Fox News has long been a “fake” news broadcaster, spinning news like no one else, running smear campaigns against whoever its ownership doesn’t like (or is paid to hate), and it’s encouraging to see an organized effort underway to either stop them or expose their antics enough that their audience dwindles to nothing.

From MoveOn.org, courtesy of Congressman Robert Wexler, comes this petition:

FOX has really gone over the line this past month—using racism, prejudice, and fear to smear Barack Obama. Each time they apologize—then they do it again.

First, a paid FOX commentator accidentally confused “Obama” with “Osama” and then joked on the air about killing Obama. Next, a FOX anchor said a playful fist pound by Barack and Michelle Obama could be a “terrorist fist jab.” And then, FOX called Michelle Obama “Obama’s baby mama”—slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man’s child.

Go sign it if you care about such things, or ignore it if you don’t. I suspect you’d do that anyway without me telling you

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