Media Matters brought to my attention -- because I can't watch FOX News -- the ridiculous E.D.Hill, a newsreader who teased an upcoming segment with a "body language expert" with this idiocy:
"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? ... We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says."
So, when African-American spouses bump their fists together (dap) when one has just won his party's Presidential nomination, FOX calls it a "terrorist fist jab?" This is probably only the start of this meme, a soft roll-out if you will, since E.D.Hill never again mentioned the word "terrorist" when she came back from the break to interview the body language expert. They spoke briefly about the Obamas, and then went on to discuss how incredibly kewl our Preznit is -- awesome, even -- for contextualizing the Air Force Academy cadet's super-meaningful moment with a chest bump at the podium.
Got that?
Preznit Bush: awesome super-kewl cadet chest-bumper
Obama: terrorist
I suppose I understand why FOX news viewers believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 terror attacks on our country, that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and that Barack Obama is a terrorist, as is Michelle Obama.
Their televisions tell them so.
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Teddy zed!
dayam, teddy, i thought that headline said fist job - dayam, i need to put on my glasses and get my mind outta the gutter
hello teddy
oh crap, i got so befuddled i forgot:
boing boing back one-and-a-half somersaults, tuck position, no splash (’natch - except for on CT and his fellow bulgarian)
g’evening pups
Obama hugged Michelle, too. I wonder what that means - inquiring minds want to know!
Aloha, Suz and Teddy!
… tee hee hee …
((( Teddy )))
Word to your Mother, Edie.
Oh, I take it back - I don’t want to end up on a watch-list.
Evening, Teddy!
Hey Suz!
Pssfft, where’s the dang towel, Ma Cheri…?
Hmmmmm.
Hi Suz, nice dive !
Nice zed, CT!
Actually that preznitual chest bumping thingee was a lot more terrifying to me than a little love dap. I mean we have s president a 60 year old man with the mentality of a college frat boy???? I think I will crawl back into my cave and stay there until January.
Great dive, Suzanne.
How fuddy duddy are these people ?
Brushing the shoulders and fist jabs were cool way back when I was … um … cool …
Teddy Forgot to say nice post. So glad you brought all this kewl stuff to our attention. Thanks.
Congratulations Buddy !
look to your bulgarian buddy
FOX calls it a “terrorist fist jab?
Oh fer chrissakes.
Desperation in the air over at SuxNews?
Hi Teddy.
FFFFFFFFFFing slimeball media.
Twain, I am sure we will see every breath he takes deconstructed for terrorism by FOX news. Did you see this photo of him riding his terror-cycle today?
Hell it is what half of my students do and this is the whitest place on earth (well except upper New England, North Dakota, and Wyoming).
I feel embarassed now, I didn’t realize Siun had cited me in her post…! I was so late to the post I only skimmed it… *turning bright shades of red*
I deny writing this post so I could re-use the photo of that Air Force cadet’s sweet butt.
And Barak responded to Michelle’s offer of a fist bump just right, and then he patted her back as she walked away … and it was so natural. Jeez, my ex never gave me that kind of acknowlegment. Respectful. Nice.
The only people who watch Fox News are already so brain dead that there is no hope for em anyway- so Fox is practically results free.
David Shuster got hung out to dry for his “pimping” comment.
Let’s see what punishment awaits E.D. Hill for her outrageous statement.
Or does ‘pimping’ outweigh ‘terrorist’ on the journalistic screw-up penalty scale?
Well given that repressed homoerotic display with the preznit, you might even have a chance there, Teddy boy.
*crickets*
unless you have your sites set on the shrub
Well, Faux Spew is ‘Fair and Balanced’, right… Right? ;-)
I loved Barack and Michelle doing that. Then he patted her butt! It was great. Did anyone else see that?
Watertiger called it “dignitude”
I think he actually patted her lower back in a really appropriate and respectful and loving (you and me, babe) way.
from the clip:
“Tell me about this fist-bump, which is what everyone is writing about. Is that some sort of a signal that young people get”?
Wondering if there’s an ex-Saturday Night Live writer feeding her these lines, and secretly laughing his ass off….
Great psot, Teddy!
Here’s my one fingered fist jab to Dr Goebbels’ imitators in FOX.
I’m all over ‘dignitude’ —- could have used some of that in my earlier life, for sure!
I agree with Loo Hoo, I thought it was a pat on the fanny… I do it to my better half, affectionately, of course…
Right in the small of her back. Lucky that!
The right wing has highly paid professional wordsmiths cranking out propaganda for them at tax-writeoff think tanks. The left has us!
Teach it to me, and I’ll do it, too!
yay us!
The “body language expert” is rather an idiot, herself. She wallows around talking about Obama, but really hits her stride when discussing The Preznit:
It’s pretty clear she was brought on to discuss Teh Preznit, since she was sent the pictures, but that E.D. wanted to use the “terror” angle to set up the body language conversation.
I don’t think what the Preznit was doing was body language, per se. I think it was recruiting a new JimmyJeff.
I watched - twice - and was charmed that he patted her lower back and NOT her butt. So much more respectful to the wonderful woman she is. No sexist, I own you, overtones. I thought it was just perfect and loving. I’ll go look for a tape. I wouldn’t have liked it if he’d patted her butt. Inappropriate. But I don’t think he did.
brain bleach at each entrance and exit to the lake in addition to one gallon personal sized jugs at each power station…
hmm - dial-up precludes direct instruction, but the gesture involves holding the back of the hand outward (palm facing in), extending the relevant arm, and curling over (towards the palm) the thumb and three fingers while keeping the middle finger fully extended. Hope this helps!
Naomi Klein says think tanks are where people who make tanks pay people to think.
Sure he did. Just like the crew of the ship was responsible for the “Mission Accomplished” banner.
These people are pathologically unable to take responsibility for anything.
Alright, I’ll give it to you…small of the back.
The line terrorist fist jab is beyond the pale when referring to a candidate for President of The United States. That the story that followed (the incredulous remark) was benign, provides no excuse for that bobblehead to have used that line. Massive call-ins and letters of protest need occur. Fox has crossed the line.
ding ding ding ding!
Too funny!
somebody send the Fux Snooze DiFi and Kay Bailey Hutt doin’ the dap, C&L has the link…
Why on Earth would they take responsibility when NOT taking responsibility has been enabled so completely?
Like asking a duck not to quack.
yes.
Evening all. Been away from the lake for a bit. Hot as hell in my neck of the woods. Close to midnight and it’s all the way down to 83!
KO had some comediannne on a short while back doing her interpretation of body language. It was OK, not great. Better material for the TDS crew.
Cookies for Dr Kirk, and whoever else wants em.
Why … what’s wrong with slapping a woman on the butt ? /s
And then there were the female cadets from Tailhook days too!
Oy.
Thanks for the link. Yep, the rights will use anything to demean Obama and his family. But, hey, he and she were wonderful. She, for sure, didn’t ask for this, but she has grown into it. He treats he with ultimate respect and that is a model for all of us.
newt- oh, nice vid from hidnuser!
At least Difi did repudiate the utter BS that Hutchinson was doling out about the tax cuts…! ;-)
Hi, Reverend, haven’t seen you around Late Nite in a while.
Massive call-ins and letters of protest need occur. Fox has crossed the line.
Aw - fuck ‘em.
They’re gonna say what they’re paid to say no matter what.
In the meantime, Fox will never darken my teevee screen.
Of course, there *are* always the advertisers who might find interesting the extent to which the Fox content is keeping people from seeing the commercials they paid for…
hahahahahaha
i gotta hand it to ya tex, ya have the best pantry
Patting, Petro, patting…! *g*
What was KO doing on tonight? Countdown? I thught it was only five days a week.
mmm (?) …cookies…
you nailed it, TexBetsy
ding!
And for those of us with more refined taste …. http://images.google.com/image.....38;ndsp=20
Are those ladyfingers?
name change? Coming out?
I din’t know CT was Bulgarian….
EPU’d from another thread, but I don’t know if anyone had seen this…
“According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are only 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be only 2.7 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The only thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make ½ of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.”
http://www.tristateobserver.co.....;sid=10121
no, the show with the body language “expert” was a couple of weeks ago.
i’ve never seen finger food quite like that before (laughing)
Dood, We aren’t worried about what’s on your TV. You’re cool. It’s the rest of the world we worry about.
he confessed
I think the Rev meant “a while ago,” as in days, not minutes or hours. As far as I know, Keith wasn’t on tonight. But didn’t he have Sunday nites on NBC for a while? What happened to that experiment, I wonder?
Nor, did I…! ;-)
Only football players get to slap on the butt.
Yes…and Kerry also calling bullpucky on Lindsey Graham this a.m. Surrogates and spokespeople toughening up. Ready to go….
Maybe those massive call-ins and letters should go to the Murdock daughter who supports Obama and the media elsewhere a la KO. Ailes is deaf to criticism… he has an agenda to maintain. [see also, Nixonland].
Ah, so! Oops!
Thanks for your medical advice. I’ll practice on everyone who offends me. Back to you later.
Where there’s death, there’s hope.
I think it’s the way he was raised. He’s been brought up in the gentlemanly ways. He was really respectful with Hillary at their debate too. He helped pull out her chair when they’d been sitting. It upset some people, but I thought it was classy.
Who is this bobblehead, anyway? How did she get her job? What’s her story? Maybe like the producer from O’Reilly who tried to blindside Moyers she ought to get a taste of her own medicine, over and over and over and….
I think that was the first lesson my sisters taught me about dating … never touch a girl’s butt … and I never forgot, therefore I never got a purse in the jowls … *g*
So I think it’s time to go back and look at the West Wing episodes when Santos was running for preznit and see if there are any good things to learn there.
It would seem that the game is now on. It’s gonna be an interesting summer.
30 Days, with Morgan Spurlock — coal mining for 30 days in WVA. Wow, I’m thinking about Oilfieldguy, and his diaries of mountain top removal. FX cable.
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Kerry did OK this morning. But we need surrogates who don’t start every conversation with an expression from Middle-English, as Kerry did once again today.
Yep, to this day if I forget to hold chairs, doors, etc. I get “THE LQQK” from Mom …
Now Tex is offering us terrorist cookies.
Sheesh.
Yup, I hosted Book Salon last Sunday and thought it respectful to be :myself:
Lordy. Not good.
Oh, I’ll just smile sweetly and say, “I’m new around here.” Works for me. And I NEVER confront road rage….not worth the risk. I’m savvy.
stress position?
Somehow I don’t think that when Kerry ascends to the seat of the Sr. Senator from MA he will quite fill the role that has been filled so well over the last 40 years. No lion or firebrand he.
*yawn* … what a weekend, I gotta say “Hi” to my pillow …
G’nite all !
Let’s be really honest - he’s pathetic.
aha. I knew there was a good reason. So are there nuptial plans?
he said something about being related to the bulgarian judge a couple nights ago…
It’s called civility — and we could all do with more of it. Hell, I’m ‘mature’ but I will certainly hold a door for an ‘elder’ —- that’s just basic kindness. Why is our culture having so much trouble with that?
I did a google search for the phrase “terrorist fist jab”. All references I found were to E.D. Hill’s teaser. Also interesting that Rolling Stone had a story on this, then dropped it.
Big shoes.
g’nite pet
Night Petro.
Aloha, Petro!
How did she get her job?
Did you happen to notice her legs?
What’s her story?
Well, I could make one up, but I think it’d be more late-late material…
Let’s just say that his best performances are behind him—way behind, like when he sat in front of the congressional committees when he came back from Nam.
Say goodnight to your pillow from us too. *G*
Well, at least his seat his safe for another six years, after that idiot GOP Ogon-whatever failed to get 10,000 signatures to appear on the ballot. Now that was funny, especially reading everything wonderful Ensign had to say about their super-duper recruit.
nite, Petro!
You’re funny! Lord knows, we could do with some more of that.
Work your way through college writing for the Penthouse Forum?
yee-hah, the Celts win 108-102!
I think Kerry is great. But he does have himself a little extra helping of way too long making speeches in the Senate.