Attacks on Obama's wife exemplify poor journalism

It began when they questioned Michelle Obama's patriotism after she said her husband's success was making her really proud of her country for the first time in her adult lifetime.

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News made a hideous comment about not wanting to join the "lynching party" for her yet after one caller described her as a "militant." E.D. Hill of Fox News lost her job and had to apologize for suggesting that an affectionate knuckle bump between the Obamas could have been a "terrorist fist jab."

If a fist pound is a terrorist gesture, then we all should be afraid, very afraid. Millions of Americans and other people around the world have given one another knuckle bumps for decades as a way of saying hello or "that was a good one." Budweiser even made fun of it as being ...