Fox News on "Obama/Biden"

[Bonnie]

What I do know is that since Saturday, after Obama's announcement of Biden as his running mate, folks have been remarking on the similarity between "OBAMA AND BIDEN" (etc.) and "OSAMA BIN LADEN."

What I don't know is whether the following really appeared on a Fox News broadcast.

-- Bonnie

[BringTheNoise]

Surely not. I mean they're not THAT crass, are they?

[hardhead]

Yes in fact they are

[Nick Theodorakis]

There's nothing about it on the Daily Kos yet, and I would expect it there if it was even suspected of being real. I vote fake.

Nick

[Towknie]

I put nothing past the network of the terrorist fist pump.

[Eve MG]

Obama looks like Osama. Big deal. But did he have to pick Biden for VP?

Shouldn’t somebody in Obama’s campaign have thought of this?

That's what I've been thinking. Not that I think he/they should pander to idiots, but it was like taking a bad thing (the unfortunate similarity) and making it worse.

Also - did you see that the "Obama is not a pumpkin" link goes to another Tastesfunny page that then links to a spoof Snopes page (called "Snoops")? It looks very similar - is that parody or copyright infringement?

[Nick Theodorakis]

Originally Posted by Towknie

I put nothing past the network of the terrorist fist pump.

Right. And the "Obama's Baby Momma" network. But my point is, both of those were posted on Kos within hours (or sooner) and I think if it was real, we'd have seen it there by now.


Nick

[Beachlife!]

Originally Posted by Towknie

I put nothing past the network of the terrorist fist pump.

Are you talking of the 'terrorist fist jab' comment made by Hill while citing a description used by someone else in a questioning statement? The same statement she later apologized for and lost her show as a result of?

I'm no fan of Fox news put using that phrase to describe the channel is ridiculous.

[Canuckistan]

I vote fake. The font doesn't look right.

Sample 1

Sample 2

Sample 3

All these have a much narrower font than the OP.

[Simply Madeline]

Originally Posted by Beachlife!

Are you talking of the 'terrorist fist jab' comment made by Hill while citing a description used by someone else in a questioning statement?

Who was she citing? No snark - the only place I saw/heard anyone questioning the meaning of the fist pump was on Fox.

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by Simply Madeline

Who was she citing? No snark - the only place I saw/heard anyone questioning the meaning of the fist pump was on Fox.

She *said* she was only repeating characterizations of it that she had heard in the media. But no such characterization existed before she said it.

Those Fox kids are such cards!

[Tarquin Farquart]

I'm sure it's fake, but it wouldn't surprise me if something like this did happen.

[snopes]

I suppose it's too much to hope that John McCain will choose a running mate with a surname of Abel.

- snopes

[Billy Beccles]

I want McCain to change his first name to Mahatma.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Billy Beccles

I want McCain to change his first name to Mahatma.

Give that it's a title, he wouldn't have to change his name.

Originally Posted by Billy Beccles

I want McCain to change his first name to Mahatma.

I would put it past McCain to actually change his name to 'Jesus'

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by Billy Beccles

I want McCain to change his first name to Mahatma.

I just thought of something on the way home from work: if Obama changed his middle name to "Hopey," he wouldn't have to change his monograms.

[lyra_silvertongue]

Originally Posted by Lady Luzhin

I would put it past McCain to actually change his name to 'Jesus'

He might as well change his name to "Former Prisoner of War" McCain.

[Simply Madeline]

Originally Posted by lyra_silvertongue

He might as well change his name to "Former Prisoner of War" McCain.

The implication that John McCain - a former POW - would change his name, is outrageous.

[lyra_silvertongue]

You know, for five and a half years he didn't even have a name.