Fox News on Obama: "Terrorist Fist Jab?"
This entry was posted on 6/10/2008 6:30 AM and is filed under Politics,Irritations.
Fox News long ago devolved into a broken-limbed, blinkered, self-congratulatory parody of itself, but they may have outdone themselves with
their latest bit of whack-ass fear-mongering. During the June 6 edition of
America’s Pulse, host E.D. Hill threw it to a commercial by teasing
an upcoming discussion segment on nonverbal communication, and specifically
Barack Obama's celebration of securing the Democratic presidential nomination, thusly:
"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently." In the ensuing discussion with Janine Driver — whom Hill introduced as "a body language expert" — Hill at no point explained her previous reference to "a terrorist fist jab," all of which raises
the question of how we feel when the freedom of the press collides with tactics that are the moral equivalence of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
