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Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Oh no they didn't

Counting the ways in which Fox News calling Barack Obama's wife his "baby mama" is so, so, so wrong.
Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, June 12, 2008 09:36 AM

    A natural mistake

    The odds are that the FOX people didn't intend to suggest that Obama and Michelle weren't married. They meant to slander them, of course, but I'd bet that they had no clue of the specific meaning of the term "baby mama".

    No, they were just displaying the usual complete cluelessness about black culture that's typical of all the right-wing whites on FOX - though I'm sure none of them have the slightest inkling of the depth of their ignorance.

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