Bothered and bewildered

Let me preface this by saying that I don't watch the Fox News channel, and that I'm pretty sure it's not the only 24-hour cable news network that has sold its soul for wall-to-wall coverage of Anna Nicole Smith. But this is worth blogging about:

John Gibson, host of Fox News' The Big Story, accuses reporters who cover the Iraq war as opposed to Anna Nicole Smith, like CNN's Anderson Cooper, "snobs" who consider themselves "too high-class for that story." (In a perfect world, wouldn't we all be too high-class for that story?)

"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."

As Think Progress points out, since Anna Nicole Smith's death on February 8, 42 American soldiers and 969 Iraqis have been killed.

Oh, there's a war on, all right.