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Fox Nation Re-Dubs President Obama’s Birthday Party A ‘Hip-Hop BBQ’ (Updated)

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Riddle me this: What do you call a 50th birthday party dinner for the leader of the free world, held in the Rose Garden of the White House, and featuring musical performances by music legends like Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder? Well, if you’re an editor at Fox Nation, you call it a “Hip Hop BBQ,” and you blare in your headline, without any factual basis, that it “did not create jobs.”

The Fox Nation headline is attached to a repackaging of a Politico Playbook item that makes no mention of jobs or job creation, and only scant mention of hip-hop. (They lift the entire item, by the way, without even linking to it. They throw a link to a different Politico item at the end.)

So, what was so hip-hoppy that the editor of Fox Nation turned the Rose Garden into the set of Soul Plane? Here’s how Politico described the President’s party:

The evening began with chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta and salad in the Rose Garden, and then four kinds of pie: apple, peach, huckleberry and cherry. At the end of the dinner, irst lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha presented the president with a cake before the party moved indoors.

In the East Room, performers included R&B singer Ledisi, jazz musician Herbie Hancock and Wonder. The president encouraged everyone to dance — and they did. Lots of kids were on hand and they stole the show as they danced in the center of the East Room.

In fairness to Fox Nation, Jay-Z was there, and the DJ reportedly played “Motown, hip hop, and ’70s and ’80s R&B.”

By those standards, I suppose we could now call Fox Nation a “Hip-Hop Website!” I mean, they’ve got a picture of Jay-Z on there, right?

Almost as silly was the FN editor’s other shot at the President’s birthday party. Despite no support for the claim in Politico’s story, the headline claims President Obama’s party “did not create jobs.” In fact, it probably did. As I learned when I was reporting on another right-wing Obama food freak-out, these sorts of White House events are paid for out of the President’s own pocket, and that much private sector spending has a better chance of causing job growth than not. In any case, if you’re going to put that in the headline, it’s kind of on you to prove it.

Update: Fox’s statement to Yahoo’s The Cutline below:

Bill Shine, Fox executive vice president of programming in charge of the Fox Nation site, defended the decision in a statement to The Cutline: “We used the hip-hop reference per Politico’s Playbook story this morning which stated ‘Also present: Chicago pals, law-school friends, donors–and lots of kids of friends, who stole the show by doing dance routines to the hip-hop songs, in the center of the East Room.’”

The network has shut off further comments on the article, which were becoming incendiary.

“We found many of the comments to be offensive and inappropriate and they have been removed,” Shine said.

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  • Anonymous

    Awesome! Tommy’s blowing the racist dog whistle. Let’s see how many like-minded liberal racists come running.

  • Anonymous

    I thought Tommy was actually a fair liberal but it appears that the more I read from him, the more you seem to be right. He loves finding phantom racism.

    The only shocking thing to me in the piece above is that ‘huckleberry’ is an actual flavor of pie.  I always thought it was that blue hound with the southern drawl.

  • Anonymous

    I thought Tommy was actually a fair liberal but it appears that the more I read from him, the more you seem to be right. He loves finding phantom racism.

    The only shocking thing to me in the piece above is that ‘huckleberry’ is an actual flavor of pie.  I always thought it was that blue hound with the southern drawl.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    I think this is more of a Marxist/Socialist/fascist article than “racist dog whistle” article.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    I think this is more of a Marxist/Socialist/fascist article than “racist dog whistle” article.

  • Anonymous

    King Obama didn’t invite any Caucasian hip-hop “artists”/cop killer rappers .

    What a bigot is Barry .

  • Anonymous

    Hip Hop BBQ? I don’t think it’s racist but it isn’t sitting right with me.

  • Anonymous

    If conservatives can’t stomach the idea of being called racists for the explicit assumption that it’s okay to immediately associate anything regarding black people with hip hop, then don’t bait the issue. Don’t make headlines referencing hip hop and then put up pictures of only black men. Don’t Photoshop posters of a black president in African tribal garb with a bone through his nose. Don’t pretend to be naive when jokes about the White House lawn and watermelons make it to the headlines.

    You’re absolutely free to do any of those things, of course. But play the victim when the actual subject of your ridicule takes and vocalizes offense to your abject insensitivity. You need to take it as well as you can give it.

  • john.kliber

    The guy built a basketball court in the White House within a month of taking office and all the inauguration lacked was Step-n-Fetch-it and driving a 1970 Cadillac over a miniature plantation. Why present people as citizens of the world who aren’t? If the stereotype fits, wear it.

    I got no problem with black folks who want to hang out with other black folks but why pretend it’s not that or that someone who notices is a racist?

  • Anonymous

    Interesting……Stevie Wonders music is now considered, ‘Hip-Hop’….Ledisi(Soul)….Herbie Handcock(Pianest&composer)………why not simply call it what it was, ‘a Birthday Celebration’ for the President, complete with Entertainment???

  • Celisary45

    ALL F0X-REPUBLICANS ARE NOT RACIST, BUT ALL RACIST ARE FOR-REPUBLICANS!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    What you’re saying isn’t what the headline explicitly implies. And , for “black” to automatically mean “hip-hop” is racist. It’s like “Latino” automatically means “lazy” or “Asian” meaning “math genius.”

    It’s a baseless stereotype that, frankly, counter-intuitive to the supposedly conservative idea that each individual should be measured as such: an individual and not his or her circumstances.

    Every one knows racist jokes, has racist assumptions, etc., but it’s wholly different for a news organization to make such a callous statement that anything that a black president does with black people suddenly means it’s “hip-hop.”

  • Moosenuts99

    READ THE ARTICLE RACIST

    TONS OF WHITE PEOPLE THERE

    ONE HIP HOP STAR = HIP HOP BBQ?

    Fox once again showing their true colors

  • Moosenuts99

    Lots of white
    People attended. YOU MIGHT WANT TO INFORM YOURSELF BY READING THE ARTICLE

  • Moosenuts99

    ONLY
    ONE GUY IN THAT PICTURE IS A HIP HOP ARTIST

    BUT THEY’RE ALLLLLLL BLACK

  • Moosenuts99

    Because showing pictures of TOM HANKS AND THE CLINTONS doesn’t fit FOX’S “BE SCARED OF BLACKIE” NARRATIVE

  • Justintherehome

    I’m sorry but never would Fox News equate a white president with the term “Hip Hop BBQ”. Are you really that blind? Normality is considered White, thus there is never a mention of race in the media, however for the first time in our history race and racism seem to be a constant in the media. This is a FACT! rather you want to believe it or not.

  • Redleaf

    Has anyone (with sanity) actually rummaged around FoxNation.com?
    It is a cauldron of ignorance, hatred, racism and homophobia.
    Seriously, there is no sane Democrat or Republican or Independent who can surf that site and not want to take a shower afterwards.

    At least such horrible, Neanderthal ignorance isn’t sponsored by a major news network…

    Oh, wait…

  • Nature Freak

    Please Tea Party, protect middle America from the bad hip hop Negros!
    Help us Obi-Wan Teaparty…. You’re our only hope!

  • Blackwolfrun2000

    why?

  • Blackwolfrun2000

    Idiot.. you are too stupid to be believed

  • Moosenuts99

    SOMEONE REALLY NEEDS TO START A
    “THE ONION OR FOX” TUMBLR WITH THIS KIND OF CRAP

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Fox Nation and it’s readers need to man up and stop being so scared of black guys. What pussies.

  • Anonymous

    Obama should keep all negroes out of the White House henceforth.  Their presence offends john.kilber (not to mention millions of other white racists).

  • Anonymous

    I forgot.  Only liberals can be racist in the zany wing nut world..

    Thanks for reminding us.

  • Anonymous

    Is it time all ready for ‘Scary Black Men’ month?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry but your analogy is garbage, I imagine you did miserably on the verbal portion of your SATs.  Saying that a Black man had a hip-hop party is NOT like saying Latinos are lazy.  It is like saying Latinos had a Mambo or a Salsa party–which is NOT racist. Why should hip-hop have such a bad connotation? You find racism because you are trained to find it where it doesn’t exist.

    Same goes for TommyBoy.

  • Anonymous

    Fox…..racist……NO FREAKING WAY. You’re kidding me. 

    Next you are going to tell me the Catholic Church allows child molesters priests???

  • Anonymous

    I think you mean ‘already’.  You’re welcome.

  • Anonymous

    How about don’t cut off the head of a black man and falsely claim he is white in your story, like MSNBC did.
    http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/20/msnbc-on-race-baiting-gun-segment-um-we-were-speaking-generally/

    Or
    How don’t pretend that all black men are the same and call them by another man’s name.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/contessa-brewer-calls-jes_n_328977.html

    How about not allowing your guests to throw out the race card because someone….err…drives a pickup truck (not kidding)
    http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147491273

    Please stop pretending you liberals are without sin.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a culturally based stereotype. And yeah, a news organization publishing a headline that there’s a Salsa or Mambo party whenever Latinos congregate can be just as racially and culturally offensive. Latinos, me included, can be offended by the assumption. It’s our right, and you can’t take that away from us. Just like we wouldn’t dream of taking away your right to play the victim of a race baiting.

    Whether or not you want to continue to offend entire swaths of people is your prerogative but realize that history proves that the more offensive the opinion, the less relevant it becomes in moderate, mainstream conversation and practice.

  • Anonymous

    How does one rapper at a 50th birthday party filled with distinguished and successful people of all races equal a hip hop bbq…..serious question how??… to me the connotation seems pretty obvious..

  • Anonymous

    The sins of liberals don’t absolve the sins of conservatives, nor vice versa. If you’d rather fight dirty in order to prove your point rather than set an example, then you lose any right to play the victim.

  • Anonymous

    Stevie Wonder has done Hip Hop work and been sampled by Hip Hop artists- although I wouldnt call Wonder a Hip Hop artist.  At least Fox didnt call it a “Rap BBQ”

  • Anonymous

    My guess is that the headline writer is probably a person who is just ignorant on music.  The type that probably thinks saying Hip-Hop is the same as saying Black pop music. 

    Not really sure if saying the musical talent at Obama’s birthday party were predominantly (or exclusively) black is a bad thing.

    The press didn’t seem to have a problem calling Tea Party crowds predominantly white.  Would sort of be a double-standard to get upset with one and not the other (and vice-versa). 

    What was Mediate’s position on the press calling Tea Party people all or mostly white?

  • Anonymous

    >> JustinThereHom: “Fox News would never equate a white president with the term “Hip Hop BBQ… for the first time in our history, race and racism seem to be a constant in the media. This is a FACT”

    Oh, PUH-LEEEZE.
    Seriously, the Left can just STUFF IT with their race baiting at this point.

    Here’s an actual FACT for you: ever since Obama moved into the White House — whether mindfully on purpose or purely by “scheduling accident” — there’s been an OBVIOUS and noticeable increase in Black artists both visiting and performing there.

    Now, that’s fine. After all, it could easily be argued that, as the nation’s first Black president, using the “People’s House” and its national stage to showcase a broader range of Black talent OR using it to call wider attention to minority issues is a GOOD thing. And personally, I have no problem with that…

    …Well, not until it reaches a tipping point where it ALSO becomes clear that now you’re OVER compensating for things. Prime example: Eric Holder, as the nation’s Attorney General…but as a BLACK Attorney General…using the power of his office to instruct Justice Department personnel to pursue cases of “white on black” voter intimidation, but THEN turning around and telling that very same staff to drop — or even outright IGNORE — any cases of “black on white” intimidation. Such as the way Holder ordered the Justice Department to drop the infamous Pennsylvania Black Panthers case, which everyone saw as a CLEAR violation and was an obvious “slam dunk” case.

    For all their talk of “racial equality” and for all their usual blather that they are the party looking out for minorities, Liberals are ALWAYS the first to get their panties in a bunch over anything that doesn’t fit their narrative. Simply because “race” is the poker card that Liberals LOVE to keep up their sleeve, that they just LOVE to drop and play whenever it’s convenient for them.

    Bottom line: there’s nothing wrong with calling this a “Hip Hop BBQ” given the actual guest list of people that attended and the overall tone the party had.

    But you know what’s even funnier?

    Think about it — the IDIOT LEFT wasn’t b*tching when Clinton was in office and headlines would label a White House party a “Country & Western BBQ”. Yet somehow switching out the simple MUSICAL term “Country & Western” for “Hip Hop” suddenly makes this a RACIAL issue to them.

    Gee, OVERLY SENSITIVE much, Libs?

    In fact — Hell — that was the polite way the press treated Clinton for being a good ol’ country boy. Yet when it was Bush in the White House, the Left-leaning press loved to label White House parties in a DEROGATORY way, calling HIS parties a “Redneck Hee Haw” or some such things.

    But hey, we’re talking about Liberals being HYPOCRITES once again.
    And there’s nothing newsworthy about THAT…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clark/100000610136790 Arthur Clark

    straight up cracker nonsense

  • Anonymous

    FOX NEWS SUCKS!!!  explanation no more

  • Cain

    Typical Fox News’ country club locker room casual racism. A couple of 50 year old rich white guys are in the locker room after a round of golf and they let out a couple of jokes about “the blacks”. 

  • Anonymous

    “Latinos, me included, can be offended by the assumption. It’s our right, and you can’t take that away from us.”

    Preach it again brother, that is what keeps you liberals in a perpetual state of welfare, handouts and victimization.  You go ahead and get mad because someone linked a Latino person with salsa music and I’ll go ahead and live my life not feigning offense in order to gain the upper hand.

  • Anonymous

    You’re damn right I can be offended. It’s my right. I don’t want people to assume I dance salsa and eat tortilla chips and watch telenovelas and tend to vote Democratic and was born in a different country. And not be cause I don’t or wasn’t, but because those things don’t define me or every other Latino.

    Again, I was under the impression that conservatives, or a maybe it’s just libertarians, value the individual and not the uncontrollable circumstances that brought about the individual. So for you to think ever it’s okay to stereotype me as a salsa-lover because I’m Latino is racist, no matter how banal or harmless the stereotype is.

    Will I sue be broken up over it, sue you or pursue criminal hate crime charges? Never. But will I call you out on it? Claro que si.

  • HowardNY

    This must be more of that “fair and balanced” coverage they’re so famous for. 

  • Anonymous

    A the tea party is mostly white and its just like how conservatives like to point out african americans tend to mostly vote democratic.. i’m sure when you answer why they like to point that out you’ll have the same answer for your original tea party question..
    B. Tit for Tat does not make either right…which is to say ‘they do it too” is not an excuse.. 
    C.  4 black men pictured with a headline like that is pause worthy … that’ it  makes you think hmm why did they do this.. kinda like eric bolling saying ” white heezy and 40 ounces”   ..
    D. Im not prepared to call it racist just yet but certainly pause worthy and I question their journalistic taste..

  • South Park Conservatives

    Why hasn’t this site report on Ray Ray passing off a year old sound bit of Rush Limbaugh has something he said yesterday?

  • Johnjguy

    Race issues in America will never fully disappear, you only need to reads the posts on this thread. The country was after all, largely forged and founded on them and it becomes clear, that for all the good intentions of MLK and forward thinking people there are those who are scared and prefer a throw back to the sordid past. 

    The future of this country will be interesting given the projected next 40-50 demographics. I wonder where the Republicans and the Tea Party will appeal… 

  • Anonymous

    Me fail English, that’s unpossible.

  • Anonymous

    Me fail English, that’s unpossible.

  • Anonymous

    wow.  lotsa verbage to defend a stupid, stupid headline. 

    Just because Jay-Z attends, does not make it a hip-hop BBQ. 

    And, OMG!  Black people.  There are black people visiting the White House!  Ohbabyjeebus!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    What’s interesting about this situation is that the people who should be offended are the ones jumping to defend Fox Nation here.  I don’t know if the writer of the article is racist or not, but I’m inclined to think he isn’t.  He’s a professional writer, who works for an organization that employs professional editors, and has an interest in not employing openly racist people.  He must be pretty talented to get a job at FN.  Whether he’s secretly racist or not doesn’t really matter though.  What matters is the intent of the article.

    The article was intended to paint the party in a negative light, as evidenced by the headline saying that it “didn’t create jobs.”  The writer and editor chose words for the headline that they felt would carry a negative connotation for their readers.  They believe that their target demographic will respond poorly to the idea of a “hip hop” barbecue.  They could have said “Birthday BBQ” which would have been much more descriptive, or “Star-Studded BBQ” if they wanted to emphasize the celebrities present.  They went with “Hip Hop” because they think that you guys will respond to it. 

    Another somewhat less interesting aspect is that nobody is calling Politico racist for listing chicken and ribs, traditional soul food staples, before more All-American fare like hamburgers and hot dogs.  It’s less interesting because it’s a whole lot more subtle than putting “hip hop” in the headline, but you’d think someone would notice and comment on it if they were giving an unbiased report on the racial overtones of the reporting of the party.

  • Anonymous

    Hmm, let’s see.  First there’s me…

    >> LA_screenwriter: “Now, that’s fine. After all, it could easily be argued that, as the
    nation’s first Black president, using the “People’s House” and its
    national stage to showcase a broader range of Black talent OR using it
    to call wider attention to minority issues is a GOOD thing. And
    personally, I have no problem with that.”

    And then there’s you…

    >> LIBERAL MORON: “wow. lotsa verbage to defend a stupid, stupid headline.
    And, OMG!  Black people.  There are black people visiting the White House!  Ohbabyjeebus!”

    Gee, pretty easy to see who’s the one here who can actually discuss a topic intellectually, while still being fair. And who’s the one who just likes to post and shoot off his mouth. But thanks for the post. Cause enough to repeat what I ALSO said…

    >> LA_screenwriter: “For all their talk of “racial equality” and for all their usual blather
    that they are the party looking out for minorities, Liberals are ALWAYS
    the first to get their panties in a bunch over anything that doesn’t fit
    their narrative. Simply because “race” is the poker card that Liberals
    LOVE to keep up their sleeve, that they just LOVE to drop and play
    whenever it’s convenient for them.

  • Johnjguy

    I agree with you Dave. 

    It seems to me the only thing missing are bullet points. I find it disheartening that people are so blindingly willing to fall for the obvious tactic, but as I already mentioned, given the appalling racial history and current state of the country, it’s not surprising. 

    I genuinely wonder if we’re beyond the point of repair…

  • Anonymous

    Already is improper you uneducated moron.

  • Teal Wilson

    Fox News called President Obama’s Birthday Bash a Hip-Hop BBQ!!

    And the problem is??????????????????????????????????????????

  • Anonymous

    Douchenozzle libs who obediently complied to Tommy’s dog whistle:

    Justintherehome
    Pug
    Moosenuts99
    blurghs
    GibbJabb
    Celisary45
    Redleaf
    Nature Freak
    well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust
    ImJustThatDamnGood
    NotoriousWojo
    ceeza
    avoidswork
    Arthur Clark
    crabteo
    Cain
    HowardNY
    Dave Be
    Johnjguy

    Congratulations, the ruling elite is looking for tools, and you’ve proved yourself nicely. Have fun at the ball bearing factory.

  • Anonymous

    Sure, sure, let’s play the pretend game.  You ‘meant’ to write it incorrectly…

  • Anonymous

    Well we are missing a few, but most of the usual suspects have showed up for their cookies.  That is just a large list of followers.

  • Johnjguy

    Don’t presume to know who I am or what my politics are or what they might be. Just stick to making simplistic and uneducated remarks. It’s always pleasing to be reminded that education isn’t wasted, but not by you.

  • Redleaf

    Good deflection from the overriding issue.

    That said, I’m still searching for the MSNBC headline that reads:
    Bush’s Cracker BBQ Didn’t Keep Him From Connecting Saddam with 9/11 Hijackers

    You find THAT headline and I’ll believe that FoxNation.com isn’t a disgusting, racist, homophobic website catering to uneducated, trailer park conservatives afraid of anything that’s not White, American, Christian and heterosexual (and enamored with country music).
     

  • Anonymous

    So not only were we correct about Tommy’s zealousness to opine about Fox’s nonexistent racism, but the libs on here that were comping at the bit have a bit of egg on their face.

  • Anonymous

    And they come running to defend their racism. :)

    You’re right, Fsnook, there they are.

    I’m not ideologically driven, and I don’t see a problem with describing what I see.

  • Anonymous

    And they come running to defend their racism. :)

    You’re right, Fsnook, there they are.

    I’m not ideologically driven, and I don’t see a problem with describing what I see.

  • Anonymous

    Another uneducated conservative, no government books for you.

  • Anonymous

    Redleaf: “That said, I’m still searching for the MSNBC headline that reads:
    Bush’s Cracker BBQ Didn’t Keep Him From Connecting Saddam with 9/11 Hijackers”

    I’m sure you are, because you’re a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Awesome!

    By the way, I’m one of those middle age guys who did well without the benefit of benefits that you’re jealous of. Thought you’d like to know. :)

  • Johnjguy

    ‘…Thought you’d like to know’

    …Why would I?

    You’ve said nothing bearing any real insight or merit. Nothing that qualifies as substantive, or that holds an educated or enlightened opinion. 

    What you add is nothing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    On another note, the Politico story did say that the President and First Lady paid for this event, but part of the President’s compensation package is a $19,000 per year entertainment budget, which is used for parties that aren’t state events, like birthday parties, so Tommy’s assertation that these types of events are paid for out of the President’s pocket isn’t 100% accurate.  The executive office of the President also includes 14 million dollars for the operation of the executive residence, where the party was held.  If the “rent” for the day of the party were subtracted from that budget, it would amount to about $38,000.  Some of money would have been spent anyway, so it may not be fair to charge it against the cost of the party, but the additional security staff and other white house employees needed for a party wouldn’t be.

    The President also gets a $50,000 expense account that he doesn’t have to make any accounting of, which can be used for this kind of event.  The amount of that expense account was set in 1949, and hasn’t been raised since, even though the base salary of the President has gone from $75,000 to $400,000 since then.

  • Anonymous

    You can always spot a self-indulgent douchenozzle like you. You add zero to the discussion, yet purport to condescend to those whom in your mind add no insight. We all made it past school, homes, you’re not exactly special. (well, maybe in your circle, you are)

  • Anonymous

    no.  actually, the thread is regarding FNation’s use of a stupid headline. 

    Then you go all off-topic ranting/raving to support a patently stupid headline. 

    i stand by what I said: 
    you blathered on and on and on about nothing that really had to do with the headline.  I wouldn’t even call the headline “racist” but mofo’in stupid.  lame. absurd.  poor taste.

    and, shock of all shocks!  FoxNation has to “mea culpa” AND remove (the oh-so-expected) comments of their peeps. 

    YOU brought up our President “Compensating”.  YOU brought up “Black Panthers”. 

    I just brought up that both the headline and your commentary is stupid.  stupid doesn’t have a race or a religion.  it’s a state of mind.  and FoxNation soooo embodies it.  and, your commentary demonstrates you’re just one of them. 

  • Jooce81

    really who cares what fox thinks these days.. they’re nothing but a bunch of crackers anyways…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clark/100000610136790 Arthur Clark

    I have no party affiliation, I could care less who wins what! Politics to me is a phony entity that is the bane of American Life. I wrote what i wrote, because that’s what it was. You know,deep down inside, that hate filled soul of yours.   

  • Anonymous

    Umm, sure. Says Arthur the Racist.

  • Anonymous

    That website and its commentators actions are one of the lowest of the low. Not only do they attract the worst commentators, but the site actually feed it to them thus encouraging the wretched behavior. 

  • Anonymous

    Celisary how is this possible? If we look at history and facts the KKK was started and financed by the democrat party!… The civil rights movement was a republican push and the democrat party was at first against it….. Martin luther king was Republican. 

    So how is everything racist republican? I do know the Democrat party has been trying to portray that and keep Black america hostage by not giving them a choice or if they think different then the typical Black Democrat they will be shunned and called names from other blacks.

  • Anonymous

    hobbit say what..

  • Anonymous

    Who’s blowing the racist dog whistle? “Fox” is blowing loud and hard to keep the “hint” and hate alive. The ‘tea” hates love it! They hear the whistle and come running! When the “tea” hates don’t hear the words “I hate all the ……”, then no other hint is racist and anything less is golden!

  • Anonymous

    Egg,… what are you talking about? Fox blows their hate whistle, then (like a child) says,….”what we didn’t mean anything”! “Fox” nonexistent racism,….. You really want people to believe that, but you love it when they “blow”!

  • Anonymous

    Correct, they drop the “hint” for their hate followers. Then after the whistle is blown they leave the window open to back out if need be, “so they never really said anything wrong”,…. neat!

  • Anonymous

    Yea, kind of reminds of the time Bill Clinton mentioned how Obama should be the one fetching his coffee.

  • Anonymous

    There was hip-hop music played at the event, and guests were said to be dancing to hip-hop music.  The food was traditional bar-b-que.  But if you call the event a hip-hop bar-b-que it becomes racist???  Brilliant stuff.  Kinda like when you are racist for referring to Obama as playing basketball, even though we have seen him play basketball countless times. (Unless you are racist for NOT saying Obama plays basketball, right Tommy?)

    Here’s the other unexplained bit – how is referencing a hip-hop bar-b-que hateful exactly?

  • Anonymous

    You do have a sweet deal going. Your mother ship “Fox” drops every hate hint and slur they feel you can hold. Then when caught,… you guys call others racist!  “Priceless”! Keep the spin and hate alive!

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    I could hear Chris Rock now… Thunderbird? Chicken? BBQ? Huckleeeeberry pie? what the F*ck! paper plates and plastic spoons? these crackers think we gonna steal the good china.. what the f*ck.. Hey Prez, where is the good shit..it’s your party.. your numero uno..damn brother, get those cracker eating motherf*ckers to bring the good shit back out!!! I could have this shit any night of the week in harlem! what happened to the gold chairs? folding chairs, what the f*ck..thank gawd stevie can’t see this shit!

    I love Chris Rock… and that’s exactly what he would say…and Happy Bday prez..

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII

    IT WAS A “HIP-HOP BBQ,” WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? THE RACISM CHARGE IS COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, LAZY AND BORING. THE DRUDGE REPORT CALLED IT PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING. GET A LIFE FOX NEWS HATERS:

    DRUDGE REPORT: “Packed with Hollywood stars… HIP-HOP DANCING IN EAST ROOM…”
    Obama’s 50th Birthday bash: Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Herbie Hancock, Jay Z
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/08/obamas_rose_garden_50th_birthd_1.html

    DRUDGE REPORT: “HIP-HOP IN EAST ROOM…”
    Inside Obama’s 50th-birthday party
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60722.html

  • Anonymous

    Nice job stealing rajahaan’s wording.  Think for yourself for once and quit letting those hateful lefty blogs tell you what to think.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t blame me for your illiteracy.

  • Anonymous

    Wow Charles Barkley and Chris Rock are Hip Hop?

    Fox Nation … dependably racist!

  • Anonymous

    What a racist comment!  Flagged!

  • Anonymous

    Well you know they all look alike! *snark*

  • Anonymous

    Look folks … I’ve found a new shiny object over there.

  • Nature Freak

    Thank you for using my name.

    My feelings would have been hurt if you left me off the list.

    So what about these jobs at the ball bearing factory?

  • Nature Freak

    Hip Hop is the “other”.

    This is fear mongering. Fox News acts like they love America, but this only divides us. Depressing.

    I thought we were beyond this. I am not even a big hip hop fan, but this is wrong.

  • Nature Freak

    “I’m not ideologically driven”

    You are very ideologically driven. From day one on Mediaite I have been honest about my being politically oriented to the left (with some exceptions, I do think independently). It is cool that you are Conservative and possibly a Tea Party type. At least be honest. You are making out you are a centrist, but your posting shows otherwise.

    What is your point again? You are a Conservative but not a Conservative?
    At least I made your list!

  • Anonymous

    They’ve closed the comments so you can’t read them.  Hmmmm … I wonder why?

  • Nature Freak

    The Fox mothership may be involved with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_%28film%29
    It would make sense.
    Fox is so blatant, it makes me wonder.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    ya just shake your head.. arseholes come in all shapes, flavors and sizes… Look’s like it might been a fun party…better than most I seen pictured there..

  • Anonymous

    Too funny.

    Here’s another headline:
    NYT Poll: Obama More Unpopular Than Tea Party
    Tea Party is now viewed unfavorably by 40 percent
    Disapproving of how Obama is handling his job 47 percent

    Now here’s where it gets funny …
    Tea Party viewed favorably by 20 percent
    Obama’s approval rating 48 percent

    They must think they’re readers are imbeciles …. and they would be right if they buy this headline.

  • Anonymous

    Why not call it racist because you know it is.  How many times can you give them the benefit of the doubt? It’s more than pause worthy..it’s blatant.  Wake up and smell the coffee and don’t pretend 40 ounces means anything other than what you know it means.

  • Anonymous

    You did spend a lot of time to say nothing. Redneck Hee Haw…quit making $hit up.

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t or refuse to see the problem your too stupid to understand the issue.

  • Anonymous

    The problem you teabaggers have is that you are convinced you can do or say any racist thing you like and as long as you don’t slip up or come right out and use the N-word, you aren’t racist. You think you can get away with using tar baby, or calling the President boy, or putting watermelons on the White House lawn, or what ever f***ed up things you like to do, as long as you don’t say Ni***r it’s not racist. 

  • Glenn Bovine

    I am sure Mr. Bill Shine will make good on his promise of firing ANY IDIOT at Fux responsible for those daily f-ups.

    He has just fired Erick Boiles for his racist remarks… oh, wait…

  • john.kliber

    If Obama had built a hockey rink when he took office and if there hadn’t been an anti-white “poet” at the inauguration reciting a ditty from an old “white is all right” jukebox number among other things, I’d have had no comment such as I wrote to leave. If people want to come out of a stereotype factory I don’t care, but it doesn’t make me a racist to point out a culture’s very narrow interests. Flag black Americans because my rhetorical question to them is this: do black Americans ever think about anything other than black Americans? It is what it is – why pretend otherwise?

    You may have noticed a distinct lack of interest in a disastrous flood by black folks in Iowa a few years back. Why? No racial dimension to it. On the other hand, the black American community is still talking about Katrina. Don’t tell me this is a culture dedicated to the greater good cuz it’s not and I could prove it in a court of law if I had to the trend is so obvious.

  • Anonymous

    I love how you racists have tried to turn the tables. You now cry that everything is racist, while coming close to calling Obama the “n” word? Is every gathering with black people now a hip hop event? So the one black person at a tea party event turns that into a hip hop tea party?

  • Anonymous

    I love the your a racist too argument! Except that I am not! I just hate republicans!

  • Anonymous

    Your funny! The country has been white bread for hundreds of years? Yet, now a black man come to the white house and according to u ghettofied it? WTF is that about? I think your pissed because in the near future blacks and minorities will be the majority and guess who will be the minority? They won’t be turned into slaves though!

  • Anonymous

    Before you use the false argument concerning the dems used to be racist! Read your history! Don’t let someone else translate what happened for you!

  • Exgoper

    You must be a screenwriter. Only someone who lives in the world of fiction could write such preposterous and self-indulgent trash.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    If Bush had a party and instead of rappers had a bunch of country singers, would calling it a “White House hoedown” be racist? 

  • Anonymous

    The left wingers are so beside themselves over the fact that having the ‘ FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT ‘ & his ‘ REPARATIONS BASED MANIFESTO ‘  has been nothing short of a ‘ SCIENCE EXPERIMENT GONE VERY, VERY WRONG ‘, they are now grasping at aids infected, crack addicts straws.

    It’s so sad, yet at the very same time hilarious to see the total deconstruction of the unholy Obama/MSM/corrupt union version of ” I HAD A DREAM ” imploding in upon itself.

  • Wejuhi

    The truth of the matter is there are racist in every race, black , white, indain, germain. you mame it. and if you look for that, I think that what makes you a racist. maybe you have white frends or black friends or what ever ever, we got to stop blaming a whole people for the few. That can’t see the truth. Is it worth your time.

  • Anonymous

    Well, obviously you “see” what you want to see and “read” into a headline whatever you want.  Saw the headline and thought he had a lot of young music groups there.  Never crossed my mind to read “racist” into it – but then I normally don’t.  Figured the guy has kids and a big birthday party – dancing!  Stupid me – it wasn’t that at all.  

    Honestly people – time for everyone to grow up.  

  • Anonymous

    they tell you why – so you don’t have to wonder at all.  

  • Anonymous

    can I refer to you as a flame throwing boy?  I think that would be fairly accurate.  Don’t have a clue if you’re red, white, blue or whatever color.  

    I do know that you lose your clout when you refer to a group by a name you made up.  A group that has absolutely nothing to do with anything but the color of money.  

  • Anonymous

    can I refer to you as a flame throwing boy?  I think that would be fairly accurate.  Don’t have a clue if you’re red, white, blue or whatever color.  

    I do know that you lose your clout when you refer to a group by a name you made up.  A group that has absolutely nothing to do with anything but the color of money.  

  • Anonymous

    I guess you don’t believe in pigeon holing people right?  You hate “inflammatory” words unless you are using them.  

    Come on dude – give your head a little shake a grow up. 

  • Anonymous

    I guess you don’t believe in pigeon holing people right?  You hate “inflammatory” words unless you are using them.  

    Come on dude – give your head a little shake a grow up. 

  • Anonymous

    I wonder why the most open and transparent President evah held a party IN OUR HOUSE, yet banned the media from covering the event. 

    You’d think a “White House Correspondent”, who wasn’t biased, would be wondering…”why the secrecy?”

    Also Tommy, good job to you, the leftist blogoshpere you belong to and the “mainstream media” for stoking racism for political gain. It’s having truly remarkable effects as innocent, vulnerable Whites nationwide are having their lives ruined after being savagely beaten by mobs of hundreds of Blacks. Shame some of you didn’t attend opening day at the Wisconsin State Fair, or decide to enjoy the sights of downtown Philadelphia or Chicago. So keep up the good work of stoking racial animosity to benefit your leftist politicians!

  • Anonymous

    did you read the comments?… they were vile… 

  • Anonymous

    When Pat Buchanan refered to President Obama as ” Your Boy” during a recent interview on a MSNBC cable show I think that summed up how the right (GOP and Tea Party) view him. The have never and will never accept in ernest the fact he was elected and is the President of the United States. It does not matter what he does, it will not stop the way they see him or respect him in his position. Yes, it’s sad this country would rather destroy itself (much like the plantation owners in the south when they were defeated in the civil war) than let President Obama be successful and work to help put this country back on the track to economic recovery. Think about how they performed about raising the debt ceiling? It did not matter about the credit rating being lowred for the1st time in US history as long as history will say it happended while Pres Obama was in office. You can see the same theme in the editoral by Peggy Noonan (WSJ)last week when she proclamied the president to be a “loser’.  
    It’s a shame, a real shame……

  • Anonymous

    When Pat Buchanan refered to President Obama as ” Your Boy” during a recent interview on a MSNBC cable show I think that summed up how the right (GOP and Tea Party) view him. The have never and will never accept in ernest the fact he was elected and is the President of the United States. It does not matter what he does, it will not stop the way they see him or respect him in his position. Yes, it’s sad this country would rather destroy itself (much like the plantation owners in the south when they were defeated in the civil war) than let President Obama be successful and work to help put this country back on the track to economic recovery. Think about how they performed about raising the debt ceiling? It did not matter about the credit rating being lowred for the1st time in US history as long as history will say it happended while Pres Obama was in office. You can see the same theme in the editoral by Peggy Noonan (WSJ)last week when she proclamied the president to be a “loser’.  
    It’s a shame, a real shame……

  • Anonymous

    Just when I think people can’t sink any lower, they go and prove me wrong.  Really sad state of affairs.  

  • Anonymous

    the sad part of your racist post is that there were 27 people who agreed with you.  That truly is sad.  

    I have no idea what web sites you visit but perhaps you should be a bit more selective?

  • labman57

    Come on, now. Everyone knows it was a blacks-only, gangster-rapper affair with terrorist fist-bumps all around.  
    Limbaugh told me so, and FOX and Friends agreed, so it must be true.

    News Flash: Boehner took a dump today, and no jobs were created as a result. Okay, someone did have to refill the TP dispenser …

  • Anonymous

    Brilliant. Reducing an entire movement on the words of a lone individual. How prejudicial of you. And when Harry Reid cxalled Obama an articulate black who doesn’t speak the negro dialect, he was representing the entirety of the Democrats as well, correct?

  • Anonymous

    As much as you try to rewrite history the fact is that, too old and out of touch to know any better, tea party members called themselves teabaggers from the beginning.  That’s the name they dubbed themselves and it fits, so it stays. Learn to live with it and get over it nutsucker.

  • Anonymous

    want to back up your statement or you just want to flame?

    p.s.  I would prefer you clean up your act and never refer to anyone as a nutsucker.  You are supposedly an adult – act like it or get off the computer.  

  • Anonymous

    imagine wanda sykes there with him (if you saw her HBO special “Ima Gonna be Me” you know how she’d rock the party out”)

    “Barack, White People are lookin’ at you!”

  • Anonymous

    it was in chicago… did you even read the story?

  • CELISARY45

    When the Fox Nation first posted the story, the comments were so RACIST that they themselves (FOX NATION) had to cancel the comment section because of the Racist content. These F**K are reaping what they sowed, NOT ALL FOX-REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST, BUT ALL RACIST ARE F0X-REPUBLICANS,TEA BAGGER COWARDS!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Usually when someone displays their utter stupidity to me, I don’t show any pity towards them. But since you seem to think the Rose Garden is in Chicago, while at the same time questioning whether or not I read the story, I will show you some mercy on you.

  • Celisary45

    You ignorant F**K, even Fox News taught the comments to Racist to be posted and had the Comment section of the Fox Nation website shut off!!!!!  Get your Facts straight A**Hole!!!!!…

  • Anonymous

    What does that have to do with anything? Do you think you or that “tool” have a trade mark on something I’ve said for months? I’m not a Kool-Aid Kid, such as yourself. I can spot hate and crap,… all by myself! However, I am glad you follow him sooo close!

  • Anonymous

    WOW….the allowable words when talking about Obama are shrinking rapidly.  Pretty soon they will be limited to

    ZERO
    EMPTY SUIT

    anything else will be deemed racist. Unbelievable how far the left is willing to stretch terminology and take it from the sublime to the racist.

  • Nolikeechocolate

    “Hip Hop Party” what did you expect from those types of people.

  • Anonymous

    You mean the Obama Administration racially profiled and discriminated against high profile white actors, actresses, and sports figures? I thought I heard Tom Hanks was in the House!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, they should be restricted to working the kitchen (washing dishes only, no food preparation) and butler duties. What else are the good for?

  • Anonymous

    Good going, Tommy. The liberals are in need of someone to
    keep eyes and ears open for all evidence of racism, especially the coded kind.
    The cries of racism were plentiful during Obama’s campaign, but since his
    election, sometimes an hour goes by without someone playing the Card. And never
    mind those who call it race-baiting, they’re probably bigots, anyway.

  • david francis

    STOP WHINING.. EVERYTHING IS NOT RACIST. DAMN.. GET A LIFE!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

    You right wing pretend christian tea baggers make me so sick, I wish I could put you on a leaking ship to nowhere. You won’t allow our President to have a burger, to make a comment, and god knows, to have a birthday celebration without turning it into sick, perverted, rascist, bigot editorializing. No other politician’s birthday has been so demeaned.  Its his birthday for dam sake. hannity the little frog spit numbers out that made no sense in describing his birthday plans. He makes campaigning by the Democrats seem dirty as GOP have their secret “funds” and jerkoffs like the heritage foundation and the koch brothers, and rowe’s secret society.. hannity even staged pretend christian concerts and put the money in his pocket.

  • Anonymous

    Where are all the white people at????

  • Anonymous

    I find it truly amazing that some….HELL….ALL these conservatives that posts’ on this site can’t see the overt racism committed by Fox Nation. They had (Fox Nation) to take down a message board, due to the vile racist comments that was being posted. This crowd would deny that existence of white racism anywhere in the country. Like they say: “White don’t eat White”.

  • john.kliber

    Only the ones who spend 20 years in a church that hates white people run by a guy who hates white people based on a racist theology created by a guy who hates white people. You have a double standard that absolves vicious racism while jumping on satirical comments as if they were what your side of the issue actually and demonstrably indulges in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marc-Wilks/745501965 Marc Wilks

    Fox Nation calling this a hip hop bbq is no worse than the left wing idiots calling the tea party gatherings KKK rallies. Get over yourselves Obama lovers

  • Teanationisacancer

    Wow, look at all the comments by the white fringe. Nothing like a black man in the white house to get the nazi’s fuming. U pathetic slobs woukd still hate him even if he gave u crossburning tax credit.

  • Anonymous

    Fox Nation is beating Libs/Progs at their own game and it pisses them off.

  • Anonymous

    White’s made Obama president…do the Libs/Progs want them to suck his cock too? Hell, if he didn’t want people refering to his party as a hip hop BBQ he shouldn’t have played hip hop and served BBQ…right?

  • Anonymous

    SOoooo, FNC closed it’s comments.  Were its bigots getting out of hand?

  • Anonymous

    That’s actually a decent point. If the headline writer had revised it to something like “Urban BBQ Jam,” or something, it would have been more accurate, but by adding the completely gratuitous and unsupported “didn’t create jobs,” there would still have been a legit problem with it. 

  • Anonymous

    Hip Hop BBQ!  More like Vomited Chocolate Pudding!

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    You do realize that Minnie Pearl and Gracie Allen were just characters, don’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Cue the re-election campaign of the ‘Angry Black Man!” (Trademark)

  • Anonymous

    And free white sheets for life.

  • Anonymous

    @TommyChristopher:disqus 

    re: your “In fairness to Fox Nation…” sentence — I found it curious that you left out the descriptor for Jay-Z in the Politico piece.  As a matter of fact, it was the very first word of the article: “Rapper”.   Yep, the very first word of the very first sentence of the very first paragraph.  But somehow “Hip-Hop” doesn’t seem appropriate for your biased eyes. 

    As as regards creating jobs: If you have evidence that this event created sustained full-time jobs for people, by all means, share it. Seriously, dude; that’s what’s meant by jobs creation when used in the popular and contemporary vernacular. Got your proof? You’re saying FN needs to prove that no jobs were created. But you’re the one taking issue with the claim. The burden, then, is on you to show how the claim is false. We’re waiting.

    I know I continue to irk you with calling you out for your silly foibles like this.  But hey, it’s on you, man.  Start calling things accurately and dispassionately, and you’ll pass muster.  Until then, you’ll get your well-deserved slams.

  • posterchild

    S T R E T C H I N G – S T R E T C H I N G – S T R E T C H I N G
    WTF ???
    And what if Reagan had a party and invited a bunch of….blah, blah, blah.
    You can’t rewrite history DBV, but keep trying.

  • john.kliber

    It is legit because they’re invoking the “let them eat cake” while unemployment grows. It’s a question of at least symbolically showing some regard for the frustrations of those out of work and low on cash. Conspicuous partying by the President in such tough times is a legitimate target.

    How much did this bash cost and what if instead the President had donated the money to a shelter? Now that would’ve been tough to criticize and shown the President is in touch with what’s going on. No one is asking for the President to stop living but he IS the President.

  • john.kliber

    How in the world is this mild rebuke racist but spending 20 years in a KKK church that has 8,500 people giving standing ovations to any remarks that discomfit white people and is run by a racist like Jeremiah Wright and based on the racist theology of a racist like James Cone not racist. Where is your own sense of proportion?

  • Anonymous

    Cue your racism! 

  • john.kliber

    Yes I associate hip-hop with Dutch people. I am the TSA of the moral high ground. Being willingly out of touch with reality in the name of politeness is nuts.

  • Hoobert

    It sounds to me like you know that many black people.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    you don’t pay taxes… they take taxes..

  • john.kliber

    The comments here are based on the Left’s identity politics where double standards for feminists, minorities and gays always put them on the right side of any moral argument. Kobe Bryant has take crap from GLAAD for uttering a slur but 2 weeks later gay people hold the annual outdoor and public Hunky Jesus Contest whose winner simulated sex with J.C. All things being equal they should both be reprehensible or not. However, on the Left, it is perfectly fine to go after Christians but gays are a holy barrier. 

  • Anonymous

    Straight bootlicking Uncle Tom.

  • Imomsixi

    Where in lies the most racist and the most complete display of ignorance.

  • Imomsixi

    I think I’ll forward this to my 2 son-in-laws and watch them fall on the floor laughing.  Sorry guys one of you wears glasses.

  • Imomsixi

    Please read Obama’s books, and his very racist remarks about his white mother and white grandparents and then talk about racism.

  • Anonymous

    Most liberal hate to hear the truth, that explains their disdain for Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    I repeat…..Most liberals hate to hear the truth, that explains their disdain for Fox News

  • Anonymous

    I have never heard more than 10 words of news before propaganda comes out of someone mouth on Fox.Look at Martha Maccalum,that ain’t news.

  • Anonymous

    I have never heard more than 10 words of news before propaganda comes out of someone mouth on Fox.Look at Martha Maccalum,that ain’t news.

  • Anonymous

    I have never heard more than 10 words of news before propaganda comes out of someone mouth on Fox.Look at Martha Maccalum,that ain’t news.

  • Wolverine_OathKeeper

    For a so called News editor you sure are not very smart.  For us that have fought our entire lives for this nation with little to no pay but for the mere fact of protecting / defending the foundation Constitution, the Supreme Court,  ALL Americans, justice for all under the law and not the few then we know exactly what and who Fuhrer Obama is and what his next level of intentions will be.  I represent no group and or party except the United States of America. Not once have we forgotten that we serve.

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