E.D. Hill loses her Fox News show after ‘terrorist fist jab’ remark.
By on Jun 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
E.D. Hill loses her Fox News show after ‘terrorist fist jab’ remark.
Last week, Fox News’s E.D. Hill called a fist pound between Barack and Michelle Obama a “terrorist fist jab.” Following Hill’s remark, Media Matters launched a petition calling on Hill to apologize. TVNewser is reporting that Fox News has canceled America’s Pulse, the nightly news show anchored by Hill: “America’s Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined.” The cancellation comes just four days after Hill’s “terrorist fist jab” remark, although the network would not give the reason for its actions. Hill apologized for her remarks on her show today. Watch it:
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June 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pmwhatever, she’ll be on some other dumb show soon enough just like Limpballs and Imus the terrible!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pmYum! What a delicious serving of schadenfreude! ;o)
June 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pmUgh, MMFA is so whiney.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pmKnowing Fox, she’ll just be moving into a Prime-time slot. Watch out Bill-o. You’ve got some serious competition.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pmyey! hurray, the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead, oops, wrong song, oh well, same premise!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pmSo just who in the media did characterize the fist pound as a “terrorist fist jab?” She’s the only person I know of who is associated with that phrase.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:34 pmAs much as I cheer this, she’s a disposable woman. What about all the others who do this $hit near daily?
Spare me, Fox, your token firing. Now they can say that they did something. YAWN. Drop of water in the ocean.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pmFox Noise falls very short of convincing me that this was because of her comments. The fact that O’Reily has made far more slanderous statements and had not been removed says to me that Fox was not making enough money of E.D the Talking Head and found a way out of her contract……
June 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm“America’s Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined.”
Looks like the position of loofah searcher for O’Lielly has finally been filled…………
June 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pmmrtibbs, curious, what slanderous comments did O’Reily make regarding Obama?
June 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pmShe said that “it was referred to in the media as a … terrorist fist jab.”
June 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pmWhere in the media?
I can’t find any reference as a “terrorist fist jab” until she said it herself.
hey, guys! come on now, it may be a half ass apology but it beats anything Dickey is capable of!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pmI don’t know about anyone else, but she’s the only one that I can think of who brought up the terrorist fist jab. I’m pretty sure no one else did.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pmMCMetal Says:
“America’s Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined.”
Looks like the position of loofah searcher for O’Lielly has finally been filled…………
hehe :D
June 10th, 2008 at 3:40 pmgunclinger Says:
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mrtibbs, curious, what slanderous comments did O’Reily make regarding Obama?
June 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
You believe a statement insinuating the future 1st Lady of the US should be lynched is a love letter ?
June 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pmgunclinger…I did not write/mention Obama at all in my comment…i was ambiguous at best
June 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pmcheers
That’s because she’s getting a promotion after everyone has forgotten about this.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:44 pmYep another non-apology apology
“I certainly didnt mean to associate the word terrorist in any way with senator Obama or his wife”
And yet thats exactly what she did and thats exactly what she meant to do.
The excuse that it wasnt her personal opinion is completely irrelevant. Its a just another “some say..” where they cherrypick and highlight some extreme nutcase opinions like they are mainstream, or just make shit up and claim innocence because nobody can check if what they say is true anyway
June 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pmI cannot imagine jsut how difficult it would be to replace such an outstanding journalist. We all know how hard it is to find that special braindead, brainwashed beaver.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pmUh, E.D. Hill, meet anvil. Anvil, have a nice ride down from the cliff……
June 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pmI think they were gonna cancel the show anyway.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pmYep she claims it was just one example how media had characterized it.
Wheres the proof of this? What media? Should be easy enough to find if it were true
June 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pmHooray!
Can I get a terrorist fist jab?
Word.
-Ayatollah Canolli
June 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pmE.D. Hill thinks washed up, right wing jagoff Cal Thomas of the abominable comb-over is a member of the media.
No wonder she’s done for.
-GSD
June 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pmdon’t worry, she will be replaced by another blonde sweet idiot bubblehead who will slip and call the gesture “ni*ger ghetto greeting”.
hoo boy heavy handed sarcasm here.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Just another non-apology apology from a FOX liar. “I’m sorry if my comments offended”.
Exactly what I was thinking. Another lame-ass non-apology. Fux Snooze still sux.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pmI think the fox news blondes are outstanding to watch, especially sitting pretty in their skirts. If only Fox would team up with the hot spanish speaking women of Primer Impacto. Nothing like sexing up the boring news..
June 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pmCan I get a terrorist fist jab?
Word.
word UP, brotha!!@!
Until this minute I had no acquaintance with the name “E.D. Hill.” What Fox should do with her now is remove all pretense and strip her down, gloss up her lips, and turn her loose on, oh, the weather.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pmI’ve got some footage up from last nights show posted up if you wanna check it out…
June 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pmHot looking woman though, regardless of the empty head
June 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pmSo when does Hannity lose his show?
O’Reilly?
…and that really weird guy with the gray hair who looks like an Ed Begly Jr. relative?
or anyone that has mAnn Coulter as a guest?
Actually, believe it or not, I’m kind of sad E(rectile) D(ysfunction) got canned over a dum bass statement. I honestly think an apology of “Sorry, I said something stupid and baseless. Please forgive me” would have been sufficient.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pmAnyone read this stupid ho’s half-assed “apology” ?
“Want to start the show by clarifying something I said on the show last Friday about an upcoming body language segment. Now, I mentioned various ways the Obamas’ fist pump in St. Paul had been characterized in the media. I apologize because unfortunately, some thought I personally had characterized it inappropriately. I regret that. It was not my intention. And I certainly didn’t mean to associate the word “terrorist” in any way to Senator Obama and his wife.”
Oh , I see ; you used the word “terrorist” to describe the crowd that was going wild for the Obamas……..Lying sack of crap.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pmE.D. Hill is now relieving the “ARRRRgression” for St. Rupert, Mt. Billo and Sean Insanity in a new show meant for “internal viewing” only. Roger Ailes is “terrorist fist jabbing” Allan Colmes for outing Karl Rove (Faux code name: The Golden Piggy) on-air. And Brit Hume has to sleep with one basset hound eye open at all times to keep away the Beltway Boys from siphoning his blood from his veins, so they can feed it to Cheney.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pmJBaddo Says:
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Hot looking woman though, regardless of the empty head
June 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Go for it ; she’s been married 3 times.
She probably can’t keep a man satisified ; typical GOP wench……
June 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pmWhen I watch the ‘news’, I want the news. If I want to stare at a pretty woman, I’ll either stare at my wife or tune into YouPorn. I wouldn’t think to watch Faux Noise to get an eyefull. Can we have uglier women who actually ‘know’ the news?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pmGOOD…We need less of these UnAmerican scum bags off the air.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pmUh-oh I think Fox is beginning to feel the tsunami coming in November…..
June 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pmJust a question — was Hill’s “terrorist fist jab” remark written by her? Or was she merely reading somebody else’s script off a teleprompter?
Was Hill the one who made the decision to make the association between Obama and terrorism, and then fail to deliver anything to back it up in her piece? Or was this the decision of some other bonehead, and Hill is the one getting thrown under the bus for it?
Let’s assume for a moment that E.D. Hill is the one who decides what words come out of her mouth on her show, as well as associated tosses and teases. If this is the case, she deserves to be fired — not because of the PC Police, but because even to suggest something that slanderous without any substance to back it up violates — oh, I don’t know how many rules of journalism.
Now there’s the little matter of her “apology” (or clarification, or whatever it was). She said that she had merely “mentioned various ways the Obamas’ fist pump in St. Paul had been characterized in the media.” Yet, she never once said anything specific in her piece about any medium calling the fist pump a “terrorist fist jab.”
If this is all Hill’s doing, she must go. But if she has only been serving as a sock puppet for others, we need to continue digging.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pmArt Says
June 10th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I can’t find any reference as a “terrorist fist jab” until she said it herself.
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I just tried googling it as well — all references of this phrase lead to her, directly or indirectly. I say “indirectly” because right now EVERYBODY seems to be using it to describe fist bumps everywhere, and attributing the phrase to Hill.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pmLookit ‘em running scared.
Maybe they figured out that most Americans are outraged that anti-terrorism got co-opted purely for political gain by the GOP, and they can’t even do a minimally competent job of any real security improvements.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pmDr Matt, now isn’t that just sweet? Kinda like Bush’s Likud style cluster bomb style ass twisting anti-American trashing of our Constitution?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pmWhat kind of elitist d-head doesn’t do fist bumps, anyway?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pmgunclinger Says:
I think the fox news blondes are outstanding to watch, especially sitting pretty in their skirts. If only Fox would team up with the hot spanish speaking women of Primer Impacto. Nothing like sexing up the boring news..
family values anyone?
Emily68 Says:
So just who in the media did characterize the fist pound as a “terrorist fist jab?” She’s the only person I know of who is associated with that phrase.
google “terrorist fist jab”. it comes up fox and e.d. hill.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pmUsing Hill’s definition, it would appear that perhaps as many as 50% of Americans are terrorists. Maybe we should lock up all of them (perhaps as many as 150 million Americans). Then gas prices would surely go down because there would be a lot fewer drivers! Heh, heh!
** roll eyes **
June 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pmBlogosphere to MSM: We are watching You.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says
June 10th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Here is the original statement, which Faux picked up, that was posted at Human Events.com
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Apparently, the item has since been scrubbed from the humanevents.com site. But I was able to find from other sources referencing the piece that Cal Thomas was the author of that hateful and incorrect statement.
I think that when media outlets use the term “media” — as in “characterized in the media”, they need to differentiate between media with some journalistic integrity and media that don’t want to feel confined by such standards. Otherwise people could infer that a characterization is coming from several MSM outlets, when the truth is that it’s only coming from a single bigoted crackpot.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pmWord!! (TFB)
June 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pmWord ! (TFB) “terrorist fist bump”
June 10th, 2008 at 4:47 pmIt’s getting harder and harder for Fox Lies to sell the propaganda. People are not buying the bs the way they did back in 2002-2004, the golden era for Fox.
I know the age of their audience is climbing, but I’m amazed that whoever wrote the “terrorist fist bump” bit could either be that ignorant or think that they could get away with that one.
You would have had to never be around people under the age of 40 and would have had to never witnessed any sporting events to ever be a target for that scam.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pmSo this so called “media characterization” was what? A blog comment?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pmoooh i gotta terrorist fist bump for ya E.D. …and no E.D.! :-)
June 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pmYou can’t unring a bell, FoxNews !
Know what a Macaca Moment is ?
You just had yours !
June 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pmOne less bleached blond, lip-glossed, lying, stupid-assed cow.
**yawn**
Who cares?
June 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pmshe’s such a little hoe-bag liar, just like papa bear.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pmShe’s just taking a new “job”, if ya catch my drift!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pmLook! A new blond to fill the ED hole!
http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/10/fox-hires-controversial-talker-to-fill-evening-time-slot/
June 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pmShe should have simply known better. Fist pounding specifically excludes terrorists and murderers.
It’s all spelled out in the pamphlet:
Penny Arcade
June 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pmI think she has been officially given the terrorist dump!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pmNick Juliano of Raw Story:
Author Rory O’Connor called her Right-Wing Radio’s High Priestess of Hate in a recent column, which documented some of her more egregious errors in punditry.
In one of her most famous incidents, on Election Day 2006 Ingraham encouraged listeners to jam the phone line of a toll-free Democratic Party service for reporting voting problems. No tangible consequences came of it (the Democrats won anyway), but it did put Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy up in arms.
omg, OMG! Isn’t that what Kucinich was referring to in regards to voter fraud and tying up voter lines? she’s gonna be a piece of cake to crack!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pmHigh priestess of Hate, sounds like the high priestess of squat
June 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pmgood, find, Zooey!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:39 pmoops, one too many commas!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:39 pmE.D.Hill and Dana Perino have brought back the stereotype of the blonde bimbo.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:42 pmShe deserved what she got…trying to make her own interpretations of this so called’ terrorist fist jab’.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pmShe was one of many reasons why I quit watching Fox,when she was on morning show FOX & Friends.
She reminded me with J.Gibson big mouth when he lost his show few months ago making fun of actor Heath Ledger’s tragic death.
Good riddance…
Well, if you really want “news”, it ain’t gonna happen on Faux. Maybe try BBC or HDNET sometime, might surprise you at what REAL news look and sound like.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:09 pmI have a new job for her/or who wrote it, “Oh you, my trash is full.”
June 10th, 2008 at 6:15 pmLamest pseudo apology I ever saw. Good riddance E.D. Hack.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pmDon’t get too happy — she’s being replaced by Laura Ingraham.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pmDoes anyone think that E.D. Hill improvised her terrorist comment? Who wrote it for her?
Also, as someone pointed out above, that was not an apology. She does not recognize what she said is offensive nor is she sorry she said it.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:04 pm“I regret that. It was not my intention. And I certainly didn’t mean to associate the word “terrorist” in any way to Senator Obama and his wife.”
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“Repeat – I did not in any way wish to associate the words “terrorist” and “Obama.” It was not my intention to conflate the words “terrorist” and “Obama,” nor would I ever wish to put the words “terrorist” and “Obama” together in a way that would imply that I was somehow associating the words “terrorist” and “Osama.” To any viewers who felt I was trying in any way to place the words “terrorist” and “Osama bin Laden” and “Barack Hussein Obama” and “secret Muslim” and “Indonesian Madrassa” together in order to create an association – even a subliminal one – in the mind of the viewer, I truly, truly Osama.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pmThese Republicans like the sort-of good looking blondes, whom if they put on TV will probably do a lot for the RNC in-return for being made the Aphrodite’s of Conservatism. Nothing gets guys like “Rush” or “Glenn” off like going to “Madame TeeDee’s” website to pick out a “date” to “escort” them to Denny’s and the Roadside Inn for a night of drinking, drugs, dutch dinner’s and the guy pretending they work for UPS and that they deliver a “package”. A “package” of filthy, dirty photos of Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton causing him to drop out of the presidential race. This allows our GOP John to sit back, get tied to the bed and relax, because they only paid enough for some “hand-lovin”, because they are still afraid of grown women at their ages.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pmHer replacement will increase the velocity of the descent to no viewers. Fox will be the AM station in a world of no AM tuners.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:10 pmBye-bye, beeotch!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
“I regret that. It was not my intention. And I certainly didn’t mean to associate the word “terrorist” in any way to Senator Obama and his wife.”
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“Repeat – I did not in any way wish to associate the words “terrorist” and “Obama.” It was not my intention to conflate the words “terrorist” and “Obama,” nor would I ever wish to put the words “terrorist” and “Obama” together in a way that would imply that I was somehow associating the words “terrorist” and “Osama.” To any viewers who felt I was trying in any way to place the words “terrorist” and “Osama bin Laden” and “Barack Hussein Obama” and “secret Muslim” and “Indonesian Madrassa” together in order to create an association – even a subliminal one – in the mind of the viewer, I truly, truly Osama.
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no, not at all, she wasn’t trying to smash up those words like a pot of beans! ohh, no… remember, it was the media’s so-called characterization of the words. She’s just a poor, helpless little ingénue in the greatly staged play of FauxSnooze.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:25 pmSomeone pointed out that most of the female staff at Fixed News dress likes whores. I guess someone at Fox figured the clothes should go with the message.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:48 pmE D Hill is just a moron. I hope she wasn’t taken off her show because she’s so offensive. She’d have a hell of a law suit against Fox. No one is more offensive than Hannity and O’Reilly. If anyone goes due to offensive statements, Fox needs to start with those two clowns. Who really cares anyway. If someone wants the “news”, they’d never, never attempt to get it on Fox!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:06 pmsectionop92 Says:
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She’s just taking a new “job”, if ya catch my drift!
June 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
That would be “new position”.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:43 amSounds to me like ED Hill is sorry that she was called on it and not that she siad it. Even said it in the manner she did.
I guess in her angst to get approval from Roger Ailes that she just lost her composure and forgot she was speaking about an American Presidential Candidate.
This is why I stopped watching FOX along time ago.
I don’t even have to tune in from time to time to see what they are saying. Because it is always exagerated enuendo, lies, propaganda, and simply egregous smear campaigns.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:15 amLearn more from Bugs Bunny reruns.
Wow, she lost her show over that? I think that’s a little extreme. But then again, Fox News is a little extreme. By which I mean a lot extreme. Whatever.
I really liked her delivery on “terrorist fist jab”, though. It was like something straight out of a Daily Show correspondent. I don’t think Samantha Bee could have done that better. (:
June 11th, 2008 at 5:42 amWhat she said was stupid and uncalled for, but i hear worse on other networks about the other side.
Can we move along and quit being so thin skinned about every thing everyone says??
Political correctness is becoming political nonsense.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pmI am so tired of you Liberal SOB’s ruining this country in order to further your cause of “giving it all away” at the expense of taxpayers. You have attacked a good, honest woman in E.D. I hope she comes back soon! You people make me sick!! You can all go to Hell ASAP! She has done NOTHING, REPEAT NOTHING wrong here. The problem is, she is WHITE!! Had she been black, tan, whatever there would be nothing said OR done about it! PC at it’s worst!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pmThis country, which at one time was the greatest in the world is now being wrecked by the likes of “Plastic Pelosi” and “Rectum Reid” WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT 1st 100 HOURS B.S. ANYWAY???
I cannot believe that you as a network can complain about something like this. A number of your “reporters” have said something as equal to E D’s comments and apologies.
She is one of the best “reporters” out there in your network, a fine woman and mother, and a roll model to many.
Get real, and forget this. I bet there is more to this story than that little remark, especially, when she was
trying to understand the symbolism of the hand bumping, etc.
Give her her job back, and suck it up.
June 29th, 2008 at 9:37 pmShe has more talent enthusiasm energy and class than all the rest and should be given whatever she wants. Big mistake by Fox.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:15 pmWow! Where did all the hatred come from? What I’m hearing from many of you is a hatred of women rather than commenting on the substance of her comment! Granted, she is not a great journalist but your comments of her far exceed anything she said. Take a chill pill and have a nice day & be thankful you live in this great country that allows us all freedom of expression!
January 14th, 2009 at 9:30 amyea, you go girl
March 21st, 2009 at 11:27 am