WTF? Fox calls Michelle Obama Barack's "Baby mama"

Really.

An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obama, the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, the network described the former as "Obama's baby mama."

I checked, and sure enough, as you can see below, our e-mailer was right. In fact, that description was displayed on-screen several times during the segment, which featured anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, an FNC contributor.
Salon (with video!)

Cheese and rice.

Times they are a-changin'...Fox News is actually APOLOGIZING for the slight. Boy, this never would have happened in their 2004 salad days:

From Salon.com

"Well, the post I put up Wednesday night about the Fox News chyron that referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" has gotten a lot of attention from bloggers and the media. (More attention than I expected, frankly, not that I'm complaining.) Now, Fox News has responded to the outrage it has heard about the description.

"The network released a short statement from its senior vice president of programming, Bill Shine. It reads, "A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment."

"Both the Politico's Michael Calderone and Mediabistro's TVNewser blog report that Fox staffers were disturbed by what happened. "A Fox staffer said that others internally were bothered" by the description, Calderone says, while TVNewser says, "TVNewser hears higher ups were furious, while tipsters say the producer was attempting to be 'cute' by referencing the movie of the same title."

A Fox spokeswoman did not respond to our requests for comment."

¯ Alex Koppelman

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JohnBoy--what I think you meant to say was: "Who BE da baby daddy, yo?"

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I hope so.

please joe, she'll have fox news banned on day one. their assets will be seized and turned over to guys who ran bet into the ground. anyone who ever worked for fox or even admitted to watching fox will be sent to re-education camps. bammy will never let you go back to your comfortable ways. he will demand that you be engaged and obedient. he will force you to learn the ways of the serf you damn white devil. how you like dat sh*t now, you muthaf*ckin' honky piece of trash? yeah, i'm talkin' to you whitey! mishy bamster don't play dat game, nuh uh! white collar my ass.

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