The geniuses at Newshounds.us "watch FOX so you don't have to." Check this out.
Yesterday during Special Report anchor Brit Hume delivered a short, snide update on the status of a lawsuit filed in 2005 by the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old Washington State peace activist killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Gaza in 2003. The D9 bulldozer had been sold to the Israeli government by the American company, Caterpillar. Ms. Corrie was acting as a human shield to prevent the demolition of the house of a Palestinian pharmacist and was mowed down by the bulldozer despite the fact that she was in front of it, wearing a fluorescent orange jacket and carrying a megaphone.
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In Hume's report he made it sound like this was a frivolous suit brought by the parents of a girl too stupid to get out of the way of a large piece of machinery. He claimed that it was an "accident" while airing a picture of Rachel wearing a black head scarf. This, naturally, created the image that she was somehow in league with those awful terrorists who want to blow us all up. Hume could barely control the dripping sarcasm and at one point I thought he was actually going to laugh as a way of diminishing the Craig and Cindy Corrie's attempts to hold Caterpillar responsible for the hundreds of deaths and injuries that have occurred as the result of their bulldozers being used to gut Palestinian homes.
Now Brit Hume is certainly more than capable of delivering a news report with a sufficiently snide inflection to imply that the subject matter is frivolous and even laughable. I've seen him do it many times, and few reports would be a more appropriate target for such derogation than this one. Unfortunately and contrary to Newshounds' overwrought account, he played it perfectly straight this time. But don't take my word for it. See for yourself, courtesy of Newshounds.
I do wonder what they're smokin' over there. Then again, after reading the rest of this, I suppose that anything short of genuflecting while uttering Rachel Corrie's name is considered sacrilege by these people.
