Eight Feet Deep

This story off the Fox News Web site proves how noth­ing is too petty when it comes to car­ry­ing the pro­pa­ganda water bucket (per­haps a lit­tle water board­ing?) for the right wing.

“Hillary Clinton’s plane was grounded in Saudi Ara­bia Tues­day, forc­ing the sec­re­tary of state to hitch a ride on Gen. David Petraeus’ plane, out­rank­ing him in the process.”

The arti­cle sup­pos­edly is about Sec­re­tary of State Hilary Clinton’s air­plane need­ing repair in Saudi Ara­bia and how she hitched a ride with U.S. Cen­tral Com­mand leader Gen. David Petraus. But Fox, ever the right wing tool, made the story about how Clin­ton “out­ranked” Petraus, mak­ing it seem as if she made the gen­eral sit on the plane at the lit­tle kids’ table. The arti­cle like­wise men­tions a sec­ond time that once the sec­re­tary of state boards the plane, she out­ranks the gen­eral. How­ever, never does the story pro­vide any­thing show­ing why that lit­tle nugget — since Petraus’ chain of com­mand doesn’t include Hilary Clin­ton the valid­ity of the claim is ques­tion­able — is in any way important.

Finally, Fox exhibits how right-wingers should at all costs should avoid humor.

“Since Petraeus is going to be swing­ing by Wash­ing­ton, D.C., he could sched­ule some meet­ings but that still is up in the air.”

Haw, haw! Did you let the clean­ing lady write that? Oh, I’m sorry I’m sure the clean­ing lady could do a much bet­ter job and per­haps even man­age to be funny.