Calling Our President The ‘Thug In Chief’ No Biggie On Fox & Friends

Last week, author Mallory Factor appeared on Fox & Friends. The main purpose of the visit seemed to be to suggest that unions were “calling the shots” at the Democratic National Convention. And, of course, to demonize President Obama.

During the discussion, Gretchen Carlson brought up the North Carolina AFL-CIO’s “Hug-a-thug” booth, an attempt to poke fun at and dispell some of the harsh rhetoric toward unions.

But Factor was too interested in smearing to appreciate any other kind of humor. He explained to Carlson:

Well, uh, the Hug-a-Thug… well, they call themselves “thugs,” and, uh, I just want to know if our Thug in Chief is gonna be there. Obama, because he is the thug in Chief- he really represents these unions. Hug-a-Thug is, you go to a booth and get hugged by a union guy.

Ok, guess which part of that was both unnecessary and tactless? Hint: It’s in bold.

Could you imagine the fallout if CNN or MSNBC showed up at the RNC and staged interviews like this about Romney? Or if a Huffpo reporter trotted out Michael Moore just to make such a comment about Paul Ryan? No, seriously… imagine it.

Yet nobody on the curvy couch even blinked an eye at such a comment, much less challenged it.

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Visitor 55 commented 2012-09-11 16:02:06 -0400 · Flag

No biggie on Fox Fiends. In fact, it’s expected. Those assholes know that Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney is a pile of shit. They know that even their low intelligence viewers aren’t falling for their bullshit tales about how Mittens and Annie were poor starving college students before they were rich. They know that Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney is nothing but a lying, two-faced Flip-Flopper in Chief, and they know that their low intelligence viewers know it.

So, in their tiny minds, their only option is to lie about President Obama and try to make him look bad.

Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-09-11 11:14:40 -0400 · Flag

A lot of class in the GOP world ,unfortunately its all low.

bemused commented 2012-09-11 03:33:18 -0400 · Flag

An invitation: the Forum would be a good place to swap tales on the howlers that are standard fare on FNC. My opinion on F&F is that it reflects perfectly the orders contained in the morning memo from on high. Even their guests abandon any pretence of civility: last time I saw Huckabee, he was downright scurrilous as he injected two sentences on Sandra Fluke into a discourse on a completely different topic. Fly in the soup, but obedient to the core.

I’ve never been to FoxNation and don’t plan to go any time soon. Just bought a new pair of shoes.

Average American Patriot commented 2012-09-11 02:23:46 -0400 · Flag

I am not defending any idiots on Fox or the Fox Hate Nation, but this is their standard, daily feed from the trio of morons in the morning till red eye. Don’t be surprised, just hold your nose and stomach.

From the shit flinging Baboon Glenn Beck saying plainly “he [Obama] is a racist” Some other moron ranted about “Chicago thug politics” then another moron went to call President Obama “corrupt”. Another idiot added “secretive” and “we don’t know enough about this man”

It is FUN, KIDS!

COLLECT THEM ALL VITUPERATIVES from FOX!

FIRST ONE TO GET THEM GETS TO KISS Jabba The Ailes… big… stinky… fat… oh, nooooo… Mark Koldys.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-09-10 20:43:30 -0400 · Flag

MJ: They repeat those terms on Fox Nation at a rate of 50 comments an article.

And yes- MSNBC is far more professional than Fox News could ever be. They fire people for comments Fox News applauds fairly regular- and usually in the same day. Hell, even CNN has a couple up on them, the only one of thier major offenders they didn’t end up firing was Dana Loesch.

What’s Fox News got, besides showing Beck and Gibson the door when people stopped watching? They certainly weren’t fired over image problems…

Kent Brockman commented 2012-09-10 19:46:29 -0400 · Flag

Fux Nuze Sez

We like bamboozled voters who think rMoney will hug them because they’re poor.

newzhound commented 2012-09-10 19:10:32 -0400 · Flag

Seriously – two parents (or even just one) named a child “Mal Factor?”

No wonder he grew up twisted. That’s a cold shot, right there!

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-09-10 19:08:09 -0400 · Flag

Ailes and FNC call it being “edgy.” Pretty much everyone else calls it crap.

mlp ! commented 2012-09-10 19:06:05 -0400 · Flag

I’m sure that anytime soon one of the RW lemmings will be stopping by to compare ‘Thug-In-Chief’ to the many times that the ‘leftists’ referred to GWB as the ‘Moron-In-Chief’. But that’s just more of the false equivalency that the RW is so fond of using. Some of the differences are:
1. GWB WAS a moron, and probably still is (although the GOP of today makes him look like fucking Einstein!)
2. GWB was NEVER spoken to or about in the same manner ON A MAJOR NETWORK as Obama is on a regular basis.

mj - the same one commented 2012-09-10 18:23:31 -0400 · Flag

Could you imagine the fallout if CNN or MSNBC showed up at the RNC and staged interviews like this about Romney?

Oh, I don’t have to imagine it — MSNBC suspended Mark Halperin when he called President Obama a “dick”:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/mark-halperin-calls-obama-a-dick_n_887604.html

Then again, MSNBC is an actual news network.

Hell, it should be no surprise that curvy couch crew didn’t blink an eye — they didn’t blink an eye when Rush Limpballs called the President “an incompetent man-child”, and the First Lady “the First Linebacker”, and “Moochelle” . . .

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