Brave New Films: Sorry FOX, We Won't Let You Trash Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama has come in for particularly poor treatment on FOX News -- from the "terrorist fist jab" to "Obama's Baby Mama," along with scores of comments on her supposed bitterness. In a new video, Brave New Films catalogs the racism and misinformation in FOX's anti-Obama attacks.

[WATCH]

"Not only are they smearing Michelle Obama with racist stereotypes, but then they offer a feeble apology that they believe gives them the right to slander her again," the group says in a press release. "FOX's long history of racism is nothing new, but it has been particularly egregious when it comes to their coverage of the Obamas. Racism and fearmongering have no place in our country or its politics, despite what FOX would have you believe."

Sign Brave New Films' petition demanding Fox "stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue" here.

Comments

[sinbinak]

I'm sure Fox is thinking that liberals and dems can kiss their ass, they do what they do and you can't stop them. They can say and "report" anything they want and no one can do a damn thing about it. Do you think they adhere to a journalist ethic. They make disgusting racist, sexist, homophobic remarks and people complain and whine, so what. Malkin, Limbaugh, Colter, etc., these swine are not going anywhere and they will contiue to poison the political landscape with their lies and sadly people will believe their swill. Fight back or keep quiet.

[FirstShirt]

"I'm sure Fox is thinking that liberals and dems can kiss their ass, they do what they do and you can't stop them. "

So true. And, then they get to read the bloggers who waste so much of their valuable time commenting on Fox who really doesn't give a rat's ass what the bloggers think. Makes you wonder who the fools really are, doesn't it.

[kinnycut]

Murdoch ought to be horse whipped for airing this stupid crap.

[Thron]

And still America hasn't realized that Faux news belongs to a foreigner with a destabilizing agenda. It is strange to watch patriotic republicans, blue collar, religious folks fed with a meal that is processed by a foreigner who doesn't even like Americans. He is taking your money and give you in return rotten food for the soul. The world is watching and we are falling.
The must comical of all is to watch those conservative people, defenders of the American culture, that work there, serving the worst kind of gossiping manipulated type of information to their audience, the American people. Man O man O man! I need to go....America you are on your own...

[NeoLiberal]

I agree, Thron, but FYI--Murdoch became a naturalized US citizen a couple of years ago.

[FirstShirt]

Interesting point. But no less odd than the antiamerican european rhetoric coming from american leftists.

[IowaKid]

Michelle Obama is a very Classy Lady can't say as if I could ever force myself to say that about Cindy McCain.

[CaseyBabes]

Anybody from corn fields wouldn't know much about either.

[findingthetruth]

It's amazing the demeanor of which FOX News EXHIBITS. Michelle Malkin would be a beautiful young lady if were on another network. I refuse to believe that her degree and demeanor could be such catalysts.

[Glacial]

I really, really hate that stupid "Psst Do Something" bit at the end.

[meanguy]

here's something everyone can do-get off your lazy whining butts and change the freaking channel! how hard is THAT?

[cramos]

So what was incorrect about what was said?

Did any of you idiots ever read her Princeton University Senior paper?

Guess not !

Michelle seems to have a long preoccupation with color...

In her paper she chided black Princeton graduates for selling out and loosing their "blackness".

Michelle and Barack seem to believe their are 2 standards one for whites and one for racist blacks.

Michelle was the one who attended Trinity long before Obama and was the person to take him there.

Michelle and Bernadette Dohrn are close friends and it was actually Michelle who arrange the Bill Ayers introducti­on.(Dohrrn is the wife of Ayers.)

Also Michelle was the beneficiery of her current job by the Obama- Rezco- Levine connection.

Levine is the 61 year old crystal meth snorting weekly gay party giver in Chicago (married 2 children) who was the lead government witness against Rezco.

Levine was a member of the Illinois hospital board.

POOR Michelle.....

[lincat]

You know Cranos, your remarks show your freaking stupidity. " Michelle Obama is preoccupied with color" Duh. She's black. Have you walked in her shoes??

[nabrum]

"Did any of you idiots ever read her Princeton University Senior paper? Guess not !"

Neither did you. Post a link otherwise.

[aztecdiva]

Hummm do you think that maybe she got her job due to her relationship through the networking system in Chicago. I mean after all her husband taught at the University of Chicago.

Unless you are a black woman in America you will never understand the double prejudice and racism that comes with it. And YES, even when I was in college at UCLA, you greatly become aware of your "place" because college is a micro-society of people of all walks of life, left, right, tolerant and racist.

[chitown8]

Wrong! Michelle is black of course she had a long preoccupation with her race. Because the last I check her color was brown. If you are not AA don't speak for AA. When AA get higher education than there community they are look upon as sellouts. Who cares what her thesis said twenty years ago. Do you remember yours? is it published? Did you go to college? BTW Michelle minor at Princetor was African American Studies. What was she suspose to right about "Thank God Whites had us in Chains and Enslaved us for years." Read Dream from my Father Barack attend Trinity way before Michelle did. Ayers was acquited of all charges. He is a free man. Also there is not Levine and Obama connection. The Board the Michelle is on the BOD that is less than one mile from her house. She has been work with University of Chicago Hospital for years but not on the BOD. Levine had prosession charge that would have given him 25 years in prison he soung like a song bird on anyone who was in his little black book. Being on the Illinois Hospital Board does not place you on the BOD for the University of Chicago. Did you know BO was a professor there and wanted his wife to keep their interest in the hospital? This hospital offers medical assistance for children who do not have insurance with not cost to the family if they can't pay. Won't feedany trolls.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Ruppert Murdoch is doing his job, this is why he bought a news channel in the first place, to smear and ridicule liberal progressive ideals.

Now what network do we have on our side that is counter-acting this trash? None that I am aware of except for Olbermann.

We will have to win the election from the grassroots up without the help of the biased republican media moguls.

[Independent voter]

Fox news didn't vote to coverup Bush's illegal wiretapping crimes - Obama did

[kcam44]

what's your point? they're still a racist and biased network.

[WABJR]

Problem is... How do you punish a company that was ordered to do something by the President of the United States and the Federal Government?

[3Gs]

Actually, he attempted to change the legislation to exclude the immunity section of the bill. Read up. How exactly does the FISA debate tie in with a disscussion of racism in the US and the racial slurs propagated by Faux News. Go quivering back to your right wing blog site and stop polluting our cyber air with your drivel. Thanks

[despike]

Actually Independent_voter is not right wing, he/she is just understandably bitter and still in denial just like the hrc people were. I happen to know this Independent_voter this is a true and genuine Barack supporter.

[IowaKid]

Sounds like a faux news person failed to follup the whole story on it.

[aztecdiva]

Yeah and McCain didn't vote for all not for FISA but against the GI Bill. Better to stand for something than nothing at all.

[marc1antony]

michelle malkin just loves to be in the spotlight to feed her over inflated ego - she is another oreilly and hannity, not to mention her sister m)ann coulter

[TroubleNYC]

Why are you referring to it as a woman?

[FirstShirt]

Great progressive line. Keep it up and you can be a display at the NOW convention.

[WABJR]

Fox News Is Number One... So Was Jerry Springer

Recently, Fox News has been aggressively and with a strut touting its position as the top dog of the cable news universe. It's number one show host, Bill O'Reilly even used their standing as part of his, and I would guess, the networks defense of the photo-shopped photos that "Fox and Friends" aired of two New York Times reporters. Mr. O'Reilly, even pointed out that the NY Times was guilty of parodying his photo after the release of his book. "You can do it to us, but we can't do it to you", is what Mr. O'Reilly repeatedly said to the camera. But when he showed the NY Times' version of the parody on him, it was obvious that it was a parody. There was no gray area. The New York Times did not have to come out later and state that, yes they did a parody. It wasn't even a photo. So, even as they defend their actions, Fox News leaves one scratching their head and wondering, in the same manner we scratched our heads in the early days of the Jerry Springer Show. Even though Jerry Springer was the number one talk show, was it really a talk show or merely entertainment dressed in talk show clothing? The question now goes to Fox News: Is Fox News really the news or is it merely entertainment in newsroom clothing? (MORE)

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[dutchess2]

I have nothing to say to fox... not signing any petition...

I just watch to see if anything product is advertised there, and don't buy it.

[3Gs]

LOL, that's great advice. Thanks, really.

[lenoirlady]

I can't watch Foxsnews. There is nothing of news on that TV outlet. Will someone who has a strong stomach watch it and make a list of products advertised. I'll be more than happy NEVER to buy one of them again!

[anamorphicart]

The people on Fox and their comments are part of the reason Americans are hated.....lies, rumors, hate mongering....and their pathetic viewers who believe every slime!

[Godfearing]

To Fox News: What goes around comes around. Most of the viewers you have left are racists and your O'Reilly's, Hannity's, Kristol's, Rove's, Gingrich's, Barnes' , DeLay's, Abramoff's, Reeds, Hume's, Norquist's, Dobson's, Robertson's and the rest of religious right will soon be a thing of the past. Oh, I forgot Teddy Haggert! The God that I believe in surely does not agree with your tactics of personal destruction of Senator Obama and his wife.

[leftoflennon]

Faux news cannot be helped or saved.

[RatgurlSD]

Why ANYONE watches FOX is beyond me!

[4wehttam]

I don't get it either. Even people who constantly complain about it still watch it. They are a shameful, unabashedly racist network. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. The panel on Fox News Sunday had the nerve to say Helms was a great leader and how he was never racist. If they can't even admit that fact, then they won't hesitate to skew everything else.

[drgrph]

Maybe because FOX News is the best cable has to offer. Certainly imperfect, like all networks, but it at least tries to hide any bias (unlike, say, Keith Olbermann).

[Navy26Yrs]

Most amazing? That those watching Fix News are able to afford cable.

How many Fix News viewers are stealing cable? Why do they hate capitalism?

[kcam44]

I prefer truth-telling (like Olbermann) rather than lies and smears (like FOX NEWS). To be fair, Keith is biased, but I appreciate his bluntness because he doesn't beat around the bush. He simply tells it like it is. FOX, however, continues to take jabs at the Obamas with their subliminal racists messages. I'm so glad someone is willing to take them on and hopefully make them live up to their slogan of "fair and balanced". (what a joke).
At least Keith doesn't claim to be "fair and balanced". There is only one person on that network that seems "fair and balanced", and that is Shepherd Smith. I really like Shep, and unfortunately for him, he is part of this so-called racist news network.

If they want to attack Michelle Obama, fine...but if they are fair and balanced, why are they not talking about Cindy's drug habit, her spending sprees, and all the other skeletons?

[TroubleNYC]

Fox tries to hide any bias??? Please tell me that was a joke.