My conservative friends completely brushed off the edit as irrelevant. “So? I though Obama said we’re supposed to be above this rhetoric after Giffords got shot. Where’s the outrage on the Left?”

Which suddenly makes it all clear. This is all about tit-for-tat, both-sides-do-it. Fox has been looking for a solid opportunity to this for a long time… so they could (wait for it) try and restore Sarah Palin’s reputation by dragging the discourse down to that level.

That, and offer so bread-and-circus to distract from any serious talk about jobs over Labor Day.