Seriously? Fair and Balanced?? Seriously???

Teasing a segment on the "gesture everyone seems to interpret differently," Fox News' E.D. Hill said: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? ... We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says." In the ensuing discussion with a "body language expert," Hill referred to the "Michelle and Barack Obama fist bump or fist pound," but at no point did she explain her earlier reference to "a terrorist fist jab."



A Fox News anchor faced backlash recently for characterizing Barack and Michelle Obama's fist bump as possibly a "terrorist fist jab." Now during a segment the network has displayed a screen referring to the wife of the presumptive democratic nominee as his "baby mama."

The screen was displayed beneath a segment in which anchor Megyn Kelly interviewed Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger. The segment discussed a conservative group's planned anti-Obama documentary.

"Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama's baby mama!" the screen read.

Today, Malkin writes:

"I did not write the caption and I was not aware of it when it ran (the Baltimore studio doesn't have a monitor). I don't know if the caption writer was making a lame attempt to be hip, clueless about the original etymology of the phrase, or both."

Fox News issued this statement today from Bill Shine, senior vicepresident of programming for Fox News Channel.

"A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron
during the segment."