This person has a PhD.

Malkin also provides a helpful link to a two-year-old Slate piece with the awkward headline “” that explains that celebrity gossip rags have “seized upon baby-daddy and baby-mama, two useful terms that have long appeared in hip-hop and R&B lyrics, and are slowly stripping them of their emotional fangs.”

This person does not.

It sure as hell matters to Fox News, which is why it’s dog whistling about Barack so loudly that it’s vibrating the windows. Calling Michelle Obama a “baby mama” isn’t just Fox News have a happy casual larf; it’s using urban slang to a) remind you the Obamas are black, b) belittle a woman of considerable personal accomplishment, and c) frame Barack Obama’s relationship to his wife and children in a way that insults him, minimizes his love for and commitment to his family, and reinforces stereotypes about black men.

Wow.

Obamagramma I went to check out the fightthesmears.com site.... It debunks all that fake news and Rush Limbaugh are saying... Please tell your friends about it.

By calling attention to these statements, by gathering them all together at a single web page/site, by highlighting who is saying what and naming names--all of this will slowly but surely (and I hope in time for the electorate to recognise it) show the Republican Party's true racist colours. McCain today indicated that he was stepping back from his pledge to disassociate himself from all these sites, smears, and accusations. How long before he says he needs to have some 'context' in this recent position (flip, flop, flip)?

The “honey bucket brigade" is at it. What they don’t understand is that the more they handle the bucket the more they are spilling it on themselves. - For those of you, who are too young to know what a honey bucket is, ask any veteran of the Korean War.

"Baby mama" is definitely a loaded term, but who knows exactly what she was thinking when she said it. All of those connotations could have been intended, or she could have been carelessly repeating a Jerry Springer meme in a botched attempt to be funny.

- Nick from Avvo