Fox News joins Hillary in calling for Obama's head

Oh, those funny, funny court jesters at Fox News Channel. Commenting yesterday on Hillary Clinton's statement Friday that she's staying in the race because you just never know what could happen in that crazy month of June - you know, the month that Bobby Kennedy got assassinated (nudge nudge, wink wink) - Fox's Liz Trotta not only pilloried Hillary for the out-of-line comment, but she also endorsed it:

"And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama. Um, uh, Obama. Well both, if we could." (Laughs)

Ho ho ho - good one, Liz. I bet you're an absolute scream at airport security checkpoints, laughing about all those comedy bombs in your luggage. But, you know, you kind of lose style points if you're going to ding Hillary for doing the same thing you just did.

Here's your first clue that Presidential campaigns are too long these days and have reached the breaking point: When a candidate who has slung enough mud to fill the Grand Canyon and insists she'll be alert enough to answer the phone at 3 a.m. raises the specter of assassination during a presidential race, either out of exhaustion or for reasons more cynical, and pundits joke about it.

In related news, Fox today announced that it was promoting Trotta to Executive Viceroy of its Ministry of Information. And Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh kicked themselves for not thinking up the line first.