Fox Anchor Calls Obama Fist Pound A "Terrorist Fist Jab"

Update: MediaMatters has issued a call to action around this incident.

ACTION: The Obamas' affectionate "fist bump" is no "terrorist fist jab"

On the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased an upcoming discussion on a gesture Sen. Barack Obama shared with his wife, Michelle, saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."

A "terrorist fist jab"? Seriously?

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Original Post: MediaMatters reports that Fox News' E.D. Hill referred to the Barack-Michelle Obama fist pound as a "terrorist fist jab" during Friday's edition of "America's Pulse."

During the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased an upcoming discussion by saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently." In the ensuing discussion with Janine Driver -- whom Hill introduced as "a body language expert" -- Hill referred to the "Michelle and Barack Obama fist bump or fist pound," adding that "people call it all sorts of things." Hill went on to ask Driver: "Let's start with the Barack and Michelle Obama, because that's what most people are writing about -- the fist thump. Is that sort of a signal that young people get?" At no point during the discussion did Hill explain her earlier reference to "a terrorist fist jab."

From the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse:

HILL: A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We'll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.

CNN notes that the fist-pound is catching on. Witness Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kay Bailey Hutchison share a fist-pound here during CNN's Late Edition.

Related: Obama Fist-Bump Rocks The Nation! [ETP]

Comments

[Srkdqltr]

This flap is right up there with the Rachell Rae strangeness. Grow up newspeople. Get a grip.

[mhmruf]

As a Black Man on my Job I do the FIST bump with many of my fellow white employees as a form of greeting ! Heck whenever they see me they do the FIST BUMP to me as well! And these guys aren't exactly SPRING chickens. We do it as a sense of brotherhood regardless to color, backround and etc.

I would like to give many of the FOX new anchors like Hannity and O'Reilly a BIG FIST BUMP right across the nose. And YES I really mean IT!

[cybertoothcat]

As a retired white woman, give all the Fox anchors an extra BIG FIST BUMP for me!
In case Faux News hadn't noticed, Howie Mandel does this on "Deal or No Deal" all the time.
Is Howie going to Gitmo along with you, your co-workers and at least half of America?
They're going to need a bigger island.

Obama '08

[Julie02]

I've seen a lot of footage of terrorists in the mainstream media. Never have I seen them do a fistpound. If McCain was accused of being a terrorist, this country would be in an uproar.

[GerryT]

This must be one dizzy, dense, dunce, dolt, dame - dang!!!!

[tesaract]

O, please, please, please someone find a picture of Bush, Cheney or McCain giving someone a dap!!! If there is a God, they will be doing it to each other.....

[Devver]

One can only wonder what the heck that chest bump thingy Bush did at the graduation means.....

[Wulfstan]

Fox News is the Terrorist Channel.

Bill O'Reilly is employed by by Al Queda to foment trouble when there really is none.

And Karl Rove is a Joseph Goebbels style propagandist.

The world's number one terrorist is George Bush. He has caused more deaths than Osama bin Laden.

[smark]

Don't forget the bigot Sean Hannity.

[Binckeslaw]

I always knew that the players in the NBA who fist bumped around the foul line were sharing a secret message when they lined up for a foul shot. I always knew that batters who share a fist bump with teammates who greet them at home plate after hitting a homerun are sharing terrorist sentiments. I always knew that defensive linemen who share fist bumps after sacking a quarterback are planning an act of treason. I am so glad that an organization like Fox is out there to protect us from the onslaught being devised by professional athletes.

[Sixtwo]

Please, go back to the planet where you came from! And, take the ones who taught you with you.

[blueinannarbor]

You're right. This is a perfect example of life replicating art. Remember the 'Naked Gun' movie where Reggie Jackson was brainwashed into carrying out an assassination? That's what their doing. This fist bump is also called a "dap", which I've learned from reliable sources is an acronym for "Death to America Pledge". They are planning to bring down the nation from within starting with the upcoming Super Bowl. On signal, their going to set upon the crowd with a bunch of those hot dog launchers that you see at the ball games and shoot so many hot dogs into the crowd that in the ensuing frenzy of grabbing for free dogs, many people will be trampled, some will have instant coronaries from eating these "terrorist death sticks" and others will just beat themselves senseless with the angst that those damned liberals didn't see this sordid attack coming. Frank Drebben is the only person who can save us.

[sangsue]

No, you're thinking of ElitismG which must be deleted.

[segagman]

:-) sorry i just woke up
to make clear
i meant that a large amount of people are now realizing fox SUX

[segagman]

and i meen the nonsense of fox

[segagman]

I have been telling all my friends and family that fox news is a farce and to do there homework befor watching any major news org and this is so being froward to every one i know.
the thing is there desperate realistically they wielded so much power after 911 they they help guide the public like sheep in to iraq and you know any one with power likes it and dosent want to louse it and that is what is happing to fox .
i am so glad for the sake of every one that this kinda nonsense is picking up momentum.

[ChinaMurdoch]

Fox News owned by Rupert Murdoch, a native Australian lately also an American, and through his Chinese wife is trying to conquer that market was one big warmonger in 2003. Murdoch is an opportunist. Unfortunately Americans are suckers for cries of war and as long as it is the poor who suffer and die - it does not matter.

After the First Gulf War Saddam Hussein was never a threat to anyone outside of Iraq - we had our fighter planes all over him - just in case anyone forgot the No Fly Zones. Hussein could not have raised his ugly head without a bomb being dropped on him. Even had he had WMDs he could have never used them on any other country. The whole reason to go to war was a lie - even worse than Johnson's Golf of Tonkin incident. And Murdoch's lackeys pushed the invasion of Iraq unashamedly.

Why has no one in the media talked about the No Fly Zones and that Hussein was cornered and could not have mounted anything without getting bombed immediately - and that legally. Shame on Bush and his fellow war criminals. Shame on the Murdoch gang. And a BIG apology to all the inncocents who lost their lives, health, and property.

And don't forget the trillions this war has and still costs - what could have been done with all that money ? Universal health care? All new bridges, highways, and rails across the country ? All New schools?

[U4IA]

Keith Olbermann wasn't lying when he said the media are obtuse. Of course, this is Fox and not the news, but then the question must be asked; if the MSM as a whole are dumb, where does that leave Fox?

[pyite72]

Feel free to email E.D. at: FOXNEWS.comXNEWS.com

She is SO OUT OF TOUCH!!!!!

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

It's not being obtuse. It's part of their official party to associate Obama with terrorists and extremists. Don't be fooled into thinking Hill didn't know what a fist bump is. She knew. It was just part of her script to work the word "terrorist" into a story about Obama.

If they had film of him drinking a glass of water, she'd have been calling it a "terrorist glass".

[yngcelt]

And yet when someone from Air America says something like this there isn't the slightest little murmur. Hmm, no double standard there!

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

Really? When did someone on Air America insinuate that some gesture made by McCain was a "terrorist" gesture?

[Venicedread]

To what instance has an Air America pundit referred to one of the candidates making a "terrorist gesture"?
I would be more than willing to condemn it.
Don't confuse their criticisms with out right slander.
The biggest crime by Fox News and their cohorts is the constant insinuation that Obama is somehow less than patriotic.
They have gone out of their way to insinuate he's a muslim or that he has terrorist ties.
Hannity spends half of his show spewing out this garbage.

[Mattatat]

Hill had no right to say our U.S. soldiers are terrorists.

http://www.goarmy.com/flindex.jsp?#?channel=&video=

[Beachrunner]

Oh, I SO hope Obama puts Michelle in charge of the re-education camps when he's President.

E.D. Hill will be the first one chosen to attend . . . . .

[devadasi]

Ha Beachrunner! Swell comment. Re-educations camps are sorely needed.

[LawrenceL]

"The gesture everyone seems to interpret differentl­y."

Good Lord. Hill must be insane.

Let me help in interpreting: it is a gesture of solidarity and congratulations. Jeez, *that* sure was complicate­d...NOT.

[KyleFromDenver]

This is all part of the ultra right wing systemic system of intimidation against US persons and corporatio­ns.... example...­. Dunkin Donuts caved and took their R. Ray ad off TV.... this is very scary stuff and you and I become victims more and more.. because we and others now stop and hesitate before speaking our minds because of the possible repercussions from the government­..... especially the FCC.... the Federal Christian Censorship department­.....

[Spazzers]

Are you kidding me? The restrictions of what can be said and shown over the media airways has become more and more lax over time. Remember those "7 Dirty Words" you couldn't say on tv comedy routine? Well many of them can be said on tv now.

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

In fairness, the FCC didn't take Rachel Ray's commcercial off the air. Dunkin Donuts caved because for reasons that I don't understand, there are more than five people in the world that take Michelle Malkin seriously.

And some of them aren't even in her immediate family.