1. Not a hard news segment, it's "america's pulse." I'm pretty sure they're not looking at this as a particularly significant story - it's a 24-hour news station, and this is a fluff piece. 2. Yes, it's incredibly white of them to spend more than 5 seconds on this. 3. Your thread title saying Fox accused him of a terrorist related gesture is not true. They're relating different ways the gesture has been interpreted by other observers, right or wrong. They never implied that's what it was, and the interview never even came close to portraying the act as negative. Yes it was lame. No, they're not calling Obama a terrorist.
The worst part about it is that they never even bring up the terrorist comment again with their body expert. They just say it very slowly in the opening segment to let it seep in and do damage without ever bringing it up again. Then, they show Bush chest bumping the Air Force grad and gloat about how hip he is. I guess terrorists are only into fist bumping and not chest bumping. What a waste of a channel. We are slouching towards Idiocracy.
******* white people. I made it to when the irritating fat guest expert said: "my husband sqeezes my hand three times" portion before I pulled our my shotgun and blew away my monitor. I've been fist bumping friends for 25 years, I had no idea I was allowing the terrorists to win.
Naked do your part, don't watch Fox. Some people have aaid that watching Chris Matthews gush over and over about his leg tingle is pure idiocy. Guess it depends on your viewpoint
Typical Fox crap. 1) Introduce a subject by rhetorically acking whether an innocuous action by a Democratic political figure is a "terrorist" sign. 2) Get an expert to say the sign is harmless but you would have to ask the person demonstrating it what it means. 3) Don't ask the Democratic political figure what he meant. 4) Compare to a Republican political figure's action. 5) Give factual detail explaining the actual significance of what the Republican political figure did, along the way praising the Republican for making the gesture. (Here, George Bush chest bumping a graduate being explained as the President honoring the graduate's request.) Now take a look at the stupid piece Fox did about Obama on a bike. The Link The Link Very interesting in that Jenkins refers to a "tire fender" and uses a picture that doesn't show what the supposed tire fender really is. It's the arched connecting rod that joins an adult bike to a kid's half bike, creating a pseudo-tandem bicycle (either an Adams Trail-a-Bike or something similar). So the question that was put up (we don't know if he was with his family) could have been easily answered with the full picture. Obama was out riding with his family and had his 7 year old daughter behind him. Oh, here's a video of the whole thing in action. The Link I have little doubt but that had Obama been a Republican candidate, then Fox would have made the whole piece about family values and caring fathers. Fox in a nutshell. Take every opportunity to ridicule a Democrat and every opportunity to praise a Republican.
Actually I like coming on this board and reading the "stuff" the left wingers post about Fox for my entertainment. Sorry your monopoly is gone. "News" channels like CNN (created by supreme nut job Ted Turner) have been trolling with their garbage for years. Where was your indignation then?
Martha MacCallum Megyn Kelly E.D. Hill (Longhorn) The brunette weather girl Best. News station. Ever.
Folks, this is a "some people say" tactic that Fox is using. You're either blinded by partisanship or aren't too familiar with media tactics if you can't see through this.
It just shows they will say ANYTHING and hope that something sticks. People who endorse this junk are actually quite frightening.
What they should be talking about is the unnatural, contrived nature of the supposedly impromptu fist bump. In the matter of a split second, they apparently forgot if they were going to "lay some skin" on each other, shake hands, or fist bump.
