Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip
by Todd Gregory
September 13, 2011
In the annals of mindless partisan sniping, this may place at the top.
This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.
The Post's story today on Obama's jobs bill is headlined "O gives jobs 'clip' service; $447B 'tax hike' plan bound by chintzy fastener," and its first two paragraphs attack Obama for his choice of document fasteners:
President Obama's plan to reverse the nation's staggering jobless rate is held together with a paper clip!
"Here it is," Obama said, waving a copy of his jobs plan during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden yesterday, an enormous paper clip binding the pages together.
For the full article, go to:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109130010
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