist bump," "pound," "dap," and "bumping fists" has revealed images of numerous athletes, celebrities, and politicians performing the same social gesticulation. Does Fox think any of the following might be terrorists?
Tell Fox News that you demand an apology from E.D. Hill.
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It's only terrorism if Obama does it. Or rather, It's only terrorism if (insert name of random Democrat) does it.
Really, after this and the Moyers thing, you'd think Fox News couldn't sink any lower.
You'd think...
I think MMFA owes someone some credit for originally compiling those photos.
.....namely ME!
Don't forget the U.S. Army.
(watch the end of the commercial)
Good to see that Fox has denigrated our armed forces too, calling them the enemy.
Hey Jeff Christie... how about a show on this one?
Hey Jeff Christie... how about a show on this one?
Right after Jeff Christie does a show about his arrest with that male prostitute in Pittsburgh back in the '70s.....
Never will happen.
But I'm gonna bring it up here at MMFA every time his name gets mentioned until it DOES happen.....
Oh, I agree. He needs to have it rubbed in his face constantly.
Isn't there a way to obtain public records of that incident from the PGH police? Surely there must be some record of the arrest...
Even the US Army are terrorist huh?
Someone needs to shut FOXNEWS down for good. They are the real domestic terrorist of our nation.
Another Right Wing toady gets shown for the vacuous idiot she is. Rachel Maddow nailed it on Countdown last night; every time one of these lying bastards tosses out crap like this, we need to hold them up for the ridicule and scorn they deserve. That's the best way to fight the odious Right Wing Propaganda machine.
As long as there is a market for stupidity, Fox will continue to thrive.
These must be a market for stupidity, seeing as they're still making Adam Sandler m0vies... :-)
I'd like to tell myself that it was so hot that people would watch anything to get out of the heat, but I'm done with lying to myself.
The average American scares the hell out of me.
Adam Sandler reminds me of a couple of obnoxious kids I knew back in Junior High. He's never evolved past the Right Grade.
And I never saw ANYTHING worthwhile that he did on SNL. Especially Opera Man.
Yup, King. Maybe we should stop ragging on the star-spangled bedwetters. I find a lot of them as scary as any fist-jab. While the average American is still screaming about a proposed "bridge to nowhere" and a Woodstock museum, and justifiably complaining about gas prices (but being suckered into thinking it's all of those taxes making the price high) I hear fewer Americans complaining about the real Big Government crazy spending.
Here are some stats that make the Sandler movie look like a shrewd investment.
On Morning Joe they even had footage of Pat Buchanan giving the fist bump/pound...whatever it's called.
Leave it to FOX...& especially E.D. Hill to suggest something sinister.
Hey the last photo has my namesake giving some fist! :-O
I. Am. Not. A. Terrorist. And neither is he ;-)
Hey the last photo has my namesake giving some fist! :-O
Yes, last is very fitting.
D,
If I was a terrorist I couldn't tell you anyway. So you'll just have to go on wondering :-O
hehehe.
I don't think that is the most important thing. But if you are going to make that call, plese make this call:
see video: Tell Congress that Bush and Israel Have No Legal Justification to Attack Iran TOLL-FREE NUMBER FOR CONGRESS (just ask for your representatives' offices)
1-800-788-9372 National call-in day to tell your members of Congress to stop an attack on Iran
ED Hill his a GOP hack and a hater. How many times will FOX have these types of insults and continue to get away with them? Who ever heard of someone being a terrorist because of the fist bump? Where did that come from? Hey ED Hill? FU.
"Apparently, it was concocted by some loser sheltered rightwing blogger living in Mommy and Daddy's basement who seriously needs a life."
That's either Michael Savage or Mark Levin........ oh..... you said rightwing blogger...... nevermind. ; -)
J, thanks, but as I said earlier I do not want to get into this discussion. You may have an issue with Bottleblonde, I really just want to stick to issues. I know she hates me for some reason and Julia accused me of being BobtheP but hey whatever gets them off.
Fair enough.
Actually I never accused you of being that person, but joked that somebody else outed you as him by calling you Suebob. I don't know who outed you, I just saw it in passing. But if you aren't that person, why are you two so defensive?
I suggest developing a sense of humor. That will get you further than constant harrangues.
We all know that THIS guy is a terrorist:
Evil Incarnate.
Still waiting to hear from that Thing about McClellan's book...
And THIS guy:
He's too stupid to be Evil Incarnate. He's just a petulant little Chimpy.
He's Evil Lite - tastes bad, less filling. :-)
Same crappy beer in a snazzier bottle.
Distributed by Hensley & Co. - Cindy McCain, Chairperson.....
AJ
It is beyond nutty, its sad but I have a feeling it is a preview of what FOX will say to the stupid people who watch them.
Oh, defintely. All terrorists. Every one.
Like they say... Fox News: Fair and Balanced.
And I'm J. Edgar Hoover.
LOL! Hahahahahahaha!
I love it. For the record - it IS terrorism when the New York Yankees do it, but it's patriotic and all-American when the Boston Red Sox do it.
"Everything you done to me will be done to you" - The Color Purple
This type of celebration is very very common in the English game of Cricket. (Kinda like Baseball)
This has nothing to do with nationality or ethnicity either:
http://shinymedia.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/31/bopara_broad.jpg
East Indian players:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38936000/jpg/_38936139_batsmen_ap200x245.jpg
Caribbean players:
http://www.bcacricket.org/albums/album01/CARLTON_BATSMEN_DAMIEN_HINDS_AND_RYAN_CLARKE.thumb.jpg
Uh, I think you left out two other icons of America. Namely...
"Moreover, the fact that athletes have been giving "dap" to each other for well over 20 years makes me wonder what this ditz is doing on a Fox "News" network. Emphasis on the "News"."
She is no different than that dumbass Dana Perino, who didn't even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis is, a dumbed-down ditz who has zero business being press secretary or in any position in Government.
They should have added the ol' "terrorist fist jab" to this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BkE-aPqELTI
While I'm not a Faux News fan, they were not the only media outlet flummoxed by the dap thing. I refuse to believe that the media folks didn't know what the dap is all about. After all, the compiled photos show it's widespread use by folks of all genders, races and ages. I live and work among college-aged students and have shared a dap or two myself. Sheesh!
coldteablues
You photo gallery only shows one side. Did you find any photos of actual terrorists doing the fist bump? I doubt it.
Maybe we can compromise. Hill can keep her job if she apologizes AND produces one photo of an actual terrorist doing a fist bump.
www.cia.gov
Does Fox think any of the following might be terrorists?
FOX Responds: Only the Black people.
The office of the presidency represents all Americans internationally. It is demeaning and disrespectful to use the "dap" or other such childish signals when delivering a national presentation or speech.
It is demeaning for all Americans to have a President disrespect AND disregard the fu*king CONSTITUTION! It's demeaning and disrespectful of all Americans when the President can't speak English! It's demeaning and disrespectful for all Americans when the President to reveals the name of a covert CIA agent! It's demeaning and disrespectul for all Americans when the President LIES his way into a war which has killed 4,100 American citizens and seriously injured over 25,000. THAT'S demeaning AND disrespectful! Why the hell weren't YOU ranting about THAT!
What next, "Hail To The Chief" played by a hip-hop artist or heavy metal? High-Fives when diplomats greet each other as "Hi Bro"? The first lady acting like Brittany Spears?
Ah, did you miss Bush chest bump a Air Force graduate during a time of war?
If there is one thing that will sink Obama and his African-American signals it is this "third-world country" mentality----other Americans are watching and wondering just how far it goes.
So THAT'S you problem, you don't like African Americans. Make it easy on yourself. Just say you can't stand the thought of a African American man becoming President. All this bull sh*t about 'third world mentality' is just that bull sh*t since you choose to ignore the former President showing HIS 'third world mentality bump' with a tennis player. What makes their bump acceptable and Michelle and Barack's not acceptable? Race?
With Hannity at the head, and others, Fox News represents the rankest forms of Bigotry, Cowardace, and Inanity.
that would be "Cowardice" which rhymes with "inanis" (from the Latin)
As Hannity rhymes with inanity...
Based on the Fox "news" report, I think that Howie Mandell and contestants of NBC's DEAL OR NO DEAL should also be added to the terrorist watch list for their flagrant terrorist demonstrations via "fist jab." In fact, who really know what those models are putting in those cases...today a monetary amount, tomorrow BOOM???? And don't even get me started on that shadowy Banker figure... At least we can be at ease that this administration's rampant (and illegal) financial tracking methods should ensure that his money is not coming from terrorist sources.
It took almost 100 posts until one of the Media Matters weevils came out of the woodwork to demolish on of his favorite strawman arguments.
Media Matters never said that a reporter on Fox News couldn't say a stupid, untrue smear. Free speech is not at risk here.
If you want partisan journalists to say stupid and untrue smears like that, I say go for it. It makes your whole movement look corrupt and idiotic, but if you want her to have the right to say these things, you have it.
But who knows? By FAUX's standards, maybe we better keep an eye on Lieberman just in case. :)