FAUX News standards

Another one that happened while I was away:

Remember when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks made a little innocent joke in her stage banter and said she was embarrassed George W. Bush was from Texas?

The rightwing went nuts. She was demonized on FOX News where commentators accused her of treason.

Keep that in mind when reading about the latest antics of the FOX family of blowhards:

FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first "mistakenly" referred to Obama as "Osama" while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton's recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone "knock off Osama." When she was corrected and reminded that she meant "Obama," she then said, "Well, both if we could."

So on Roger Ailes network:

Saying you're embarrassed of the president at a country music concert = you're evil and a threat to the republic.

Making a joke about the assassination of a presidential candidate on the air = you get to keep your job as part of their political team.

Trotta should be booted off the network immediately, regardless of the fact that she issued a pathetic kind of, sort of "apology." Her rhetoric has no place on a supposed "news network."

Nor does it have any place in polite society.