Fox News anchor ED Hill has lost her show a week after suggesting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle’s on-stage victory gesture could be seen as a “terrorist fist jab”. Hill, the anchor of Fox News show America’s Pulse, made the comment last Friday after Obama and his wife affectionately bumped fists before his victory speech on becoming the Democratic candidate for president. “A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently,” said Hill in her show. “We’ll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.”
According to US media reports Hill, who has been with Fox News Channel since 1998, has now lost her show although she is to stay with the network in an as yet undetermined capacity. Hill apologised for the gaffe live on-air at the start of her show on Tuesday. Prior to anchoring America’s Pulse, Hill hosted Fox News Live. She also co-hosts Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor show.
The “terrorist fist jab” comment is the one in a series of anti-Obama incidents in which Fox News has been involved. Recently an on-screen caption described Michelle Obama as “Obama’s Baby Mama”, a slang term for black single mothers. And in May Fox News contributor Liz Trotta apologised for joking that Obama should be assassinated, along with Osama bin Laden.
Am I reading too much into this or were they just looking for an excuse to fire this woman? After all, we have seen much worse than this on Fox and Bill O’Reilly still has a job.
Whatever,
We wouldn’t want to have people’s right to free speech curbed would we. Everyone is so in a hurry to elect a Muslim to the President :(. Whatever, I’d rather have Hillary than either of them, at least she might get mad and be willing the excuse of defending the country to do something. The Affirmative Action candidate will win and if it looks like McCain is getting too close, I’m sure McCain is willing to do what is needed to sink his campaign like the good little traitor he is.
Should be interesting to see how many Asians and Mexicans will vote for a black, usually they’re have a great deal of prejudice towards blacks (or African Americans or people of Color or whatever the current name is). Problems with changing what you’re called it no matter what you’re still that person?
I wonder how many of the little NAZI Demoncrats and Progmissives will vote for him because he’s ‘of color’. Do they really care about his policies? From what I’ve seen the answer is, no. But, again most voters never know what the candidate is for, a good example is King George Bush and Clan. Clinton would be another. Oh well, more outsourcing, more imported labor to drive our wages down, more taxes to give the imported labor a artificial standard of living and subsidize big business, more laws to control our freedom of speech, freedom of movement, the right to defend ourselves, etc. Really it should a NAZI heaven, the demoncrats won’t even know what happened as the go the homeless camps and are euthanized to make room for China. What is it about the trash from India and China that we give them enough, don’t you know they look down on those that kowtow to them. Mexicans are pristine clean by comparison, and everyone complains openly about how dirty Mexico is, so what’s up?
Really, I didn’t get the mandatory brainwashing, so what is it they tell you that makes you libs such slaves, literally, to what is against you’re own best interest?
Well… THAT little rant ought to get some comments rolling.
Traaxx, you’re retarded. Go to a shrink and get some Prozac. Or maybe you are a part of the Tom Cruise Scientology camp and are against psychotropics.
You are part of the problem in this country… all complaints yet no solutions oh and a racist at that.
According to reports for several days, FOX was tweaking their schedule (Laura Ingraham gets a new show). Plus, E.D. while still quite attractive, was getting older than most of the FOX News Babes.
I saw a couple of kids in a school playground giving each other one of those terrorist fist jabs.
Naturally I reported them to DHS. They should be tasered and on their way to Gitmo by now.
Murdoch is probably just jumping on the Obama bandwagon, I think he smells the winds of change coming. Obama is going to win in a landslide of epic proportions.
That “terrorist fist jab” moment is among some of the lowest class moments in American news.
I’ve seen worse like Connie Chung crying when the Democrats got pounded in the 1994 election, but not many.
Fox News is as biased for Republicans as the “traditional” media was a decade ago for Democrats.
I’m ecstatic to see GOP-TV finally going off the deep end. Their “show” to depict the Democratic nominee as a terrorist now resonates with fewer and fewer dingbat republicans.
I would agree that Murdoch, the businessman he is, will reconsider the format. Catering to the old, crusty, republican, fat, dinosaur TV viewers what they want to hear is not good for long term profitability. There are only so many Archie Bunkers left and they don’t spend money anyway.
Heh, I should start watching Fox News. Watching people speak without thinking and later having to grovel for forgiveness is always a good source of entertainment.
If Faux news was indeed growing a conscience, they would have outright fired her. But them keeping her on proves they just wanted to rearrange their tv schedule.
While there is definitely such a thing as freedom of speech, there are repurcussions. If you yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater you’ll get arrested, calling a presidential nominee a ‘terrorist’ on national tv means you lose your job.
I think we’re missing the point. Fox has figured out that they can run any crazy, made-up crap they want as long as they issue a stock ‘apology’ a few days later. There are no consequences, and the core Fox audience has little interest in whether any of this stuff is factual. Half of them probably think Barak Obama actuallY IS a Muslim.
Just another example of Fox News being insane. I stopped watching it along time ago because of the insane bias that shouldn’t even exist when reporting the news.
Pretty funny watching you kids pile on Fox when they’re still doing a better job than the rest of the lot… not that it’s hard to do.
My relative should have just said they were “playing to the minority and youth demographics”. Then she would have been offensive and right.
#12, jc. You mustn’t watch much news at all, or read the newspaper.
It’s all biased now, just in different flavors.
Is this lady’s show actually a faux news show like the Daily Show or Colbert? If not, then I think the point here is that this utterly bastardized take on news is being trafficked as real news.
In other words, people are hearing this garbage about Obama being a muslim and a terrorist and they believe it’s coming from a reputable news agency, when in fact it’s neo-con propaganda. The lady just lost her show because she went so far off the deep end that she threatened to destroy the facade that the networks have built over their faux news. It doesn’t mean the networks really want to start showing accurate news for a change.
What is a “terrorist fist jab”? Never heard of such a thing.
As for the “body language” experts that Faux news uses — it is a TOTALLY sleazy way to make up crap about politicians they don’t like.
No legitimate news organization would use them. Might as well bring on mind readers and astrologers to analyze a candidate.
>>Is this lady’s show actually a faux news show
>>like the Daily Show or Colbert?
They passed it off as a “real news” show (like there could ever be “real news” on Faux).
If I had know what a hilarious buffoon she was, I would have been tuning in every day.
“Terrorist fist jab”?? Haw! You can’t make this shit up!!
What we need is more voice of reason like, oh maybe MSNBC and Keith Olberman
>> Traaxx said,
>> I wonder how many of the little NAZI Demoncrats and Progmissives will vote for him because he’s ‘of color’.
I voted for him because he is black.
I just love the thought of a black guy finally becoming president IN SPITE of the all the bigots desperately unleashing their malodorous slime on him.
His election would finally mark the end of the GOP’s “southern strategy” that panders to the very wost of America. Good riddance.
I also voted for Obama because I believe he has the potential to be one of the truly great American presidents.
#15, I don’t know if Fox could even be called neocon propaganda. It’s more like some marketing guys saying “we know what the NASCAR demographic wants to hear, let’s give it to them.”
>>I wonder how many of the little NAZI
>>Demoncrats and Progmissives will vote for him
>>because he’s ‘of color’.
Or how many of the dumbfuck KKK sisterfuckers will vote against him because he’s a “jigaboo”.
Make sure you get your hood and sheet dry cleaned before the election, Traass!
Haw!
#19, If you voted for him simply because he is black, you are as big an idiot as the southerners you mock.
>>you are as big an idiot as the southerners
>>you mock.
Councilor, if you think only southerners are racists, you are as big an idiot as the long-haired hippie-type pinko fag liberals you mock.
McCullough–you crack me up, demonstrating your liberal roots and all: looking for the best in people.
No, I think #15 got it so correct: “The lady just lost her show because she went so far off the deep end that she threatened to destroy the facade that the networks have built over their faux news.”
But indeed, as a business man Murdoch may be looking to keep his pandering empire alive a few extra years by switching to the perceived winner. A political movement is dead when the panderers and camp followers switch sides. It will be a tougher crowd to please, but a larger audience to address?
I used to watch politics thru the lens of the media as staged melodrama with rote pieces (talking points aka “scripts”) but I’m concluding its something more odious. The last song played by the orchestra on the Titanic, but I don’t wish to be pessimistic. I might lose my bearing and become off traaxx.
I miss Tim Russert already. At least he was able to do a fantastic job reporting the political news. Faux News THIS!
Who’s left? Bob Schieffer and others you could count with the fingers on one hand.
I just terrorist fist jabbed myself. Call 9-11!
#26
Were you looking at any adult websites when you terrorist fist jabbed yourself? If so, it may not have been an actual terrorist fist jab.
#23, Mustard,
… as big an idiot as the long-haired hippie-type pinko fag liberals you mock.
HEY !!!
Is Faux News Starting to Grow a Conscience?
Well, I think that would require some degree of empathy which I didn’t know Faux News possesed.
With the end of America’s failed experiment with conservatism, I hope Fox disintegrates too.
Fox has done a huge disservice to America.