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You know it’s a sad day in Fox-ville when even Joe Scarborough is making fun of your attempts at racial smearing. Yes, America’s Pulse superstar E.D. Hill suggested, in the classic media “Brutus is an honorable man,” deniability fashion, that Michelle and Barack Obama’s campaign victory fist bump was a “terrorist fist jab.” Not just woefully inept, nor merely pathetically clueless, this was a thinly veiled attempt to link the words “terrorist” and “Obama” together ever closer.

But thankfully, no one in the media seems to be having any of it.

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The media has a new fixation, and it’s Obama’s fist bump, or dap, or pound, or whatever you choose to call the handshake he and his wife Michelle exchanged right before his speech claiming the Democratic presidential nomination.

And despite a late apology, it now appears as though Fox’s bad day and bad ratings have become E.D. Hill’s bad news, as she’s been removed from her post a day later. What a shame the gambit to smear Obama backfired for Fox. Does E.D. stand for “Electoral Disfunction?”

C&L posted a clip of Fox News Sunday that I just had to repost here. Never mind the fact the Britt Hume tries to make gas prices a good issue for John McCain despite all evidence to the contrary, check out this first exchange (emphasis mine) for a textbook example of cluelessness:

Crooks and Liars » Fox News Sunday: Damning John McCain With Faint Praise

CW: Let’s talk about the economy, because the news on Friday was certainly striking, Brit. I mean, you had this $10 spike in the price of a barrel of crude oil, you had the unemployment rate, there were some statistical issues, but it was up by a half a point, the highest in 2 decades. Stock market, 400 points down. If - and I repeat, if — not necessarily that set of perfect trifecta, bad economic news continues, does a McCain stand a chance?

BH: He stands a chance, because he is not the incumbent. But the candidate of the incumbent party is always affected badly by bad conditions in the country. And the economy is not likely to be perceived as particularly good. On the other hand, whatever happened to the recession? I thought we were in a recession; you don’t hear that. It hasn’t happened. It’s kind of a miracle it hasn’t, given all the forces that were weighed against the economy, which continues to kind of poke along at a very slow pace. But remarkable, nonetheless. . . (he goes on like this)

What happened to the recession, Britt? You’re soaking in it.

Why? He’d been doing so well in ignoring that pestilence of a pseudo-news organization for a long time, now he loses Penn by a small margin and rolls over? Is this a new strategy, or what?

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Next Destination: Fox News

Barack Obama is going where his campaign has never gone before: Fox News, where he’ll be interviewed by Chris Wallace this weekend on Fox News Sunday.