Wordie [wûrd • ē]
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4 wordies list
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bilby (12866 words)
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looked up, by knitandpurl
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Apparently from the Chyron Corporation, the company that launched those irritating crawls.
"Since Salon's Alex Koppelman caught Fox News characterizing Michelle Obama as 'Obama's Baby Mama,' there's been an uproar over use of such an offensive term.
'A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment,' said Fox's Senior Vice President of Programming Bill Shine, in a statement to Politico."
- 'Fox News Calls Michelle "Obama's Baby Mama"', Huffington Post via Salon, 11 June 2008.