Fox Nation's Hideous Race-Baiting: Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs

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Fox News vs. Politico: ‘Obama and His Rapper Friends Did Not Fix Economy’ Report Classic Case of Awful Aggregation

Media Matters screen-grabbed what you’re seeing on the left from the Fox Nation website earlier today. Yes: it’s real. They didn’t provide context, but we will.

Media Matters has already noted that Fox Nation are expert race-baiters, but for sheer moxie, this is fairly impressive. If you didn’t know, Fox Nation is Fox News’ attempt at creating a news-aggregation site, kind of like the Huffington Post, but with sociopathic content being less of a byproduct and more something to aspire to. Consider this an achievement in the art: the “hip-hop” figures pictured above are, left-to-right, former NBA all-star Charles Barkley, President Barack Obama, comedian Chris Rock, and one full-time hip hop figurehead, Jay-Z. So why’s it a “hip-hop BBQ”? The guest list, with anybody directly affilated with “hip-hop” emboldened:

Al Sharpton, Patrick Gaspard, UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, Leader Nancy and Paul Pelosi, Secretary Tim Geithner, Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Rep./DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Virginia Gov. and DNC Chair Tim Kaine, Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett, Michael Strautmanis, Pete Rouse, Bill Daley, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, Denis McDonough, John Brennan, Rahm Emanuel, Tina Tchen, White House chef Sam Kass, Julianna Smoot, Marty Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Linda Douglass, and many more.

Also, the celebrity list:

Jay-Z, Hill Harper, Chris Rock, Charles Barkley, Steve Harvey, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Grant Hill, Gayle King.

That’s a total of one, and one who’s been critical of Mr. Obama’s record of creating jobs. The Politico column they aggregated the report from was this morning’s Playbook, which had the headline:

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http://www.observer.com/2011/08/fox-news-vs-politico-obama-and-his-rapper-friends-did-not-fix-economy-report-classic-case-of-awful-aggregation/

[sudopod]

1. Jesu Christi nt

[daa]

2. They should lose their broadcast license nt

[slackmaster]

5. They don't have a broadcast license

HTH

[Empowerer]

3. OMG! This looks like something from The Onion, not an actual piece of "journalism"

[toddwv]

4. Hmmm... I'd almost rather have Jay-Z and P Diddy

on the President's economic advisory committee than some of those clowns who are being paraded around the news media.

Like it or not, those guys are economic powerhouses who literally built music empires from the street level up.

Plus, they're not likely to roll over to t-party attacks.

[ClarkUSA]

6. Thanks again for deregulating the media, DINO DLC Bill Clinton!

No wonder Rupert Murdoch hosted a fundraiser for Hillary:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=rupert+murdoch+hillary+fundraiser&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I doubt the Justice Department would be investigating News Corp.'s 9/11 families' hacking if she were POTUS.

[taught_me_patience]

7. What is "Fox Nation"? Is it part of Fox News? n/t

[tanyev]

8. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are so gangsta.

[LatteLibertine]

9. Yep blame the

President for the economy. Business is sitting on tons of money in order to keep the economy screwed hoping we will blame President Obama for it and chase him from office. They want him out. Period.

They want a Republican.

[Empowerer]

10. And sadly, it's working . . .

[d_r]

11. I've seen a lot of thinly veiled racism

but this is one hell of a piece of work. Unbelievable.

[libodem]

12. Beck was blasting it on his radio propaganda show Friday

Dancing barefoot in the rose garden, while Rome burns.