There's hypocrisy and there's Fox News.
Leading the charge against the President's "outrageous" use of the N-word in his Marc Maron WTF interview was Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli (herself African American). Deneen was beside herself:
He has really dragged in the gutter-speak of rap music,” Borelli said. “So now he’s the first President of rap, of street? I mean, come on, he has lowered the stature of the high office of the President of the United States.”
But you just know that when someone at Fox is outraged about something, you will find that person "guilty" of the same supposed offense.
Steve M. of No More Mister Nice Blog, who often comes up with this kind of thing, found multiple uses of the dread word on the very first pages of the Introduction to Ms. Borelli's book,
Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation. (Nothing offensive about that title, am I right?)
Deneen wrote that the author of an article about her
"believed it was not good enough just to identify me as black. I am black and a [N-word.] . . . The second part, the [N-word] part is to underscore the author's belief that I am something less than a white person. Not an American, not a freethinker, but sub-human, a [N-word] . . . .
Wow -- three times in paragraph. That's some serious N-word usage Deneen.
Oh, but for Deneen, the context matters, because . . . .
Of course -- context matters for her, but not for the President.
I hope Fox pays Deneen enough to help her sleep at least part of the night.