"News guy snobbery"...funny or sad?

Thanks to ThinkProgress for one of the funniest/saddest things I have read in a very long time. Apparently Fox News has grown tired of their Favorite War Ever(tm)...In defending his obsessive coverage of the Anna Nichole Smith, Fox talking head John Gibson accuses Anderson Cooper and others of "new guy snobbery" and basically attacked them for covering the Iraq war. "Oh, ‘There’s a war on! There’s a war on!’ Maybe, just maybe, people are a little weary, Mr. Cooper, of your war coverage, and they’d like a little something else."

Clearly, the rational alternative to the day to day horror/depression/angst/humiliation of our current plight in Iraq is the death by vomit of an exploited, drug addled, depressed and depressing pseudo-celebrity. Clearly an improvement. The great irony, of course, is that after years of hawking the War and its advocates, Fox is now calling those who speak of it "snobs."

As noted in the blurb, since Smith's death on Feb. 8th, 42 US soldiers have died in Iraq, not to mention nearly 1000 Iraqis. To be Fair and Balanced(tm), reporting on such things is just ever so tedious. If Fox is really lucky, Ms. Shriver will find Gov. Schwarzenegger in flagrante delicto with an illegal housekeeper and smother them both in their sleep...a Kennedy killing the traitorous Republican gov. *with* a good dirty/illegal alien aspect...why I bet no one would talk about Iraq for weeks.

It would be quite funny where it not so deeply, mind-numbingly pathetic and depressing.