Citations:terrorist fist jab

English citations of terrorist fist jab

derogatory term for the hitting together of two people's fists

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• 2008, Barack Obama, David Olive, An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama, ECW Press, page 80:

  A Fox News commentator labeled the gesture a “terrorist fist jab,” necessitating the first of back-to-back apologies by the network.

• 2008, Liza Mundy, Michelle: A Biography, Simon & Schuster, page 194:

  A commentator on Fox described it as a “terrorist fist jab.” Around the same time, Fox, in its crawl at the bottom of the screen, referred to Michelle as obama's “baby mama,” as if this accomplished woman and committed parent were no more than a ghetto girlfriend.

• 2009, Elizabeth Lightfoot, Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope, Lyons Press, page 92:

  Fox News host, E. D. Hill, actually asked if it was a “terrorist fist jab.” (She later apologized, and her 11 am show was cancelled, though Fox said the cancellation was not related to those comments.)

• 2009, Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, Scribner, page 222:

  In hindsight, I regret not giving him a terrorist fist jab or the Islamist secret handshake. I hear he's quite adept at those.

• 2010, Alexander Zaitchik, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 165:

  The network's anchors reported false stories about Barack Obama's madrassa education, described his wife, Michelle, as his “baby mama,” and — conflating the fear of a black president with national security — described his famous fist bump with Michelle in Denver as a “terrorist fist-jab."

• 2010, Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Simon & Schuster, page 34:

  Obama and Robert Gibbs had a ritual after every debate. When Obama came off the stage at the end, Gibbs would give him a fist bump to signify that he had done well, not "the terrorist fist jab" of Fox News's fevered imagination, just a nice tap. After the Nevada and New Hampshire primary debates, where Obama had not done well, there was no bump. But when Obama finished his first debate with John McCain at Ole Miss, Gibbs was so happy that he gave him a two-fisted bump.

• 2011, Diane Boxer, The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze, Praeger, page 160:

  The press made quite a big deal out of the simple nonverbal familial interaction, with FOX News's ED Hill questioning whether the gesture could have been construed as a terrorist signal: Hill: A fist bump, a pound, a terrorist fist jab?

• 2011, Michael Waltman, John Haas, The Communication of Hate, Peter Lang Publishing, page 119:

  Before introducing an expert on body language, Hill would imply that viewing this as a "terrorist fist-jab" was as reasonable an interpretation as any other.

• 2012, Bill Press, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President - And Who is Behind Them, Thomas Dunne Books, page 244:

  When Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, bumped fists on the campaign trail in June 2008, a moment that suggested a playful tenderness and camaraderie in their marriage, a Fox News morning host called it a possible “terrorist fist jab."

• 2012 January 28, David McKnight, “How an unpretentious charmer became fixated on a conspiracy of liberals”, in The Age‎^[1]:

  Later, during the presidential campaign, one Fox commentator flippantly suggested Barack and wife Michelle had greeted each other with a "terrorist fist jab". The commentator later apologised, as did another Fox commentator who had joked about assassinating Obama and Osama bin Laden after supposedly muddling their names.