Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip

[Mr Deltoid]

In the annals of mindless partisan sniping, this may place at the top.

This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.

The Post's story today on Obama's jobs bill is headlined "O gives jobs 'clip' service; $447B 'tax hike' plan bound by chintzy fastener," and its first two paragraphs attack Obama for his choice of document fasteners:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109130010

[rosesaylavee]

1. I keep expecting these to be Onion articles...

[Enrique]

2. or the Onion News Network

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FVHbE6mvsI4/Sz7HUi7PG-I/AAAAAAAAACU/_Rtgusz8C-8/s320/Screen+shot+2010-01-01+at+8.09.14+PM.png

[rosesaylavee]

5. Exactly!

It just keeps getting more and more surreal, doesn't it?

[Mimosa]

9. Totally agree. n/t

[Blue Owl]

3. Wow they're grasping for even less than straws

n/t

[saras]

7. Yep. A straw is some ten times as long as a paperclip, and bigger around.

Next, needles.

Next, asbestos fibers.

Next, the right wing grasps for superstrings.

[FrenchieCat]

4. That's what they do......

and we need to fight back, instead of finding something else
to pile-on top of their bullshit....which is what we tend to normally do.
Then we are surprised when we lose elections, when it was all predicted
months ahead of time!

[Guilded Lilly]

6. I suggest we all inundate their offices with NON chintzy clips...

saying we will no longer use them to hold our noses to avoid smelling the stench of their pungent journalistic aroma. We will use our economically friendly forefinger and thumb.

[Lord Helmet]

8. shockingly petty is right