nytimes: Fox News site calls Obama party a 'Hip-Hop BBQ'

[spanone]

racist faux news


NEW YORK — To most news Web sites, what happened at the White House on Thursday night was a private 50th birthday party for President Obama. To an editor at Fox News, it was something a little different.

“Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs,” read the headline on an article on The Fox Nation,a conservative arm of FoxNews.com, which is owned by the News Corporation. Below the headline were photos of Mr. Obama and, separately, three black celebrities who attended the party, the basketball player Charles Barkley, the comedian Chris Rock and the rapper Jay-Z.

Not pictured were any attendees of other racial backgrounds, like the actor Tom Hanks or Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.

The article, published Friday morning, generated more than 2,000 comments and substantial objections from people who found it to be inaccurate at best and racist at worst. Media Matters for America, a progressive group that
campaigns against Fox, asserted that the article was part of a pattern of “race-baiting headlines and content” on the Web site.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44041546/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/#.Tj0_23Ptjf8

[onehandle]

1. Hide your daughters, white folks.

Obama and his thug pals will be roaming the streets after they get a few 40s in them.

[Chimichurri]

4. that chart just blew my mind. Makes perfect sense.

[Faygo Kid]

2. They're dropping all pretense now and using hard racism.

Even Beck and Limbaugh (who compared Obama to Mugabe) have ratcheted it up, if that's possible; Faux is taking the ball and running with it.

It could backfire. Liberals and even independents who are pissed at Obama aren't going to like such blatant racism, and would come to his defense on that.

[luvspeas]

3. Drudgereport did the same thing yesterday...

There was a link that said hip hop in the East Wing. It lead to a Politico story that said nothing about hip hop.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. 1. It IS Fox News . . . what were you expecting?

2. If the menu had included roast beef, braised little new potatoes, and green beans almondine with Tony Bennett as a headliner, the headline would have made Obama a pretentious wannabe elitist.

3. Obama will be attacked no matter what he does.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. And then Obama wants to be nice to them. Please, explain that to me. Why? What is the point?

What is the need to be nice to these ASSHOLES?