Dim Dems diss dum-dum

Nevada Democratic Party Chairman Tom Collins and Nevada Senator Harry Reid sent a letter Friday to Fox News Channel informing the network that they are canceling a planned presidential debate which Fox News was co-sponsoring.

Why? Because in a speech Thursday night which was televised on C-SPAN, Fox News President Roger Ailes made this joke: "And it is true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true that President Bush called Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?'"

For those of you who may be comedy-challenged, America Wants to Know will now explain that joke.

The premise of the joke is that President Bush is too stupid to know the difference between Obama and Osama. The picture you should have in your head when you hear that punch line is one of President Bush, clueless and confused, getting the leader of Pakistan on the phone to find out why a terrorist on the move has not been caught.

The joke has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with Democrats, nothing to do with Senator Barack Obama.

It's a dum-dum joke on the president.

But the fine folks at the Nevada Democratic Party are so viscerally hostile to Fox News Channel that they flipped out at the mention of Senator Obama's name and instantly assumed he had been insulted.

"Comments made last night by Fox News President Roger Ailes in reference to one of our presidential candidates went too far. We cannot, as good Democrats, put our party in a position to defend such comments," the Democrats wrote.

So blinding is their rage at Fox News that they couldn't see, even the next day, that the president of Fox News joked that the president of the United States is a moron.

Of course, Ailes did phrase it gently, saying "I don't know if it's true."

Still.

It's a dum-dum joke on the president, from the head of the Fox News Channel.

And the Democrats, who should have enjoyed it immensely, missed it completely.

And they carp about intelligence failures.


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