Michelle Obama: Lightening Rod for the Right?

[KickTheBobo]

So I was flipping channels last night, and caught a few minutes of the Dan Abrams show(?) where him and a few talking heads were discussing our next first lady (and total hottie) Michelle Obama. At the bottom of the screen was the text: "Michelle Obama: Lightening Rod for the Right?". Help me out here. Was this a misspelling on the part of whomever does the graphics or some sort of play on words? If it's the latter: what the do they mean by that?

I don't watch much of the TV News, so I guess I found it surprising that someone would spell "Lightning" wrong. Am I just being naive?

[A.M. Thomas]

I'd rather have a misspelling than this:

[gravy boat]

I'd rather have a misspelling than this:

That is so vile. 

[erika]

That seriously makes me want to cry, it's so disgusting to me right now.

I fucking hate this country sometimes.

[samir]

Fox News referring to the "terrorist fist bump", that's pretty despicable too.

[Emily]

i dont see why you have to hate the country over something fox news put in their headline.

[erika]

i dont see why you have to hate the country over something fox news put in their headline.

They're catering to people who eat that shit up. It's all just a symptom of how dumb we've become. I don't know which came first -- dumb news, or dumb people, but I've sat through 2 elections where people don't give a shit about issues and elected a monster, so I'm a little bitter about the direction this one is going in...

[Bryan]

Fox News referring to the "terrorist fist bump", that's pretty despicable too.

What on earth is a "terrorist fist bump"?

[samir]

that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/09/fox-anchor-calls-obama-fi_n_106027.html

[Bryan]

Simply breathtaking.

I don't get to see Fox News, and I find myself shocked at the way that host is talking. It's like she's from another planet. Can there really be a segment of US society that's so distant from pop culture that they don't understand the fist bump gesture?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Erika and everyone, Fox News is losing.  They're going to get more and more shrill and hateful and borderline-Nazi as the right-wing agenda crashes and burns (which will happen under McCain or Obama), and eventually Rupert Murdoch is going to have to decide whether he wants to throw good money after bad for the sake of an ideological vanity project (as he does with the NY Post), or hire some liberal commentators, or just become another corporate news network.

The bad news is it's not happening due to any kind of liberal triumph, but because Bush et. al really did a number on the country. 

[Matt]

And that's when Lincoln said, "Don't diss my homies!"

[Stan]

Fox News referring to the "terrorist fist bump", that's pretty despicable too.

What on earth is a "terrorist fist bump"?

http://omgrespekknuckles.ytmnd.com/

[erika]

Erika and everyone, Fox News is losing.  They're going to get more and more shrill and hateful and borderline-Nazi as the right-wing agenda crashes and burns (which will happen under McCain or Obama), and eventually Rupert Murdoch is going to have to decide whether he wants to throw good money after bad for the sake of an ideological vanity project (as he does with the NY Post), or hire some liberal commentators, or just become another corporate news network.

The bad news is it's not happening due to any kind of liberal triumph, but because Bush et. al really did a number on the country. 

I wish I could believe you. I have little faith.

Next to none, actually.

[Phantom Hugger]

Erika and everyone, Fox News is losing.  They're going to get more and more shrill and hateful and borderline-Nazi as the right-wing agenda crashes and burns (which will happen under McCain or Obama), and eventually Rupert Murdoch is going to have to decide whether he wants to throw good money after bad for the sake of an ideological vanity project (as he does with the NY Post), or hire some liberal commentators, or just become another corporate news network.

The bad news is it's not happening due to any kind of liberal triumph, but because Bush et. al really did a number on the country. 

I felt the same way after the 2004 election; looking for a mitigating factor. I saw it as a good thing that the extreme right wing couldn't hide behind false rhetoric any more, and had to just all out fess up to their hate and fear (pick your flavor: race/sex/religion/etc.).

I do believe that in a free society, everyone has the right to make a complete ASS of themselves in public, but it scares the shit out of me when a news organization is getting away with it and no one notices. Its a sick sad world.