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The way daily kos gets away with the garbage it puts out there .

Its a free country.

Change the channel.

Maybe you should include a link or citation to the Fox News piece in question.

add more to this diary. Do you have links to the vid? Do you have more substance as to who said this, etc?

Here's the link.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6 /11/21256/4677/594/534342

Baby mama is just another way of saying the mother of my kids. It has nothing to do with illegitimate children. That said, Fox needs to stop trying to use slang because it makes them look even more foolish.

I have heard married people refer to each other as Baby Mama and Baby Daddy.  I don't think it necessarily means illegitimacy.

However the people on Fox News are hopelessly unhip and anytime thy try to be hip they come across as pathetic.  

we are going to see a generational divide in this election. The Republicans are going for voters 45+ years of age, not the younger voters.

To middle-aged whites, "baby-mama" doesn't sound hip, it just sounds like rapper lyrics like "ho". In other words, a vulger slang word.

Much of middle-America doesn't like rap music, the low-class lyrics, and the influence it has had on American culture as of late.  

Think culture wars part 2.  It isn't so much about black and white as it is about low class/higher class. Rap music lyrics are "low class" to middle-aged whites. They are encouraging a low class lifestyle, shacking up with ho's, slapping those bitches around, etc.

Democrats fail to get this.  Racism is bad, okay, true.  But then there is nothing bad about wanting your kids not to refer to women as ho's, refer to law enforcement in vulger terms, judges, whitey, etc (which is what rap music seems to be about).  

I get it.  It is about growing up in the city in black America. But then most white suburbanites don't want their kids assimilating the urban "black" culture.

EMINEM is white.  Middle-aged white America doesn't like him either.

It is FRAMING.  Dems are being framed as advocates of this "new" culture.  The hip hop culture. The rap culture.  It is like a dog whistle to the Republican base.  But a lot of moderate Democrats don't approve of rappers either.  But then as I said, it also reflects the generational divide we have even among Democrats.  Hillary's supporters are older than Obama supporters on average.

I thought Michelle Obama did that this primary - introduced Obama as her "baby daddy"

However, I do agree that news outlets should NOT use this type of slang, just like the pimping comment.